Unequal Britain At Work

Author : Alan Felstead,Duncan Gallie,Francis Green
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191021923

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Unequal Britain at Work by Alan Felstead,Duncan Gallie,Francis Green Pdf

This book provides the first systematic assessment of trends in inequality in job quality in Britain in recent decades. It assesses the pattern of change drawing on the nationally representative Skills and Employment Surveys (SES) carried out at regular intervals from 1986 to 2012. These surveys collect data from workers themselves thereby providing a unique picture of trends in job quality. The book is concerned both with wage and non-wage inequalities (focusing, in particular on skills, training, task discretion, work intensity, organizational participation, and job security), and how these inequalities relate to class, gender, contract status, unionisation, and type of employer. Amid rising wage inequality there has nevertheless been some improvement in the relative job quality experienced by women, part-time employees, and temporary workers. Yet the book reveals the remarkable persistence of major inequalities in the working conditions of other categories of employee across periods of both economic boom and crisis. Beginning with a theoretical overview, before describing the main data series, this book examines how job quality differs between groups and across time.

Author : Danny Dorling
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781784782078

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Inequality and the 1% by Danny Dorling Pdf

Since the great recession hit in 2008, the 1% has only grown richer while the rest find life increasingly tough. The gap between the haves and the have-nots has turned into a chasm. While the rich have found new ways of protecting their wealth, everyone else has suffered the penalties of austerity. But inequality is more than just economics. Being born outside the 1% has a dramatic impact on a person's potential: reducing life expectancy, limiting education and work prospects, and even affecting mental health. What is to be done? In Inequality and the 1% leading social thinker Danny Dorling lays bare the extent and true cost of the division in our society and asks what have the superrich ever done for us. He shows that inquality is the greatest threat we face and why we must urgently redress the balance.

Author : Susan Lonsdale
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCAL:B4387068

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Work and Inequality by Susan Lonsdale Pdf

Author : Pat Thane
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847062987

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Author : Pat Thane
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441107312

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Unequal Britain by Pat Thane Pdf

This book probes what equality is and this means for both those at the centre and on the margins of British society.

Author : Mar Hicks
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262535182

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Programmed Inequality by Mar Hicks Pdf

This “sobering tale of the real consequences of gender bias” explores how Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women (Harvard Magazine) In 1944, Britain led the world in electronic computing. By 1974, the British computer industry was all but extinct. What happened in the intervening thirty years holds lessons for all postindustrial superpowers. As Britain struggled to use technology to retain its global power, the nation’s inability to manage its technical labor force hobbled its transition into the information age. In Programmed Inequality, Mar Hicks explores the story of labor feminization and gendered technocracy that undercut British efforts to computerize. That failure sprang from the government’s systematic neglect of its largest trained technical workforce simply because they were women. Women were a hidden engine of growth in high technology from World War II to the 1960s. As computing experienced a gender flip, becoming male-identified in the 1960s and 1970s, labor problems grew into structural ones and gender discrimination caused the nation’s largest computer user—the civil service and sprawling public sector—to make decisions that were disastrous for the British computer industry and the nation as a whole. Drawing on recently opened government files, personal interviews, and the archives of major British computer companies, Programmed Inequality takes aim at the fiction of technological meritocracy. Hicks explains why, even today, possessing technical skill is not enough to ensure that women will rise to the top in science and technology fields. Programmed Inequality shows how the disappearance of women from the field had grave macroeconomic consequences for Britain, and why the United States risks repeating those errors in the twenty-first century.

Author : Shildrick, Tracy
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447324010

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Poverty propaganda by Shildrick, Tracy Pdf

Does ‘real’ poverty still exist in Britain? How do people differentiate between the supposed ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ poor? Is there a culture of worklessness passed down from generation to generation? Bringing together historical and contemporary material, Poverty Propaganda: Exploring the myths sheds new light on how poverty is understood in contemporary Britain. The book debunks many popular myths and misconceptions about poverty and its prevalence, causes and consequences. In particular, it highlights the role of ‘poverty propaganda’ in sustaining class divides in perpetuating poverty and disadvantage in contemporary Britain.

Author : Veronica Beechey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040631116

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Unequal Work by Veronica Beechey Pdf

Author : Stuart Weir
Publisher : Politico's Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015064767059

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Unequal Britain by Stuart Weir Pdf

Britain is a divided society and inequality is growing every day. This book is a shocking analysis of a country tearing itself apart and offers a radical blueprint for change. Stuart Weir argues that New Labor's retreat from the welfare state makes a new form of protection for social and economic well-being vital and proposes a Bill of Rights guaranteeing economic, social and political rights for everyone.Stuart Weir is an author, broadcaster, academic and former editor of the "New Statesman".

