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1963 – the great unbuttoning
As 2013 begins, I am reminded that it marks the 50th anniversary of 1963, the year when, in most people’s reckoning, the 1960s really started. Last night, I had dinner with Liz Heron*, whom I first met when she invited … Continue reading
you’ll never know unless you try
With all best wishes for happy holidays and nice surprises in 2013
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Happy Christmas, Corporations! with love from George Osborne
The public debate about yesterday’s Chancellor’s Autumn Statement has been largely framed, by the Labour party as well as by the mass media, in terms of a redistribution between the poor and the rich, with the latter presented in their … Continue reading
Hunger in a Supermarketocracy
With typical boorishness, the UK Government chose Good Friday to bring into force the cuts to family tax benefits that will drive even more British families into poverty (according to the Institute of Fiscal Studies, households with children can expect … Continue reading
The gender agenda
The new issue of the journal is at last published. The ninth in the series, it is the first to focus explicitly on gender, although of course many previous issues have included articles that address it. In writing the introduction … Continue reading
Academic publishing – a reply to George Monbiot
On Monday, as luck would have it just after I finished uploading (with great difficulty) the latest issue of Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, to the printers and online publishers, my attention was drawn to this article by George Monbiot … Continue reading
Second time as farce? If only!
Listening to the police sirens screaming up and down Kingsland High Street towards Tottenham the last couple of nights and hearing the news on the radio I am irresistably reminded of the summer of 1981. Then too we were two … Continue reading
Lyophilisation
I promised myself that I wouldn’t garden, read for pleasure or write until I have finished editing the next issue of the journal, but here I am with two articles left to go having already broken the first two promises … Continue reading
infantilism and power
I am back in Brussels, this time to help in the evaluation of proposals. As always I feel uneasily embarrassed at the total dominance of English in the glass-walled anthill of an evaluation building, where experts from across Europe and … Continue reading
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