The Experience of Cambodian Tourism Workers during COVID-19

We would like to invite you to the open lecture by Prof Michele Ford entitled ‘Resilience in the Face of the Collapse of an Industry: The Experience of Cambodian Tourism Workers during COVID-19′.

Thursday: 9 May 2024, 11.30 am Institute of Sociology UWr, 3 Koszarowa St., room: 203.

The lecture and discussion will be held in English.

Professor Michele Ford is based in the Discipline of Asian Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research focuses on Southeast Asian labour movements, the intersection between national and international trade unions, union responses to temporary labour migration and labour’s engagement in the political sphere. This work has been supported by several Australian Research Council (ARC) grants. Michele currently leads an ARC Discovery Project on employment relations in Indonesia’s commercial fishing industry and an ARC Linkage Project on trade union responses to gender-based violence in Cambodia’s construction industry. Prof Ford is also chair of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee 44 ‘Labour Movements’. In addition to her academic work, she has been involved in extensive consultancy work for the ILO, the international labour movement and the Australian government.

In addition, on Wednesday, the 8th of May, at 1.45 pm, Prof. Ford will held a reading seminar around the first two chapters of her book ‘Ford, M. (2019). From Migrant to Worker: Global Unions and Temporary Labor Migration in Asia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.’ – for those interested in attending the seminar, please register at: mateusz.karolak@uwr.edu.pl