Course summary

Denis Gregory

Denis Gregory teaches Labour Relations and Economics. He is the Academic Co-ordinator for Law and International Labour and Trade Union Studies, and is responsible for the BA (Hons) programme in International Labour and Trade Union Studies (ILTUS).

He has published in the areas of industrial relations, work organisation and industrial economics, and has co-edited a ten-country study of industrial relations and the economy. He regularly provides analytical material, technical advice and training to front-line negotiators in the motor industry and utilities sectors and has acted as a trainer and consultant to assist both unions and management in developing partnership agreements and practices.

Sue Ledwith

Sue teaches Labour Studies and Women's Studies, at all levels, including short trade union courses. Sue researches and writes about women, and gender politics in trades unions, and has worked on ESRC funded projects.
Sue is currently leading a two-year research and development project, jointly with the General Federation of Trade Unions, and funded by the Union Modernisation Fund, about trade union leadership.
Sue runs a regular Round Table at Ruskin for trade union women activists and academic women researching in the field.
She works on union gender projects such as gender equality campaigning programme with Ukrainian public sector unions, and Ruskin’s Webb Institute for Leadership in Democracy.

Publications

Recent Publications

2008 (forthcoming) Ledwith, S. ‘Encounters between gender and labour politics; towards an inclusive trade union democracy’; in Theory and scholarship in equality, diversity, inclusion and work: a research companion. Ed M. Ozbilgin: Edward Elgar Press.

2006 Ledwith, S. ‘The Future as Female? Gender, diversity and global labour solidarity’; in Phelan, C. (ed), The Future of Organised Labour; global perspectives. Bern: Peter Lang.

2006 Ledwith, S. ‘Feminist praxis in a trade union gender project’; Industrial Relations Journal. Vol 37:4, pp379-400

2006 Healy,G., Hansen, LL., and Ledwith,S. (Eds) 'Special Issue on Gender and Industrial Relations'; Industrial Relations Journal. July Vol 37:4.

2006 Ledwith, S. The Future As Female?
Gender, Diversity and Global Labour Solidarity, in Phelan, C. (ed) The Future of Organised Labour. Peter Lang.

2002 Colgan, F and Ledwith, S (Eds); 'Gender, Diversity and Trade Unions: international perspectives'; Routledge.

2002 Colgan, F and Ledwith, S; ‘Adding in Gender Diversity: reshaping of trade union democracy'; Employee Relations. Vol. 24 No.2. 167-189

2001 Ledwith, S and Seymour, D; ‘Home and Away: preparing students for multicultural management’; International Journal of Human Resource Management. 12:8 December 1292-1312

2000 Darke, J, Ledwith, S, Woods, R (eds); 'Women and the City: visibility and voice in urban space'; Palgrave.

1997 Mann,M., Ledwith,S., and Colgan,F. ‘Women’s Self-organising and Union Democracy in the UK: Proportionality and Fair Representation in UNISON’; in Pocock,B.(ed) Strife; sex and politics in labour unions. St Leonards, Australia: Allen & Unwin.

1996 Ledwith, S and Colgan, F; 'Women in Organisations: challenging gender politics'; Macmillan,

Ian Manborde

Ian Manborde is the Thompsons Tutor in Trade Union studies; a unique post within trade union education sponsored by the UK's leading trade union firm of solicitors Thompsons. Ian is also deputy manager of the trade union partnerships programme and teaches on Ruskin's MA in International Labour and Trade Union Studies. He is a past student of Ruskin (1989-1991) and went on to gain an MA in comparative labour studies at Warwick University. He has significant teaching experience across further and higher education having worked, for example, for the WEA and Warwick University. His research interests are in the fields of employment law, human rights and the continuity of trade union organisation within globalisation.

Mike Rooke

Mike studied economics at London and Industrial Relations at Warwick University and taught on a wide range of academic and professional programmes in Economics and Business Studies at FE and HE level prior to his arrival at Ruskin. In 1993 he was appointed Tutor in Economics at Ruskin.

Mike’s main research and teaching interests lie in Marxist political economy - in particular in labour, theories of value, and contemporary developments in the global economy. He has written and co-authored a number of articles and book chapters in this field, most recently a chapter entitled “From the Revolution Against Philosophy to the Revolution Against Capital" for Werner Bonefeld’s edited volume on ‘Revolutionary Writing’ (2003, Autonomedia).

These interests directly inform the content of the economics modules (‘Economy and Society’ (level 1) and especially ‘Work, Employment and Economic Change’ (level 2) and ‘Radical Political Economy’ (level 3)) for which Mike is responsible.

He shares the teaching on the interdisciplinary Level One (Nuts & Bolts, Food for Thought) and Level Three modules (Development Studies) with the other members of the team and also contributes to the DipHE ILTUS, and the MA ILTUS courses. Mike also teaches on ‘Exploring the Social World’ and offers courses on Marxism within the College’s Short Courses programme.

Visiting and part time tutors

Colin Crouch, Professor of Governance and Public Management, University of Warwick

Tricia Dawson, PhD student, Keele University, and equality policy officer, AMICUS (GPMU)

Pritam Singh, Oxford Brookes University

Plus guest speakers including academic researchers, leaders from labour movement s, NGOs and international organisations.