Author : Patrick Dunleavy, Alice Park, Ros Taylor
Publisher : LSE Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781909890466

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The UK's Changing Democracy by Patrick Dunleavy, Alice Park, Ros Taylor Pdf

The UK’s Changing Democracy presents a uniquely democratic perspective on all aspects of UK politics, at the centre in Westminster and Whitehall, and in all the devolved nations. The 2016 referendum vote to leave the EU marked a turning point in the UK’s political system. In the previous two decades, the country had undergone a series of democratic reforms, during which it seemed to evolve into a more typical European liberal democracy. The establishment of a Supreme Court, adoption of the Human Rights Act, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish devolution, proportional electoral systems, executive mayors and the growth in multi-party competition all marked profound changes to the British political tradition. Brexit may now bring some of these developments to a juddering halt. The UK’s previous ‘exceptionalism’ from European patterns looks certain to continue indefinitely. ‘Taking back control’ of regulations, trade, immigration and much more is the biggest change in UK governance for half a century. It has already produced enduring crises for the party system, Parliament and the core executive, with uniquely contested governance over critical issues, and a rapidly changing political landscape. Other recent trends are no less fast-moving, such as the revival of two-party dominance in England, the re-creation of some mass membership parties and the disruptive challenges of social media. In this context, an in-depth assessment of the quality of the UK’s democracy is essential. Each of the 2018 Democratic Audit’s 37 short chapters starts with clear criteria for what democracy requires in that part of the nation’s political life and outlines key recent developments before a SWOT analysis (of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) crystallises the current situation. A small number of core issues are then explored in more depth. Set against the global rise of debased semi-democracies, the book’s approach returns our focus firmly to the big issues around the quality and sustainability of the UK’s liberal democracy.

Author : Greg J. Bamber,Fang Lee Cooke,Virginia Doellgast,Chris F Wright
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781529756067

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International and Comparative Employment Relations by Greg J. Bamber,Fang Lee Cooke,Virginia Doellgast,Chris F Wright Pdf

Established as the standard reference for a worldwide readership of students, scholars and practitioners in international agencies, governments, companies and unions, this text offers a systematic overview of international employment relations. Chapters cover the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Italy, France, Germany, Denmark, Japan, South Korea, China, India and South Africa. Experts examine the context of employment relations in each country: economic, historical, legal, social and political. They consider the roles of the major players and outline the various processes of employment relations, including collective bargaining and arbitration, consultation and employee involvement. The seventh edition has been thoroughly updated with new examples and discussion questions to engage students and encourage critical thinking. A revamped set of online resources includes PowerPoint slides for lecturers to use in their teaching, as well as useful web links to enhance learning.

Author : Geoffrey Evans,James Tilley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191072413

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The New Politics of Class by Geoffrey Evans,James Tilley Pdf

This book explores the new politics of class in 21st century Britain. It shows how the changing shape of the class structure since 1945 has led political parties to change, which has both reduced class voting and increased class non-voting. This argument is developed in three stages. The first is to show that there has been enormous social continuity in class divisions. The authors demonstrate this using extensive evidence on class and educational inequality, perceptions of inequality, identity and awareness, and political attitudes over more than fifty years. The second stage is to show that there has been enormous political change in response to changing class sizes. Party policies, politicians' rhetoric, and the social composition of political elites have radically altered. Parties offer similar policies, appeal less to specific classes, and are populated by people from more similar backgrounds. Simultaneously the mass media have stopped talking about the politics of class. The third stage is to show that these political changes have had three major consequences. First, as Labour and the Conservatives became more similar, class differences in party preferences disappeared. Second, new parties, most notably UKIP, have taken working class voters from the mainstream parties. Third, and most importantly, the lack of choice offered by the mainstream parties has led to a huge increase in class-based abstention from voting. Working class people have become much less likely to vote. In that sense, Britain appears to have followed the US down a path of working class political exclusion, ultimately undermining the representativeness of our democracy. They conclude with a discussion of the Brexit referendum and the role that working class alienation played in its historic outcome.

Author : John Philpott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134763382

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Working for Full Employment by John Philpott Pdf

After more than twenty years of mass unemployment in Britain and throughout much of Europe can the aspiration of "jobs for all" once again become a reality? Working for Full Employment considers the feasibility of full employment in a modern market economy. The book is written by a group of experts who were pivotal in pushing full employment up the political agenda in the mid 1990's. They identify the hard choices which policy makers must face and discuss why full employment has been so elusive for the past twenty years. The authors examine: * The effects of new technology and increased trade * The increased participation of women in the labour market * The impact of labour market regulation on employment * Worksharing * How welfare reform can help the long term unemployed into jobs * The role of industrial policy * Reform of pay bargaining Well informed and accessible, this book is a valuable contribution to the developing debate on labour market policy.

Author : N. F. R. Crafts,Ian Gazeley,Andrew Newell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199212668

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Work and Pay in 20th Century Britain by N. F. R. Crafts,Ian Gazeley,Andrew Newell Pdf

Written by leading British historians and economists, this volume looks at how fundamental changes in British labor markets throughout the 20th century transformed the lives of the British people.

Author : Karen Evans,Phil Hodkinson,Lorna Unwin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135726126

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Working to Learn by Karen Evans,Phil Hodkinson,Lorna Unwin Pdf

The workplace is an important site for learning in today's society. This book examines the changing nature of the work and effect that this has on the skill and knowledge requirements of individuals, its implications for employment, and ways in which these changing requirements can be met.