Posted by Vanessa Beck in School of Business Blog on June 3, 2015
Lecturer in Employment Studies at the School, Vanessa Beck, considers the economic implications of the legal expectations placed on the contemporary unemployed The social security and support infrastructure provided to unemployed individuals in the UK has weakened substantially. To seek state aid today is, as one commentator recently put it, to travel within a ‘perfect […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Austerity, Charity, Choice, Competition, Competitiveness, Department for Work and Pensions, Deregulation, Disability, Disabled Workers, DWP, Economic Policy, Employment Relations, ESRC, Liberalism, Paternalism, Policy Making, Private Sector, Privatisation, Public Private Partnerships, Public Sector, Regulation, Social Security, Social Welfare, Third Sector, Unemployment, Voluntary Sector, Welfare, Work Placements, Work Programme
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 Dan Bishop in School of Business Blog on October 8, 2014
Dan Bishop, Lecturer in Employment Studies at the School, challenges the ‘large firm’ paradigm on which apprenticeship-oriented politics has conventionally been based Apprenticeships and small businesses have been enjoying something of a renaissance within contemporary political discourse. With small firms now employing more than half of the UK’s private sector workforce, they have been described […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Apprenticeships, British Academy, Coalition Government, Comparisons, Economic Recovery, Engineering, Firm Size, Formal Training, Good Practice, Industrial Relations, Informal Learning, Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Large Firms, Learning, Private Sector, Skills, Small Business, Training, Vince Cable
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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