INEQUALITY AND INSECURITY
Responding to the challenge of precarious work
The 6th Annual Ron McCallum Debate will explore the implications of insecure and precarious work, in all its different forms, for workers, for business and for our society.
The Ron McCallum Debate is a free public event
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To ensure a place please RSVP by 26 September:
03 9647 9111
or email admin@aierights.com.au
The decline of economically secure, standard working arrangements is a world-wide trend with economic, social and political consequences. In 2016, the Debate will seek to unravel the linkages between employment insecurity; economic and social inequality; economic instability and business survival. Our panel of speakers will explore what policy settings are needed to best address these implications and linkages over the next decade.
The debate will be moderated by former FWA and AIRC President the Honourable Geoffrey Giudice AO, with Emeritus Professor Ron McCallum AO providing his reflections. Other speakers representing unions, business and the community will be announced soon.
Don’t miss what is sure to be a compelling debate.
- Executive Member, AIER
- Sean Scalmer is Professor of Australian History in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at Melbourne University. Sean studied political economy and political science at the University of Sydney, before undertaking a PhD on intellectuals and class in the Australian labour movement. He worked as a research fellow in the Department of Politics, Macquarie University (1998-2004), then as a Lecturer in Sociology (2004-2006) at the same University. He joined the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne in 2007. Sean’s major interests are in the histories of social movements, class, and democracy. orders for food delivery platform workers. [Bio from Sean Scalmer’s Melbourne University webpage]