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Tag Archives: Work
Grunwick and Lucas 40 Years On: Union Rights, Workers’ Control – London – 21st July 2016
Screening of The Year of the Beaver and The Lucas Plan, with discussion and brief talks by Kierra Box (Grunwick 40) and Solfed. 22nd July 7pm at LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street, E1 (nearest tubes Whitechapel, Aldgate East.) Organised by Breaking … Continue reading
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Tagged Events, London, Socially useful technology, Unions, Work
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Public meeting – The politics of alternative technology and workers’ plans – Jan 2014 – report
The January Breaking the Frame café discussion focussed on ‘alternative’ approaches to technology development by green and left movements but, as Patrick Mulvaney, who is an advisor to Practical Action (formerly the Intermediate Technology Development Group; ITDG) pointed out, at … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Appropriate technology, Biotechnology, Capitalism, Climate change, E F Schumacher, Environment, Events, Food, Illich, Industrialism, International Development, La Vie Campesina, Lucas Plan, Luddism, Million Climate Jobs Campaign, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Nuclear power, Practical Action, Socialism, Synthetic biology, Technocracy, Technofixes, Technology, Unions, Work
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Public meeting – Financial Crisis and Austerity: the Role of Technology – Oct 2013 – report
October 14th saw the largest attendance so far at a BTF meeting. Due to two speakers having to pull out shortly before the event, Dave King of Luddites200 stood in for them. The first talk was on the causes of … Continue reading
Public meeting – Gender and the Politics of Technology – Sept 2013 – report
The third Breaking the Frame meeting again generated a very lively debate. Well-known author and campaigner, Cynthia Cockburn, introduced the discussion, focusing on technology and work, and how it creates not only social class but also gender roles. Typically women … Continue reading
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Tagged Biotechnology, Commercial surrogacy, Egg donation, Eugenics, Events, Feminism, Gender, GM, Human Genetics, International Development, IVF, London, Monsanto, Reproductive technologies, Sex selection, Technocracy, Technology, Women’s Environmental Network, Work
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Breaking the Frame Gathering – Derbyshire – July 9-12 2015
BREAKING THE FRAME 2: Second Gathering on the Politics of Technology, July 9-12 2015, Unstone Grange, Derbyshire. Book Online SITE MOBILE NUMBER 07591058499 Organised by CorporateWatch, Scientists for Global Responsibility, Luddites200 and others Come to BTF2 for a fresh conversation … Continue reading
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Tagged Appropriate technology, Derbyshire, Energy, Environment, Events, Food, Gathering, GCHQ, Gender, Health, Infrastructure, Military technology, Mining, Privacy, Social control, Technocracy, Technology, Unions, Work
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Automation and the Threat to Jobs – London – 23rd May 2015
Automation and the Threat to Jobs: What Response from the Labour Movement? Event to discuss how unions can respond to the threat of robotics and automation. May 23rd (tbc) 2015, London.
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Tagged Automation, Events, Labour movement, London, Robotics, Technology, Unions, Work
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