Suchergebnisse

It is [the] two-track labor market, rather than austerity, that is the biggest threat to the persistence of the European social model.

As recently as November 2012, I was able to write in The World Today that although 'the Russian authorities already possess extremely strong legislative tools for controlling internet content, they ordinarily apply these with a very light touch'. Adapted from the source document.

Argues that the current global downturn has taken a disproportionately higher toll on poorly paid, under-education workers, especially those who work in the informal sector that has begun to dominate the global labor force. It is maintained that the Wall Street Journal's description of the informal sector as a "save haven" for workers in poor countries is a myth. Field work conducted during the 1990s & again in 2009 in the former mill city of Ahmedabad, India, indicates that working-class neighborhoods had "degenerated into the pauperized quarters" of street vendors, garbage pickers, & other informal sector laborers who live in a state of constant emergency. Examples from Asian village economies illustrate that a return to the countryside is not the "cushion for hard times" touted by the Western media. Not only has the cost of labor at the bottom of the world economy been reduced the lowest possible level but fragmentation is keeping the under-employed internally compartmentalized. Unfortunately there are no indications of a change in the near future. Adapted from the source document.

A brief overview of Web 2.0's convergence culture and its effects on fandom, including the beginnings of the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW).