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From Inaction to Action: The Cognitive Liberation of Amazon Workers in North Carolina

British Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the mechanism by which workers move from inaction to collective action, focusing on cognitive liberation, the awareness that change is possible, as it unfolded among workers at an Amazon warehouse in North Carolina who contributed to the emergence of an independent, worker‐led union during a period of renewed growth in organising ...
Carla Lima Aranzaes, Destiny Blackwell
wiley   +1 more source

Theorising the Impacts of Polycrisis on Employment Relations: Complexity and Diversity at a Global Scale

British Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Polycrisis—understood as intersecting crises that amplify each other rather than unfolding separately—poses profound challenges for employment relations theory and practice. The employment relationship is simultaneously a site where the effects of crises are most acutely experienced and a central mechanism through which profit is generated ...
Tony Dobbins, Fang Lee Cooke, Rea Prouska, Steve Williams, Sean O'Brady   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Residual permutation tests for feature importance in machine learning

British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Psychological research has traditionally relied on linear models to test scientific hypotheses. However, the emergence of machine learning (ML) algorithms has opened new opportunities for exploring variable relationships beyond linear constraints.
Po‐Hsien Huang
wiley   +1 more source

Entrepreneurial State as a Creative Destroyer: Comparison of Hong Kong and Singapore's Creative Industries

Creativity and Innovation Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the limits of mission‐directed entrepreneurial states by drawing on the theory of recombinant innovation and F.A. Hayek's insights on the spontaneous growth of knowledge in society. First, the use of discretionary policymaking curtails the range of knowledge generated in the process of social interaction, limiting the scope
Bryan Cheang, Praharsh Mehrotra
wiley   +1 more source

With the Rise of Right‐Wing Governments, Why a One‐Time “50% Health Tax” Will Be a Hard Sell and How It Could Be Implemented

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent calls from the World Health Organization (WHO) to globally impose a one‐time tax, labelled as “Health tax”, on tobacco, alcohol and sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) aim to achieve a 50% retail price increase to reduce consumption and improve health outcomes.
Hazem Abbas, Maha El Tantawi, Manami Hoshi‐Harada, Kenji Takeuchi, Ken Osaka, Carol C. Guarnizo‐Herreño, Marco A. Peres   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Relational Wellbeing Amongst Care‐Experienced Young People in Transition in the Context of Covid 19

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Care‐experienced young people typically negotiate the transition to adulthood at a younger age than their peers in the general population and with less reliable access to support. Concerns have been raised that Covid 19 exacerbated the challenges they faced and widened the ‘care‐gap’.
Emily R. Munro, Seana Friel, Amy Lynch
wiley   +1 more source

Disciplining Prostitutes in the Hospital de la Magdalena in Barcelona (1923‐1959)

JDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft, EarlyView.
Summary Background and Objectives The Hospital de la Magdalena, a care home for female prostitutes with venereal diseases, operated in Barcelona from 1923 to 1959. The purpose of this investigation is to highlight how this hospital was used to educate female prostitutes morally in addition to providing medical treatment.
Florian Grafl, Florian Steger
wiley   +1 more source

Self‐help and Volunteerism in Tanzania in the 1960s: Voluntary Labour, Nation Building and Constructing Modernity

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The United Nations has declared 2026 the International Year of Volunteers for Sustainable Development. Against that backdrop, this article examines the experience of volunteerism, and specifically self‐help voluntary labour in Tanzania in the early colonial period, to explore the place of volunteerism in the construction of the post‐colonial ...
Michael Jennings
wiley   +1 more source

Digital Crime, Dirty Money and the State: Southeast Asia's Illicit Political Economy and the Rise of Cybercrime

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past decade, cyber scamming has expanded rapidly across Southeast Asia. These operations cluster in compounds within business parks, casinos, industrial zones and other real estate developments. Although organized crime is often assumed to thrive where states are weak, this article offers a politically grounded explanation for why ...
Neil Loughlin
wiley   +1 more source

Bioethics and the World Order: A Curious Coincidence Between Chinese and African Approaches

Developing World Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The post‐1945 world order is standardly pictured as a Westphalian system, in which each state is equal under the law with sovereign authority over its territories. This paper argues that the Westphalian system is changing and examines the implications for bioethics. We show that cross‐border health, economic, ecologic, and sociopolitical risks
Nancy S. Jecker, Jing‐Bao Nie, Anita Ho   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source