This book is about the largest displacement crisis and resettlement of our time. However, it is not another piece that elaborately describes the appalling situation of Syrian workers in Turkey, but explores how they are integrated into the lower ends of the value chain in several sectors. The book seeks answers of what has been largely overlooked in the literature on the question of how labor processes have been shaped in various labor-intensive sectors by class and identity.

This book sheds light on the role that migrant union members and their transnational connections play in unions' cross-border work. By bringing together concepts from (international labor) solidarity theory and transnational migration research, it shows that migrants organized in labor unions and their manifold cross-border ties and networks, transnational ways of belonging, and the social remittances and cultural knowledge they bring, can help overcome some major obstacles to international labor solidarity. Based ...

Die hier reproduzierte Handschrift 4o Ms. Hist. 6 der Universitätsbibliothek Kassel – Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel überliefert einen formvollendeten Weltatlas des Jahres 1542. Sein Schöpfer Battista Agnese, ein aus Genua stammender Kartograph, betrieb eine leistungsfähige Werkstatt für Seekarten und Atlanten in Venedig. In den Jahren von etwa 1535 bis 1564 fertigte er aufwändige Pergamentkodizes in erheblicher Zahl.

The book makes a major contribution to the controversy about the factors driving the persistence and expansion of the informal economy. Unlike most others studies which either take a structuralist or an actor’s choice approach to the topic, this study combines a careful assessment of the economic, social and political circumstances promoting informality with a meticulously carried out econometric analysis of the dominant characteristics of workers as well as enterprises in the informal economy in comparison to those ...

‘‘Glauben Sie mir, ich habe mich schon sehr viel umgeschaut, aber ich finde einfach keinen Praktikumsplatz!’’ — ‘‘Ich weiß ja gar nicht, was ich überhaupt machen kann!’’ — ‘‘Ich sehe nicht, wie ich Inhalte aus meinem Studium im Beruf anwenden kann!’’ — ‘‘Mit dem, was mir Spaß macht, finde ich keinen Job!’’ — ‘‘Ich möchte nicht in die Marktforschung, gibt es überhaupt Alternativen?’’ Dies sind nur ein paar exemplarisch ausgewählte Fragen, die uns immer wieder begegnet sind. Immer wieder kommen solche unangenehmen ...