COVID-19 lockdown and the needs of garment workers in Bangalore, India

Posted on 20 October 2020 by Jean Jenkins

In our latest post, Professor Jean Jenkins explains the work she has been undertaken together with colleagues as part of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)-funded Operationalising Labour Rights project. Since October 2018, researchers from the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD) and Cardiff Business School have been working
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Legally disabled? The career experiences of disabled people working in the legal profession in England & Wales: research & resources

Posted on 21 September 2020 by Debbie Foster

The Legally Disabled? project, explains Cardiff Business School’s Professor Debbie Foster (lead researcher), is an ongoing unique collaboration. Chosen for funding by Disability Wales, the grant came from a national lottery initiative involving disability rights organisations across the four nations of the UK. Research was done in partnership with Dr Natasha Hirst (independent disability researcher)
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“Legally Disabled?” Transforming the culture of the legal profession

Posted on 23 October 2018 by Debbie Foster

In our latest post, Professor Debbie Foster details her current research project about the career experiences of disabled people working across the legal profession and explains a key principle of the research – co-production. For the last year, along with my co-researcher Natasha Hirst, I have worked with the Lawyers with Disabilities Division (LDD) of
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Unravelling the dynamics within global supply chains

Posted on 18 September 2018 by Jean Jenkins

In 2008, I attended a lecture in London, organised by Labour behind the Label, where the speaker, Suhasini Singh, explained work being done for the rights of garment workers by Cividep India, a non-governmental organisation based in Bangalore, India. As a result of that meeting, I visited India to research Cividep’s work first-hand and so
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ShareAction – Using Investment to Promote the Living Wage

Posted on 18 September 2018 by Edmund Heery

In our latest post, Professor Ed Heery explains one of the defining features of the UK’s Living Wage campaign – its emergence from civil society. The Living Wage has been developed by civil society organizations – charities and NGOs – that seek to promote good labour standards and have them adopted by employers. One such
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