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Footwear industry, and plastic recycling
(2021-11)
The social and economic dynamics in Ticul municipality in Yucatán is based on labor-intensive and low-tech pottery and shoe manufacturing, contributing thereby 55% of the municipality’s total gross production. Despite its economic importance and employment, there are no environmental policies focused on these economic activities in the community, which has led to environmental, social, health problems in children and concerns of hazardous waste. The article’s objective is to document a successful case of a plastics ...
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Rural-Urban Transition
(2021-11)
Like elsewhere, migration-led peri-urban (rural clusters) growth of cities has been an important element of rural-urban transformation for centuries. However, only recently, in this process, the rural landscape also benefits from these changes, owing to better communication and market access. Peri-urban areas are consuming peripheral villages. This has put pressure on land and water resources putting environmental health at stake. Loss of biodiversity is imminent due to changing ecological frame conditions in an ...
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Mercosur–EU Agreement: Impact on Agriculture, Environment, and Consumers
(kassel university press, 2020-05-06)
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Worsening Climate Crises and the Challenge of Red-Green Alliances for Labour
(2020-10)
The world is running out of time to prevent catastrophic climate change. In South Africa grassroots campaigning by the South African Food Sovereignty over the past six years, during the worst drought in the history of the country, produced a Climate Justice Charter (CJC). This CJC is unique in the world and is serving as the basis to build convergences between unions committed to a deep just transition and wider climate justice forces. It is laying the basis for red-green alliances to drive the deep just transition ...
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Legal Aid Ontario lawyers organizing against the odds: A case study of professional workers unionizing
(kassel university press, 2020-06)
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Wie haben Lehramtsstudierende der Universität Kassel die Umstellung von Präsenz- auf Online-Lehre erlebt? – Ergebnisse aus PRONET-D
(2020)
Das Projekt „Analyse digitalisierungsbezogener Kompetenzen“ (AIM) ist Teil des Projektvorhabens PRONET-D im Rahmen der Qualitätsoffensive Lehrerbildung und widmet sich der empirischen Erfassung und Analyse digitalisierungsbezogener Kompetenzen und Einstellungen von Kasseler Lehramtsstudierenden. Die kurzfristige Umstellung von der Präsenzlehre zu digitaler Lehre im Frühjahr 2020 wurde zum Anlass genommen, die Lehramtsstudierenden längsschnittlich zu zwei Messzeitpunkten zu ihren selbstberichteten Kompetenzen, ...
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Moving Minds and Money: The Political Economy of Migrant Transfers
(2020-12)
This paper examines the potential of digital financial services (Fintech) to increase the development impact of remittances. We discuss both household and macroeconomic perspectives of the nexus of digital financial services, remittances, and financial inclusion. Using our findings, we identify regulatory gaps in dealing with digital financial services to enhance the development impact of remittances. Political and social remittances, as well as collective remittances, and the role of diaspora networks are also ...
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Inequalities in childcare strategies among domestic workers and teachers in Argentina
(kassel university press, 2021-03)
The objective of this paper is to examine and analyse how care workers in Argentina organize the care of children under the age of 12. The paper explores and compares the strategies developed by educators and domestic employees, involved in two highly feminized occupations, where employment conditions and access to social rights and services differ significantly. The study is based on statistical information, gained from Argentina’s National Survey on Social Structure (Encuesta Nacional de Estructura Social, ENES-Pisac), ...
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The Informal Economy and Collective Cooperation in India: Lessons from Ela Bhatt
(kassel university press, 2021-01)
Increasing informality and inequality have been recognised as the two primary outcomes of the twenty-first century globalisation. With growing intensity of the two problems, the world seems to be returning to the nineteenth-century precarious conditions in the world of work. Absence of judiciable status of the worker in informal economy has caused widespread violations of workers’ rights. Consequently, all the protective legislations and ILO standards have failed to extend the desired protection to informal workers, ...
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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 ...