Peter Senker
Biographic Data
| ID | 198815 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Senker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Senker |
| SIGNATURE | SENKER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
William Kingston, How Capitalism Destroyed Itself: Technology Displaced by Financial Innovation
Prometheus
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Prometheus
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Prometheus
Restricting environmental damage resulting from economic activities: A Polanyian analysis
Economic activities continue to cause considerable environmental damage. The extent of damage could be such that the environment in and around our planet will be affected, making survival difficult for human beings, for other animals, and for plants and insects. The paper reviews economic developments from the nineteenth century and how these have been influenced by orthodox economic theories. Markets are central to orthodox economics, and to pol…
Swallowing Secrets
The triumph of neoliberalism and the world dominance of capitalism
Neoclassical economics dominates modern economics and provides an important theoretical basis for neoliberalism. Among its inadequacies are failure to take sufficient account either of technological change or of marketing activities, both of which are central features of modern capitalism. Neoliberals believe that the state should be confined to safeguarding individual and commercial liberty and strong property rights. But in practice, corporatio…
Foresight: The future of food and farming, final project report
by Government Office for Science, London, 2011, 208 pp., ISBN 978-0-7546-7248-7 I suggest that minimum requirements for a global food and farming system fit for purpose are that: • it should ensure
The master switch: The rise and fall of information empires/The net delusion: how not to liberate the world
The significance of individual biography in workplace learning
In this paper we address a perceived gap in the workplace learning literature, for there is very little writing which successfully integrates the issues of individual learners into predominantly social theories of learning. The paper draws upon data from four linked research projects to address this problem. Following an analysis of the theoretical problems and a possible solution, the paper identifies and discussed four overlapping individual di…
Technology, Inequality, and Underdevelopment: The Case of Latin America
The conventional wisdom is that the best way to alleviate poverty is to provide the maximum freedom for individual entrepreneurs and corporations to create wealth. Drawing on the case of Latin America, this article contends that there are serious defects in analyses based on such assumptions. New technologies and restructuring of international capitalism have accelerated wealth creation worldwide but amid growing inequalities. Technology is mainl…
Technology and In/equality: Questioning the Information Society
The development and implementation of National Vocational Qualifications: An engineering case study
The advent of National Vocational Qualifications represents an important change in British Government policy from attempting to secure appropriate training inputs to a system driven by the aim of stimulating the attainment of learning outcomes assessed against national standards. This article presents a case study of the implications of this policy for intermediate skills in engineering, a major industry subject to rapid technological change
Transferring technology and expertise from universities to industry: Britain's Teaching Company Scheme
Teaching Company Scheme programmes involve employing graduates known as Teaching Company Associates in companies on projects which are jointly supervised by academics and company staff. This article presents findings of a study of the effectiveness of these programmes in transferring university expertise in science, technology and management, to industry
International trends in construction technologies and the future of housebuilding
Technological change and the future of work
Changing technology and design work in the British engineering industry, 1981–1988
Technologies and management strategies change over time and interact. Longitudinal studies can shed some light on this process, and can also contribute to understanding of how relationships between technology and working conditions change over time
Some economic and ideological aspects of the reform of education and training in England and Wales in the last ten years
During the last ten years, British governments have claimed that their education and training policies have been largely motivated by the objective of serving the needs of the economy better. The paper suggests, however, that reforms have been guided to a greater extent by short‐term political expediency and in compliance with the Government's market forces ideology. The result is a very confused pattern of education and training provision. Prese…
Working with expert systems: Three case studies
Technical change, work organisation and training: Some issues relating to the role of market forces
Managements often fail to deal with problems of reorganising work to cope with technical change. Nevertheless, it is suggested that skills are becoming more enterprise‐specific and that employers should train to satisfy their own needs. While markets help to distribute skills, they do not ensure that sufficient are created
Ten Years of Thatcherism: Triumph of Ideology Over Economics
The need for skills in the factory of the future
The ‘automated factory’ as the culmination of ingenuity has fascinated engineers and social visionaries (albeit for different reasons) for a considerable period. This article discusses the skill requirements of advanced automated production
The Technical and Vocational Education Initiative and economic performance in the United Kingdom: An initial assessment
Government support for the Technical and Vocational Education Initiative (TVEI) is based largely on the belief that it will contribute to the improvement of the UK's economic performance. This paper reviews evidence on the relationship between education and training, workforce skills and economic performance, and concludes that it would be helpful if TVEI's objectives were to be expressed in more detail, so as to provide a better basis for evalua…
The significance of individual biography in workplace learning
In this paper we address a perceived gap in the workplace learning literature, for there is very little writing which successfully integrates the issues of individual learners into predominantly social theories of learning. The paper draws upon data from four linked research projects to address this problem. Following an analysis of the theoretical problems and a possible solution, the paper identifies and discussed four overlapping individual di…
Technology, Inequality, and Underdevelopment: The Case of Latin America
The conventional wisdom is that the best way to alleviate poverty is to provide the maximum freedom for individual entrepreneurs and corporations to create wealth. Drawing on the case of Latin America, this article contends that there are serious defects in analyses based on such assumptions. New technologies and restructuring of international capitalism have accelerated wealth creation worldwide but amid growing inequalities. Technology is mainl…
The development and implementation of National Vocational Qualifications: An engineering case study
The advent of National Vocational Qualifications represents an important change in British Government policy from attempting to secure appropriate training inputs to a system driven by the aim of stimulating the attainment of learning outcomes assessed against national standards. This article presents a case study of the implications of this policy for intermediate skills in engineering, a major industry subject to rapid technological change
The need for skills in the factory of the future
