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Enforcement Instruments for Social Human Rights along supply Chains
(Rainer Hampp Verlag, Augsburg, München, 2017)
Dire working conditions are prevalent in the labor-intensive segments of global supply chains. Pronouncements by governments and corporations that claim to address the plight of workers are plentiful, but the enforcement of social and human rights is lacking. This volume explores the possibilities for better enforcement by: - providing a general overview of the currently considered enforcement instruments; - identifying governmental instruments that are yet to be employed; - assessing the effectiveness of social ...
Dissertation
Natural Resource Management in Coastal Areas
(2017-03-16)
The management of natural resources has been - and will continue to be - one of the most essential tasks for human societies as they depend on the long-term maintenance of natural resources to ensure survival and well-being. Therefore, in this study, the management of natural resources is in the focus of the scientific discussion. The Greifswald Bay (in German: Greifswalder Bodden, GWB) and its coastal areas have been chosen as the case study for this research. The area covers highly vulnerable marine and terrestrial ...
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China's Labor Question
(Rainer Hampp Verlag, München, Mering, 2011)
The Honda workers’ strike in 2010 attracted world wide attention. It was one of thousands of labor disputes that happen every year in China, but it was the first major calling for the right of workers to represent themselves in collective bargaining. The question of representation is therefore the main topic of the book. The various contributors to this volume share the view that the Chinese party-state takes the protest against social inequality seriously. It has enacted many laws aimed at channeling dissatisfaction ...
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The Pursuit of Alternatives
(Rainer Hampp Verlag, München, Mering, 2012)
Stories of peoples’ struggles across the globe are testaments to their determination to resist exploitation and injustice, and to imagine and construct their own narratives of economic and political difference. These stories of emancipatory moments demonstrate that something radically different in terms of dominant socio-economic relations and mental conceptions of the world may arise out of and beyond capitalism. The Pursuit of Alternatives: Stories of Peoples’ Economic and Political Struggles Around the World ...
Dissertation
Hegemony, Private Actors, and International Institutions: Transnational Corporations as the agents of transformation of the trade regime from GATT to the WTO
(2012-08-13)
Diese Dissertation hat das Ziel, zum einen die Transformation des Handelssystems von der GATT zur Welthandelsorganisation (WTO) im Kontext einer veränderten Weltordnung und zum anderen die Rollen von transnationalen Unternehmen im Rahmen dieser Transformation zu untersuchen und zu verstehen. Die Arbeit wird theoretisch vom Neogramscianismus angeleitet, da die etablierten Ansätzen in den Internationalen Beziehungen und der International Politischen Ökonomie nur unzureichend die intersubjektive Natur von Regimen und ...
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The Food Crisis: Implications for Labor
(Rainer Hampp Verlag, München, Mering, 2013)
Food prices have gone up to prohibitive levels for many of the world’s poor. The vast majority of those who are hungry in the world today are working in agriculture, either as small landholders or as waged agricultural workers. The majority of the food producers have not benefited from rising prices. Apparently, the bargaining power of many producers, just as that of the end consumers, has been weakened vis-à-vis the buyers and retailers of agricultural produce. This powerlessness is also in the face of governments ...
Working paper
Armutsreduktion durch Partizipation?
(2006-01)
Ab 1991 verfolgte die bolivianische Sozialfondspolitik primär über eine Förderung sozialer Infrastruktur und lokaler Partizipation eine Strategie zur Reduktion von Armut. Ein 1994 in Bolivien eingeführtes Gesetz zur Volksbeteiligung, die Ley de Participación Popular, unterstützte diese Bemühungen, indem es eine partizipativ ausgerichtete Kommunalpolitik ermöglichte, welche eine stärkere Berücksichtung der lokalen Bedürfnisse sicherstellen sollte, um so die Bedarfsgerechtigkeit, Effizienz sowie Nachhaltigkeit der ...
Working paper
Die internationale Sozialpolitik am Beispiel der Sozialfonds in Bolivien
(2006-01)
Die weltweit agierenden sozialen Investitionsfonds haben ihren konzeptionellen Ursprung in dem 1986 erstmals in Bolivien implementierten Sozialen Notstandsfond. Der Fonds hatte die schnelle und fokussierte soziale Abfederung der unter der “Ägide“ der internationalen Finanzorganisationen im bolivianischen Kontext seit 1985 umgesetzten neoliberalen Strukturanpassungsprogramme zum Ziel. Resultierend aus den überwiegend positiven Erfahrungen der ersten Fondsgeneration und der im Verlauf der letzten zwei Dekaden stetigen ...