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Deindustrialisation and the Historical Sociological Imagination: Making Sense of Work and Industrial Change [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Following recent calls for a more self-aware and historically-sensitive sociology this article reflects on the concept of deindustrialisation and industrial change in this spirit. Using E.P.
Strangleman, Tim
core   +1 more source

Selective hydrogenation of acetylene over Cu(211), Ag(211) and Au(211): Horiuti–Polanyi mechanism vs. non-Horiuti–Polanyi mechanism

open access: yes, 2017
Two hydrogenation mechanisms, namely the Horiuti–Polanyi and non-Horiuti–Polanyi mechanisms, are examined and compared for acetylene hydrogenation to ethylene over Cu(211), Ag(211) and Au(211) using density functional theory (DFT) calculations.
Bo Yang   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The institutional paradox of a substantivist conception of the economy in public policy: Insights from public procurement for solidarity economy in Ecuador

open access: yesAnnals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Ecuador's 2008 Constitution advanced an ambitious substantive economic vision through Buen Vivir (Good Living), recognizing a plural economy which encompasses private, public and solidarity economy (SE) sectors. This paper aims to analyze public procurement programs in Ecuador, one of the flagship Buen Vivir policies for SE promotion.
Maria‐José Ruiz‐Rivera   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the market-institutions dichotomy: The institutionalism of Douglass C. North in response to Karl Polanyi's challenge [PDF]

open access: yes
On the basis of the "challenge" North [1997 (1977)] identified in the works of Polanyi, we propose to outline the originality of North's institutionalism, especially in comparison with "new institutionalism" in economics as well as in sociology. Far from
Caroline Vincensini, Claude Didry
core  

Transformation of the Agrarian Landscape and Hope in the Central Kalimantan Peatlands

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, agrarian state programs and corporate strategies seek to transform indigenous Ngaju Dayak into sedentary farmers. Focusing on the notion of transformation, the paper traces whether and how rural people can engage in struggles against structural injustices.
Anu Lounela
wiley   +1 more source

The principles of behavior in pre-industrial systems and mass consciousness eastern society

open access: yesRUDN Journal of World History, 2013
The author tries to find out the specifics of the mass consciousness in the East, believing that they are radically different from the ideas and political culture in the West.
S A Voronin
doaj  

Common Pressures, Uneven Trajectories: The Variegated Europeanisation of Wage Regulation Institutions

open access: yesBritish Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The debate on whether national industrial relations (IR) are experiencing convergence is a long‐standing one. Recently, scholars argue that we are witnessing a neoliberal convergence of national IR, understood as an increase in employers’ discretion.
Vincenzo Maccarrone
wiley   +1 more source

Teotihuacan y Tenochtitlan: Reflexiones sobre los modelos de redistribución y de mercado de la obra de Karl Polanyi

open access: yesAnales de Antropología, 2010
Se trata aquí del análisis de la aplicación del método de Karl Polanyi en función de su modelo de redistribución y su distinción entre mercados controlados por un poder central y el mercado autorregulador de nuestra sociedad. Se estudian los conceptos de
Anne Chapman
doaj   +1 more source

Competition and payments to African chiefs on the Gold Coast during the slave trade, 1679‒1704

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The manuscript records of the Royal African Company show that the Company paid African chiefs for access to trade along the caravan routes on the Gold Coast in the seventeenth century. This paper documents and examines these payments. Using an event study, I establish that after the Glorious Revolution in 1688 when the Company's monopoly in ...
Jose Rowell Corpuz
wiley   +1 more source

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