Essays about: "labour unions"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 44 essays containing the words labour unions.
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16. Travel of ideas in the context of high-skilled migration
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : This paper explores how the journey of migration unfolds for highly skilled migrants, focusing on the travel of ideas and how they are formed, materialised and translated in the context of high-skilled migration. The study is based on 19 qualitative interviews with highly skilled migrants who work in various occupations, primarily in multinational companies in the Gothenburg area. READ MORE
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17. Port Conflict Supply Chain Disruptions A case study in an attempt to investigate the Gothenburg port-labour conflict from a manufacturing perspective
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : Scholars have addressed various supply chain disruptions that negatively affect companies in terms of operations and financial performance (Sodhi & Tang, 2012; Lam & Su, 2015; Blackhurst, Craighead, Elkins & Handfield, 2005), while few have studied in-depth port centric supply chain disruptions. In recent years, the likelihood of port conflicts has increased leaving serious consequences behind. READ MORE
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18. Right to Collective Bargaining and to Strike in Cambodia’s Apparel Industry: A Legal Implication of the Labour Law and Law on Union of Enterprises
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : This paper is designed to examine the implications of Cambodia’s labour legislation, namely the Labour Law and the newly adopted Law on Union of Enterprises on the exercise of the rights to collective bargaining and to strike in Cambodia’s apparel industry. Both laws are adopted by the Cambodian government in order to purportedly provide an effective and efficient safeguarding umbrella for workers in particular to exercise their fundamental labour rights, among others, including rights to form and join trade union, rights to function freely and bargain collectively, rights to stage a legal strike, and right to organise their activities without state’s interference, in a manner that is in line with international human rights law and international labour standards. READ MORE
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19. Explaining differences in labour market outcomes between natives and immigrants in a European institutional context
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : In most European countries today, immigrants are doing worse than their native counterparts on the labour market, resulting in economically and socially undesirable outcomes. This thesis studies differences in labour market segregation for immigrants among European countries and explains how different institutional factors on the labour markets of Europe affect labour market segregation. READ MORE
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20. Varieties of Capitalism in the digital age - France, Sweden and the United Kingdom’s institutional response to the platform economy
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The objective of this study is to investigate how European trade unions and governments in France, Sweden and the UK have reacted to the rapid growth of the platform economy. The platform economy (also commonly referred to as gig-economy, sharing economy etc.) including Uber, Airbnb and Deliveroo etc. READ MORE