As scholars and policymakers debate how to combine social inclusion with competitiveness under twenty-first-century economic conditions, the German model of labor relations is again attracting significant attention. Yet, assessments of its health
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Dec 2017
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- Research Article
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- 46–76
Deprivation of citizenship, undocumented labor and human trafficking
Myanmar migrant workers in Thailand
Steve Kwok-Leung Chan
Labor migration is no longer a single-directional flow from developing states to developed states. South–South labor migration has become a common phenomenon during the post–industrial era. In Southeast Asia, Myanmar is a quintessential labor
Building Dignity?
Tracing Rights, Discretion, and Negotiation within a Norwegian Labor Activation Program
Erika Gubrium, Leah Johnstone, and Ivar Lødemel
delivery practices and experiences within a Norwegian labor activation program for social assistance. We take into account the understandings of key stakeholders within a national labor activation program: welfare office leaders, caseworkers, and program
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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- 01 Dec 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 52–70
Georg Picot and Arianna Tassinari
Reform of the labor market has long been an important and controversial policy area in Italy, and it was one of Matteo Renzi's core concerns when he took up the leadership of the Democratic Party. This chapter recounts the main changes in Italian labor market policy since the 1990s before discussing the Jobs Act, which started as a highly publicized reform project concentrating on changes to public employment services and unemployment benefits, but which the left strongly challenged when dismissal protection was later weakened.
Immaterial and industrial labor
On false binaries in Hardt and Negri's trilogy
Sylvia Yanagisako
At the core of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's thesis that a new global form of sovereignty has replaced a previous imperialist geography is their claim that the capitalist mode of production has undergone a shift from a modern era in which “industrial labor“ was hegemonic to a postmodern era in which “immaterial labor“ has become hegemonic. In this article, I argue that capitalism in Europe (let alone other areas of the world) does not conform to this model. I draw on the history of Italian manufacturing and on my ethnographic research on the silk industry of northern Italy to question the analytic usefulness of their distinction between “industrial“ and “immaterial“ labor and to show that the latter has always been crucial to industrial production. I conclude that Hardt and Negri's attempt to expand the definition of productive labor to include the “multitude“ unwittingly parallels an emerging discourse that serves to legitimate transnational hierarchies of labor.
Waves of Dispossession
The Conversion of Land and Labor in Bali’s Recent History
Anette Fagertun
, rural work migrant, Jimbaran Bay In Bali, a small Indonesian island, the tourism industry has been encouraged by the state as a means to grow the economy, make links with global capital, and create new labor markets—thus, as a means to achieve
Lazy Labor, Modernization, and Coloniality
Mobile Cultures between the Andes and the Amazon around 1900
Jaime Moreno Tejada
The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor . Proverbs 12:24. In turn-of-the-century Quito, the expanding middle-class was witness to the spectacle of a pulsating modernity, quickly unfolding in the newly paved
Urban tourism via dispossession of oeuvres
Labor as a common denominator
Marc Morell
, Roberto adapts his performance to a stage approved by the tourist industry. The implications of this approval are important for the study of heritage and the labor relations the global tourism industry requests since it not only signals the importance that
Mobilizing for the petro-nation
Labor and petroleum in Ecuador
Gabriela Valdivia and Marcela Benavides
This article analyzes the struggles of the petroleum labor movement against the neo-liberalization of the petroleum industry in Ecuador. Though originally focused on defending collective bargaining rights, since the 1990s the movement has put forward a populist, nationalist critique of the state's governance of petroleum. The article traces the roots of the movement and focuses on two contested terrains of petroleum politics, refineries and oilfields, to examine labor's role in resource governance. The article argues that by strategically joining concerns over class and nation, over a number of administrations from the 1970s to the 2000s (from populist, military juntas, to neoliberal), the petroleum labor movement became a defining actor in petroleum governance.
Between Labor Migration and Forced Displacement
Wartime Mobilities in the Burkina Faso–Côte d’Ivoire Transnational Space
Jesper Bjarnesen
many depend on the opportunities for seasonal and more permanent forms of labor migration to Côte d’Ivoire. Following the descent into armed conflict in Côte d’Ivoire in the early 2000s, when the failed coup d’état of the northern Forces Nouvelles
