Author: Bob JessopPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Politics of Flexibility
Author: Bob JessopThe Politics of Flexibility
Author: Bob JessopPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Presents both theoretical and empirical studies of the current reorganization of economic, political and social relations in Britain, West Germany and Scandinavia. The arguments are illustrated with case studies.
Flexibility and Lifelong Learning
Author: Katherine NicollPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134192401
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
This book seeks to develop different approaches to policy analysis through a discursive and rhetorical engagement with the themes of flexibility and lifelong learning.
On Flexibility
Author: Meir FinkelPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804774897
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
On Flexibility presents a force planning concept that will enable armies to cope with the growing diversity of battlefield requirements, and especially with technological and doctrinal surprises, through applied adaptability and flexibility, minimizing the over dependence on intelligence and prediction involved in this process today.
Flexibility, Politics and Strategy
Author: Stephen J. ProcterFlexible Workers
Author: Teela SandersPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317755332
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Striptease and other types of erotic dance increasingly make up a large, lucrative and visible part of the sex industries in the United Kingdom and 'lap dancing' has become the focus of many important contemporary debates about gender, work and sexuality. This new book from Teela Sanders and Kate Hardy moves away from the more traditional focus on the relations between dancers and customers, to a focus on regulation and the working conditions experienced by those working in stripping work. Drawing on interviews, survey data and participant observation with dancers, managers, regulators and other staff, Sanders and Hardy present the first ever nationwide study of the stripping industry and the working lives of those within it. The book explores the reasons for the expansion of the industry in the United Kingdom and the experiences, opinions and perspectives of those that produce and shape it. Placing dancers' voices centre stage, it examines the wider political economy which shapes dancers' engagement in employment in the stripping industry, pointing towards the wider conditions of the labour market and growing privatisation of Higher Education as explanatory factors for its labour supply. In suggesting a new feminist politics of stripping, dancers voice their own political awareness of erotic dance and an intersectional analysis of solidarity with workers in the stripping industry is foregrounded. Presenting a 360 degree view of the industry, this ground-breaking study presents systematic evidence for the first time on this area of social life which has become central as a strategy of survival, class mobility and urban accumulation. It will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students across the fields of criminology, sociology, geography, labour studies and gender studies, as well as regulators, activists and even dancers themselves.
The Politics of Flexibility
Author: William Gordon HarleyPublisher:
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Category : Labor market
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Economic Ideology and Japanese Industrial Policy
Author: Bai GaoPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521894500
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A major addition to the literature on modern Japanese development, emphasizing the role of ideas and ideology.
Politics of Nature
Author: Bruno LatourPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674039963
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A major work by one of the more innovative thinkers of our time, Politics of Nature does nothing less than establish the conceptual context for political ecology—transplanting the terms of ecology into more fertile philosophical soil than its proponents have thus far envisioned. Bruno Latour announces his project dramatically: “Political ecology has nothing whatsoever to do with nature, this jumble of Greek philosophy, French Cartesianism and American parks.” Nature, he asserts, far from being an obvious domain of reality, is a way of assembling political order without due process. Thus, his book proposes an end to the old dichotomy between nature and society—and the constitution, in its place, of a collective, a community incorporating humans and nonhumans and building on the experiences of the sciences as they are actually practiced. In a critique of the distinction between fact and value, Latour suggests a redescription of the type of political philosophy implicated in such a “commonsense” division—which here reveals itself as distinctly uncommonsensical and in fact fatal to democracy and to a healthy development of the sciences. Moving beyond the modernist institutions of “mononaturalism” and “multiculturalism,” Latour develops the idea of “multinaturalism,” a complex collectivity determined not by outside experts claiming absolute reason but by “diplomats” who are flexible and open to experimentation.
World of Possibilities
Author: Charles F. SabelPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521894432
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
This book retells the history of Western industrialization, revealing possibilities unexplored in the nineteenth century, variants of which have come to transform present day economies. It shows that economic actors have historically been more aware of the great strategic choices they faced than standard theory credits them with being, and this surprising acuity allows them to imagine and put into practice solutions which current theories of industrial organization have scarcely anticipated. The book is therefore at one and the same time a contribution to a substantive revision of the history of mechanized production and a propaedeutic in a form of explanation that approximates the knowledge of the actor to the knowledge of the theorist. The volume groups essays presented by a multinational team of historians and social scientists drawing on intensive primary research on a wide range of firms, regions, sectors and national economies in Western Europe and the United States from the eighteenth century to the 1990s.