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Workers' resistance in special economic zones in Poland
(2020-08-06)Purpose: This article compares workers' resistance in foreign direct investments (FDIs) in the automotive and electronics sectors in two special economic zones (SEZs) in the north-east and south-west of Poland. It aims to ... -
Workforce development and effective evaluation of projects
(2014)The success of a project or programme is typically determined in relation to outputs. However, there is a commitment among UK public services to spending public funds efficiently and on activities that provide the greatest ... -
Workforce development in dementia care through education and training: an audit of two counties
(2016-05-16)Abstract Purpose – People with dementia require care at home, in care homes and in hospitals, which has implications for the current and future workforce in health and social care. To inform regional workforce development ... -
The workforce in health and social care services to older people : developing an education and training strategy
(2004)Planning workforce development across the health and social care services for older people presents a formidable challenge. In England, Workforce Development Confederations are responsible for commissioning the education ... -
Workforce Race Equality in UK Higher Education: an Exploration of the Differential Outcomes for Black Staff
(2022-02-10)For more than a decade consistent attention has been drawn to the under-representation of ethnic minority staff in UK higher education. This attention has focused on the failure of institutions to represent their increasingly ... -
Working Alongside: Communicating visual empathy within collaborative art therapy
(2023-05-09)The terms working alongside, parallel artmaking, painting together and joint activity have been used to describe an innovative and experimental phase in art therapy practice that involves the art therapist’s arts-based ... -
Working at the Interface : Call Centre Labour in a Global Economy
(2009-07-31)Introducing this volume, this paper describes the contradictory nature of many aspects of call-centre work, drawing on the results of the EC-funded STILE project to demonstrate the difficulties of classifying call-centre ... -
Working Below the Line in the Studio System : Exploring Labour Processes in the UK Film Industry 1927-1950
(University of Hertfordshire, 2013)Drawing on archived interview material from ten participants in the BECTU Oral History Project this paper gives voice to largely unheard below-the-line technical employees in the UK film industry. It considers the extent ... -
Working capital management and firm performance in the hospitality and tourism industry
(2022-04-01)The aim of this study is to provide empirical evidence concerning the effects of working capital on firm performance in the hospitality and tourism industry. We identify an inverted U-shaped relationship between working ... -
Working Class Women's Agency in the Labour Movement in East London, 1840 – 1914
(2021-08-12)This research reveals a hidden history of working-class women’s lives and agency in industrial East London, 1840 to 1914. “Sweated” industrial women were integral to East London’s industrial labour geographies, as demonstrated ... -
Working in film : employment in a project-based industry
(2001)Currently the “creative industries”, especially the British film industry, are receiving much popular attention. The aim of this paper is to present a description and evaluation of employment in the film industry, and ... -
Working in Universities : The realities from porter to professor
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Working memory and emotion : Detecting the hedonic detector
(2012)In an attempt to account for the impact of emotion on cognition, Baddeley (2007) proposed the existence of a hedonic detection system. Malfunctioning of this system was assumed to play a crucial role in depression. Exploring ... -
Working online, living offline : labour in the Internet Age
(2013)This paper begins by tracing changes in employment patterns since the middle of the 20th Century, arguing that the mid 2000s marked the beginning of a fourth distinctive phase, the earlier ones having begun, respectively, ... -
The working relationship between the general practitioner and the health visitor
(1984-05)The views of 40 health visitors from the Cambridge health district on their working relationship with general practitioners are presented. Patterns of attachment and facilities at the work base are described. The health ... -
Working Time and Family Life in the UK
(University of Hertfordshire, 2003)This paper explores the relationship between working time flexibility and family life in the UK using data from a national survey of households carried out in the spring of 2001. The paper focuses on working hours and ... -
Working Time Flexibility and Family Life in the UK, the Netherlands and Sweden
(University of Hertfordshire, 2003)This paper focuses on working time flexibility and family life in the UK, the Netherlands and Sweden based on comparable survey findings carried out in Spring 2001. In addition, a more detailed analysis of the UK survey ... -
Working time, gender and family in west and central east Europe
(University of Hertfordshire, 2003)This paper provides a comparative analysis of west and central east European countries focusing on how work flexibility affects individuals and their households and particularly their ability to combine family and work ... -
Working together on nuclear waste
(The Energy Industries Council (EIC), 2012-03-18)The UK and CHINA are considering High Level Waste (HLW) and Spent Fuel (SF) geological disposal using an engineered barrier system (EBS) covering wasteform, canisters and backfill/buffer materials. With both countries ...