Comparative Employment Relations and IHRM (BMAN73122)
Week 2: Production, education and training
- Made in little Wenzhou, Italy: the latest label from Tuscany (Guardian, 18/11/2010)
- 'Nissan Sunderland retains top spot for productivity' (Telegraph, 09/07/2003)
- 'Training honour for Nissan Sunderland' (TJ Online, 14/06/2007)
- 'Nissan to cut 1,200 jobs in Sunderland' (Telegraph, 08/01/2009)
- 'Nissan to create hundreds of jobs' (BBC, 20/07/2009)
- 'Nissan's Sunderland plant could build new electric cars' (Sunderland Echo, 18/12/2009)
- NUMMI: Radio programme about NUMMI, The New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. joint venture in Fremont California between General Motors and Toyota
Week 3: Capital, Management and labour
- 'In Spain, a soaring jobless rate for young workers' (New York Times, 31/12/2009)
Week 4: Welfare regimes and labour market participation
- 'Is small government best for society?' (Guardian, 03/02/2010)
- 'In Sweden, men can have it all' (New York Times, 15/06/2010)
- UK gender pay gap:
- 'PM urges progress on UK pay gap' (BBC, 27/02/2006)
- 'Companies to be forced to reveal gender pay gap' (Guardian, 24/04/2009)
- 'Gender pay gap "not being closed"' (BBC, 29/07/2009)
- 'Equal pay for women not likely until 2067' (Guardian, 19/08/2010)
- 'Women executives could wait 98 years for equal pay' (Guardian, 31/08/2011)
Week 9: Pan-national employment regulation
- Nike corporate responsibility, including information on Workers and Factories and Corporate Responsibility Report (FY 07 - 09)
- Gap social responsibility, including social responsibility report
- Campaign and civic groups that target the garment industry: Clean Clothes Campaign (Europe); the Workers Right Consortium as organised by the United Students Against Sweatshops (US/Canada); The National Labor Committee (in Support of Human and Worker Rights).
- 'In principle, a case for more "sweatshops"' (The New York Times, 22/06/1997)
- Apple factories accused of exploiting Chinese workers (Guardian, 30/04/2011)
- In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad (The New York Times, 25/01/2012)