Essays about: "Employment relations"

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1. 21. “Everything that needs to make the thing a whole” : aestheticization, exclusion and the political economy of Long Bay’s tourism landscape

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

   Author : Anwen Martha Davis; [2020]
   Keywords : Jamaica; Tourism; Marxist political economy; Landscape; Exclusion; Aesthetics; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Although a large volume of work has been conducted regarding tourism industries across the world, the dominant analysis in the geographies of tourism tends to draw upon post-modern discourse analysis and representational theories. This has resulted in calls to develop more materialist analyses of tourism landscapes. READ MORE

3. 22. Access to Social Justice: the Intersection of Homelessness and Migration in Europe. A Multiple Case Study of Italy and Sweden

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

   Author : Enrico Giansanti; [2020]
   Keywords : Homelessness; Migrants; Refugees; Intersectionality; Scales of Justice; Redistribution; Recognition; Multiple case study; Italy; Sweden; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This study maps the intersection of homelessness and migration in Europe by focusing on Italy and Sweden; in the study, ‘Europe’ is defined by the Schengen Common Area Agreement, by the Common European Asylum System and by the Dublin Regulation. Using Kimberlé Crenshaw’s Intersectionality as one of its main theoretical reference points, the study argues that different dimensions of power relations may combine to create unique modes of discrimination that apply specifically to homeless migrants in Italy and Sweden. READ MORE

4. 23. Indigeneity as a base for rural development : a case study of the indigenous community Ramada, eastern Bolivia

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

   Author : Line Munk; [2020]
   Keywords : Bolivia; TCOs; Indigenous peoples; Agrarian question; Rural development; Agrarian political economy; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Central to the field of agrarian political economy, is rural development and capitalism’s advancement in the countryside and its consequences for the peasantry, ‘the agrarian question’. With the present case study, I examine the interplay between social relations of production and agrarian change in eastern Bolivia. READ MORE

5. 24. Women Lawyers in Pakistan: Navigating in a Male-Dominated Field

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

   Author : Humera Riaz; [2020]
   Keywords : Female lawyers; discrimination; legal profession; power relations; Bourdieu s Field; habitus and capital; Pakistan; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : As a patriarchal society, Pakistan's legal profession is a male-dominated profession. In recent years, however, we have noticed that women are joining this profession in great numbers. The overall situation of employment in general is not very good for women and the legal profession is no exception. READ MORE

6. 25. The unionisation of precarious workers : representations, problematisation and experiences in Swedish blue-collar unions in the construction and hotel-restaurant sectors

   University essay from Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd

   Author : Sophie BANASIAK; [2020]
   Keywords : precarious workers; labour unions; Swedish model; commodification; labour market segmentation; subcontracting; flexibility; fear; organising; community building;

   Abstract : From the Polanyian perspective on the double movement of labour commodification and self-protection of Society, the aim of this study was to examine how unionists perceive and problematise precarious employment and what are their practices for unionising and thereby securing precarious workers. A double case study was conducted in the hotel-restaurant and construction sectors in Sweden with the participation of blue-collar unionists with diverse backgrounds and experiences. READ MORE