Posted by Paul Brook in School of Business Blog on November 19, 2014
In the age of much austerity and few alternatives, Paul Brook, Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Work and Employment at the School, makes a renewed claim for a politics of labour mobilisation Not long after Occupy Wall Street re-injected the idea of class (‘We are the 99%’) into America’s political consciousness, fast food workers […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Arun Gupta, Barack Obama, Burger King, Civil Disobedience, Class, Consumerism, Dunkin' Donuts, Employment Relations, Fast Food, Fight for 15, Flexibility, Ideology, Industrial Relations, Labour, Labour Market, Labour Mobilisation, Living Wage, McDonalds, Mobilisation, Neoliberalism, Occupy, Occupy Wall Street, Part-Time Work, Paul Brook, Pizza Hut, Politics, Poverty, Private Sector, SEIU, Sit-Down Strikes, Strike Action, Struggle, Taco Bell, Trade Unionism, UFCW, Union Rights, Walmart, Work and Employment |
Posted by Rutvica Andrijasevic in School of Business Blog on November 10, 2014
Rutvica Andrijasevic, Lecturer in Employment Studies at the School, overviews some provisional findings from the research she has been doing into the ongoing protest While ‘Occupy Central’ has become the umbrella term applied to Hong Kong’s ongoing mobilisations, three less heeded groups are also playing very active roles within it. Scholarism, founded by Joshua […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Admiralty, Barricades, Benny Tau, Causeway Bay, Chan Kin, Chu Yiu, Citizenship, Consumer Culture, Consumerism, Cyber-Politics, Debate, Democracy, Electoral Reform, Ethnography, Federation of Students, Hong Kong, Joshua Wong, Kowloon, Mobilisation, Mong Kok, Occupy, Occupy Central, Occupy Central with Love and Peace, Occupy Hong Kong, Police, Politics, Poverty, Protest, Protest Camps, Public Debate, Scholarism, Sociology, Solidarity, Sovereignty, Student Protest, surveillance, Tiananmen Square |
Posted by Georgios Patsiaouras in School of Business Blog on June 2, 2014
Georgios Patsiaouras, Lecturer in Marketing and Consumption at the School, draws sobering lessons from the popularity of the recent Hollywood Blockbuster, The Wolf of Wall Street. Martin Scorsese’s latest film is an adaptation of Jordan Belfort’s memoir of the same name. Critics have lamented the film’s unachieved goal of thematically and stylistically suffusing the fast […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Arthur Miller, Cinema, Consumer Culture, Consumerism, Consumption, Film, Finance, Financial Crisis, Hedonism, Hollywood, Insider Trading, Jordan Belfort, Marketing, Martin Scorsese, Sales, Salesmanship, Willy Loman, Wolf of Wall Street |
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 Georgios Patsiaouras in School of Business Blog on December 4, 2013
The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives (American Indian Saying) In 1776 Adam Smith introduced the paradox of value: diamonds are much more expensive than water, even though water is essential to human survival. Smith’s paradox, at that time, appealed to his contemporaries as little other than a […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Adam Smith, Commodification, Consumerism, Consumption, Deregulation, Economics, Environmentalism, Exchange, Georgios Patsiaouras, Goldman Sachs, Marketing, Markets, Neoliberalism, Paradox of Value, Politics, Regulation, Sustainability, UNICEF, Utility, War, Water |
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