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stadtteilgeschichten.net
(2007-03-30)
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DSpace 1.4.1 - Anpassung
(2007-03-13)
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Right-Wing Politics in the Current Conjuncture
(2022-09)
In this working paper, the author situates the political project under Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (termed the “Kurz project”) as a mode of neoliberal crisis management. The case study is conducted using a conjunctural analysis. It is argued that following the event of the Ibiza-affair in 2019 which led to a political crisis in Austria, the Kurz project managed to solidify its stance despite numerous scandals. The main findings are that on the one hand, this is due to a specific strategy employed by Sebastian Kurz, ...
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Practices of Clean Milk Production, Management and Decent Work in Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan
(2022-10)
This study aimed at determining the factors influencing clean milk production in Faisalabad, the third-largest city of Pakistan with more than three million inhabitants. A semi-structured pre-tested questionnaire was used to collect data following a snowball sampling approach. Interviews with each 60 semi-commercial small-scale (SCSS), commercial small-scale (CSS) and commercial large-scale (CLS) peri-urban milk producing households (HH) keeping mixed herds of cattle and buffalo were carried out during February and ...
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Explaining the Financial Exclusion of the Urban Poor through the Lens of Othering: A Case Study in Bengaluru, India
(2022-12)
Financial inclusion has historically played a large part in the Indian state’s plans for the country’s financial system. However, large sections of the Indian population still lack access to the banking system and formal credit. Existing literature on the issue tends to use a quantitative lens and focus on the rural sections of the country. Therefore, the innovation of this paper lies in the fact that it uses a qualitative approach to the problem and, using Bangalore as a case study, finds that the Othering of the ...
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Social Upgrading in Global Agricultural Value Chains: What impacts labour relations in fruit production in the Brazilian Northeast?
(2022-12-15)
The paper aims to analyse the impacts on social upgrading in the two main fruit-producing areas of the Brazilian Northeast – Açú-Mossoró and Petrolina-Juazeiro. The concept of decent work deficit was elected as a guideline for the theoretical background, as many authors have applied it to address social upgrading in a more objective way. The paper has adopted the time series econometric analysis to identify possible structural breaks in the formal workers’ demand per hectare for the two regions. The main results ...