Posted by Rutvica Andrijasevic in School of Business Blog on June 11, 2014
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 […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged China, Cost Cutting, Czech Republic, Efficiency, Europe, European Union, Factories, Flexibility, Forced Labour, Foxconn, Globalisation, Industrial Relations, Labour Costs, Management, Manufacturing, NGO, Shop Floor, State Support, Strike Action, Taiwan, Tariffs, Tax Avoidance, Tax Break, Trade Unionism, Turkey, University of Padua, VAT, Worker Suicide, Workforce Composition, Working Conditions
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 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
Posted by Stephen Wood in School of Business Blog on November 27, 2013
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 […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Austerity, Ballots, Compulsory Redundancy, Employment Relations, Industrial Relations, Job Autonomy, Job Insecurity, Job Quality, Job Satisfaction, Private Sector, Public Sector, Recession, Recruitment Moratoriums, Stephen Wood, Strike Action, Voluntary Redundancy, Wage Freezes, Well Being, Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) |
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