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UNINA9910812830503321 |
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Autore |
Ford Michele |
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From migrant to worker : global unions and temporary labor migration in Asia / / Michele Ford |
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Ithaca ; ; London : , : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, , 2019 |
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1 online resource (210 pages) |
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Labor unions - Organizing - Asia |
Foreign workers, Asian - Labor unions - Organizing |
Labor movement - Asia |
International labor activities - Asia |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Asia's labor migration and employment relations regimes -- Asia's migrant labor NGOs -- Enter the GUFs -- The GUFs and migrant workers in Asia -- Measures of success. |
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What happens when local unions begin to advocate for the rights of temporary migrant workers, asks Michele Ford in her sweeping study of seven Asian countries? Until recently unions in Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand were uniformly hostile towards foreign workers, but Ford deftly shows how times and attitudes have begun to change. Now, she argues, NGOs and the Global Union Federations are encouraging local unions to represent and advocate for these peripheral workers, and in some cases succeeding. From Migrant to Worker builds our understanding of the role the international labor movement and local unions have had in developing a movement for migrant workers' labor rights. Ford examines the relationship between different kinds of labor movement actors and the constraints imposed on those actors by resource flows, contingency, and local context. Her conclusions show that in countries-Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Thailand-where resource flows and local factors give the Global Union Federations more influence local unions have become much more engaged with migrant workers. But in countries-Japan and |
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Taiwan, for example-where they have little effect there has been little progress. While much has changed, Ford forces us to see that labor migration in Asia is still fraught with complications and hardships, and that local unions are not always able or willing to act. |
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UNINA9910349516703321 |
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Autore |
Shahandeh Farid |
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Quantum Correlations : A Modern Augmentation / / by Farid Shahandeh |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019 |
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[1st ed. 2019.] |
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1 online resource (179 pages) |
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Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research, , 2190-5053 |
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Quantum theory |
Mathematical physics |
Quantum computers |
Spintronics |
Quantum Physics |
Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences |
Quantum Computing |
Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics |
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Preliminaries -- The Resource Theory of Entanglement -- Generalized Quantum Correlations in Discrete Variable Systems -- Generalized Quantum Correlations in Continuous Variable Systems -- Conclusion and Outlook. |
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The correlations between physical systems provide significant information about their collective behaviour – information that is used as a resource in many applications, e.g. communication protocols. However, when it comes to the exploitation of such correlations in the quantum world, identification of the associated ‘resource’ is extremely |
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challenging and a matter of debate in the quantum community. This dissertation describes three key results on the identification, detection, and quantification of quantum correlations. It starts with an extensive and accessible introduction to the mathematical and physical grounds for the various definitions of quantum correlations. It subsequently focusses on introducing a novel unified picture of quantum correlations by taking a modern resource-theoretic position. The results show that this novel concept plays a crucial role in the performance of collaborative quantum computations that is not captured by the standard textbook approaches. Further, this new perspective provides a deeper understanding of the quantum-classical boundary and paves the way towards establishing a resource theory of quantum computations. |
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