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The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: How to Manage a Boardroom
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: How to Manage a Boardroom

...economic and political problems linked to the rise of corporate power. The focus of boardrooms on maximizing their shareholder’s profit has led to lost jobs, a decline in ethics, corporate bodies advocating for weakened regulation and the prioritization of short term gains over long term innovation and sustainability. For further reading, see Steven Pearlstein's “How...
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Recycling: Putting consumers to work
Society, Politics & Law

Recycling: Putting consumers to work

...economic processes and the work they do interacts with other types of work conducted in the public, private, and voluntary sectors. In the case of waste management, placing all waste into a black bag (e.g. not sorting it for recycling) implicates the consumer in one chain of processes, whereas separating the waste for recycling involves the consumer in a very different...
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Pathways To Success in Higher Education
Education & Development

Pathways To Success in Higher Education

...economic future. Studying the Science pathway will enhance your understanding of the world, and contribute to your intellectual and personal development. Try our Science 'tasters' here. Interested? Head over to the Science Pathway. How do I Know Which Colour Pathway to Follow? [bluearrowpathways] The blue routes are for those who have little experience of previous study....
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Activity 1 hr
A Century of Change: Shifting Patterns in Irish Emigration in the 1800s
OpenLearn Ireland

A Century of Change: Shifting Patterns in Irish Emigration in the 1800s

...economic change in both Ireland and the United States, Irish Catholic migrants to America began to outnumber their Protestant counterparts by the early 1830s...Social and economic changes in both Ireland and the United States can be used to explain shifting patterns of Irish emigration in the nineteenth century. By the early 1830s, Irish Catholic migrants to America began...
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How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?
Education & Development

How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?

...economic inequalities in both countries? The differences in social, educational, health and economic outcomes and experiences vary a great deal in the US and England and Wales based on race. However, they are also based on the intersection of multiple identities and social characterisations (class, gender, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, ability/disability)...
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Article 10 mins
Film as a Historical Source
Health, Sports & Psychology

Film as a Historical Source

...economic and cultural context is necessary if we want to use the photograph to illustrate or back-up statements about the lives of women workers in this industry. Secondary sources are therefore essential for background information and to tell us what other historians know about the subject. They will enable us to place our photograph in its wider historical context and...
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Article 15 mins
The Scottish Women’s Herring Strike in Great Yarmouth in the 1930s and 1940s
Society, Politics & Law

The Scottish Women’s Herring Strike in Great Yarmouth in the 1930s and 1940s

...economic differences within the transient group of working women and girls. For example, there were economic and cultural differences between women from the crofter and fishing villages of the Western Isles and those from the Shetland Isles and the herring villages and towns along the Fife coast. They became united in the action for increased pay. Not entirely forgotten...
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Developing high trust work relationships
Money & Business

Developing high trust work relationships

...economics explain the changes in organisational dynamics that have led to a focus on trust within organisations understand and discuss the consequences of trust within organisations...Developing high trust work relationships: 1 The concept of trust - In this section, you will be introduced to the concept of trust in organisations. Activity 1 Introduction to trust Timing:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs