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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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Mercosur–EU Agreement: Impact on Agriculture, Environment, and Consumers
(kassel university press, 2020-05-06)
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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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Can Decent Work and Export Oriented Growth Strategies go together?
(kassel university press, 2014-08)
The present research paper takes the Nicaraguan Export Processing Zones as an exemplary case to investigate in how far it is possible for countries in the Global South to take steps towards Decent Work despite the pressures caused by export competition. In Nicaragua, export processing zones had a negative reputation for paying low wages and incompliance with trade union and workers’ rights. However, a process of Social Dialogue that has resulted in tripartite agreements is seen as an important factor for the sector’s ...
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The decency of women’s working conditions in peri-urban dairy buffalo production systems in the District Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan
(kassel university press, 2014-05)
Equitable working conditions and fair payment for female workers are often lacking. To analyse the decency of women’s working conditions in dairy production systems in Pakistan, female workers (n=73) were asked about their on-farm activities in a semi-structured face to face interview. In addition, participatory research tools were applied to determine problems the women are facing. The research was carried out in 2011. The workload of female family members is enormous: it is the task of women to take care of the ...
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"Ein dapferer Held und Vermesser"
(2013-07-02)
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Veröffentlichung studentischer Abschlussarbeiten im Lehramtsbereich
(2011-07-21)
Jedes Jahr entstehen an der Universität Kassel hunderte Wissenschaftliche Hausarbeiten, die oft ungenutzt im Archiv des Prüfungsamtes verstauben. Oftmals liegt nach Abschluss der Prüfungsphase nicht einmal den Betreuerinnen und Betreuern ein Exemplar vor. Nicht wenige dieser Arbeiten leisten aber einen wichtigen Erkenntnisbeitrag zu Themen von Unterricht, Schulentwicklung und Lehrerbildung und könnten somit für Studium, Forschung, Lehre, Studienseminar sowie Schulpraxis genutzt werden. Hierfür müssten die Arbeiten ...
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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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Identifying Employment Creating Sectors in India
(kassel university press, 2014-05)
For a labour surplus economy like India employment generation remains a perennial concern. While growth of GDP is supposed to address this problem, not all sectors of the economy are equally employment intensive. This paper attempts to identify the relatively more employment generating sectors within the major sectors of the economy by considering both forward and backward linkages of the sectors. A linkage based analysis is considered useful as it shows the creation of employment within the sector concerned as well ...