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Reparations for slavery in Barbados
Education & Development

Reparations for slavery in Barbados

...economic exploitation. Early agricultural production centred on tobacco and later cotton which proved unsuccessful. In need of an alternative crop, and with the assistance of the Dutch, Barbados began harvesting and cultivating sugar cane. And this was the game changer. The exponential growth in demand for sugar coupled with the autonomous, finance-driven economy that had...
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Mass production and the consequent devaluation of our clothes
Nature & Environment

Mass production and the consequent devaluation of our clothes

...economically sustainable in the long-term for the growing population of fashion consumers. Fast forward to today’s efficient mass production model, with vertical disintegration and outsourcing of manufacture to unknown people in faraway factories, and we are now very much removed from the process of our clothes being made. With mass production and fast fashion, we have...
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International Management
Money & Business

International Management

...economic institutions of other countries in order to maintain and run a successful business. This series looks at three different perspectives on managing across different national contexts as we hear from experienced international managers and from academics around the world about managing globally. This material forms part of the Open University course B848 Leadership...
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General Election 2015 - 79Rewind
Society, Politics & Law

General Election 2015 - 79Rewind

...economic problems faced by the UK back in 1979 been resolved? We'll be delving into the Winter of Discontent and discovering which MPs defected; exploring the state of the NHS and seeing which politicians played the right games among many more topics. Check back every week for content under our 'Countdown' heading below, and follow our campaign on Twitter using the...
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Film: Creative or Cultural?
Money & Business

Film: Creative or Cultural?

...economic growth rates, and that this “creativity” can be applied to the rest of the economy. This perspective stems from the Cox report which proposed that: …. The belief is that the most successful economies and societies of the twenty-first century will be creative ones. Creativity will make the difference – to businesses seeking a competitive edge, to societies...
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Employee-owned firms: More engaged and productive employees?
Money & Business

Employee-owned firms: More engaged and productive employees?

...economic cycles. One of the many rationales advanced as justifying employee-owned enterprises is the idea that workers in such enterprises will be more engaged and more productive. The suggestion is that workers in these enterprises will think and behave differently: the essential nature of that difference being that they can be expected to act more like ‘owners’: be...
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"V" Process (Vacuum sealed moulding process)
Science, Maths & Technology

"V" Process (Vacuum sealed moulding process)

...economic advantage. The ethylene vinyl acetate film is 50–100 µm thick and is heated to 100˚C; the temperature is judged by the loss in opacity of the film. After thermal softening the pattern must be uniformly coated, without wrinkles or tearing. Patterns of cast aluminium are cheaper than for “bonded” sand moulding and last longer, since the sand does not come...
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Single point cutting
Science, Maths & Technology

Single point cutting

...Economic machining of a material depends on many factors: hardness of material, hardness and toughness of cutting tool, design of cutting tool, cutting fluid, metal removal rate, surface finish, tolerance, feed, speed, etc. Design: Turning Mainly for producing cylindrical (turning), flat (facing) or shaped (tapers, threads, etc.) surfaces. Tolerances vary from ±0.5 mm...
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