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Working paper
How can the concept of gender knowledge explain the gendered nature of the European Recovery Fund “NextGenerationEU”?
(2022-08)
The Covid-19-pandemic reproduced many long-existing gender inequalities and created new ones: women are over-represented in underpaid sectors such as the health care sector and were faced with the double burden of paid and reproductive work in the household, when kindergartens closed. As an answer to the global pandemic, the European Union (EU) implemented a recovery package, the #NextGenerationEU (NGEU) Fund. However, this fund reproduces existing gender inequalities, as most of the money is directed to male-dominated ...
Working paper
Langzeitpflege in Deutschland
(2022-08)
Deutschland ist eine der am schnellsten alternden Gesellschaften der Welt. Bereits im Jahr 2020 waren 24,1 Millionen Deutsche 60 Jahre oder älter (Statistisches Bundesamt 2022) und es wird prognostiziert, dass diese Gruppe bis 2030 auf 30 Millionen anwachsen könnte. Allein die Bevölkerung ab 80 Jahren wird sich im gleichen Zeitraum von 5,4 Millionen auf rund 10,5 Millionen verdoppeln. Im Jahr 2050 könnten in der Bundesrepublik somit fast doppelt so viele Ältere Menschen wie Kinder und Jugendliche leben (Statistisches ...
Working paper
20 Jahre Kumulieren und Panaschieren
(2021-02)
Mit dem Gesetz zur Stärkung der Bürgerbeteiligung und der kommunalen Selbstverwaltung vom 23. Dezember 1999 wurde in Hessen ein neues Kommunalwahlrecht eingeführt. Seitdem können Wähler bei hessischen Kommunalwahlen Kumulieren und Panaschieren. Gleichzeitig ging mit der Einführung des neuen Wahlrechts in Hessen das „Jahrzehnt der Demokratisierungsnovellen“ (Dreßler 2010: 8) zu Ende, das mit Einführung der Direktwahl der Bürgermeister und von direktdemokratischen Bürgerentscheiden zum 1. April 1993 angebrochen war. ...
Dissertation
The Global Unions in the System of Global Governance
(2015)
Im Jahr 2002 etablierten die internationalen Gewerkschaftsorganisationen (Global Unions) und die internationalen Finanzinstitutionen (IFIs) einen formalen Dialog. Die Global Unions setzen sich aus dem Internationalen Gewerkschaftsbund (IGB), den neun Globalen Gewerkschaftsföderationen (GUFs) und dem Gewerkschaftlichen Beratungsausschuss bei der OECD (TUAC) zusammen. Die internationalen Finanzinstitutionen, welche aufgrund ihrer Gründungsgeschichte auch als BrettonWoods Organisationen bezeichnet werden, umfassen die ...
Working paper
Labor Rights, Working Conditions, and Workers’ Power in the Emerging Textile and Apparel Industries in Ethiopia: The Case of Hawassa Industrial Park
(2019-11)
To be able to participate in the global production network and enhance its manufacturing sector, the government of Ethiopia has been building industrial zones (Export Processing Zones) in various parts of the country. These zones have already attracted substantial investments into the country in the light manufacturing sectors, particularly, textile and apparel industries, as a result of which the country is gradually gaining the potential to become a global textile and apparel sourcing hub. Despite the governments’ ...
Buch
Assessing the Level of Self-Reliance and Livelihood of Encamped Refugees
(Rainer Hampp Verlag, 2020)
Achieving self-reliance among refugees is favoured by many international organisations, though hardly achieved for refugee camps. In many cases, deprived of their human rights, located in remote areas and without access to the local labour market, encamped refugees have no other opportunity than turning to negative coping mechanisms to survive, including sex work, child labour, crime and dangerous work in the informal sector. This book concentrates on measuring self-reliance and identifying factors influencing it in ...
Buch
Occupational Safety and Health Challenges in Southern Agriculture
(Rainer Hampp Verlag, 2019)
Occupational safety and health (OSH) is a core element of the ILO’s Decent Work Agenda. Despite hazardous working conditions in agriculture, unfortunately, OSH issues in agriculture are frequently ignored. This volume’s contributions from Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Nicaragua, and Pakistan as well as from various disciplines highlight
- the prevalent patriarchal norms and practices which expose women to more health risks;
- the lack of training and education which leave smallholders and ...
Rezension
Book Review: Qin, Yaqing. 2018. A Relational Theory of World Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-1316634257
(2019-11-25)
Book Review: Qin, Yaqing. 2018. A Relational Theory of World Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
A Relational Theory of World Politics by Qin Yaqing offers a significant and alternative theoretical perspective as well as timely and novel insights on international relations in a rapidly changing world. It makes an important contribution to IR theorizing by providing a new ontological foundation in which relationality plays a central role.
Working paper
The Dairy Value Chain
(2013-07)
By tradition dairy farming has been a prestigious occupation in the fertile lands of the Indus basin. In Pakistan, the practice of rearing dairy animals remained a complementary activity to crop production. Deeply embedded in the rural life, dairy farming still is a sign of prestige within the agriculture sector; it forms an integral part of the socio-economic activities in rural areas and plays a supportive role in mitigating the effects of poverty by providing essential food items of daily use, family income, and ...
Buch
Competitive Pressures and Labour Rights
(Rainer Hampp Verlag, 2020)
While the link between trade liberalisation and labour rights has been mostly studied at a national level, this book analyses this relation at a sectoral level. It draws on case studies of oil palm plantations and the automobile sector in Indonesia. Two main research questions guide the book:
1. How do labour- and capital-intensive sectors in Indonesia respond to competitive pressures brought about by trade liberalisation?
2. What are the implications of such responses on labour rights in the two sectors?
Employing ...