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Pathways to Empathy
Covers the processes of commodification of emotion about now reach into all areas of labor processes, extending even to private life and intimate relationships. This title takes concepts to study the diversity of this economic intrusion into family, education, and nursing in the service sector as well as into corporate management.
The End of Cheap Labour?
Can China’s economy overcome its excessive dependence on exports? The Chinese government and international observers argue that this is needed if growth is to be sustained in the future. But substantial growth of domestic consumption can only be achieved if China also steps beyond its reliance on cheap migrant labour. Florian Butollo approaches this issue by means of a thorough empirical investigation of the recent transformation of industries in the Pearl River Delta, China ́s largest industrial hub. He uncovers that industrial upgrading rarely supports improvements in the basic employment pattern in enterprises in the garment and LED lighting industry. This failure of "social upgrading” threatens to undermine the project of a rebalancing of the Chinese economy. The book shows that the implementation of collective labour rights remains an important precondition for the future of the Chinese growth model.
Capitalism and Labor
Der Gesellschaftstheorie ist die Arbeit und mit ihr die empirische Fundierung abhandengekommen, der Arbeitssoziologie die Theorie - aufgrund dieses Befundes wurde "Kapitalismustheorie und Arbeit" zum Standardwerk. Die Autorinnen und Autoren diskutieren nun in der aktualisierten englischen Auflage des Bandes die gegenwärtigen theoretischen Ansätze, um Kapitalismus und Arbeit wieder zusammenzudenken.
Beyond the Iron Rice Bowl
Examines labour relations in modern China. Presents case studies of multinational, Chinese, and overseas Chinese enterprises in the automotive, electronic, and garment industries. Analyses regimes of production, discussing industrial relations theory and labour sociology, collective bargaining, trade union reform, and democratic workplace representation in China.
Germany's Hidden Crisis
How neoliberalism is causing a crisis in Germany Upward social mobility represented a core promise of life under the “old” West German welfare state, in which millions of skilled workers upgraded their Volkswagens to Audis, bought their first homes, and sent their children to university. Not so in today’s Federal Republic, where the gears of the so-called “elevator society” have long since ground to a halt. In the absence of the social mobility of yesterday, widespread social exhaustion and anxiety have emerged across mainstream society. Oliver Nachtwey analyses the reasons for this social rupture in postwar German society and investigates the conflict potential emerging as a result. He concludes that although the country has managed to muddle through thus far, simmering tensions beneath the surface nevertheless threaten to undermine the German system’s stability in the years to come. Recipient of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation 2016 Hans-Matthöfer-Preis for Economic Writing.
Difficult Life in a Refugee Camp
Offering nuanced insights into violence, humanitarian protection, gender relations, and coping of refugees in a Ugandan refugee camp, this book shows how risks prevail for refugees despite and partly due to their settlement in the camp and the system established to protect them, and hones in on the strategies used by people to protect themselves.
Wer ist ein Flüchtling?
Flucht ist ein gesellschaftliches Konfliktfeld in einer global ungleichen Welt. Die Berufung auf menschenrechtliche (universelle) Werte tritt zugunsten nationalstaatlicher (partikularer) Interessen zunehmend in den Hintergrund. Globale Ungleichheiten führen dazu, dass Migration für viele die einzige Chance ist, unerträglichen Lebensbedingungen in ihren Herkunftsländern zu entkommen. Die Zielländer reagieren mit Abwehrmaßnahmen: Humanitäre Überlegungen verlieren zugunsten nationalstaatlichen politischen Interessen an Bedeutung. Karin Scherschel und Albert Scherr analysieren Flucht im Kontext von Globalisierungsprozessen sowie als gesellschaftliches Konfliktfeld. Sie fragen nach den Ursachen von Migration und nehmen die Gründe und die Folgen der restriktiven Fassung des Flüchtlingskonzepts in den Blick, mit denen Flüchtlingen Aufnahme und Schutz gewährt oder verweigert werden.
The Legacy of Division
This volume examines the legacy of the East–West divide since the implosion of the communist regimes in Europe. The ideals of 1989 have largely been frustrated by the crises and turmoil of the past decade. The liberal consensus was first challenged as early as the mid-2000s. In Eastern Europe, grievances were directed against the prevailing narratives of transition and ever sharper ethnic-racial antipathies surfaced in opposition to a supposedly postnational and multicultural West. In Western Europe, voices regretting the European Union's supposedly careless and premature expansion eastward began to appear on both sides of the left–right and liberal–conservative divides. The possibilit...
Struggling for Recognition
As a religious and cultural minority in Turkey, the Alevis have suffered a long history of persecution and discrimination. In the late 1980s they started a movement for the recognition of Alevi identity in both Germany and Turkey. Today, they constitute a significant segment of Germany’s Turkish immigrant population. In a departure from the current debate on identity and diaspora, Sökefeld offers a rich account of the emergence and institutionalization of the Alevi movement in Germany, giving particular attention to its politics of recognition within Germany and in a transnational context. The book deftly combines empirical findings with innovative theoretical arguments and addresses current questions of migration, diaspora, transnationalism, and identity.
Konstellationen des Antisemitismus
Antisemitismus erscheint heute in der unübersichtlichen Gestalt von Antisemitismen: Islamistischer Antisemitismus, antisemitischer Antizionismus von rechts, links und aus der Mitte, alte wie neue Varianten des sekundären Antisemitismus, Antisemitismus ‚von unten’. Dies alles begegnet sich im lokalen Raum globalisierter Gesellschaftsverhältnisse und stellt nicht nur die Politik, sondern auch die Bildungs-, Jugend- und Sozialarbeit vor große Herausforderungen. Der Band präsentiert Ergebnisse der neuesten Antisemitismusforschung und entwirft Grundlinien für eine antisemitismuskritische Kompetenz in der Sozialen Arbeit.
