Benjamin Selwyn, Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Development Studies, University of Sussex, will present a talk which challenges the way we think about development. In contrast to much development thinking which portrays 'the poor' as reliant upon benign assistance, Selwyn advocates the concept of labour-centred development. Here 'the poor' are the global labouring classes, and their own collective actions and struggles constitute the basis of an alternative form of non-elitist, bottom-up human development. Sponsored by the Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, Institute of Political Economy and School of Public Policy and Administration.