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...World War as an incubator of heightened class consciousness and militancy in the region. The extent to which the years 1910-1914 marked a watershed in industrial relations has been widely debated in the British literature, but hitherto there has been no systematic treatment of the pre-war 'labour unrest' in Scotland. This work will have a wide appeal to labour activists,...

...world of stable parameters and given preferences, with little or no product or policy innovation – where history is a good guide to the future – this assumption might be perfectly valid. Competitive forces would tend to favour those who rationally use the evidence available and calculate probabilities correctly. In such circumstances, it would be as unwise as it is...

...world plays its part, as well as the human world. So decisions aren't just made by-humans for-humans, but there is some kind of way in which we can allow the non-human world to participate in that. So one of the weeks in block five of the module will return to that separation of nature and culture that we had very early in the module, and will look at different ways of...

...world in the mid-19th century. For another, would-be reformers had a long history of over-promising and under-delivering when it came to educational technology; as far back as 1922, for example, Thomas Edison declared that “the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system.” Little wonder, perhaps, that the OU’s radically democratic experiment...

...world to ours, and correspondingly held very different beliefs? To explore these questions, you are first going to look at the life of one key classic thinker of freedom, John Locke. Who was Locke and why does he matter? [Portrait of John Locke, by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Source of Entry: Collection of Sir Robert Walpole, Houghton Hall, 1779.]John Locke (pictured left) was...