Ursula Huws on the New Gold Rush, March 21st

The New Gold Rush: Multinationals and the Commodification of the Public Sector
Speaker: Ursula Huws

Professor of Labour and Globalisation, University of Hertfordshire
Editor of Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation
Wednesday March 21st 2012

6 pm, Broadcasting Place, Room AG02 (ground floor), Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9EN

Today we are witnessing the growth of a new ‘public services industry’. Education and health and other public services are being transformed. These services are being turned into saleable commodities on the global market – lucrative sources of profit for the multinationals.

The impact on public sector workers and on all the people who use these services will be enormous. Unless challenged, it will mean the re-appropriation of the historical gains in welfare made in the twentieth century.

Meetings on Jan 26th and Feb 22nd

6.00 pm on Thursday, 26 January, 2012
The Eurozone Crisis and the Silence of Social Democracy
Speaker: Jon Bloomfield
Jon is Honorary Research Fellow on European Studies, Birmingham University,
and co-author of Building the Good Society (info on his latest book at http://www.compassonline.org.uk/publications/item.asp?d=5767 )
Venue: Room 101 Broadcasting Place, Humanities Building,
Woodhouse Lane, Leeds Metropolitan University, LS2 3ED

At 6.00 pm on Wednesday 22 February
The Crisis: Alternative Economics
Speaker: Tim Jenkins
Tim is the manager of the Great Transformations Initiatives for the New Economics Foundation
and former policy director Friends of the Earth
Venue: Room 101 Broadcasting Place, Humanities Building,
Woodhouse Lane, Leeds Metropolitan University, LS2 3ED

Michael Kenny on the State of the State

Next Leeds Taking Soundings meeting is Professor Michael Kenny speaking about the role of the state in current political issues, especially in Britain in the light of the Conservative-Liberal Democratic government policies.

6PM, February 23rd, Old Broadcasting House, Leeds Metropolitan University, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2.

Readers meeting

Briefing: The Campaigns against the Cuts
Matthew Caygill

Reading: ‘Let’s Take Back the Big Society’ (email b.winter@leedsmet.ac.uk for a copy)
Jon Cruddas MP
Aneurin Bevan Memorial Lecture

7.15 pm Monday, 29 November, 2010
The Boardroom, Broadcasting Place
Leeds Metropolitan University

New date for our December meeting

Cutting Public Deficits: Economic Science or Class War?
Speaker: Hugo Radice (Politics & International Studies (POLIS) University of Leeds)
December 9, 2010 (new date)
6 pm, Old Broadcasting Place (former BBC Building)
148 Woodhouse Lane, Leeds