The Trade Union Question: Schon vor der Jahrhundertwende gab es in Grossbritannien Vertreter der Arbeitnehmer, die sogenannten Gewerkschaften. 1868 schlossen sich die Mehrzahl der Gewerkschaftsmitglieder im Trades Union Congress zusammen und im Laufe der Zeit enstand daraus die Labour Party. Die Bedeutung der Gewerkschaften stieg mit den Jahren immer stärker an, hat aber heute unter New Labour ihre Vormachtstellung verloren. Die Partei sieht in den Gewerkschaften nur noch eine Interessengruppe unter vielen. Die Arbeit   zeigt die Geschichte der Gewerkschaften in Grossbritannien im Verlauf der vergangenen Jahrzehnte...

New Labour - New Britain? Tony Blair ist ein Regierungschef, der dank seiner unbeirrbaren Zielstrebigkeit die in Großbritannien so dringend benötigten Modernisierungen durchführen kann. Er achtet und respektiert die britische Krone, will diese jedoch trotzdem modernisieren. Die vorliegende Arbeit möchte zeigen, wie erfolgreich der Regierungschef sein Reformprogramm durchführt und es soll die Frage geklärt werden, ob der Sieg von New Labour 1997 wirklich einen turning point in der Politik Großbritanniens darstellt.

Immigrants in the British political system: Integration of immigrants not only means to adapt the culture of the country but also to take part in the political life. This paper will show how immigrants take part in the British political system, how they take decisions within the different parties and what their aims are.   in English

Gender Language: Do men and women speak differently? And if so -why? The gender differences appear because of the fact that boys and girls are differently socialised. Women communicate for intimacy and to build community, while men use language for information and contest. Within a conversation they often interrupt or overlap their interlocutors in order to gain the discussion floor. Some people – mostly women – feel disturbed, stop talking and refuse to go on, others simply ignore the interruption or even feel supported and confirmed. - If you want to know more about this topic, simply follow the link!      in English

English @nd the Internet - the challenge to standard English in communication systems: As every Internet user will have already noticed online dialogues that occur in emails, chats or news boards are mostly written in English and sometimes in pidgin mix-forms. This is valid for most of the countries. The WWW as such, including exchange services like for instants mail or chat, favours the English language as international lingua franca, whereas several changes from the standard are to be seen. This paper is to examine the language change caused by Internet communication and the centre of interest will be particularities in spelling and pronunciation, grammatical phenomena and new word formation.       in English

The long way home - Scotland on its way back to an own parliament: The construction of the new parliamentary building commenced in the summer of 1999 and it is due to be occupied in 2003. Considering the fact that Scotland has only five million inhabitants, setting up a resplendent edifice of more than 115 million Pound may confuse not only the opponents of this new Parliament. But obviously the Scots did not want to spare neither trouble nor expense for their recently elected institution in order to begin a new political era in an appropriate manner. The Parliament should therefore be seen as a symbol for this new beginning age. This paper tries to discuss the question whether the Parliament works on its own, under Westminster's wing or on the preparation to the total break-off from Britain. in English

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