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Working paper
Homeoffice - eine Transformation der Arbeitswelt. Systematischer Überblick und Perspektiven der Gestaltung
(2021-05)
Coronakrise und Homeoffice scheinen zwei Seiten einer Medaille zu sein. Durch das Homeoffice lassen sich die Corona-bedingten Kontakteinschränkungen besonders erfolgreich umsetzen. Auf der einen Seite ist die Rede vom damit einhergehenden Beitrag zur Eindämmung der Infektionsrisiken. Auf der anderen Seite lässt sich so die Kontinuität wirtschaftlicher Prozesse sicherstellen. Homeoffice wird mit weiteren Vorteilen in Verbindung gebracht, die vielfach als Fortschritt auf dem Weg zu einer modernen Arbeitswelt gesehen ...
Working paper
The Containment of Labour Unrest in the Post Socialist China
(2011-07-25)
Due to its transition from the socialist mode of production to the capitalist mode, workers in China have been exposed to the exploitative class relations that they hardly experienced before. The working class is now assuming a subordinate position in the relations of production while the capitalist class remains in the dominant position. As a consequence, workers’ protests are constantly emerging and class conflicts are exacerbating in the contemporary China. I have set out to study in this paper how the party-state ...
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Beyond the Prototypical Male Migrant
(2010-06-07)
The primary theoretical accounts of migration have been largely unaffected by the feminisation of migration. But this does not mean that they are gender neutral. Drawing on the concept of gender knowledge developed by German sociologists Irene Dölling and Sünne Andresen, on the feminist critique of knowledge, feminist economics and studies on gender and migration, the paper interrogates two influential models of migration from neoclassical economics for their gendered assumptions: the Roy-Borjas selection model of ...
Dissertation
Re-Framing Trade
(Rainer Hampp Verlag, München, Mering, 2013)
Given the substantial and increasing encroachment of trade agreements into almost every aspect of economic
and social life, there is a pressing need for research that provides a more coherent framework for understanding
the source and effectiveness of organised labour ’s power and capacity to influence international trade policy.
Taking the union protests against the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) as a case study, this
research uses core concepts derived from social movement theory to analyse the ...
Working paper
Critical Perspectives on TTIP
(2015-12-03)
Working paper
Opportunities and constraints of peri-urban buffalo and dairy cattle systems in Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan
(ICDD, International Center for Development and Decent Work, University of Kassel, 2012-01)
In the big cities of Pakistan, peri-urban dairy production plays an important role for household
income generation and the supply of milk and meat to the urban population. On the other hand,
milk production in general, and peri-urban dairy production in particular, faces numerous problems
that have been well known for decades. Peri-urban dairy producers have been especially neglected
by politicians as well as non-government-organizations (NGOs).
Against this background, a study in Pakistan’s third largest city, ...