1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460937403321

Titolo

The governance of policy reforms in southern Europe and Ireland : social dialogue actors and institutions in times of crisis / / edited by Konstantinos Papadakis and Youcef Ghellab, International Labour Office, Geneva

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Geneva, Switzerland : , : International Labour Office, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

92-2-129310-6

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Disciplina

331.094

Soggetti

Industrial relations - European Union countries

Labor market - European Union countries

Manpower policy - European Economic Community countries

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.

Nota di contenuto

TITLE PAGE; COPYRIGHT PAGE; FOREWORD; CONTRIBUTORS; CONTENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; 1. INTRODUCTION: POLICY REFORM IN SOUTHERN AND IRELAND AND THE ROLE OF SOCIAL DIALOGUE; FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS MOVED TO CENTRE STAGE; SNAPSHOT OF REFORM IMPACTS, 2013; OVERVIEW OF CHAPTERS; CONCLUDING REMARKS; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; 2. IMPACT OF THE CRISIS ON INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS; DRIVERS OF THE IMPACT; IMPACT ON ACTORS; IMPACT ON PROCESSES; IMPACT ON OUTCOMES; CONCLUSIONS; 3. EXPLAINING THE INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE OF THE EUROZONE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR SOCIAL DIALOGUE; LABOUR MARKET POLICY; FISCAL POLICY

COORDINATED WAGE-SETTINGCONCLUSION; 4. THE RISE AND DECLINE OF THE FISCAL AUSTERITY DOCTINE; FROM STIMULUS TO AUSTERITY: A PREMATURE TRANSITION; THREE VARIANTS OF FAD; CONCLUDING REMARKS; 5. GREECE REVISITED; INTRODUCTION; POLICY RATIONALE AND FORMATION; QUESTIONS OF POLICY EFFECTIVENESS; THE LABOUR MARKET; INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENTS; THE ROLE OF THE SOCIAL



PARTNERS; IMPLICATIONS FOR NOW AND THE FUTURE; 6. FROM NEGOTIATION TO IMPOSITION: SOCIAL DIALOGUE IN TIMES OF AUSTERITY IN SPAIN; INTRODUCTION; ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CONTEXT; THE STRUCTURAL DETERMINANTS OF THE ECONOMIC CRISIS

THE POLICY PROCESS: SOCIAL DIALOGUE AND NEGOTIATED ADJUSTMENTIMPACT OF AUSTERITY ON COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AND SOCIAL DIALOGUE; CONCLUDING REMARKS: TOWARDS REVITALIZED SOCIAL DIALOGUE?; ANNEX; 7. COPING WITH THE CRISIS IN ITALY: EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS AND SOCIAL DIALOGUE AND RECESSION; INTRODUCTION; THE ECONOMIC CRISIS AND THE LABOUR MARKET; POLICY MEASURES AND SOCIAL CONCERTATION; BIPARTITE SOCIAL DIALOGUE AND COLLECTIVE BARGAINING; CONCLUSIONS; 8. THE IMPACT OF THE EUROZONE ADJUSTMENT ON IRELAND; THE ORIGINS OF THE IRISH CRISIS; THE COLLAPSE OF SOCIAL PARTNERSHIP, 2008-2010

THE IMPACT OF FISCAL ADJUSTMENT ON WAGE, LABOUR AND SOCIALTHE IMPACT OF THE CRISIS ON COLLECTIVE BARGAINING IN THE PUBLIC; ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF THE CRISIS ON INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS; THE FUTURE OF SOCIAL PARTNERSHIP IN AN EVER-INCREASING EMU; 9. PORTUGUESE LABOUR LAW AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS DURING THE CRISIS; THE MAIN FEATURES OF LABOUR LAW, INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS; EMPLOYMENT LAW AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS MEASURES PROPOSED,; 10. THE GREEK ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMME: FISCAL METRICS WITHOUT ECONOMIC GOALS?; INTRODUCTION; THE ROAD TO THE CRISIS: 1974 TO 2009

THE 2010 CRISIS AND THE BAIL-OUT PROGRAMME UNTIL 2013THE INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS "NON-SYSTEM"; INTERNATIONAL APPROACHES; EFFECTS AND ASSESSMENT; PROSPECTS; CONCLUSIONS

Sommario/riassunto

This edited volume provides an overview of the changes that have occurred in industrial relations systems in Southern Europe and Ireland as a result of the debt crisis and subsequent fiscal consolidation policies. The authors take stock of developments and consider policy implications.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910539150903321

Titolo

Social science in context : historical, sociological, and global perspectives / / edited by Rickard Danell, Anna Larsson & Per Wisselgren

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lund, Sweden : , : Nordic Academic Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

91-87351-06-4

91-87351-05-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (430 p.)

