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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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Towards Interdisciplinary Design Patterns for Ubiquitous Computing Applications
(kassel university press, 2014)
Der vorliegende Band ist ein zweiter Technischer Bericht, der aus dem Forschungsschwerpunkt LOEWE-VENUS hervorgegangen ist. Aufbauend auf Band 1 der ITeG Technical Reports, der die VENUS-Entwicklungsmethode als kompletten Entwicklungszyklus vorstellt, wird hier herausgearbeitet, inwieweit Ergebnisse aus der Entwicklung dieser neuen interdisziplinären Gestaltungsmethodik bereits als Vorgaben in Form von Mustern standardisiert und wiederverwendet werden können. Durch diese Muster sozialverträglicher Informationstechn ...
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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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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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(Re)configuration of Water Resources Management in Mongolia
(kassel university press, 2014-11)
In Mongolia 'water' as a concept is constructed by local people based on the values and norms in which it was rooted in the past. Rivers and its resources are considered gifts from "Naga" who is believed to be the snake lord for pure water resources, lakes, springs, waterfalls and rivers. However, stress over water resource availability has gradually increased. Therefore, water resource management has been one critical theme in politics and policies in Mongolia with respect to climate conditions and socioeconomic ...
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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 ...
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Die VENUS-Entwicklungsmethode
(kassel university press, 2014)
Das Ziel des Forschungsschwerpunktes VENUS (Gestaltung technisch-sozialer Vernetzung in situativen ubiquitären Systemen), gefördert durch die 2. Förderstaffel der hessischen Landes-Offensive zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-ökonomischer Exzellenz (LOEWE), war die Entwicklung einer systematischen und interdisziplinären Entwicklungsmethode, welche die funktionalen und nicht-funktionalen Designaspekte von UC berücksichtigt. Die Entwicklung wurde durch ein interdisziplinäres Forschungsteam mit Experten aus den Bereichen ...
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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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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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Women’s empowerment for sustainable rural livelihoods:
(kassel university press, 2018-12)
Agricultural interventions are designed on certain assumptions of empowerment that do not necessarily address the livelihood constraints of the rural women they set out to support. This is a failing that might be due to the omission of women’s voices expressing their understanding of empowerment and its relation to existing gender orders. Using primary data from the Upper East and Northern Regions in Ghana, we explored women and men’s notions of the processes and outcomes of empowerment. We began by understanding the ...