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“The Staircase Model” – Labor Control of Temporary Agency Workers in a Swedish Call Center

Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2012
The article explores the labor control practices implemented in a call center with extensive contracting of temporary agency workers (TAWs). More specifically, the article focuses on how structural and ideological power works in this setting and on the ...
Gunilla Olofsdotter
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Field‐Programmed Anisotropy in Magneto‐Piezoelectric Composites for Material‐Encoded Mechanoperception

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Field‐programmed anisotropy imparts material‐level intelligence to soft composites. Magnetic torque dynamics drive magneto‐piezoelectric nanowires from random dispersion into deterministic axial alignment. The resulting hierarchical percolation networks confine electromechanical coupling to specific axes and intrinsically decouple superposed force ...
Yubin Kim, Yumin Kwon, Dabin Kim, Minsun Oh, Jin Young Jung, Dongyeong Gim, Kootak Hong, Jun Yeon Hwang, Sang‐Woo Kim, Minjeong Ha   +9 more
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Decoupling Activation and Preservation: Architectural Design Principles of Organic Frameworks for Selective Photocatalytic Methane Oxidation

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Selective methane (CH4) photooxidation emerges from architectural decoupling of activation and preservation. Programmable organic semiconductor frameworks spatially organize oxidative flux and intermediate residence, separating reaction zones from product domains to synchronize activation strength with stabilization and establish a selective oxidation ...
Minxian Zhang, Jie He, Jinqiang Zhang, Hongqi Sun, Shaobin Wang, Xiaoguang Duan   +5 more
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Gender and Employment Insecurity in the UK

Revista Estudos Feministas, 2004
The objective of this article is to explore how far employment insecurity is gendered in the UK, focusing on recent trends in temporary employment, covering fixed term, seasonal, agency, casual and other temporary work.
Kate Purcell
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Process Outsourcing or Employee Outsourcing – Dilemmas of the Polish Legislator

Studia z Zakresu Prawa Pracy i Polityki Społecznej
The article discusses the mutual relations between various forms of external employment that currently exist on the Polish labor market.
Katarzyna Ziółkowska, Maciej Chakowski, Krzysztof Walczak   +2 more
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Bioinspired Adaptive Surfaces for Intelligent Liquid Manipulation: Progressing From Passive and Active to Hybrid Strategies

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review examines passive, active, and hybrid liquid manipulation strategies, highlighting hybrid approaches as an emerging route to reconcile energy efficiency with adaptive control. By actively reconstructing passive surfaces to store programmable interfacial energy, hybrid systems enable flexible yet low‐power liquid transport, with perspectives ...
Jiaqi Miao, Yiyuan Zhang, Liqiu Wang, Alan C. H. Tsang   +3 more
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Feeling, doing, being: occupational well-being and the phenomenology of a blue-collar temporary agency worker within the Swedish manufacturing industry

Discover Psychology
This qualitative method study, informed by critical realism, explores the phenomenology of blue-collar temporary agency workers (BC-TAWs) as a foundation for their occupational well-being within the Swedish manufacturing industry.
Andreas Kjörling
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From Fiber Bundles to Architected Membranes: Triply Periodic Minimal Surface Architectures for Biohybrid Artificial Lungs

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Additively manufactured triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) membranes offer an architecture‐driven alternative to hollow fiber bundles in artificial lungs. Multiphysics simulations and endothelialized prototypes show that the 3D‐printable membrane architecture improves gas exchange, blood flow distribution, and hemocompatibility, enabling ...
Michael Pflaum, Kai P. Barbian, Florian Neuhaus, Gerrit Sitarz, Carolin Nölke, Sebastian V. Jansen, John Linkhorst, Lukas T. Hirschwald, Sebastian Brosch, Christian Certa, Ulrich Steinseifer, Matthias Wessling, Jutta Arens, Arjang Ruhparwar, Bettina Wiegmann   +14 more
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Considerations on National and Union Regulations of Work through a Temporary Employment Agent

EIRP Proceedings, 2013
The necessity to adapt the organizational structure of economic operators to the competitive European market requirements has imposed measures that have also influenced labor relations.
Carmen Constantina Nenu
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Cu‐Pd Dual Single Atoms Promoting Selective CO2 Photoreduction to C2 Products in Seawater

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Cu and Pd dual single atoms anchored on TiO2 cooperatively enhance C─C coupling during CO2 photoreduction in seawater. Under xenon‐light irradiation and without a sacrificial reagent/alkaline trapping agent, the catalyst achieves highly selective acetic acid formation.
Elhussein M. Hashem, Yiran Jiao, Amin Talebian‐Kiakalaieh, Xin Xu, Shiying Ren, Teng Liang, Wenzhong Ji, Teng Lu, Yun Liu, Bingquan Xia, Ashley Slattery, Jingyu Wang, Feiyan Xu, Ping She, Yan Jiao, Jingrun Ran   +15 more
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