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How is Italy reinventing the co-op?
Money & Business

How is Italy reinventing the co-op?

...account for 36.4 percent of all retail sales. In Japan, 90 percent of all farmers belong to a coop. Even in the United States, 30,000 cooperatives provide more than 2 million jobs. In short, cooperatives offer a proven potential for making the global economy more fair, democratic and sustainable. One of the world’s cooperative strongholds is the Italian region of...
The 2001 Glasgow NHS Medical Secretaries Grading Dispute
Society, Politics & Law

The 2001 Glasgow NHS Medical Secretaries Grading Dispute

...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...
Has Twitter's role as a political influence been overstated?
Digital & Computing

Has Twitter's role as a political influence been overstated?

...accountable, encourage diverse voices, and provide resources for public benefit like education, healthcare, and welfare. Using the #metoo campaign as a case study, Naomi Barnes and Huw Davies question whether Twitter really is a public sphere or if it is simply a platform capitalist that monetises displays of outrage?...[Giant hashtag] Twitter is, of course, many things...
Have vanishing debt costs created a magic money tree?
Money & Business

Have vanishing debt costs created a magic money tree?

...account for 35% of gilt holdings and other central banks another 11%. Uniquely, more than 10% of the UK’s debt cannot be traced to either domestic or overseas buyers due to the paucity of data from the regular auctions. Lack of clarity on who’s holding the debt makes it harder to judge the risks of buyers selling-off or staying away. That fuzziness that may have...
The Peace Dividend: why Good Friday Agreement matters to us and Earth
Society, Politics & Law

The Peace Dividend: why Good Friday Agreement matters to us and Earth

...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...
Advance Care Planning (ACP ) - Discuss, Decide, Document and Share
Health, Sports & Psychology

Advance Care Planning (ACP ) - Discuss, Decide, Document and Share

...accounts), wills, and how they want to be remembered. [Middle aged woman aiding her elderly mother down hospital corridor] ACP became even more important during the COVID-19 pandemic, both in the UK and in other countries. This was because more families and carers were faced with situations where they were having to make treatment decisions for someone without knowing...
How gender equality can help fix the construction industry
Society, Politics & Law

How gender equality can help fix the construction industry

...account for under 1% of the construction workforce, but with data pointing to significant industry skills shortages by 2020, Dr Alice Moncaster and Martha Dillon believe the sector must attract and retain more female employees. ...The government-commissioned Farmer Review warned in 2016 that the UK construction industry was “facing challenges that have not been seen...
What is a confidence and supply government?
Society, Politics & Law

What is a confidence and supply government?

...account for ten to 15 votes. On top of that, Labour may even be able to find support from the SNP and the Liberal Democrats. On this basis, Ed Miliband could, at least to begin with, form a minority government. In this case, he would be safe in the knowledge that the Conservatives, presumably in the midst of a leadership election or with a new and potentially more...