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...account of a dispute which took place in the Glasgow North East NHS Trust in the early 2000s, involving a group of women workers who would not normally have been viewed as among the most militant and determined of trade union members...Find out about The Open University's Social Sciences courses Background In early 2000 Medical Secretaries in North East Glasgow (NEG) NHS...

...account our planetary responsibilities. It shows us exceeding safe operating space in land-system change, biosphere integrity, climate change, novel entities, and biogeochemical flows.] Figure 1 - Breaching our planetary boundaries. Source: Steffen et al, 2015 This is not merely a story about carbon emissions (the driver of the greenhouse effect, and therefore global...

...accountability and participation benefits of devolution for decision-making and co-ordinating collective policy action. The important point is that the devolving of powers tends to be create a more coherent framework for regionalised economic policy making by incorporating key local agencies and stakeholders into decision-making structures and processes. Consequently,...