Brexit planning now urgent as leave date looms
By Rachael Elliott, Head of Thought Leadership, Business Continuity Institute & Paul Baines, Professor of Political Marketing, University of Leicester. When the referendum result was announced in June 2016, few predicted the turmoil the UK Government would find themselves in just weeks from the date set to leave the European Union. Within six months, the […]
Brexit: How Does it Look from Gibraltar?
In April 2015, in the run-up to the British general election, I predicted that, counter-intuitively, the best outcome for the UK overseas territory of Gibraltar might well be a Labour or Labour-SNP coalition government. True enough, the Conservative Party has traditionally been seen as a more resilient defender of Gibraltar’s sovereignty, whilst the Labour Party, […]
Satisfied with a Bad Job?
Unemployment stands at a seven year low. This headline shouldn’t satisfy today’s many ‘zero-hours’ contracts (ZHCs) workers, despite what they are reported to have said, argues Glynne Williams, Senior Lecturer in Industrial Relations at the School. According to the Chartered Institute for Personnel Development (CIPD), there are now around 1.3 million ZHCs. Even allowing for […]
Alternative Models for Higher Education
An ongoing discussion of alternative models of Higher Education, as Marton Racz reports, is generating a series of proposals as to how universities might work along more cooperative lines. Back in July, during a workshop at Leicester’s 9th International Critical Management Studies Conference, we discussed alternative models of Higher Education within the context of business […]
Anarchy in the UK (‘s Most Famous Fortress)
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 […]
Contemporary Labour Reform: Where “Pay Rise” Equals diminished household income and “Progressive’s” anything but
Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations, Jo Grady, looks behind The Welfare Reform and Work Bill’s upbeat rhetoric to reveal the downplayed reality “Britain deserves a pay rise and Britain is getting a pay rise” By discontinuing a series of Tax Credits and by replacing the current National Minimum Wage (£6.50 […]
Celebrating Austerity
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 […]
Nigerian Judiciary Workers and the Pursuit of Good Governance
Senior Lecturer in Public Financial Management at the School, Andrew Wynne, considers the explicitly contested – and implicitly concealed – issue of good governance in Nigeria There have been numerous calls for a more independent judiciary within Nigeria. While the constitution allows for such autonomy, Nigeria’s judiciary has been notoriously susceptible to external pressure, particularly […]
Has Tony Blair Turned Hayekian?
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 […]
The Limits of Neoliberalism: An Interview with Will Davies*
Stephen Dunne (henceforth SD): Can I ask you to recount, when you set out on the book, what you were trying to do and in relation to what body of work? WD: The main question I had, following on from my PhD, concerned competition and competitiveness as forms of justification, or as sources of […]
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