Real Man, Real Emotions? The Truth behind Nigel Farage’s Cocksure Campaigning
Recently appointed Reader in Psychology at the School, John Cromby, provides a disturbingly plausible account of why Nigel Farage’s rhetoric has been so successful. The United Kingdom’s electorate will soon pass judgment on David Cameron’s performance of what is perhaps the nation’s most important managerial role: the Prime Minister. The competition to beat (or join) […]
Made within/outside the EU: what’s the difference?
Dr. Rutvica Andrijasevic, Lecturer in Employment Studies at the School, describes her ongoing research into Foxconn’s under-documented European operations In a dormitory beside a railway station there are several hundred migrant workers getting ready for – or else just returning from – their 12-hour shifts in the nearby Foxconn factory. Most of them were recruited […]
A Price worth Paying? Short Term Economic Recovery and the Loss of a Generation
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 […]
Gibraltar’s Economic Problems and the UK’s Role in Solving Them
Dr. Chris Grocott, Lecturer in Management and Economic History at the School, demonstrates how the recent political disputes between the UK, Spain and the people of Gibraltar are connected to on-going economic tensions which both unite and divide them In late November, a Spanish ocean survey vessel entered Gibraltar territorial waters and navigated […]
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