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 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 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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