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Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?
Society, Politics & Law

Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?

...perception of relations between the working class, employers and state. This view emphasises the development of shop steward-led workplace militancy, where struggles and confrontations with the state produced a rapidly developing political consciousness. The crucial role of Clydeside industries in the war economy and the state’s involvement in regulating those...
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A year in review 2022
Education & Development

A year in review 2022

...perceptions of racism interactive. [Blue banner says population rockets, while rocket gets populated] The Global population exceeded 8 billion just 11 years after it reached 7 billion, and NASA’s Artemis mission headed to the moon to get ready for putting humans back on the lunar surface. The EU created a landmark loss and damage fund at COP27 to address climate change,...
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Life as a Railway Worker: An Oral History Testimony by Nan Zaimaitas nee Lamont
Society, Politics & Law

Life as a Railway Worker: An Oral History Testimony by Nan Zaimaitas nee Lamont

...perceptions about women in the workforce – even if it is one person at a time, the ripple effects are far reaching. Building a Legacy At that time the rep’s role covered Health and Safety issues too. On one occasion a manager tried to get me to stand at the buffer to clean front of the train which meant standing on the white-painted wood which was possibly covered...
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Adam Peaty: the family behind the athlete
Health, Sports & Psychology

Adam Peaty: the family behind the athlete

...perceptions, and activity choices Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 1992: Developmental perspectives on motivation Hopwood, M., Farrow, D., MacMahon, C., & Baker, J. (2015). Sibling dynamics and sport expertise. Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports, 25 (5), 724-733. Knight, C. J. (2019) ‘Revealing findings in youth sport parenting research’,...
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Embodied Intersectionality and British South Asian Muslim Women
Society, Politics & Law

Embodied Intersectionality and British South Asian Muslim Women

...perceptions come to mind? Don’t worry, this doesn’t have to be a reflection of your own views but might be from the impressions you get from media, culture or politics. Some of these impressions might be ‘foreign’, ‘Other’ or unable to speak English, of a particular ethnicity or culture; these stereotypes can become attached to certain bodies, so in turn these...
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Mark Twain on whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare
History & The Arts

Mark Twain on whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare

...perceptible to me; perceptible, and translatable into a compliment--compliment coming down from above the snow-line and not well thawed in the transit, and not likely to set anything afire, not even a cub-pilot's self-conceit; still a detectable complement, and precious. Naturally it flattered me into being more loyal to Shakespeare--if possible--than I was before, and...
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Customer Service: Expert's Corner with Professor Sally Dibb
Money & Business

Customer Service: Expert's Corner with Professor Sally Dibb

...perception that big business behaves badly. The Institute of Business Ethics is just one body striving to encourage corporates to improve their behaviour. When over a thousand garment workers died in the Rana Plaza disaster in 2013, considerable public debate was generated about the ethical approaches of clothing manufacturers and retailers in the West. Although some of...
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The refugees hoping to make a splash at Rio 2016
Health, Sports & Psychology

The refugees hoping to make a splash at Rio 2016

...perceptions of refugees are low, the United Nations reports. In the United States, refugees have been met with disdainful public opinion, according to PEW Research. Attitudes toward immigrants are often divided along party lines, with 59 percent of citizens saying immigrants strengthen the country and 33 percent calling them a burden. Yet the stories of refugee athletes...
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