Dear Friends,
SACOM is honored to invite our international academic advisor, Prof. Peter Evans, to give an exciting presentation on "Counter-Hegemonic Globalization & Labor" (with power-point slides) as follows:
DATE: Nov 8, 2006 (Wednesday)
TIME: 7.30 PM - 9.30 PM
VENUE: HKCTU, 7/F, Wing Wong Commercial Building, 557-559 Nathan Road, Kowloon (next to the Yau Ma Tei MTR Station)
CONTENTS: Presentation (Prof. Peter Evans) & Discussions (Moderator: SACOM)
ENQUIRIES: Lung (9663 7507 or Jenny (9859 7680)
ABOUT THE GUEST SPEAKER:
Peter Evans teaches in the Sociology Department at the University of California,Berkeley, where he holds the Marjorie Meyer Eliaser Chair of International Studies. His past research has been on the role of the state in industrial development, an interest reflected in his book Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995).
He has also worked urban environmental issues, producing an edited volume, Livable Cities: Urban Struggles for Livelihood and Sustainability (University of California Press, 2002). His current interest in the politics of globalization is reflected in his chapter,?Counter-hegemonic Globalization:Transnational Social Movements in the Contemporary Global Political Economy,?in the Handbook of Political Sociology (Cambridge University Press,2005).
ABOUT SACOM:
Students and Scholars against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM) is a new nonprofit advocacy group founded in Hong Kong in June 2005. SACOM originated from a students? movement that was devoted to improving the labor conditions of cleaning workers and security guards under the outsourcing policy. The movement attained relative success and created an opportunity for students to engage in local and global labor issues. SACOM aims at bringing concerned students,scholars, labor activists, and consumers together to monitor corporate behavior and to advocate for workers?rights. For details about our campaign actions and research reports, please visit our website at www.sacom.hk.
YOU ARE VERY WELCOME!
(about HKPA, HKCTU and venue facility, please contact Chiu at
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