Posted by Daniela Rudloff in School of Business Blog on July 15, 2015
Iain Duncan Smith MP was in uncharacteristically exuberant mood during last week’s Budget speech. Daniela Rudloff, Lecturer at the School and Director of Undergraduate Studies, was not. While the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne was presenting the first conservative budget for eighteen years, many would have been reacting as I was: with a growing […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Austerity, Budget, Conservative Party, Education Policy, Employment Relations, Full Employment, George Osborne, Grants, Higher Education, Iain Duncan Smith, Maintenance Grants, Politics, Public Debate, Publicy Policy, Research Excellence Framework, Student Debt, Teaching Excellence Framework, Tory Government, Work and Employment, Zero-Hours Contract |
Posted by Vanessa Beck in School of Business Blog on June 3, 2015
Lecturer in Employment Studies at the School, Vanessa Beck, considers the economic implications of the legal expectations placed on the contemporary unemployed The social security and support infrastructure provided to unemployed individuals in the UK has weakened substantially. To seek state aid today is, as one commentator recently put it, to travel within a ‘perfect […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Austerity, Charity, Choice, Competition, Competitiveness, Department for Work and Pensions, Deregulation, Disability, Disabled Workers, DWP, Economic Policy, Employment Relations, ESRC, Liberalism, Paternalism, Policy Making, Private Sector, Privatisation, Public Private Partnerships, Public Sector, Regulation, Social Security, Social Welfare, Third Sector, Unemployment, Voluntary Sector, Welfare, Work Placements, Work Programme |
Posted by dharvie in School of Business Blog on February 11, 2015
Senior Lecturer in Finance and Political Economy, David Harvie, suggests the UK’s nascent social investment market is more a matter of imposing market discipline and less a matter of ‘doing well by doing good’. David Cameron’s ‘Big Society’ star lit up the post-crisis landscape when it was first introduced in November 2009. As students of […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Austerity, Big Society, Big Society Capital, Bonds, Capitalism, Competition, Competitiveness, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), David Cameron, Department for Work, Derivatives, Economics, Finance, Financial Crisis, Financialization, investment, NEETs, Neoliberalism, New Economics Foundation, Pensions and Employment, Politics, Real Subsumption, Social Finance, Social Impact Bonds, Social Investment, Social Movements, Social Reform, Social Return on Investment, Third Way |
Posted by Richard Courtney in School of Business Blog on December 3, 2014
On the day of 2014’s Autumn Statement, Richard Courtney, Lecturer in Employment Studies at the School, opposes the ideology of minimum taxation I used to get excited by budget statements. Listening to and subsequently dissecting how the government’s representatives say they are ‘balancing the books’ still reminds me of why I initially became a sociologist. […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Arts Council, August Statement, Austerity, Budget, Financial Crisis, George Osborne, Handbag Economics, Keynesianism, Mary Mellor, Money, Money Supply, Neoliberalism, Paul Krugman, Politics, Protectionism, Richard Courtney, Sociology, Tax, Taxation |
Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on June 25, 2014
This time next year, the School will be preparing to welcome over 500 delegates to the 9th International Conference in Critical Management Studies. Professor Martin Parker explains what the conference will be about and why it will be so important. How can a School of Management have the cheek to be ‘critical’ of management? Schools […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 9th CMS Conference, Alternative Organisation, Alternatives, Anarchism, Austerity, Communism, Critical Management Studies, Ecology, Feminism, Ideology, IMF, Management, Managerialism, Taylorism, World Bank |
Posted by James Fitchett in School of Business Blog on April 30, 2014
James Fitchett, Professor of Marketing and Consumer Research at the School, traces the historical evolution of socio-economic illness in a Midlands city UK Coal recently announced the closure of the last remaining coal mines in Britain. The proposal will see the pits face a phased shutdown, with UK Coal’s six surface mines being sold off […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Austerity, Climate Change, Consumer Culture, Consumerism, Consumption, Credit, Culture, Entertainment, Gaming, Industrial Relations, Leisure Industry, Marketing, Midlands, Minecraft, Mining, National Union of Mineworkers, Nottingham, Simulation, Sustainability, UK Coal, Unemployment, Working Class, Xbox Live |
Posted by Glynne Williams in School of Business Blog on April 16, 2014
The generation game is getting personal, according to Glynne Williams and Vanessa Beck. ‘Generation gap’ once referred to the gulf in culture and understanding between teenagers and their parents. Now that the baby boomers are approaching old age, however, it is made to refer to a pernicious economic divide. What began in 2008 as a […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Austerity, Baby Boomers, Collective Bargaining, David Willets, Employment Relations, Entitlement, Financial Crisis, Generation, Housing Market, Individualism, Industrial Relations, Intergenerational Bargaining, Intergenerational Conflict, NHS, Pensions, Unemployment, Welfare, Youth Unemployment, Zero-Hours Contract |
Posted by Melanie Simms in School of Business Blog on March 12, 2014
March 2014 saw the announcement of no less than eleven (11) separate investments into projects within the broad area of work and employment. The small grants of up to £2,500 will further boost the School of Management’s profile in this area since it merged with the Centre for Labour Market Studies (CLMS). Some of the […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Anarchism, Austerity, Bob Carter, Car Wash, Centre for Labour Market Studies (CLMS), Chris Grocott, Distance Learning, Elke Weik, Foxconn, Funding, Future Research, Gibraltar, Glynne Williams, Grey Economy, Heidi Ashton, Henrietta O' Connor, Heritage, History, Ian Clark, Jo Grady, John Goodwin, Katharine Venter, Library Sector, Management Pedagogy, Martin Quinn, NHS, Norbert Elias, Older Workers, Paradata and Marginalia, Paul Brook, Performance Management, Richard Courtney, Rutvica Andrijasevic, Sarah Robinson, Student Experience, Trade Unionism, Turkey, Vanessa Beck, Will Green, Wine, Work and Employment, Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS), World Congress of the International Sociological Association, Young Workers |
Posted by Melanie Simms in School of Business Blog on February 5, 2014
Melanie Simms, Professor of Work and Employment at the School, highlights the under-reported blind-spot in the over-reported fact of an emergent economic recovery: today’s youth are unlikely to be experiencing it. It is roughly a decade since researchers and policy makers began raising serious concerns about the approximately one million young people who are Not […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Apprenticeships, Austerity, Bureaucracy, Career Guidance, Economic Recovery, Employability, ephemera: theory and politics in organisation, European Union, Financial Crisis, Flexibility, JobSeeker's Allowance, Labour Force Survey, Labour Market, NEETs, OECD, Training, Unemployment, Youth Unemployment, Zero-Hours Contract |
Posted by in School of Business Blog on December 5, 2013
Jo Grady, Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations at the School, responds to George Osbourne’s Autumn Statement, particularly on its proposal to increase the retirement age to 70. Speaking on LBC 97.3 today (December 5th, 2013), in defence of the coalition government’s decision to increase the retirement age to 70, Deputy Prime Minister […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Austerity, Autumn Statement, Benevolvence, Beveridge, Coalition Government, Economics, Financial Crisis, George Osbourne, House of Commons, Ideology, Industrial Relations, Inflation, Jo Grady, Labour, Lloyd George, Neoliberalism, Nick Clegg, Pensions, Politics, Poor Law, Real Wages, Retirement, Retirement Age, Social Reform, Sustainability, Tax, Trident, Vodafone |
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