Uses of the workplace industrial relations surveys by British labour economists

The huge growth of nationally representative survey datasets based upon individuals and households has not been matched in most industrialised countries by a similar development of establishment or enterprise-based surveys. In Britain the imbalance has been partially redressed by the Workplace Industrial Relations Survey series, started in 1980. A few other countries have initiated similar developments. The British series is now a core resource for institutional labour economists and has generated a substantial literature. This paper discusses some of the specifically economic data gathered in the surveys and some of their uses

Uses of the Workplace Industrial Relations Surveys by British Labour Economists

The huge growth of nationally representative survey datasets based upon individuals and households has not been matched in most industrialised countries by a similar development of establishment or enterprise-based surveys. In Britain the imbalance has been partially redressed by the Workplace Industrial Relations Survey series, started in 1980. A few other countries have initiated similar developments. The British series is now a core resource for institutional labour economists and has generated a substantial literature. This paper discusses some of the specifically economic data gathered in the surveys and some of their uses.

Rivalries and Racisms: 'Closed' and 'Open' Islamophobic Dispositions Amongst Football Supporters

Racism in football has been the topic of much academic discussion. However, the issue of Islamophobic racism has received very little attention. This article looks at Middlesbrough FC and Newcastle United FC fan discussions around the \'Mido affair\' in August 2007 to consider the issue and uses this evidence to discuss the effectiveness of the football Faith Summit\'s policy suggestions to combat Islamophobia in football. The unfolding argument is that Middlesbrough FC and Newcastle United FC both use \'open\' and \'closed\' Islamophobic positions opportunistically to express their feelings of rivalry toward each other and the emergent policy suggestions are that the football authorities should seek to work with football fans, rather than potentially punish them, in order to reduce anti-Muslim sentiment in spectator football.Football Fandom; Islamophobia; Rivalry; Racism; E-Zine; Frame Analysis

Photometric study of HD 155555 C in the β\beta Pictoris Association

We are carrying out a series of photometric monitoring to measure the rotation periods of members in the young $\beta$ Pictoris Association, as part of the RACE-OC project (Rotation and ACtivity Evolution in Open Clusters). In this paper, we present the results for HD 155555C which is believed to be physically associated to the spectroscopic binary V824 Ara (HD155555) and thus constituting a triple system. We collected B, V, and R-band photometric data timeseries and discovered from periodogram analysis the rotation period P = 4.43d. Combined with stellar radius and projected rotational velocity, we find this star almost equator-on with an inclination $i$ $\simeq$ 90$^{\circ}$. The rotational properties of HD155555C fit well into the period distribution of other $\beta$ Pic members, giving further support to the suggested membership to the association and to its physical association to V824 Ara. A comparison with Pre-Main-Sequence isochrones from various models allows us to estimate an age of 20$\pm$15 Myr for this triple system.Comment: 16 pages, 7 figure

Stratigraphical framework for the Ordovician and Silurian sedimentary strata of northern England and the Isle of Man

