Abstract: This book explores organized labor's role in the rapid trade liberalization pursued by developing countries since the 1980s. It argues that labor unions opposed liberalization, and where labor rights were well protected, they effectively slowed down the rate of trade policy reform. Labor unions were particularly influential when democratization opened up public debates about economic policy. Unions called general strikes and pushed back against the liberalization demands of export-oriented businesses and pro-reform technocrats.

Speaker(s):
Vladimir Mau (Rector of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration); Andrey Kazmin (former Chairman of Sberbank); Peter Tabak (Lead Economist, EBRD); Richard Luddington (Vice Chairman of Morgan Stanley) and others

Convenor:
Professor Roy Allison (St Antony's) & Professor Paul Chaisty (St Antony's)

There will be two panels:

‘Recent developments in the Russian and post-Soviet economies: performance, challenges and reforms’;

Friday, May 19, 2017 -
1:00pm to 7:00pm
History Faculty, George Street
Colin Matthew Room


TORCH's Crisis, Extremes, and Apocalypse network are hosting a seminar on the topic of sacrifice. This will involve a revisitation of the concept of Sacrifice in late modernity in its various configurations, philosophical and ideological.

The seminar will include the following:

Faisal Devji (Oxford) ‘Gandhi, Sacrifice and the Ambiguities of non-violence’
Martin Crowley (Cambridge) ‘Bruno Latour's Anti-sacrificial Politics’