Globalization, wages, and the quality of jobs [[electronic resource] ] : five country studies / / Raymond Robertson ... [et al.], editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454891003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington DC, : World Bank, c2009
• ISBN: 1-282-25970-9; 9786612259708; 0-8213-7955-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): RobertsonRaymond <1969->
• Disciplina: 331.1209172/4
• Soggetti: Labor market - Developing countries; Labor - Social aspects - Developing countries; International trade - Social aspects; Electronic books.; Developing countries Commerce
• 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 index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Abbreviations; 1. Overview: The Promises and Perils of Globalization; Figure 1.1 The Development Path (Time Series); Figure 1.2 The Development Path (Cross Section); Figure 1.3 National Income and Fatal Injuries; Box 1.1 Why Textiles and Apparel Matter: A Brief History of the MFA; 2. A Review of the Globalization Literature: Implications for Employment, Wages, and Labor Standards; 3. Globalization and Working Conditions: A Framework for Country Studies; Box 3.1 Quantities or Prices?; Box 3.2 Export Studies Find Mixed Effects; Box 3.3 FDI Studies Generate Conflicting Results Box 3.4 An Example Comparing Trade, Migration, and FDI on Absolute Wages; Box 3.5 Wage Inequality; Box 3.6 Globalization and Nonwage Working Conditions; Box 3.7 Example: Short-Run, Industry-Specific Wages; Figure 3.1 Effects of FDI in Low-Income Countries; Figure 3.2 Effects of Rising Export Opportunities in Low-Income Countries; Box 3.8 Example: Medium-Run Effects, Wage Inequality; Figure 3.3 The Effects on Manufacturing of an Increase in Relative Labor Demand; 4. ; Globalization and Working Conditions: Evidence from Cambodia; Figure 4.1 Trade as Percentage of GDP Box 4.1 Evolution of Cambodian Trade Policy; Figure 4.2 FDI in Cambodia as Percentage of GDP; Figure 4.3 FDI Stock by Sector through 2005; Table 4.1 Merchandise Trade in Cambodia, 1996-2005; Figure 4.4 Structure of Employment, 1993-04; Table 4.2 Fundamental ILO Conventions Ratified by Cambodia; Table 4.3 Evolution of the Garment Industry in Cambodia; Box 4.2 About Better Factories Cambodia; Figure 4.5 Trade Unions and Strikes in the Cambodian Garment Industry; Figure 4.6 Trade Unions and Trade Union Membership in the Hotel Industry, 2002-05; Table 4.4 Hotel Industry in Cambodia Figure 4.7 Educational Distribution in Cambodia Socio-Economic Survey, 2003-04; Table 4.5 Survey Demographic Characteristics; Table 4.6 Monthly Wage Differentials without and with Demographic Characteristics; Table 4.7 Inter-industry Differences in Hours Worked; Table 4.8 Hourly Wage Differentials without and with Demographic Characteristics; Table 4.9 Accidents by Industry; 5. The Effects of Globalization on Working Conditions: El Salvador, 1995-2005; Figure 5.1 Tariff Revenue, 1990-2006; Table 5.1 El Salvador's Free Trade Agreements; Figure 5.2 Exports and Imports of Goods, 1990-2006 Figure 5.3 Composition of Exports and Imports, 1990-2006; Table 5.2 FDI Stocks in El Salvador by Country of Origin, 1996-2006; Table 5.3 FDI Stocks in El Salvador by Industry, 1997-2005; Figure 5.4 Remittances, 1991-2006; Figure 5.5 Evolution of Real Wages in the Tradable Sector, 1991-2004; Figure 5.6 Evolution of Real Wages in the Nontradable Sector, 1991-2004; Table 5.4 ILO Conventions Ratified by El Salvador; Table 5.5 Sample Characteristics for Employed Workers; Table 5.6 Industry Employment Shares; Table 5.7 Share of Women's Employment by Industry, and Average Years of Education by Gender
• Sommario/riassunto: Since the early 1990's, most developing economies have become more integrated with the world's economy. Trade and foreign investment barriers have been progressively lifted and international trade agreements signed. These reforms have led to important changes in the structures of these economies. The labor markets have adjusted to these major changes, and workers were required to adapt to them in one way or another.In 2006, the Social Protection Unit of the World Bank launched an important research program to understand the impact that these profound structural changes have had on workers in de

A catechisme conteining the summe of Christian religion, giuing a most excellent light to all those that seek to enter the path-way to saluation: Newlie set foorth by G.G. Preacher of Gods word at Malden in Essex [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNISA996389893403316
• Autore: Gifford George <1547 or 8-1600.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Imprinted at London, : At the three Cranes in the Vintree by Thomas Dawson, 1583
• Descrizione fisica: [140] p
• Soggetti: Catechisms, English
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: G.G. = George Gifford.; Signatures: *² A-K L⁴.; Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0018

Human rights and the arts : perspectives on global Asia / / edited by Susan J. Henders and Lily Cho ; contributors, Michael Bodden [and thirteen others]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910788078303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-4985-0630-5; 0-7391-8474-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (276 p.)
• Collana: Global Encounters
• Disciplina: 323.095
• Soggetti: Human rights - Social aspects - Asia; Human rights in literature; Human rights in art; Arts, Asian; Arts and society - Asia
• 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 index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; 1 Human Rights and the Arts in Global Asia; I: Freedoms and Democracies; 2 Love the Future; 3 "September"; II: War and Atrocity; 4 Impacts and Legacies of War on Human Rights; 5 Incendiary Material; III: Livelihoods, Place, and Ecologies; 6 Literary Lament on a Death Foretold; 7 Reading Peasants' Rights to Livelihood in Umar Kayam's "Sri Sumarah" and "Bawuk"; 8 The River, the People, and the State(s); IV: Minorities, Nations, States, and Empires; 9 Abuse and Its Aftermath; 10 Chasing the Monster; 11 Human Rights and Human Wrongs; 12 Intersectionality, Hybridity, and the Minority Rights SubjectV: Migrations, Transnationalisms, Universalisms; 13 Human Rights and the Poetics of "Migritude"; 14 Universal Rights and Separate Universes; VI: Afterword; 15 Confucius Institutes, Human Rights, and Global Asia; Index; About the Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: By shifting the discussion of human rights away from the binaries of cultural relativism and political sovereignty, this book moves toward a ; new understanding of human rights that takes account of the diverse contexts central to being human and living a life of dignity.