On the day after Black Friday, Jennifer Smith Maguire, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Production and Consumption at the School, discusses the goals and history of ‘Buy Nothing Day’. Saturday 30 November is ‘Buy Nothing Day’, an annual one-day event that invites us to step off the shopping treadmill and think critically about the place of […]
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Job Security in the Public Sector is Dwindling
Professor Stephen Wood, co-author of the latest Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) Report, “Employment Relations in the Shadow of Recession”, suggests the Government’s austerity programme will have more effect than the recession has had. The Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) of 2011 shows that there has been a marked rise in feelings of job insecurity […]
Anarchism and/or Management?
Management and anarchism have something very superficial in common – most people loathe them. Nevertheless, on Tuesday the 29th of October, a workshop held at the School’s Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy explored what else can be said about this most peculiar of intersections. The event featured talks from Liam Barrington-Bush, author of Anarchists […]
What are Social Studies of Finance (SSF)?
Yuval Millo joined the School of Management in September 2012 as Professor of Social Studies of Finance and Accounting. He is a leading figure in the emergent field of Social Studies of Finance, a field which Juan Felipe Espinosa Cristia, a PhD Researcher at the School, interviewed him about very recently. Within this series of four […]
Management is too Important Not to Debate
Higher Education providers have experienced much less turbulent times than these. The stormy climate within contemporary United Kingdom Higher Education, for its part, is presided over by a coalition government which, for many, has over-hastily introduced poorly-considered policies that have largely served to foster, rather than reverse, or even hasten, the much longer drawn out […]
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