Posted by Chris Grocott in School of Business Blog on October 21, 2015
Lecturer in Management and Economic History at the School, Chris Grocott, outlines the first output of a new collaborative research project on the history of labour organisations in the British Empire. In an article just published in Labor History, Jo Grady, Gareth Stockey and I examine the history of anarchism in Gibraltar and its surrounding […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Anarchism, Gibraltar, History, Imperialism, Industrial Relations, Labour, Politics, Spain, Trade Unionism, Transport and General Worker's Union |
Posted by Chris Grocott in School of Business Blog on April 22, 2015
Lecturer in Management and Economic History at the School, Chris Grocott, reckons so. This year, I ran the inaugural third year BA Management Studies module ‘Organisations in Economic Context’. It analyses how the political economy over the past thirty years has had a profound effect on the state and trade unions, as well as on […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Adam Smith, BA Management and Economics, BA Management Studies, Critical Management Studies, Economics, Free Market, Freedom, Gambling Industry, Gibraltar, Hayek, History, Neoliberalism, Political Economy, Political Philosophy, Politics, Public Finance Initiatives, Thatcher, Tony Blair |
Posted by Angus Cameron in School of Business Blog on January 28, 2015
Amidst the occasionally apocalyptic commentaries on the likely consequences of Greece’s recent general election results, Angus Cameron, the Deputy Director of School, drives a wedge between the potential loss of the Euro and the historical ‘project’ of Europe Syriza’s victory has stimulated renewed speculation that Greece might withdraw from the Euro, putting the entire European […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bureaucracy, Crisis, Democracy, Economic Crisis, Election, EU, Euro, Financial Crisis, Financialization, Greece, Grexit, History, Identity, Nationalism, Politics, Refuge, Syriza |
Posted by Olga Suhomlinova in School of Business Blog on March 27, 2014
Dr Olga Suhomlinova, Lecturer in Management at the School, responds to a question which she now finds herself expected to answer “So, what do you think about Crimea?” This is the most frequent question I have had to field during the past month, for I am Russian. What I could have written about this Wales-size […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Aivazovsky, Angela Merkel, Census Data, Conflict, Crimea, Demography, Economics, Ethnicity, Federalism, Florence Nightingale, Hilary Clinton, History, Mary Seacole, Military Force, Nationalism, Newarke Houses, Political Economy, Politics, Property Disputes, Property Rights, Pushkin, Russia, Territorial Dispute, Territory, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Toruism, tourism, Venice Commission, Vladimir Putin, War, Wine |
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 |
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