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 in School of Business Blog on August 4, 2015
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 […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Budget, Fair Pay, George Osborne, Industrial Relations, Living Wage, Minimum Wage, Pay Dispute, Politics, Progressive Tax, Real Wages, Shareholder Theory, Tax, Tax Break, Tax Credits, Trade Unionism, Welfare Reform and Work Bill |
Posted by awynne in School of Business Blog on June 24, 2015
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 […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Constitutional Reform, Corporate Governance, Development Economics, Finance, Funding, Governance, Industrial Relations, International Development, International Finance, Legal Theory, Nigeria, Oil, Politics, Public Finance Initiatives, Public Financial Management, Regional Governance, Trade Unionism |
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 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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