Disciplina

300.9

Soggetti

Social sciences - History - 20th century

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.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Contextualizing social science; I OUTSIDE ACADEMIA; 1. Central not peripheral; Social science, class, and gender, 1830-1930; 2. 'Not too many ladies, but too few gentlemen'; On the gendered co-production of social science and its publics; 3. Expert views or mass opinion?; Newspaper enquêtes in the Swedish press, 1900-1920; 4. Making society a public matter; A cultural history of the social sciences' politico-didactics; 5. School psychologists as experts; Some notes on the uses of behavioural science in post-war Sweden

II DISCIPLINES AND INTERDISCIPLINARITY6. Lessons learned from German sociology, 1933-45; Contexts and content; 7. Business administration; An open discipline and answer to the call for restructuring the social sciences; 8. Successful ageing in modern social gerontology; A historical perspective on theories of activity and disengagement; 9. The emergence of men's studies in educational research; Experiences from the Swedish case; 10. Geography's roots and routes; Towards a globalized social science; III GLOBAL CONTEXTS; 11. Geographical diversity and changing communication regimes

A study of publication activity and international citation patterns12. Knowledge appropriation; Turning social research into political action



in colonial India; 13. Dependency theories and internal colonialism; The politics of epistemology and theoretical resistance; 14. Diversifying hegemonic social science; Traditional knowledge and indigenous epistemologies in social research on Sámi reindeer herding; 15. Between periphery and metropole; Towards a polycentric social science; References; About the authors

Sommario/riassunto

One of the very first books to explore the role of the social sciences in historical, sociological, and global perspectives, it does so by analyzing the practical making and discursive aspects of social scientific disciplines, including sociology, economics, psychology, business and administration studies, social gerontology, gender studies, educational science, geography, and political science. It looks at them not only in their academic setting but also in extra-academic contexts and in a broader global setting. The volume includes 15 chapters written by an international and multidisciplinar

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910807391903321

Titolo

Global wage report, 2010/11 [[electronic resource] ] : wage policies in times of crisis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Geneva, : International Labour Office

New Delhi, : Academic Foundation, 2010

ISBN

92-2-123622-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (139 p.)

Disciplina

339.5

Soggetti

Wages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes statistical tables.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [99]-107).

Nota di contenuto

Preface; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Major trends in wages; 1 Growth of average wages; 1.1 Global estimates; 1.2 Regional estimates; 1.3 Average wages and productivity; 2 The wage share; 2.1 Recent trends in national wage shares; 2.2 Trends at the sectoral level; 3 Wage inequality and low pay; 3.1 Recent trends: Increasing incidence of low pay; 3.2 Characteristics of low-paid



workers; Part II Wages policies in times of crisis; 4 The role of wage policies; 4.1 Social justice and equity; 4.2 The macroeconomic effects of wages; 4.3 Market imperfections

4.4 Vulnerable workers: Low-wage jobs5 Wage policies; 5.1 Collective bargaining; Collective bargaining and average wages; Collective bargaining and low pay; The challenge of inclusive systems; 5.2 Minimum wages; Recent trends; Can minimum wages reduce low pay?; 5.3 From minimum wages to minimum income for low-income households; Policies to weaken the linkage between low pay and poverty; What policies? Scope and potential; Part III Summary and conclusions; 6 Main findings and policy implications; 7 Emerging issues and the way forward; Appendices

Technical appendix I Global wage trends: Methodological issuesTechnical appendix II Definition and measurement of the wage share and shift-share analysis; Statistical appendix; Bibliography; Background papers; References; Tables; 1. Cumulative wage growth, by region since 1999 (1999 = 100); 2. The wage share in OECD countries for the real economy; 3. Selected list of low-wage studies and their methodologies; 4. Different reasons why women are more vulnerable to low wages: Arguments and implications from a literature review; 5. Minimum wages during the crisis

6. Minimum wages and inflation in selected countries in Latin America (in percentages)7. Recent developments in minimum wage policies in selected countries; 8. Poverty rates by pay and employment in China, 2002-07 (in per cent); 9. In-work benefits programmes in selected industrialized countries; 10. Examples of cash transfer policies in selected countries; B1. Sources of employment-related income data in Africa; B2. Variables increasing the risk of low pay in selected developing countries; B3. Domestic workers as a percentage of total employment by sex; Figures

1. The global recession and recovery, 1995-2010 (year-on-year changes in GDP at constant prices, in per cent)2. Global wage growth, 2006-09 (year-on-year changes, real terms, in per cent); 3. Wage growth in the G20, 2006-09 (year-on-year changes, real terms, in per cent); 4. Nominal wage growth and inflation in four selected countries, 2006-09 (in per cent); 5. Regional wage growth, 2000-09 (in per cent p.a.); 6. Index of nominal and real average weekly earnings in the United States (all non-farm employees), March 2006 to March 2010 (March 2006 = 100)

7. Wage growth in selected advanced countries, 2007-09 (in per cent)

Sommario/riassunto

The second in a series of ILO reports focusing on wage developments, this volume reviews the global and regional wage trends during the years of the economic and financial crisis of 2008 and 2009.