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Reflections on the Glasgow City Council equal pay dispute
Society, Politics & Law

Reflections on the Glasgow City Council equal pay dispute

...central Glasgow in early September 2022. In a wide-ranging discussion, Lyn-Marie talks about her own involvement in trade unionism in Glasgow, the background to the Glasgow Equal Pay Dispute and the key aspects of the struggle with the City Council. She also reflects on the significance of the strike for women workers in Glasgow and beyond: [bb]Striking Glasgow Council...
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Art and the Mexican Revolution
History & The Arts

Art and the Mexican Revolution

...Mexico City’s National Palace. First in chronological order, to the right of the central stairwell (on the north wall) there is the part of the mural called the The Aztec World (Figure 2), which was painted in 1929. Then, on the main (west) wall, consisting of five vaulted bays, there is the massive fresco From the Conquest to the Present (Figure 3), painted in 1929–30. And finally, to the left of the ......
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Battered, Hurt, ...Shutting? Why has BHS struggled on the high street?
Money & Business

Battered, Hurt, ...Shutting? Why has BHS struggled on the high street?

...central and sometimes externally grand physical spaces, but commercially they are underperforming and internally many of the stores are dated. For many consumers BHS does not really stand out or have an offer that makes it a desired destination. The brand has lost its way, as have some others before them, and failed to react to the competition. So how have those other...
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Information blackout at the Council of Europe?
Nature & Environment

Information blackout at the Council of Europe?

...central to the sustaining of genuine accountability and democratic control of complex policy areas than access to up-to-the-minute information and documentation. Moreover, countervailing interests to transparency, such as ensuring the confidentiality of decision-making are generally much less weighty as regards historic as opposed to contemporary records of matters of...
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Catalonia: What happens now?
Society, Politics & Law

Catalonia: What happens now?

...central government’s authority, it is by no means certain that the CUP will put forward candidates for the December elections. One of the central government’s concerns is that the shift towards independence witnessed in Catalonia since 2012 has served to weaken the more moderate, centre-right PDeCAT. The party dominated Catalan regional politics for the greater part...
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Why New York-style rent controls would not work in London
Society, Politics & Law

Why New York-style rent controls would not work in London

...central areas, leaving them a monocultural wasteland of bankers and businessmen. Those who stay are crammed into ever more cramped and unsanitary accommodation, while those who now commute from distant suburbs make this the country’s capital of gridlock. To avoid a descent into the cosmopolitan elitism of Tokyo or Pyongyang, where only the richest and most powerful get...
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Axiforge process
Science, Maths & Technology

Axiforge process

...central bore(s)...Vertical axis mode Split dies are mounted on the side rams of the press, and a contoured die segment or piercing punch (or punches in the four-die system) is attached to the main vertical ram. The heated billet is first deformed by the side rams, then the piercing punch is activated. Three-die system: [Diagram to demonstrate Axiforge process - see...
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Energy policy and climate change
Science, Maths & Technology

Energy policy and climate change

...central issues that the conference aims to address, and gives an update on how European energy policies have changed since the films were made. This material forms part of The Open University course T206 Energy for a sustainable future... Energy policy and climate change A brief introduction to this album The Copenhagen Conference Godfrey Boyle of The Open University on...
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