This report provides a comprehensive review of the lithostratigraphy of the Ordovician and Silurian sedimentary, excluding volcaniclastic, strata within the Lake District Lower Palaeozoic Inlier, the nearby northern England inliers of Cross Fell, Cautley and Dent, Craven and Teesdale, and the Isle of Man. It gives summary definitions of all the existing lithostratigraphical units, and attempts to resolve some of the inevitable anomalies resulting from the more than 20 years of recent research by members of the Lake District Regional Geological Survey team and academic collaborators. That research has led to publication of a new set of British Geological Survey (BGS) maps. This report complements the previously published review of the volcanic strata and intrusive igneous rocks of the same region (Millward, 2004, BGS Research Report RR/01/07). The Ordovician sedimentary rocks of Cumbria comprise the Skiddaw Group, whereas those of the Isle of Man form the Manx Group. These groups are correlatives and the stratigraphy is essentially that previously published by the BGS, but with definitions expanded where required. The main change is that the Tailbert Formation is now re-assigned to the Borrowdale Volcanic Group, in recognition of its dominantly volcaniclastic composition and its unconformable relationships with the underlying rocks of the Skiddaw Group; in this respect it resembles the Latterbarrow Sandstone Formation seen at the base of the Borrowdale Volcanic Group in the west of its outcrop. As its definition was omitted from Millward (2004), the Tailbert Sandstone Formation is included in Appendix 4. The Ingleton Group is considered here because of its long history of correlation with Lower Palaeozoic rocks in the Lake District. However, the absence of biostratigraphically significant fossils means that the group may equally be considered to be Precambrian in age. Though this conundrum remains unsolved, the petrological, structural and metamorphic characteristics of the Ingleton Group suggest that, on balance, these rocks should be regarded as Neoproterozoic in age. The uppermost Ordovician and Silurian rocks of the region are included within the Windermere Supergroup, wholly divided into groups that reflect the dominant packages of lithofacies present: in ascending order they are the Dent Group, of Ordovician age, succeeded by the Silurian Stockdale, Tranearth, Coniston and Kendal groups. The definition of the Windermere Supergroup is now widened to include the Silurian (Wenlock) Dalby Group in the Isle of Man to emphasise likely correlation. Only minor revisions have been made to the established constituent formations and their members, though definitions of many of these entries in the BGS Lexicon of named rock units are to be amplified from diverse literature sources. The most significant changes are summarised as follows: • Within the Dent Group, the Low Scales Sandstone Member, formerly at the base of the Kirkley Bank Limestone Formation in the Furness district, is transferred to the Stile End Formation, remaining at the same rank. In the same area, the Ireleth Member of the Kirkley Bank Limestone Formation is replaced by the Kentmere Limestone Member of the same formation. • In the Cross Fell Inlier, the term Swindale Shales is replaced by the Lake District Ash Gill Mudstone Formation. • In the Craven inliers, it is recommended that the Llandovery rocks are assigned to the historic Stockdale Group and its constituent Skelgill and Browgill mudstone formations, rendering the relatively recently named Crummack Formation and its component Hunterstye and Capple Bank members obsolete. In the Craven inliers, it is further recommended that the term Arcow Formation is replaced by Coldwell Siltstone Formation which is in use across the rest of the region. • Also in the Craven inliers, the Austwick Formation (Tranearth Group) is redefined to comprise only the sandstone-dominated succession, with its original lower part assigned to the Brathay Mudstone Formation. It is also recommended that the Horton Formation reverts to its earlier definition; consequently, its parent is the Tranearth Group. The Studfold Sandstone is elevated to formation rank within the Coniston Group. The siltstone succession (also previously part of the Horton Formation), overlying the Studfold Sandstone Formation and underlying the Neals Ing Sandstone Formation, is newly defined as the Sannat Hall Siltstone Formation. • Within the Kendal Group of the southern Lake District, the Underbarrow Flag and Scout Hill formations become redundant and the strata subsumed within the Kirkby Moor Sandstone Formation

Palaeoecological and possible evolutionary effects of early Namurian (Serpukhovian, Carboniferous) glacioeustatic cyclicity

Early Namurian (Serpukhovian, Carboniferous), sedimentary cycles in the Throckley and Rowlands Gill boreholes, near Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, consist of fossiliferous limestones overlain by (usually unfossiliferous) black mudstone, followed by sandstones and often by thin coal seams. Sedimentological and regional geological evidence suggests that the largest are high-amplitude cycles, probably of glacioeustatic origin. 13C (bulk organic matter) delineates marine and non-marine conditions because of the large difference between terrestrial and marine 13C, and indicates that full marine salinity was only intermittent and resulted from glacioeustatic marine transgression superimposed on a background of inundation by freshwater from large rivers, which killed off the marine biota. Palynology suggests that plant groups, including ferns and putative pteridosperms, were affected by changing sea level, and that there is a theoretical possibility of connection between cyclicity and the first appearance of walchiacean conifer-like monosaccate pollen such as Potonieisporites. Long-term terrestrial and marine increasing 13C (organic) may reflect the onset of major glaciation in Gondwana, as there is evidence to suggest that the two are coeval, but no specific mechanism can be suggested to link the trends

Digital barriers and the accessible web: disabled people, information and the internet

An investigation into the information available to disabled people on the early Web, focusing on specific disability websites

Time use and rurality – Canada 2005

This paper provides a preliminary assessment of rurality as a factor affecting where and how people use their time, in a North American context. Rurality is a complex concept, but two key aspects are the degree of urban influence, and economic dependence on resource industries (farming and fishing particularly). Using dichotomous variables from the 2005 Canadian time use survey, we find that rural residence and resource employment both strongly influence time use and travel behaviour. Responding to fewer and more distant opportunities, people with rural residence participate less than urbanites in paid work, education, and shopping, and thus on average spend less time in these activities. Differences in time use between resource and nonresource workers are generally less marked than those related to urban versus rural workers. However, resource workers spend significantly less time in care-giving and sports, and more time in shopping and education. Participation in many activities is lower for resource workers, but those who participate spend significantly more time in paid work, domestic work, shopping, and education. Rural residents were found to spend considerably less time in travel than urban dwellers. On average, they take fewer trips per day, of shorter average duration, and spend less time in travel. Resource workers take significantly fewer trips than non-resource workers, spend less total time in travel, and have trips of lower average duration.Rurality, time use, resource industries, travel, Canada