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Trade Exposure and the Decline in Collective Bargaining: Evidence From Germany

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze how rising trade exposure from China and Eastern Europe affected collective bargaining coverage in German plants from 1996 to 2008. Using cross‐industry variation in trade exposure and instrumenting with trade flows from other high‐income countries, we find that higher import exposure increased the likelihood that plants exited ...
Daniel Baumgarten, Sybille Lehwald
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AFM‐based nanomechanical mapping and mechanobiology, two unforeseen fields that have lifted each other up

Journal of Microscopy, EarlyView.
Abstract AFM is not for the faint of heart. It has never been for these 40 years since its invention or for any of the modalities that have emerged. And among them, the initial concept of using AFM to measure cell mechanics was simply brazen. On the one hand, those pioneers hacked an imaging tool optimised for minimal mechanical interaction between ...
Núria Gavara
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Foundations for 3D Machine Knitting

, 2022
Industrial knitting machines are programmable systems that can fabricate complex soft objects. However, this traditional manufacturing system has largely been overlooked as a technology for custom and rapid fabrication.
Vidya Narayanan (4948192)
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[Woman using a knitting machine, 15]

, 2004
Photograph of a woman using a knitting machine at UNT's Scoular ...

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Beyond the Sober State: The Work of Drunkenness in British Bureaucracy

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reports the drinking stories of British civil service clerical workers based at a large civil service office complex located in Newcastle upon Tyne between 1968 and 1993. It uses these stories to develop an account of state formation that takes seriously the place of joy, solidarity, contention, and exhaustion within public sector
Michael Vine
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[Woman using a knitting machine, 3]

, 2004
Photograph of a woman using a knitting machine at UNT's Scoular ...

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Shaping the System Through Turbulence: Strategic Leadership and the Micro‐Foundations of Ecosystem Orchestration in Times of Disruption

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract While research on ecosystems and their orchestration has grown rapidly, we still know little about how individual strategic leaders may mobilize ecosystemic action in times of disruption. This article addresses this gap by drawing on an in‐depth case study of the Antwerp Square Mile, the world’s oldest and most renowned diamond trading ...
Bart De Keyser, Koen Vandenbempt
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[Woman using a knitting machine, 17]

, 2004
Photograph of a woman using a knitting machine at UNT's Scoular ...

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Navigating troubled waters: Posthumanist vulnerability and entanglement in Richard Powers's Playground (2024)

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Richard Powers's most recent novels to date—The Overstory (2018), Bewilderment (2021), and Playground (2024)—engage with some of the environmental and technological threats that loom over our planet, such as deforestation, species loss, the degradation of the ocean bottom, and the risks associated with the development of generative AI ...
Carmen Laguarta‐Bueno
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Analysing Island Change Through Infrastructures of Social Reproduction

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores through a case study of Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, how the expansion of an urban environment that seemingly should accommodate women's everyday lives continues to be shaped by gendered challenges. Based on 13 life history interviews with elderly female residents, the analysis shows that (i) urban change is constituted by ...
Sissal Dahl, Leonieke Bolderman
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