Paula McFadden, Anne Campbell, Brian J. Taylor
Child protection social work is acknowledged as a very stressful occupation with high turnover and poor retention of staff being a major concern. This paper highlights themes that emerged from findings of 65 articles that were included as part of a systematic literature review. The review focused on...
Mridula Udayagiri, Naila Kabeer
In this path breaking study, social economist Naila Kabeer examines the lives of Bangladeshi garment workers to shed light on the question of what constitutes fair competition in international trade. She argues that if the unhealthy coalition of multinationals and labour movements is truly seeking t...
Vivien Lowndes, Lawrence Pratchett, Gerry Stoker
This is a two part article which should be read as one (see RAE FAQ: www.rae.ac.uk/faq/default.asp?selcat=4&q=119). The first part is: 'Trends in Public Participation: Part 1 – Local Government Perspectives' PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 79/1 pp205-222 (DOI 10.1111/1467-9299.00253). The research that it...
Joe Bandy, Jackie Smith
Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction: Cooperation and Conflict in Transnational Protest Part 3 I Movements and Challenges Chapter 4 Gendering Transnational Social Movement Analysis: Women's Groups Contest Free Trade in the Americas Chapter 5 Building a Transnational Environmental Justice Moveme...
Hanna Papanek
Women adapt in different ways to the demands of their husbands' occupations. In the United States, the "two-person single career" is a special combination of roles whereby wives are inducted by the institutions employing their husbands into a pattern of vicarious achievement. The two-person career p...
David Giauque, Adrian Ritz, Frédéric Varone, Simon Anderfuhren-Biget
This article examines the relationship between red tape, Public Service Motivation (PSM) and a particular work outcome labelled ‘resigned satisfaction’. Using data from a national survey of over 3754 public servants working at the municipal level in Switzerland, this study shows the importance of lo...
Barry Reilly, Pierella Paci, P. Holl
Abstract This paper exploits the Workplace Industrial Relations Survey from 1990 (WIRS3) to examine the determinants of workplace injuries for a sample of manufacturing establishments in the UK. A key focus of this paper is an assessment of the role played by union‐appointed safety representatives a...
Sardana Islam Khan, Timothy Bartram, Jillian Cavanagh, Md Sajjad Hossain et al.
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the perspectives of 26 business owners, managers and supervisors on “decent work” (DW) in the ready-made garment (RMG) sector in Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach The qualitative study draws on a framework of ethical human resource management and...
Alison L. Booth
Journal Article A Public Choice Model of Trade Union Behaviour and Membership Get access Alison Booth Alison Booth The City University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 94, Issue 376, 1 December 1984, Pages 883–898, https://doi.org/...
Ramanie Samaratunge, Quamrul Alam, Julian Teicher
It has been recognized that there is a need for a cross-country analysis that can be used to identify the factors that contribute to the problems of state incapacity in South and Southeast Asian nations. In taking up this challenge, we explore selected initiatives of new public management (NPM) in t...
Shareen Hertel
U.S. human rights advocacy has long focused on civil and political rights-issues such as torture, censorship, and lack of democratic freedoms abroad. In the 1990s a series of high-profile anti-sweatshop and fair-trade campaigns shifted the spotlight to labor issues. But as human rights activists in ...
Dina M. Siddiqi
This article revisits the figure of the ‘third world sweatshop worker’, long iconic of the excesses of the global expansion of flexible accumulation in late twentieth-century capitalism. I am interested in how feminist activists concerned with the uneven impact of neo-liberal policies can engage in ...
Robert Hickey, Sarosh Kuruvilla, Tashlin Lakhani
Abstract The precipitous decline in union density and influence around the world has spawned a growing body of scholarship on union renewal. While this literature evidences lively debates regarding the efficacy of different renewal strategies, many argue that the path to renewal is paved through inc...
Habib Zafarullah, Ahmed Shafiqul Huque
Bangladesh, a relatively young country, emerged with expectations of charting a new course in departing from its traditional and rigid system of public administration that prevailed during its existence as a part of British India and later as a province of Pakistan. The evolution of public administr...
Foreword by Katherine A. Kendall An Introduction to the World of Social Work Education by Thomas D. Watts North and South America United States: L. Diane Bernard Canada: Estelle Hopmeyer, M. Dennis Kimberly, and Frank R. Hawkins Mexico and Central America: Marian Angela Aguilar South America: Rosa P...