Not-So-Fair Trade & Bye Bye Nine-To-Five

Synopsis: Two programmes dealing with specific social and ethical aspects of business, made in a collaboration between the BBC’s MONEY PROGRAMME and the Open University’s Open Business School.
Series: Money Programme, The
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2006
Year of production: 2005
Notes: Broadcast on BBC2 on 10/3/2006 and 24/03/2006 respectively
Subjects: Business studies; Social Studies; Economics

Title: Not-so-fair Trade
Synopsis: Libby Potter investigates the booming Fair Trade movement as it becomes big business. There’s concern about the premium pricing of Fair Trade products in some supermarkets and there’s controversy that even food giant Nestle has been granted Fair Trade status, with critics arguing that their adoption of Fair Trade principles is little more than a PR exercise. Potter asks whether, at the very moment Fair Trade is taking off, the movement can satisfy its growing band of critics?
Duration: 30 mins
Title: Bye Bye Nine-to-Five
Synopsis: Max Flint investigates the increasing numbers of Britons no longer working traditional nine-to-five hours. From call centre operators and factory shift workers to blackberry addicts and insomniacs doing telephone banking at four in the morning, seven million people are involved in some kind of work at night, a figure expected to increase to thirteen million by 2020. The programme looks at the impact of the new 24-hour culture on our family life, our health and well-being?
Duration: 30 mins

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