WISERD Civil Society Seminar Series 2015: Campaigning Unions, Devolved Government: Reflections on State, Unions and Civil Society
Date and time
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Council Chamber
Main Building, Cardiff University Park Place Cardiff CF10 3AT United KingdomDescription
Based on a series of interviews with trade union leaders in Wales, this presentation examines how the changes around devolution have provided opportunities for trade unions in Wales to influence governmental decision making that do not exist in England. However there are limits to this, and the presentation will also review how trade unions in Wales are using other (and sometimes new) ways of advancing members' interests.
WISERD Civil Society Seminar Series 2015
The 2015 seminars reflect the rich diversity of projects comprising WISERDS Civil Society programme. Drawing on a range of qualitative and quantitative data analysis techniques and engaging with a varied aspects of social theory they encompass: perceptions and attitudes to Street Pastors in relation to formal policing and community safety; the social processes underpinning the relationships between mass higher education and the structuring of the local social relations of civil society; civil society and differences in human rights discourses across the constituent parts of the UK; third sector organisations and public policy-making in a devolved Wales; civil society, generativity and the third age; and analysis of how changes around devolution have provided opportunities for trade unions to influence governmental decision making. The seminars are aimed at all with an interest in the key issues and policy challenges facing civil society in the twenty-first century.