The ‘automated factory’ as the culmination of ingenuity has fascinated engineers and social visionaries (albeit for different reasons) for a considerable period. This article discusses the skill requirements of advanced automated production
Technological change and the future of work
Ten Years of Thatcherism: Triumph of Ideology Over Economics
Some economic and ideological aspects of the reform of education and training in England and Wales in the last ten years
During the last ten years, British governments have claimed that their education and training policies have been largely motivated by the objective of serving the needs of the economy better. The paper suggests, however, that reforms have been guided to a greater extent by short‐term political expediency and in compliance with the Government's market forces ideology. The result is a very confused pattern of education and training provision. Prese…
Technical change, employment, and international competition
Transferring technology and expertise from universities to industry: Britain's Teaching Company Scheme
Teaching Company Scheme programmes involve employing graduates known as Teaching Company Associates in companies on projects which are jointly supervised by academics and company staff. This article presents findings of a study of the effectiveness of these programmes in transferring university expertise in science, technology and management, to industry
The Technical and Vocational Education Initiative and economic performance in the United Kingdom: An initial assessment
Government support for the Technical and Vocational Education Initiative (TVEI) is based largely on the belief that it will contribute to the improvement of the UK's economic performance. This paper reviews evidence on the relationship between education and training, workforce skills and economic performance, and concludes that it would be helpful if TVEI's objectives were to be expressed in more detail, so as to provide a better basis for evalua…
Technical change, employment, and international competition
The need for skills in the factory of the future
The ‘automated factory’ as the culmination of ingenuity has fascinated engineers and social visionaries (albeit for different reasons) for a considerable period. This article discusses the skill requirements of advanced automated production
The Technical and Vocational Education Initiative and economic performance in the United Kingdom: An initial assessment
Government support for the Technical and Vocational Education Initiative (TVEI) is based largely on the belief that it will contribute to the improvement of the UK's economic performance. This paper reviews evidence on the relationship between education and training, workforce skills and economic performance, and concludes that it would be helpful if TVEI's objectives were to be expressed in more detail, so as to provide a better basis for evalua…
Working with expert systems: Three case studies
Technical change, work organisation and training: Some issues relating to the role of market forces
Managements often fail to deal with problems of reorganising work to cope with technical change. Nevertheless, it is suggested that skills are becoming more enterprise‐specific and that employers should train to satisfy their own needs. While markets help to distribute skills, they do not ensure that sufficient are created
Ten Years of Thatcherism: Triumph of Ideology Over Economics
Some economic and ideological aspects of the reform of education and training in England and Wales in the last ten years
During the last ten years, British governments have claimed that their education and training policies have been largely motivated by the objective of serving the needs of the economy better. The paper suggests, however, that reforms have been guided to a greater extent by short‐term political expediency and in compliance with the Government's market forces ideology. The result is a very confused pattern of education and training provision. Prese…
Changing technology and design work in the British engineering industry, 1981–1988
Technologies and management strategies change over time and interact. Longitudinal studies can shed some light on this process, and can also contribute to understanding of how relationships between technology and working conditions change over time
Technological change and the future of work
International trends in construction technologies and the future of housebuilding
Transferring technology and expertise from universities to industry: Britain's Teaching Company Scheme
Teaching Company Scheme programmes involve employing graduates known as Teaching Company Associates in companies on projects which are jointly supervised by academics and company staff. This article presents findings of a study of the effectiveness of these programmes in transferring university expertise in science, technology and management, to industry
The development and implementation of National Vocational Qualifications: An engineering case study
The advent of National Vocational Qualifications represents an important change in British Government policy from attempting to secure appropriate training inputs to a system driven by the aim of stimulating the attainment of learning outcomes assessed against national standards. This article presents a case study of the implications of this policy for intermediate skills in engineering, a major industry subject to rapid technological change
Technology and In/equality: Questioning the Information Society
Technology, Inequality, and Underdevelopment: The Case of Latin America
The conventional wisdom is that the best way to alleviate poverty is to provide the maximum freedom for individual entrepreneurs and corporations to create wealth. Drawing on the case of Latin America, this article contends that there are serious defects in analyses based on such assumptions. New technologies and restructuring of international capitalism have accelerated wealth creation worldwide but amid growing inequalities. Technology is mainl…
The significance of individual biography in workplace learning
In this paper we address a perceived gap in the workplace learning literature, for there is very little writing which successfully integrates the issues of individual learners into predominantly social theories of learning. The paper draws upon data from four linked research projects to address this problem. Following an analysis of the theoretical problems and a possible solution, the paper identifies and discussed four overlapping individual di…
Foresight: The future of food and farming, final project report
by Government Office for Science, London, 2011, 208 pp., ISBN 978-0-7546-7248-7 I suggest that minimum requirements for a global food and farming system fit for purpose are that: • it should ensure
The master switch: The rise and fall of information empires/The net delusion: how not to liberate the world
The triumph of neoliberalism and the world dominance of capitalism
Neoclassical economics dominates modern economics and provides an important theoretical basis for neoliberalism. Among its inadequacies are failure to take sufficient account either of technological change or of marketing activities, both of which are central features of modern capitalism. Neoliberals believe that the state should be confined to safeguarding individual and commercial liberty and strong property rights. But in practice, corporatio…
Swallowing Secrets
Prometheus
Restricting environmental damage resulting from economic activities: A Polanyian analysis
Economic activities continue to cause considerable environmental damage. The extent of damage could be such that the environment in and around our planet will be affected, making survival difficult for human beings, for other animals, and for plants and insects. The paper reviews economic developments from the nineteenth century and how these have been influenced by orthodox economic theories. Markets are central to orthodox economics, and to pol…
William Kingston, How Capitalism Destroyed Itself: Technology Displaced by Financial Innovation
Prometheus
Prometheus
Prometheus
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