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Rationalities in Trade Union Practices: A Discourse Analytic Perspective on The Strategies of Three Danish Trade Unions for Professionals

open access: yesNordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2015
The ambition of this paper is to analyze the discursive practices of three Danish trade unions for professional and managerial staff as found in their strategy and position papers.
Anders Buch
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Pre-service mathematics teachers’ perceptions based on two differing mathematically underpinned debates

open access: yesPythagoras
This study explores how pre-service mathematics teachers build alternative model simulations of real-world scenarios. Inclusion in the formal structures for wealth generation and accumulation is a fervently debated issue in South Africa.
Belinda Cornelissen, Cyril M. Julie
doaj   +2 more sources

The outsourcing of social care in Britain : what does it mean for voluntary sector workers? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
While recent decades have witnessed a growth in the outsourcing of public services in Britain, the post-1997 UK Labour governments have sought to put in place mechanisms aimed at encouraging long-term collaborative contracting relationships marked by ...
Cunningham, I.R., James, P.
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Rationalizing early childhood education and care in the local context : a case study of Finnish municipalities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In this chapter, we focus on local early childhood education and care (ECEC) policy discourses by scrutinizing the rationalities given for ECEC in ten Finnish municipalities.
Alasuutari   +11 more
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Environmental implications of service life extension of mobile devices [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The number of mobile Intemet-enabled devices (MIEDs) is growing. Producing MIEDs requires resources, energy and causes considerable emissions. Extending the service life MIEDs could significantly reduce the demand for new devices and associated ...
Blumer, Yann   +5 more
core   +1 more source

The problems of offenders with mental disorders: A plurality of perspectives within a single mental health care organisation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Managers, doctors, nurses, occupational therapists, social workers, psychologists, unqualified staff and service users were interviewed for a qualitative study of risk management and rehabilitation in an inner city medium secure forensic mental health ...
Shaw, M.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

The Rise of Welfare Service States – Conceptual challenges of an ambiguous welfare settlement and the need for new policy research

open access: yesSocial Work and Society, 2019
Welfare states are changing. They differ in the way they provide their citizenry with social rights, material resources and support. Contemporary transformations of European welfare states, however, have - apart from significant differences - a common ...
Jean-Michel Bonvin   +3 more
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Legacies of mistrust

open access: yesPlaNext, 2021
National authorities across Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa have implemented various forms of fiscal decentralization over the past three decades with equivocal results. The design of such reforms haslong rested on theories based on the experiences
Gabriella Y. Carolini, Sarra Lynn Hess
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Rationing Legal Services [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Legal Analysis, 2013
There is a deepening crisis in the funding of legal services in the USA with cut backs in Legal Services Corporation and Interest on Lawyers Trust Account funding, rendering more visible the fact that there is and always will be persistent scarcity in the availability of both criminal and civil legal assistance. This article examines how existing Legal
openaire   +2 more sources

Therapeutic Apheresis in Nigeria: A Multi‐Center Summary of Abstracts From the Inaugural Nigerian Society for Apheresis Scientific Meeting

open access: yesTherapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Therapeutic apheresis (TA) is an established treatment modality for hematologic, neurologic, and immunologic disorders, yet access remains severely limited in sub‐Saharan Africa. Donor apheresis, including platelet apheresis collection from healthy donors, represents an important complementary modality supporting blood product ...
Nosa Bazuaye   +33 more
wiley   +1 more source

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