Introduction to health, safety and environment management-case study of offshore safety management in the United Kingdom.

Earlier work at Staffordshire University revealed encouraging results when sewage sludge ash from a fluidised bed incinerator was added to a series of common commercial brickclays used in the United Kingdom. The results of this work led a United Kingdom brick manufacturer to the identification of this material as a possible replacement for the sand addition to the bricks produced at one of their factories. As a result, an experimental programme was formulated at Staffordshire University's Ceramic Technology Laboratory which used the factory's current mix-design as a control standard against a mix-design in which the sand component was replaced weight-for-weight with sewage sludge ash. Comparative bodies were fabricated and both laboratory and factory firings undertaken. Physical testing results have revealed that the experimental mix-design containing the sewage sludge ash contributes positively to the ceramic properties of the control product in both the unfired and fired condition. Moreover, the fired colour of this experimental product has also been found to be indistinguishable from the control.

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Do FDI Firms Employ More Workers than Domestic Firms for Each Dollar of Assets?

IMF Working Papers ◽

10.5089/9781513536323.001 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 20 (56) ◽

Author(s):

Sakai Ando ◽

Mengxue Wang

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Ownership Structure ◽

Structure Information ◽

Ownership Structures ◽

Domestic Firms ◽

Technological Differences ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

To Come

This paper studies whether FDI firms employ more workers than domestic firms for each dollar of assets. Using the Orbis database and its ownership structure information, we show that, in most economies, domestic firms tend to employ more workers per asset than FDI firms. The result remains robust across individual industries in the case study of the United Kingdom. The analysis of the switchers (ownership changes from domestic to foreign or vice versa) suggests that ownership changes do not have an immediate impact on the employment per asset. This result suggests that different patterns of employment per asset seem to come from technological differences rather than from different ownership structures.

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Renters Rising! Extending the analysis of housing activism in Europe to the UK

Araucaria ◽

10.12795/araucaria.2021.i46.08 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 147-171

Author(s):

Andrew Mathers

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Qualitative Methodology ◽

Direct Action ◽

Social Democracy ◽

Party Politics ◽

Comparative Case Study ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

The Uk ◽

Social Backgrounds

The material effects of austerity in the United Kingdom (UK) have generated a resurgence of activist initiatives in the field of housing central to which is ACORN that has developed into a federated organisation contesting housing practices and policies at both local and national levels. ACORN is used to expand the examination of housing activism in Europe beyond the cases in Spain and Germany to the UK (Ordonez et al, 2015). This article also utilises the qualitative methodology of a comparative case study and the framework of ideological and social backgrounds, political repertoires and political logics to present and analyse ACORN. While ACORN displays striking similarities to other cases, it also represents a different trajectory in housing activism that combines direct action with an engagement with party politics as social democracy seeks to return to its roots.

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