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Social Upgrading in Global Agricultural Value Chains: What impacts labour relations in fruit production in the Brazilian Northeast?
(2022-12-15)
The paper aims to analyse the impacts on social upgrading in the two main fruit-producing areas of the Brazilian Northeast – Açú-Mossoró and Petrolina-Juazeiro. The concept of decent work deficit was elected as a guideline for the theoretical background, as many authors have applied it to address social upgrading in a more objective way. The paper has adopted the time series econometric analysis to identify possible structural breaks in the formal workers’ demand per hectare for the two regions. The main results ...
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Footwear industry, and plastic recycling
(2021-11)
The social and economic dynamics in Ticul municipality in Yucatán is based on labor-intensive and low-tech pottery and shoe manufacturing, contributing thereby 55% of the municipality’s total gross production. Despite its economic importance and employment, there are no environmental policies focused on these economic activities in the community, which has led to environmental, social, health problems in children and concerns of hazardous waste. The article’s objective is to document a successful case of a plastics ...
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Rural-Urban Transition
(2021-11)
Like elsewhere, migration-led peri-urban (rural clusters) growth of cities has been an important element of rural-urban transformation for centuries. However, only recently, in this process, the rural landscape also benefits from these changes, owing to better communication and market access. Peri-urban areas are consuming peripheral villages. This has put pressure on land and water resources putting environmental health at stake. Loss of biodiversity is imminent due to changing ecological frame conditions in an ...
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Impacts of Lockdown on Livelihood Conditions of Informal Workers in Bihar, India
(2022-03)
This paper analyses the impacts of COVID-19 induced lockdown on employment and working conditions, impacts on wages and incomes, food consumption, borrowings and asset holdings and level of government support in Bihar, one of the largest states of India.
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Inequalities in childcare strategies among domestic workers and teachers in Argentina
(kassel university press, 2021-03)
The objective of this paper is to examine and analyse how care workers in Argentina organize the care of children under the age of 12. The paper explores and compares the strategies developed by educators and domestic employees, involved in two highly feminized occupations, where employment conditions and access to social rights and services differ significantly. The study is based on statistical information, gained from Argentina’s National Survey on Social Structure (Encuesta Nacional de Estructura Social, ENES-Pisac), ...
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Identifying Employment Creating Sectors in India
(kassel university press, 2014-05)
For a labour surplus economy like India employment generation remains a perennial concern. While growth of GDP is supposed to address this problem, not all sectors of the economy are equally employment intensive. This paper attempts to identify the relatively more employment generating sectors within the major sectors of the economy by considering both forward and backward linkages of the sectors. A linkage based analysis is considered useful as it shows the creation of employment within the sector concerned as well ...
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Die VENUS-Entwicklungsmethode
(kassel university press, 2014)
Das Ziel des Forschungsschwerpunktes VENUS (Gestaltung technisch-sozialer Vernetzung in situativen ubiquitären Systemen), gefördert durch die 2. Förderstaffel der hessischen Landes-Offensive zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-ökonomischer Exzellenz (LOEWE), war die Entwicklung einer systematischen und interdisziplinären Entwicklungsmethode, welche die funktionalen und nicht-funktionalen Designaspekte von UC berücksichtigt. Die Entwicklung wurde durch ein interdisziplinäres Forschungsteam mit Experten aus den Bereichen ...
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(Re)configuration of Water Resources Management in Mongolia
(kassel university press, 2014-11)
In Mongolia 'water' as a concept is constructed by local people based on the values and norms in which it was rooted in the past. Rivers and its resources are considered gifts from "Naga" who is believed to be the snake lord for pure water resources, lakes, springs, waterfalls and rivers. However, stress over water resource availability has gradually increased. Therefore, water resource management has been one critical theme in politics and policies in Mongolia with respect to climate conditions and socioeconomic ...
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The Informal Economy and Collective Cooperation in India: Lessons from Ela Bhatt
(kassel university press, 2021-01)
Increasing informality and inequality have been recognised as the two primary outcomes of the twenty-first century globalisation. With growing intensity of the two problems, the world seems to be returning to the nineteenth-century precarious conditions in the world of work. Absence of judiciable status of the worker in informal economy has caused widespread violations of workers’ rights. Consequently, all the protective legislations and ILO standards have failed to extend the desired protection to informal workers, ...
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The rational of minimum wages
(kassel university press, 2021-03)
Leaving labour markets to the market mechanism with flexible wages is the worst thing that can happen as the result would be a permanent destabilisation of the price level and an explosion of inequality—both of which adds to the instabilities of capitalism. Guarantee of minimum wages can play an important role to contain the destabilising potential of labour markets. They can add to the stability of price level development and help establish a type of wage dispersion preferred by society. Minimum wages do not lead ...