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Grundlegendes zu Crowdsourcing und Crowdwork - Dogmatische Einordnung von Crowdwork - (Arbeits-)rechtliche Einordnung der Crowdworker - Kollektive Interessenvertretung im Rahmen von Crowdwork - Grenzüberschreitende Crowdwork - Handlungsbedarf und Handlungsvarianten hinsichtlich Crowdwork

This article argues that an essential role that economically backward regions from Hungary play in the global economy is to provide a cheap, flexible and expendable labour force. Out of these social groupings, are the Roma people who inhabit a precarious social position and are considered superfluous: 'the reserved army of the labour force' to their society at large. At the same time, it demonstrates, benefiting from a multi-site ethnographic research, how these seemingly resourceless transnational migrants are using their almost only capital: their kinship network as a resource, and 'rumour publics' as a strategy of manoeuvre in a climate of political and economic uncertainty and unequal circumstances of domination, in the 'one-word capitalism' in order to pursue a better life, or what they consider socio-economic mobility.

In early modern Europe, starting in the mid-17th century, peace treaties and other international treaties were compiled and published. This groundbreaking analysis of the creation, use, and reception of such compilations conclusively shows their critical role in the genesis, interpretation, and design of pre-modern foreign relations as well as the formation of the disciplines that studied them.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to study the perceptions of the advisors and valuers of German associations regarding the relevance of intangible assets in general, and for the purpose of company succession in particular.Design/methodology/approachTo perform this study German associations were examined, which play an essential role in company succession in Germany, from both sides of the process. Conducting a web‐survey, 51 answers were received (response‐rate = 42.5 per cent) which could be used for the analyses.FindingsAmongst others, the study showed that intangible assets are of a moderate relevance. However, a large proportion of respondents expect intangible assets to be of greater relevance in the future. The study highlighted that intangibles do have a great impact on the decision‐making process of an investor.Research limitations/implicationsThe total population of German Association is 135. The author received answers from 51 associations, which did not fulfil the statistical size to conduct advanced statistical methods. The specific relationship of German associations with small‐ to medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) is rather unique compared to similar institutions around the world, therefore, the results may not be replicable in other countries.Practical implicationsThe results of this study will help practitioners as well as academics to better understand the relevance of intangible assets in SMEs.Originality/valueThis paper is pioneering in the analysis of the influence of intangible assets in German SMEs for the purpose of company succession.

Internationally, Canadians struggle with their national identity. Canadians proclaim that they are not Americans and like to boast that they have more in common with Sweden with its snowy winters and extensive social programmes. This article outlines some of the historical developments of social welfare in Canada and examines some of the recent trends at dismantling the programmes. In the neo-conservative state, efforts towards "globalization" and "free trade" with the United States have attacked Canada's social safety net, marginalizing and suppressing the poor. However, in spite of the current trends, Canadians have maintained its humanitarian philosophy and resisted the "Americanization" of its social programmes. Some of this resistance has been successful but as in many other countries much of it has failed.

This article explores changes in childbearing practices among Gypsy (Roma) women in a small village in Northern Hungary. The author benefited from several years of ethnographic field research and data collected in this village, where the proportion of the out-of-wedlock births and births to teenage—mostly Gypsy—mothers have increased by a factor of three in the past 10 years as the population of the village has become more and more impoverished and the opportunities for geographic or social mobility declined sharply for the ethnic minority. The author argues that bearing children early is a sign of passage to adulthood in this group of women, a function which had been assigned to other social institutions before 1989. Early childbearing at the same time exacerbates the problem of Gypsy women: this is the first study which documents the consequences of poverty on women's and children's health by showing an increase in low birth weight babies in the community since 1989.