3.3 The downside of the new economy During the US boom of the 1990s, some economists attributed the paradox of economic growth, rising productivity, but stable or only modestly rising wage costs, to the growing sense of insecurity in the labour force (Greenspan, 1998). Employment insecurity is also emphasised by sociologists such as Ulrich Beck (2000) and Richard Sennett (1998). This section outlines some of their arguments because they are central to those who take a critical view of the new economy. Their arguments also conta
2.2 The shift from manufacturing to services in industrialised economies There was a profound restructuring of economic activity in ‘older’ industrialised countries in the last quarter of the twentieth century from manufacturing to service activities. There are several reasons for this restructuring. First, the long-established industrialised countries such as Germany, the USA, Japan and the UK have faced increasingly intense competition as more countries have industrialised. Second, productivity, or output per worker, has increased in manufacturing indus
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Op het einde van deze les kun je: Na het beluisteren van aanwijzingen voorwerpen in een kamer situeren.
The Home Alone Party
Op het einde van deze les kun je: Uit de gelezen teksten informatie verzamelen in verband met de organisatie van een kinderfeestje.
Health Across the Life Span: Frameworks,Contexts,and Measurements
Introduces and examines the basic principles which guide growth and development and the health of individuals across the lifespan, from the prenatal period through senescence. Presents methodological, conceptual and substantive issues necessary for understanding and evaluating empirically based information about growth, development and health at different stages of life and from different academic perspectives. Course covers several themes, including contributions of biological and environmental
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Child Care Summit: Future Directions
This video was produced in conjunction with the Child Care Summit, sponsored by the Joint Committee on the Status of Women at Harvard and held in January 2011. The summit's goals was to heighten the awareness of child care needs in the work environment, with a particular focus on the Harvard Longwood Campus, and to promote thoughtful discussion by identifying both critical needs and possible solutions. This summit provided an impetus for developing a set of workable recommendations for the futur
Newbie Lesson #4 - S4: How to Greet People in Japanese
Meeting a Japanese person for the first time? Do you know what to say? Today we’ll learn the basic greetings you should say when meeting a person. We’ll also give you one of the most important and high frequency phrases in the Japanese language: yoroshiku onegai shimasu. We’ll [...]
6 What you should present This assessment unit has two parts. Part A requires you to show what you did to plan, monitor, evaluate and reflect upon your skills. Part B requires you to select examples of your work that demonstrate what you have done to improve and apply your skills. Together the two parts form a portfolio of your achievements. You can use the guidance, Bookmarks and Skills Sheets included in the OpenLearn unit U529_1 Key skills – making a difference to help you structure and present your work.<
El Nino Sea Surface Height, Temperature, Wind, and Precipitation Anomalies: January 1997 through Dec
A comparison of El Nino sea surface temperature (top), height (top), wind (middle), and precipitation (bottom) anomalies in the Pacific for January 1997 through December 1997. (Wind anomalies stop at October 1997)
Story Hour in the Library - Student Reading
Story Hour in the Library celebrates the writers in our campus community with an annual student reading. The event will feature short excerpts of work by winners of the year's biggest prose prizes, Story Hour in the Library interns, and faculty nominees. This year's authors are:
Soleil David
Joshua Escobar
Kabir Kumar
Leila Mansouri
Myles Osborne
Sharada Sridhar
Emmyline Sun
Jenny Xie
http://storyhour.berkeley.edu/
Current Electricity and Electrical Circuits - by StudyJams
Electricity is a form of power that is produced by the movement of electrons. When the flow of electrons is constant, it produces an electrical current. Learn more about electricity with this slide show from StudyJams. Detailed images are set to music while information is written under each photo. A short, self-checking quiz is also included with this link.
Provide personal care and support - Aged Care Work
Grange House is a simulated workplace which specialises in residential aged care services. While working at Grange House on Tuesday the learner will be working on the tasks for the following units of competence:
CHCAC2C Provide personal care
CHCAC1C Provide support to an older person
RYMT Plan an integrated lesson using communicative language teaching methodology
The print resource, activities and online tasks cover the skills and knowledge required to organise, stage a well-linked English language lesson with a communicative focus.
Work effectively in the security industry - Legal issues for security guards
This is the task page for 'Legal issues for security guards.' It
asks students to consider a press cutting on incidents at Kingscliffe shopping centre and
identify appropriate legislation.
It Takes Two to Tangle
Students explore the theme of conflict in literature. They learn the difference between internal and external conflict and various types of conflicts, including self against self, self against other, and self against nature or machine. Stories are used to discuss methods of managing and resolving conflict and interpersonal friction. Note: The literacy activities for the Mechanics unit are based on physical themes that have broad application to our experience in the world concepts of rhythm, bala
Heat - by StudyJams
Heat is thermal energy that exists in matter. The faster an object's particles move, the more heat it has. Heat can be added to an object by making its particles speed up. There are three basic forms of heat. Learn more about heat with this cartoon animation from StudyJams. A short, self-checking quiz is also included with this link.
