Towards better work : understanding labour in apparel global value chains / / edited by Arianna Rossi, Amy Luinstra and John Pickles

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464181603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Basingstoke : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014
• ISBN: 92-2-127803-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (339 p.)
• Collana: Advances in labour studies
• Altri autori (Persone): RossiArianna; LuinstraAmy; PicklesJohn <1952->
• Disciplina: 331.12587
• Soggetti: Clothing workers - Supply and demand; Manufacturing industries - Employees - Supply and demand; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Figures, Tables and Boxes; Figures; Tables; Boxes; Preface; Notes on Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Figure I.1 Apparel production system; Part I; 1 Re-embedding the Market: Global Apparel Value Chains, Governance and Decent Work; Box 1.1 China's Labour Contract Law; 2 Economic and Social Upgrading of Developing Countries in the Global Apparel Sector: Insights from Using a Parsimonious Measurement Approach; Table 2.1 Country sample; Table 2.2 Top 15 apparel exporters in 2010; Table 2.3 Apparel exports (in million US) and world export market shares (%), 2000-2010 Table 2.4 Aggregated apparel export unit values (in US/kilogram); Figure 2.1 Economic upgrading and downgrading in the apparel sector,2004-2009; Table 2.5 Employment in the apparel sector, 2000-2009; Table 2.6 Nominal wages and labour costs in the apparel sector (in US), 2000-2009; Figure 2.2 Social upgrading and downgrading in the apparel sector, 2004-2009; Figure 2.3 Prototype matrix of 'overall upgrading/downgrading'; Figure 2.4 'Overall upgrading and downgrading' in the apparel sector, 2004-2009; 3 How 'Fair' Are Wage Practices along the Supply Chain? A Global Assessment Box 3.1 Definition of fair wages; Table 3.1 The 12 fair ; wage dimensions; Figure 3.1 Regional distribution of suppliers; Figure 3.2 Enterprises with dual records (%); Figure 3.3 Enterprises with payment problems (%); Figure 3.4 Enterprises with payment problems (%), by country; Figure 3.5 Companies' starting wage compared to minimum wage (MW); Figure 3.6 Starting wage compared to minimum wage (% of enterprises); Figure 3.7 Enterprises paying social security contributions (%); Figure 3.8 Enterprises providing paid holidays (%)Figure 3.9 Payment of prevailing wage (PW); Table 3.2 Wage disparity between workers at the top and those at the bottom (between highest and lowest wages), 2010; Figure 3.10 Number of hours worked per week; Figure 3.11 Percentage of companies underpaying overtime; Table 3.3 Nominal wages increases compared to price increases, 2008-2010; Table 3.4 Pay systems by country (use of disciplinary cuts and wage grids), 2010; Table 3.5 Piece rate (PR) systems, by country, 2010; Table 3.6 Wage structure (bonuses), by country, 2010; Table 3.7 Provision of non-monetary benefits, by country, 2010 Table 3.8 Communication on wages, by country, 2010; Table 3.9 Percentage of companies where workers were aware of their wage and benefits; Table 3.10 Social dialogue practices, by country, 2010; Table 3.11 Overview of the three companies; Table 3.12 Main employment and wage developments in the three companies,China; Table 3.13 Companies' starting and average wages compared to the Asia Floor Wage, China; Table 3.14 Top-down wage gap in the three companies; Table 3.15 Companies' wage structure, China, 2011; Table 3.16 Fair wage performance of the three companies, China
• Sommario/riassunto: This new volume analyses how workers, governments and business can collaborate in order to confront the key opportunities and challenges affecting labour in apparel global value chains. It provides new empirical insights into the garment sector in Asia (Cambodia, India, Lao People's Democratic Republic), Europe (Romania), Africa (Lesotho, Morocco) and the Americas (Haiti, Nicaragua), with a focus on wages, worker empowerment and the institutional contexts facilitating or hampering the attainment of improved working conditions.

Cold War in psychiatry [[electronic resource] ] : human factors, secret actors / / Robert van Voren

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459285903321
• Autore: Voren Robert van
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam, : Editions Rodopi, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-72714-1; 9786612727146; 90-420-3047-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (519 p.)
• Collana: On the boundary of two worlds : identity, freedom, and moral imagination in the Baltics ; ; 23
• Disciplina: 616.8/9
• Soggetti: Psychiatry - Soviet Union - History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Setting the stage -- pt. 2. The curtain opens -- pt. 3. Act one -- pt. 4. Act two -- pt. 5. The final act -- pt. 6. The curtains close -- pt. 7. Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: For 20 years Soviet psychiatric abuse dominated the agenda of the World Psychiatric Association. It ended only after the Soviet Foreign Ministry intervened. Cold War in Psychiatry tells the full story for the first time and from inside, among others on basis of extensive reports by Stasi and KGB – who were the secret actors, what were the hidden factors? Based on a wealth of new evidence and documentation as well as interviews with many of the main actors, including leading Western psychiatrists, Soviet dissidents and Soviet and East German key figures, the book describes the issue in all its complexity and puts it in a broader context. In the book opposite sides find common ground and a common understanding of what actually happened.