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Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands? The Politics of High-Tech Production in the Philippines [PDF]
[Excerpt] So how do we make sense of high-tech production as it emerges in developing countries like the Philippines? What explains the changes and wide variation in how work is organized?
McKay, Steven C.
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Chance-Constrained Efficiency Analysis [PDF]
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is extended to the case of stochastic inputs and outputs through the use of chance-constrained programming. The chance-constrained envelope envelops a given set of observations "most of the time." We show that the chance ...
Land, Kenneth C. +2 more
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“You Are Safe Now”: Migrant Youth Constructions of Safety and Schooling in the U.S.
ABSTRACT Drawing on multisited ethnographic research with migrant families from Brazil, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras who were detained, separated, or endured prolonged transit due to US immigration policies, we articulate how ideas of “relational safety” are situated in relationships with people, place, and time. Contrasting abundant literature
Michelle J. Bellino, Gabrielle Oliveira
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Spartan Daily September 27, 2012 [PDF]
Volume 139, Issue 16https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/1332/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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Labour process theory and critical management studies [PDF]
Labour Process Theory (LPT) is conventionally and rightly listed as one of the analytical resources for Critical Management Studies (CMS). Yet, the relationships between the two have been, in the words of a classic of the former, a contested terrain ...
Alvesson, M +3 more
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Dynamics of Transnational Labour Migration Revisited from a Crisis Complex Perspective
ABSTRACT This article uses the notion of crisis complex to analyse the relationship between labour migration and crisis from an institution‐ and process‐oriented perspective. Such an interrogation is timely, given the increasingly crisis‐prone dynamics shaping global labour systems and migration governance, including recruitment, skills recognition and
Ioana Jipa‐Muşat, Nicola Piper
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Cultivating Community: The role of the Winooski school system in creating positive relationships between city institutions and the refugee population [PDF]
Schools serve as key institutions for absorbing newcomers into American society, as they provide resources, programming, and access points into a community for immigrant children and their families. In Winooski, Vermont, the public school building serves
Hurwitz, Rachel M
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The calculative reproduction of social structures : The field of gem mining in Sri Lanka [PDF]
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Alawattage, Chandana Gnanapriya
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„Public Sociology“ – Burawoy-Hype und linkes Projekt [PDF]
Review essay: 1) Burawoy, Michael: Public Sociology - Öffentliche Soziologie gegen Marktfundamentalismus und globale Ungleichheit. Herausgegeben von Brigitte Aulenbacher und Klaus Dörre mit einem Nachwort von Hans-Jürgen Urban. Weinheim, Basel: Beltz Juventa 2015.
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ABSTRACT Digital applications integrated into assistant nurses' work phones have long been used in Swedish municipal home care to structure and monitor care tasks. However, few studies have explored how these technologies shape the everyday realities of work.
Marita Flisbäck, Danka Miscevic
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