The Cinematic Spectacle that Class War has become
Our recently appointed Reader in Work and Organisation, Christopher Land, takes it upon himself to dethrone the anti-working class morals symptomatic within films such as, though by no means limited to, Kingsman Two weeks ago I saw Kingsman: a mash up of Shaw’s Pygmalion and a Roger Moore era James Bond movie, complete with insane […]
Training apprentices: do small firms do it better?
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 […]
The School of Management in Hong Kong: Then and Now
Martin Quinn, Director of Distance Learning and Lecturer in Regional Development at the School, underlines why he is looking forward to his trip to Hong Kong. In the early mid 1990s the Universities of Leicester and Hong Kong were at the forefront of the development of Distance Learning in Hong Kong with the launch of […]
A Price worth Paying? Short Term Economic Recovery and the Loss of a Generation
Melanie Simms, Professor of Work and Employment at the School, highlights the under-reported blind-spot in the over-reported fact of an emergent economic recovery: today’s youth are unlikely to be experiencing it. It is roughly a decade since researchers and policy makers began raising serious concerns about the approximately one million young people who are Not […]
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