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Work and economic security in the 21st century
(ICDD, International Center for Development and Decent Work, University of Kassel, 2011-02)
In recent decades there has been a transformation of two central concepts of modernity – labour and the household. Ela Bhatt – the founder of the Self-Employed Women’s Association of India (SEWA), has made an important contribution to this transformation. Through the emergence of unions such as SEWA, the notion of who represents labour is being broadened; the marginalised are finding an institutional voice. Increasingly, the household is being recognised as a site of both production and reproduction. SEWA is not a ...
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Petropolitics
(2023)
• The dominant trend was that oil and natural gas were first and foremost a matter of market mechanisms and competition rules, even if they interacted with politics and geopolitics.
• The WTO persisted in treating hydrocarbons as commodities like any other, ignoring both their commons character and their impact on the environment and climate.
• The conflict in Ukraine has caused an upheaval. Within a few months, Europe faced a serious threat of energy shortages.
• In a few months, the rehabilitation of coal and ...
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Authoritarian escalation in Peru : Extractivism, racial discrimination and democracy
(2023-06-23)
•The current political crisis in Peru manifests long-standing social discontent over historical ethnic, class and environmentalinequalities that are largely created and supported by the extractivist model.
•Traditionally, extractivism has developed in the country in a localized authoritarian manner. Emergency decreessuspending fundamental rights and guarantees and opening spaces for the disproportionate use of public force happenedonly in particular zones of social conflict.
•Extractivism has imposed itself within ...
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¿Transformación o persistencia del modelo extractivista? Los desafíos del gobierno de Gabriel Boric
(2022-04)
• La transición energética influye en las decisiones políticas de Chile
• Presidente Boric busca transformar el sector minero y generar neutralidad climática
• Las materias primas de Chile son importantes para la industria europea y sus tecnologías sostenibles
• Tres posibles escenarios futuros del modelo extractivista esta analizado
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Lehrinnovation in der Studieneingangsphase „Mathematik im Lehramtsstudium“ – Hochschuldidaktische Grundlagen, Implementierung und Evaluation
(2018-10)
LIMA steht für "LehrInnovation in der Studieneingangsphase 'Mathematik im Lehramtsstudium' – Hochschuldidaktische Grundlagen, Implementierung und Evaluation". Hinter dem Akronym verbirgt sich ein interdisziplinäres Gemeinschaftsprojekt der Universitäten Paderborn und Kassel. Es begann im Januar 2009 und endete im August 2012. Gefördert wurde LIMA vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) im Rahmen der „Zukunftswerkstatt Hochschullehre“.
Das übergeordnete Ziel des Vorhabens war, den Studienbeginn für ...
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Die Verkehrspolitik der DDR
(2023-03-15)
Der Traum der Staatssozialisten von großen LKW-Flotten konnte in den 1950er Jahren nicht in die Realität überführt werden. Die erwarteten Gewinne an Produktivität stellten sich wegen zahlreicher Hindernisse nicht ein. Während das westliche Management in den 1980er Jahren die notwendigen Bedingungen für das Outsourcing von Transportdienstleistungen sorgfältig erkundete, besaßen die staatssozialistischen Planer keine Idee von Geschäftsprozessen, welche Produktion und Transport verbanden. Neben unzulänglichen ...
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The Shoe Factory Bata
(2023-08-18)
The paper focuses on the managerial aspects of the loosely coupled units in Bata's shoe factory in Zlin as a precursor of lean production that was forgotten. The Bata factory plant in Zlín, Moravia, was built in the avant-garde style of modernism and grew rapidly in the 1920s. Comparable to Henry Ford, Bata pursued a concept of social engineering. He expanded the factory complex in Zlín to include housing for the workers, sports facilities, educational institutions and a self–service department store.
The Bata factory ...
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Core Labor Rights
(ICDD, International Center for Development and Decent Work, University of Kassel, 2012-01)
The working paper’s main objective is to explore the extent to which non-compliance to international labor rights is caused by global competition. From the perspective of institutional economics, compliance with core labor rights is beneficial for sustainable development. Nonetheless, violations of these rights occur on a massive scale. The violators usually blame competitive pressures. A number of studies have come to the conclusion that non-compliance does not provide for a competitive edge, thereby denying any ...
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Determinants and Forecasting of Female Labour Force Participation Rate in India: Testing of Feminization U hypothesis
(kassel university press, 2020-06)
Greater involvement of women within the labour force has economic and social impact. The Female Labour Force Participation Rate (FLFPR) for India remains appallingly low at around 27%, while the male labour force participation rate has been 79.9%. In India, during 1990–2016, the FLFPR (% of female population age 15+) showed a declining trend.
In this paper, the determinants of FLFPR for India have been estimated using regression analysis for the time period 1990–2016. Data on all the relevant variables have been ...
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Brazilian Development at a Standstill? Perspectives and Challenges for the New Lula Government.
(2022-12)
• Brazil has a standstill development syndrome as its development path swayed from extractivism to industrialization and back to extractivism.
• The prioritization of environmental protection and indigenous rights is the most significant novelty for Lula in 2022 compared to his previous governments.
• Lula's third mandate will not be a left-wing government due to the broadness of the coalition.
• Lula aims to improve people's livelihoods and reduce poverty by promoting industrialization. Therefore, international ...