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

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.

scholarly journals What does it Mean to be a Man? Trans Masculinities, Bodily Practices, and Reflexive Embodiment

2021 ◽  
pp. 1097184X2110085
Author(s):  
Sofia Aboim ◽  
Pedro Vasconcelos
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Political ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Reflexive Practice ◽  
Bodily Experiences ◽  
To Come

Confronted with the centrality of the body for trans-masculine individuals interviewed in the United Kingdom and Portugal, we explore how bodily-reflexive practices are central for doing masculinity. Following Connell’s early insight that bodies needed to come back to the political and sociological agendas, we propose that bodily-reflexive practice is a concept suited to account for the production of trans-masculinities. Although multiple, the journeys of trans-masculine individuals demonstrate how bodily experiences shape and redefine masculinities in ways that illuminate the nexus between bodies, embodiments, and discursive enactments of masculinity. Rather than oppositions between bodily conformity to and transgression of the norms of hegemonic masculinity, often encountered in idealizations of the medicalized transsexual against the genderqueer rebel, lived bodily experiences shape masculinities beyond linear oppositions. Tensions between natural and technological, material and discursive, or feminine and masculine were keys for understanding trans-masculine narratives about the body, embodiment, and identity.

LGBTIQ+ Teachers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily M. Gray
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
North America ◽  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Major Research ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
Western Nations ◽  
And Bisexual ◽  
To Come

Major research that focuses on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer plus (LGBTIQ+) teachers demonstrates that the field encompasses largely Western contexts and shows that although LGBTIQ+ people enjoy legal protections within many Western nations, schools remain dominated by heteronormativity. A major concern for LGBTIQ+ teachers is whether or not to come out at work—this means disclosing one’s gender and/or sexual identity to staff and/or students. In addition, working in schools as a LGBTIQ+ teacher is difficult because it often involves negotiating private and professional worlds in ways that heterosexual and cisgender teachers do not. There remain absences in the work on/with/about LGBTIQ+ teachers, with gender diverse, trans*, and bisexual teachers particularly underrepresented within the literature in the field. Most research on/with/about LGBTIQ+ teachers under discussion here is located within North America, the United Kingdom, Scandinavia, and Australia.

Case Study of Two Capstone Student Projects from Canada and the United Kingdom

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlo A. Ferlisi ◽  
Clément-François Mazzini ◽  
Eric Laurendeau ◽  
Danny R. Ramasawmy ◽  
Andrea Da Ronch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Student Projects

Case study involving using fluidised bed incinerator sludge ash as a partial clay substitute in brick manufacture

1996 ◽  
Vol 34 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 507-515 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Anderson ◽  
R. Glynn Skerratt ◽  
Julian P. Thomas ◽  
Stephen D. Clay
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Sewage Sludge ◽  
Ceramic Technology ◽  
Mix Design ◽  
Fluidised Bed ◽  
Sewage Sludge Ash ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Physical Testing ◽  
Sludge Ash

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.

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

Araucaria ◽  
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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