Employment
Employment is a relationship between two parties regulating the provision of paid labour services. Usually based on a contract, one party, the employer, which might be a corporation, a not-for-profit organization, a co-operative, or any other entity, pays the other, the employee, in return for carrying out assigned work.
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Slavery and Empire
Melvyn Bragg examines the history of British imperialism and its captives, both slaves and Britons, and examines whether slavery is an inevitable part of empire and how Britain finally shook it off.
17 October 2002
Featuring: Linda Colley, Catherine Hall, Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Work in the 20th Century
Melvyn Bragg discusses the way attitudes to work and the work ethic itself have changed over the century. Has our understanding of the nature and function of work changed as radically as we imagine?
26 November 1998
Featuring: Richard Sennett, Theodore Zeldin, Melanie Phillips