Posted by Glynne Williams in School of Business Blog on April 16, 2014
The generation game is getting personal, according to Glynne Williams and Vanessa Beck. ‘Generation gap’ once referred to the gulf in culture and understanding between teenagers and their parents. Now that the baby boomers are approaching old age, however, it is made to refer to a pernicious economic divide. What began in 2008 as a […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Austerity, Baby Boomers, Collective Bargaining, David Willets, Employment Relations, Entitlement, Financial Crisis, Generation, Housing Market, Individualism, Industrial Relations, Intergenerational Bargaining, Intergenerational Conflict, NHS, Pensions, Unemployment, Welfare, Youth Unemployment, Zero-Hours Contract |
Posted by Melanie Simms in School of Business Blog on February 5, 2014
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 […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Apprenticeships, Austerity, Bureaucracy, Career Guidance, Economic Recovery, Employability, ephemera: theory and politics in organisation, European Union, Financial Crisis, Flexibility, JobSeeker's Allowance, Labour Force Survey, Labour Market, NEETs, OECD, Training, Unemployment, Youth Unemployment, Zero-Hours Contract |
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