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In making the argument that racism must be understood as a legal pandemic, this chapter explores the continued deployment of race within law and beyond as a biological and therefore racialised concept. It highlights how this ‘race thinking’ in the time of COVID-19 compounds intersecting socio-economic and other inequalities that racialised populations already experience, as we demonstrate by focusing on the specific case study of garment workers in Leicester. At the beginning of the first lockdown, the image of sweatshops located in our midst caught media attention and fuelled racialised logics locating super-spreading and fear of contagion centrally within migrant populations rather than focusing on the issues of continued premature death – a form of blatant legally sanctioned racism in full view. However, in the final section ‘What now? Developing anti-racist legal education’, we draw on our experience as teachers to argue that through pedagogy another world is possible. By engaging other teachers and students we can collectively expose the racist violence and force of law as well as chart paths and potential for social justice.

Objectives. This paper examines age-related changes in subjective wellbeing in later life using multiple measures that cover eudemonic, evaluative and affectivedimensions of wellbeing.Method. Using data from five waves of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing(2002-2011), we fit multilevel linear growth curve models to examine the crosssectional effects of age and the longitudinal effects of ageing on quality of life,depressive symptomatology and life satisfaction in later life.Results. Older individuals are shown to have a better subjective wellbeing than those that are younger for each wellbeing measure, except at the oldest age for quality of life. Nonetheless, deterioration in wellbeing is greater at older ages, even when adjusting for age-related changes in later life, including widowhood, retirement and declining health.Discussion. The results suggest that although older people enjoy higher levels ofsubjective wellbeing than their younger counterparts, they experience sharper declines, especially at the oldest ages. The findings also demonstrate the importance of taking into account the multidimensionality of subjective wellbeing to determine the point at which age deterioration begins to occur across different measures.

This paper reports on networking activities amongst a cluster of independent hotels with a view to analysing key variables in network development for SMEs. A comparative, longitudinal element is introduced by reference to an earlier study of the same phenomenon, ten years earlier. Of particular interest is the influence of various forms of social capital in the development of informal networks and the inter-play between co-operation and competition over time. Given the time gap between the two studies, the effect of sectoral changes on network development is also examined. The research revisits and extends a previous study of many of the same hotels which were investigated in 1995 over their formal and informal links that were found to be influenced by such factors across two classifications - the business as unit (proximity, perceptions of quality) and the individual respondent (personal social networks and ethnicity). Extending that analysis, social capital concepts and relevant references to embedded networks and kinship groups and co-operative game rules will be introduced in this paper. A highly concentrated population of small, independent hotels in Central London had been identified in the previous research project and it is from this sample that the current research drew and extended its own sample of hotels. With such a high number of hotels in the area a mixture of ‘snowball’ sampling and self-selection was successfully employed. Of the original 29 hotels, 22 have been re-interviewed and complemented by another 19. Of the remainder of the original sample, several had subsequently merged or failed to survive the intervening period. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with owner-managers in all cases using a structured questionnaire that replicated as much as possible of the original questionnaire, with both open and closed questions to allow some individual expression on relevant topics. The quantitative data obtained will be analysed using UCINET software to generate visual representations of networks alongside statistical and cluster analyses. Both academic and policy implications are likely to arise from this research, such as novel insights from such an unique periodic comparison of networks development, the influence of social capital on (formal and informal) network activities and the changing influence and consolidation of hotel groups through mergers and franchising.