Decommodification revisited: the case of workplace accident victims

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8 October 2013, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Room 221/223, John Goodsell Building, UNSW Kensington campus

Event details

When:
8 October 2013, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Where:
Room 221/223, John Goodsell Building, UNSW Kensington campus
(Map Ref F20)
Event type:
Seminar
Event open to:
All
Cost:
Free
Booking is necessary
 
Professor Jean-Pierre Tabin will present the results of a qualitative study conducted in Switzerland about workplace accident victims and show that the main purpose of the social treatment of workplace injury is not decommodification, but reinforcing wage labour as a social norm while ignoring domestic work.