Decent Work and the city

促进体面工作标准日益被视为实现更可持续和包容性增长的政策议程的基本要素。然而，在一个支离破碎的全球经济体系中实施体面工作标准已被证明是具有挑战性的，有证据表明，与就业标准和条件的差异有关的不平等和贫困现象在国家内部和国家之间不断扩大。简而言之，国际和国家政策似乎没有实现体面工作，这反过来又重新激起了关于如何解决不稳定和不平等问题的地方政策辩论，主要在城市和城市地区。尽管它们本身可能具有重要意义，但显然需要扩大规模、建立联系，并从这些本地化的发展中学习。通过比较混合方法研究，我将探索改善城市工作条件的不同方法，以及不同地理空间中一系列行动者相互作用的方式，以促进工作中正义、体面和尊严的基本概念。通过专注于全球六个不同的城市-曼彻斯特（英国）；不莱梅(德国);布宜诺斯艾利斯（阿根廷）；蒙特利尔(CA);纽约（美国）；首尔（韩国）；本项目将探讨在不同地方背景下提供的工作类型和质量如何对更广泛的不平等和社会正义问题产生直接和间接影响，以及不同行为者如何应对劳动力市场排斥、贫困和不安全问题。所有这些城市都参与了体面劳动倡议，包括地方政治承诺解决低工资和不稳定工作问题，并看到工会和工人围绕劳工权利和工作场所民主等具体问题动员起来。在全球经济持续波动和不确定的情况下，当前项目旨在认可和突出在提高工作质量方面的良好做法，同时探索制定和维持体面工作议程的条件。从这个意义上说，《城市》提供了一个理论视角，通过它可以观察全球经济和劳动力市场的长期变化，并仔细研究金融一体化程度提高、资本和劳动力流动性增加的“赢家和输家”。通过将高质量的学术研究成果与持续的影响力和知识交流活动相结合，该项目旨在为低工资、不平等和不安全等紧迫的全球问题提供理论和实践答案。UKRI未来领袖奖学金为我提供了一个极好的机会，可以在我现有的研究活动和联系的基础上，建立一个独特的、创新的国际研究议程，包括全球南北，这对政策和实践有直接的影响。

Promoting decent work standards is increasingly considered an essential element in policy agendas to achieve more sustainable and inclusive growth. However, the implementation of decent work standards in a fragmented global economic system has proven to be challenging, and there is evidence of widening inequalities and poverty within and across countries linked to disparities in employment standards and conditions. In short international and national policies do not seem to be delivering on decent work and this in turn has reanimated local policy debates, mainly evident in cities and urban areas, about how to tackle issues of precariousness and inequality. Although they are potentially significant in their own right, there is a clear need to scale up, connect and learn from these localised developments.Through comparative mixed methods research I will explore the different approaches taken to enhancing working conditions in cities and the ways in which a range of actors interact across different geographical spaces to promote fundamental notions of justice, decency and dignity at work. By focusing on six diverse cities around the world - Manchester (UK); Bremen (Germany); Buenos Aries (Argentina); Montreal (CA); New York (USA); and Seoul (South Korea); this project will explore how the type and quality of jobs on offer in different local contexts have direct and indirect effects on wider issues of inequality and social justice, and how different actors respond to issues of labour market exclusion, poverty and insecurity. All of these cities have engaged in decent work initiatives, including local political commitments to tackling low wages and precarious work, and have seen trade union and worker mobilisation around specific issues such as labour rights and workplace democracy. At a time of continued volatility and uncertainty in the global economy, the current project seeks to both recognise and highlight good practice in respect of improving the quality of work, while also exploring the conditions under which a decent work agenda can be developed and sustained. In this sense, 'Cities' provide a theoretical lens through which to view long-run changes in the global economy and the labour market and to examine closely the 'winners and losers' of greater financial integration and increased capital and labour mobility. By combining high quality academic research outputs with ongoing impact and knowledge exchange activities, the project seeks to provide both theoretical and practical answers to pressing global concerns around low pay, inequality and insecurity. The UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship represents an excellent opportunity for me to build on my existing research activities and contacts to and to establish a distinct and innovative international research agenda encompassing the global north and south, that has a direct impact on policy and practice.