Teaching activity
The impact of structural unemployment
26th November 2015
Students are likely to have heard of Michael Moore's most recent documentaries such as Where to Invade Next and Capitalism: A Love Story, but it's worth delving back into the archives to revisit Roger and Me, the documentary that really launched his career, which explores the story surrounding the closure of several General Motors plants in the US in the late 1980s. One clips really stands out for me, and shows the impact of large-scale structural unemployment on the town of Flint:
Ruth Tarrant
Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible.
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