The economic benefits of public sector provision: A report commissioned by the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers into life-line ferry services in the Clyde and Hebrides

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The Provision of Lifeline Ferry Services: Delivery and Tendering: Report Commissioned by the STUC to Inform their Response to the Ferries Review by the Scottish Government

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Child’s play? Skills, regulation and reward amongst ‘early years’ workers

The persistence of gendered pay inequality some 30 years after its formal prohibition raises questions over the mechanisms sustaining it. Recent contributions highlight the role of low skills visibility and valuation in maintaining pay inequality in predominantly female occupations. We examine the skills and rewards of early years’ workers and the organisational processes that define them. We do so at an important juncture when the importance and regulation of the ‘early years’’ sector has increased significantly; and following extensive organisational restructuring aimed at delivering pay equality. We conclude that whilst the application of more systematic forms of skill measurement have improved the relative rewards of nursery nurses, highly gendered constructions of their skills, particularly those most closely linked to mothering, continue to impact negatively on their valuation. The presence of caring activities appears to eclipse their role in education. Complex institutional and organisational factors maintain important aspects of gender inequality.caring, early years’, gender, grading, inequality, pay, skills, valuation

Child’s play? Skills, regulation and reward amongst ‘early years’ workers

The persistence of gendered pay inequality some 30 years after its formal prohibition raises questions over the mechanisms sustaining it. Recent contributions highlight the role of low skills visibility and valuation in maintaining pay inequality in predominantly female occupations. We examine the skills and rewards of early years’ workers and the organisational processes that define them. We do so at an important juncture when the importance and regulation of the ‘early years’’ sector has increased significantly; and following extensive organisational restructuring aimed at delivering pay equality. We conclude that whilst the application of more systematic forms of skill measurement have improved the relative rewards of nursery nurses, highly gendered constructions of their skills, particularly those most closely linked to mothering, continue to impact negatively on their valuation. The presence of caring activities appears to eclipse their role in education. Complex institutional and organisational factors maintain important aspects of gender inequality.caring, early years’, gender, grading, inequality, pay, skills, valuation

Estimating the Demand for Union-Led Learning in Scotland

This research paper was commissioned and funded by the Scottish Trade Union Congress (STUC). It is being disseminated through the TUC’s unionlearn High Road project. The project is part of a community programme called Equal – a European Social Fund initiative that tests and promotes new means of combating all forms of discrimination and inequality in the labour market. The GB Equal Support Unit is managed by ECOTEC. Unionlearn is the TUC organisation that supports union-led strategies on learning and skills. It helps unions open up learning and skills opportunities for their members and to develop trade union education for their representatives and officers.

Special issue : competitive tendering and Scottish lifeline ferry services

In early June 2016, an ESRC-funded workshop took place at the University of Glasgow to consider the use of competitive tendering for public services and some of the unintended consequences which arise from its use. The workshop was attended by academic economists and lawyers, policymakers and trades unionists from Scotland and elsewhere in Europe and specifically focussed on the Scottish ferry industr

The Provision of Lifeline Ferry Services: Delivery and Tendering: Report Commissioned by the STUC to Inform their Response to the Ferries Review by the Scottish Government

No abstract available

The economic benefits of public sector provision: A report commissioned by the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers into life-line ferry services in the Clyde and Hebrides.

No abstract available

Higher and Further Education Students' Income, Expenditure and Debt in Scotland 2007-08

This report presents findings from the second study of the income, expenditure and debt of students studying higher education (HE) and further education (FE) in Scotland in 2007-08. The study was commissioned by the Scottish Government and conducted by the Scottish Centre for Employment Research at the University of Strathclyde Business School in conjunction with colleagues from the Business School and Department of Economics of the University of Glasgow. The aim of the study is to examine Scottish-domiciled higher and further education students' finances, particularly their income, expenditure, debt and savings, and their attitudes to the financing of study in Scotland. Where appropriate this data is then compared to the findings of the previous 2004-05 Scottish survey as well as a control group of young Scots who are not students