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...economic and social contexts in which they operate. For example, it is certainly important for a lawyer who advises business clients on their transactions to understand how partnership and company law work, and to have a thorough grounding in the legislation and case law in this area. However, it is equally important to understand the practical implications of the legal...

...economic migrants that's become something that is almost like a term of abuse, and yet you know I think about it and I think but people have always migrated for economic reasons, but suddenly it's become a terrible thing to be, and of course again when I was saying earlier like the one word makes a difference, and you get this word bogus that comes in, you know, so you...

...economically and the ship-building skills and political militancy of Clydeside workers were as obsolete as the tenements in which they lived. In the 1960s Glasgow went in for 'comprehensive redevelopment', as the planners called it. What that meant was comprehensive destruction of the tenement city -starting with -guess where? -the Gorbals, the location for the violent...

...economic expansion. Captives were often taken from conquered nations as booty in wars, and subsequently deprived of their freedom and forced into labour. For example, ‘The city of Rome contained a slave population of nearly 40% in the 1st century CE’ (Weissbrodt, 2007). The slave in the Roman Empire had no legal status as a person. They were treated as chattels and...