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An Agency of their Own : sex workers union organising
Gall, Gregor (Zero, 2012-07-27) -
Assessing the potential for effective cross-cultural working between “new” Russian managers and western expatriates
Camiah, N.; Hollinshead, Graham (2003)This article addresses the issue of relationship building between young Russian managers, and their expatriate counterparts from western countries. The paper constructs an argument as follows; Firstly, with reference to ... -
Assessment Centres for Judicial Appointments and Diversity
Healy, Geraldine; Kirton, G.; Ozbilgin, M.F.; Calveley, Moira; Forson, Cynthia; Oikelome, Franklin; Tatli, A. (Department of Constitutional Affairs, 2006) -
Beating the Union : Union Avoidance in the US 1945 to the Present
Moody, Kim (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013-08)Chapter 8 -
Becoming an academic for the twenty-first century : What will count as teaching quality in higher education
Jasman, Anne; Blass, Eddie; Shelley, Steven (2013-12-01)This article explores quality in university teaching using a 'futures' perspective. In a recent article by Blass and colleagues, a number of scenarios were developed to explore the type of higher education workforce that ... -
Beyond Offshore Outsourcing of Business Services
Hollinshead, Graham; Capik, Pawel; Micek, Grzegorz (2011-08) -
Blockbusters or Bridge-Builders? The Role of Western Trainers in Developing New Entrepreneurialism in Eastern Europe
Hollinshead, Graham; Michailova, S. (2001)Since the start of the transformation in Eastern Europe in late 1989, there has been a marked increase in training programmes and activities designed to modernize human capital in the region. Many of the initiatives are ... -
Bridges and barriers : globalisation and the mobility of work and workers
Huws, Ursula (2012)This article starts by discussing the global division of labour. To what extent can its spatial patterns be explained by simple economic logic and to what extent is it shaped by specific features of national and local ... -
Capitalist Care : Will the Coalition Government's reforms move the NHS toward a US-style healthcare market?
Moody, Kim (2011-10)The Coalition government’s plans for reform are meant to transform the NHS into a more privately run, competitive system, raising the question as to whether or not the NHS is likely to resemble the US capitalist healthcare ... -
Class and Exclusion at Work : The Case of UK Film and Television
Randle, K.R. (Routledge, 2015) -
Closing down a means of collective voice for workers : Victimisation of union activists in Britain’
Gall, Gregor (2011)This article examines the incidence and nature of employer victimisation of labour union activists in Britain between 1998 and 2009. It finds that the incidence is higher than is expected, shows signs of rising, and is ... -
Competition and Conflict : Union Growth in the US Hospital Industry
Moody, Kim (2014-02)The combination of the changes in the US hospital industry and resulting pressures on the workforce with the relative immobility of hospitals has led to the growth of unions in this industry while unions are losing members ... -
The containment of labour in accelerated global supply chains : the case of Piraeus Port
Hatzopoulos, Pavlos; Kambouri, Nelli; Huws, Ursula (2014)This article presents a case study of the sale of two of the three piers at the formerly state-owned container port of Piraeus, in Greece to a Chinese company, COSCO, formng a crucial hub in the transit of goods to European ... -
Contemporary workplace occupations in Britain : Motivations, stimuli, dynamics and outcomes
Gall, Gregor (2011-10-01)Purpose: This paper aims to examine the more militant response of a minority of workers to collective redundancy and restructuring in Britain since 2007. Design/methodology/approach: The paper deploys secondary sources to ... -
Contesting social space in the Balkan Region : the social dimensions of a 'red' joint venture
Maclean, M.; Hollinshead, Graham (Cambridge University Press, 2011) -
Contextualising migrant black business women's work-life balance experiences
Forson, Cynthia (2013)Purpose - Employing a feminist relational lens, the purpose of this paper is to explore the work-life balance experiences of black migrant women entrepreneurs, examining the relationship between macro, meso and micro levels ... -
Contextualising Organised Labour in Expansion and Crisis : The Case of the US
Moody, Kim (2012)While, as Marx argued, periods of expanded accumulation present the best conditions for increasing working-class living standards, the expansion that began in 1982 was based in large part on the rapid fall in the value of ... -
Convergence and Divergence of Influences on Career Choice : A Comparative Analysis of Influences on Career Choices of MBA Students in China, Ghana, Greece, Israel, Korea, North Cyprus, Turkey and UK
Dexter, Barbara; Forson, Cynthia; Inal, Gozde; Karatas-Ozkan, Mine; Kusku, Fatma; Ozbilgin, Mustafa; Malach-Pines, Ayala; Tanova, Cem; Yoon, Jeongkoo (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007) -
Corporate social responsibility in Ukraine : cynical utilitarianism or Aristotelian 'Common Good'?
Filosof, Jana; Hollinshead, Graham; Kurinko, Rostislav (University of Hertfordshire, 2012)Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been researched extensively in Western Europe (Steurer and Konrad, 2009), and to some extent in Central and Eastern Europe (e.g. Furrer et al., 2010). Empirical research in the ... -
Crisis as Capitalist Opportunity : new accumulation through public service commodification
Huws, Ursula (2011-10)This essay argues that 2008 marked a turning point for international capital, with the financial crisis providing an unprecedented opportunity to embark on a new phase of accumulation based, not on what might be called ...