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Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class

...based on arms sales, but they received little support from politicians locked into Cold War orthodoxies. And, until the crash, there was widespread acceptance among decision makers and opinion formers that financial services were the future. And what now? The sheer scale of our economic difficulties presided over by a government of Old Etonians bankrolled by their City...
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Signposts for Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Signposts for Work

...base, plus a range of skills that can be used in a wide variety of settings, offers more opportunities in the world of work. How could you assess and improve your current skills? Most people already have some of these skills and attributes, often known as ‘transferrable’ and ‘soft’ skills, and anyone can develop these further for any current or future working...
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Workplace Survivor Syndrome
Health, Sports & Psychology

Workplace Survivor Syndrome

...Based on the reaction and responses to layoffs, Neves (2014) discussed two types of surviving employees – destructive survivors and constructive survivors. While destructive survivors focus on the negative aspect of downsizing, constructive survivors focus on the positive side of layoffs. Destructive survivors perceive the redundancy process as a threat to their job...
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“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004
Society, Politics & Law

“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004

...based partly on research conducted during the strike in 2004 (see Mooney and McCafferty, 2005 and 2007), is my attempt to address this to an extent, and to ensure Scotland’s nursery nurses are given their rightful place in our awareness and understanding of women’s workplace struggles in the twenty-first century and their impact. Background to the strike Despite their...
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The Psychology of Decision Making
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Psychology of Decision Making

...accident study sourced from EF Loftus and JC Palmer, ‘Reconstruction of automobile destruction: an example of the interaction between language and memory’, Journal of Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1974. About this article This article is based on extracts taken from the Open University Business School course Making a Difference (B830). Study a free psychology course...
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North Sea, air safety and Brexit
Nature & Environment

North Sea, air safety and Brexit

...based bureau of the European Union which regulates air safety, remains unacceptable to the regulators in the UK and Norway. This contradiction cannot be good for an industry that supports 330,000 UK jobs and remains vital to the Scottish economy. The “root cause” of the Norwegian crash has remained elusive. A 225 carrying oil workers from a Statoil platform crashed...
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Studying natural sciences bilingually
Science, Maths & Technology

Studying natural sciences bilingually

...based on Wikipedia, with over 90,000 subject pages Llên natur – a dictionary of names and terms...Studying natural sciences bilingually: Acknowledgements - Thank you to Dr Marion Pyefor helping with this unit. The Open University has worked with the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol to develop bilingual units, including this one, on OpenLearn Cymru: www.colegcymraeg.ac.uk...
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The geology of Northern Ireland
Science, Maths & Technology

The geology of Northern Ireland

...based on timings of particular geological events (often ending at mass extinctions); and it also shows the environment of deposition. This geological map shows where these rocks can be found throughout Northern Ireland. The oldest rocks in Northern Ireland are metamorphosed sedimentary rocks and can be seen in Donegal, Derry and Tyrone. They were deposited in an ancient...
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