Cyhoeddiadau

Innovation is traditionally viewed as an activity which involves a small band of highly skilled workers. By examining the results of a British survey of employees, this article breaks with this approach. It makes two distinctive contributions. First, it provides new insights into the extent to which employees of all kinds come up with ideas…

This article presents new British evidence that suggests that cutting working hours at short notice is twice as prevalent as zero-hours contracts and triple the number of employees are very anxious about unexpected changes to their hours of work. The pay of these employees tends to be lower, work intensity higher, line management support weaker…

This article uses data from the Labour Force Survey to examine the effect sexual orientation has on wages in Britain. In doing so it provides the first empirical investigation of the effect being in a same-sex legal partnership has on wages. The results show that gay cohabitees and lesbians face a wage premium compared to…

This article explores a historic rural craft tradition as the focus of economic development through the valorisation of the local cultural heritage, or culture economy. The case‐study traces the revival of bamboo birdcage making in Da’ou village in Shandong Province, where the craft knowledge of making birdcages once prized by the Chinese imperial court has…

By applying established regression and decomposition methods to secondary data from the 2018 Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) and the 2016-2018 Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) this report aims to enhance our understanding of the drivers of the contemporary gender pay gap (GPG) within the UK public sector. This is done in several…

This article investigates what has been happening to the public‐sector wage differential in Great Britain over the period 1994–2017. The evidence indicates that apart from men in the lower part of the pay distribution, the public‐sector pay premium has declined for all public‐sector workers. This decline has coincided with a decline in the overall pay…

Mae hybu ffyniant i bawb yn un o amcanion allweddol polisi Llywodraeth Cymru. Mae gwneud Cymru yn genedl gweithio teg yn un ffordd o gyrraedd y nod hwn. Adlewyrchir hyn yn Ffyniant i bawb: y Strategaeth Genedlaethol, y Cynllun Gweithredu Economaidd a’r Cynllun Cyflogadwyedd. Mae hybu llesiant sy’n gysylltiedig â swyddi yn nodwedd sy’n diffinio…

Arolwg Sgiliau a Chyflogaeth 2017 yw’r seithfed mewn cyfres o arolygon swyddi ym Mhrydain, fel y’u cofnodwyd gan y gweithwyr sy’n gwneud y swyddi. Mae’r gyfres wedi parhau dros 30 mlynedd (cynhaliwyd yr arolwg cyntaf yn 1986).  Mae’r adroddiad hwn yn darparu dadansoddiad o ganlyniadau arolygon 2006, 2012 a 2017 sy’n benodol i Gymru, gan…

Evidence of spatial variance in the relationship between trade union membership and job satisfaction is limited. Using three nationally representative data sets, we examine lower levels of satisfaction among union members and considers how this relationship varies geographically across the nations and regions of Great Britain. The analysis demonstrates that the union satisfaction gap can…

This article develops theories of collective memory by attending to the everyday practices and meaning-making involved in creating and sustaining sites of heritage. While research across disciplines linked to memory studies has increased in recent years, with a notable sociological contribution, as yet ethnographic understandings of how collective memory is produced and maintained through locally…