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Labour exploitation of Bulgarian migrants in Europe: coping mechanisms
Przegląd Socjologiczny, 2018 Labour exploitation and its extreme forms, such as forced labour and trafficking of human beings, are not new phenomena. They are also present throughout Central and Eastern Europe and Bulgaria in particular. This article explores the mechanisms used by
Maria Velizarova, Vassil Kirov
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Cultural Work as a Site of Struggle: Freelancers and Exploitation
tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2012 This paper argues that Marxist political economy is a useful framework for understanding contemporary conditions of cultural work. Drawing on Karl Marx’s foundational concepts, labour process theory, and a case study of freelance writers, I argue that ...
Nicole S. Cohen
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tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2020 In this paper, I shall attempt to respond to the charge that the digital labour theory, as developed by Christian Fuchs, doesn’t faithfully stick to the Marxist schema of the Labour Theory of Value by arguing that Marx’s critique of capitalism was based
Aishik Saha
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Technomadic Work: From Promotional Vision to WashTech's Opposition
Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, 2008 The purpose of this paper is to examine ‘technomadic’, or ‘technomediated’ mobile work at the levels of labour process and labour market. It investigates the promise of technomadic work at the level of the labour process, analyses the exploitation of ...
Michelle Rodino-Colocino
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Labour Exploitation in Human Trafficking Law [PDF]
, 2021 The 2000 Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime provides the first internationally agreed definition of the human trafficking.
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Suppression of child labour: Brief overview of international standards [PDF]
Strani pravni život, 2018 The notion of child labour is well determined by relevant international instruments and it can be said that it is theoretically unquestionable. In practice, however, there are various concerns about how to distinguish legal child work from illegal child ...
Reljanović Mario
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Lungo il cammino delle merci. Un’indagine sulle condizioni di lavoro nel settore della logistica
Cambio, 2018 The logistic sector in Italy has been subject to a wave of strikes and trade union actions in recent years, particularly in the Pianura Padana area. Although, the protests have been documented, the analysis of working conditions are rare.
Livia Bruscaglioni
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.We reconstituted Synechocystis glycogen synthesis in vitro from purified enzymes and showed that two GlgA isoenzymes produce glycogen with different architectures: GlgA1 yields denser, highly branched glycogen, whereas GlgA2 synthesizes longer, less‐branched chains.
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Plasma membranes contain dynamic nanoscale domains that organize lipids and receptors. Because viruses operate at similar scales, this architecture shapes early infection steps, including attachment, receptor engagement, and entry. Using influenza A virus and HIV‐1 as examples, we highlight how receptor nanoclusters, multivalent glycan interactions ...
Jan Schlegel, Christian Sieben
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The labour exploitation continuum
, 2017 This chapter outlines the various forms of labour exploitation that exist. At the extreme end of the ‘continuum’ there is worker fatality both at work and through work. There are then extreme forms of non-fatal harm, including: chattel slavery; modern slavery; forced labour; human trafficking; and child labour. All of these extremes have criminal–legal
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