Join researchers from the UK, New Zealand, Denmark and Australia for a public event to discuss the consequences of insecure work, existing policy responses and opportunities for collaboration to foster positive change.

Speakers include Professor Rob MacDonald (UK), Professor Alan France (NZ), Professor Lisa Adkins (Aust) and Dr Kraen Blume Jensen (Denmark), and representatives of government, union and business. They will consider the opportunities to organise, collaborate and develop new responses to precarity and underemployment, based on their understandings of:

• the experience and impact of labour market change and increased economic insecurity across the life course
• impacts of current and predicted changes on those groups already experiencing labour market disadvantage and economic insecurity
• government responses to labour market changes and the increasingly weakened link between work and economic security

This event will be moderated by Peter Mares, Contributing Editor of Inside Story and Adjunct Fellow, Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology. Visit the Inside Story website

We aim to start promptly at 9 am. Coffee and tea will be available for purchase from our Coolibah cafe throughout the day. Morning tea and lunch will be provided so please register for catering purposes.

This seminar is hosted by the Brotherhood of St Laurence, the University of Melbourne and Monash University. For more information about the speakers see BSL events page.

For more information on the event please contact:

Dina Bowman - DBowman@bsl.org.au
Dan Woodman - DWoodman@unimelb.edu.au

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