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Social Inclusion and Usability of Innovative ICT-enabled Services is a cutting-edge research book written for researchers, students, academics, technology experts, activists and policy makers. The book explores a wide range of issues concerning innovative ICT-enabled digital services, their usability and their consequent role in social inclusion, It includes the impacts of the use of ICT-enabled digital services on individuals, organisations, governments and society, and offers a theoretically informed and empirically rich account of the socio-technical, management and policy aspects of social inclusion and innovative ICT-enabled digital services.??This publication offers insights from the perspectives of Information Systems, Media and Communications, Management and Social Policy, drawing on research from these disciplines to inform readers on diverse aspects of social inclusion and usability of innovative ICT-enabled digital services. The originality of this book lies in the combination of socio-technical, management and policy perspectives offered by the contributors, and integrated by the editors, as well as in the interdisciplinary and both theoretically framed and empirically rich features of the various chapters of the book. While providing a timely account of existing evidence and debates in the field of social inclusion and technology usability, this book will also offer some original insights into what practitioners, experts and researchers are to expect in the near future to be the emerging issues and agendas concerning the role of technology usability in social inclusion and the emerging forms and attributes of the latter.??Through a collection of high quality, peer reviewed papers; Social Inclusion and Usability of Innovative ICT-enabled Services will enhance knowledge of social inclusion and usability of innovative ICT-enabled digital services and applications at a diverse level.

"This book recasts the 1948 war in Palestine through a socio-cultural history of the conflict's ordinary actors and its transnational reverberations. It draws on untapped personal letters of Jews and Arabs from the war, most of whom fought in the ranks of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), or the Arab League's volunteer army, known as the Arab Liberation Army (ALA). The examination of these letters challenges the war accounts of politicians and generals, whose words continue to shape histories of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. These conventional accounts of the war in Palestine suggest clearly drawn battle lines, and an intractable present and future. "Dear Palestine," meanwhile, shows that the stories ordinary people told themselves about the war were far more diverse and complex than the nationalist fervor and unquestioning loyalty to the cause usually imputed to them. Still, understanding what ordinary people said to one another in private letters is impossible without also taking into account the efforts of elites to inculcate certain ideologies in them. To do so, this book also examines battle orders, pamphlets, army magazines, and radio broadcasts used to mobilize young men and women, and to educate and indoctrinate them in their respective armies. Reading indoctrination materials alongside soldiers' letters reveals important and enduring fissures in the ideological edifices of Middle East nationalisms even at the moment when, by most accounts, these conceptions of nationalism crystallized. It also shows normal, everyday people's fear, bravery, failure, arrogance, cruelty, lies, and exaggerations, which are so often excluded from history"--

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The World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2015 includes a forecast of worsening global unemployment levels and explains the factors behind it, such as continuing inequality and falling wage shares. The report looks at the drivers of the rising middle class in the developing world as well as the risk of social unrest, especially in areas of elevated youth unemployment

The present study is made to analyse socio-economic aspects of respondents. Social and economic activity is mainly based on primary concern of trade unions. India has play a unique place in the history of developing nations to carry out an industrial revolution concurrently with a social revolution throughout her massive population and to conduct to process a modern, twentieth century, democratic welfare state. The present socio- economic conditions are not much encouraging. The immediate need of the economy is to arrest the ever-increasing population, unemployment and poverty are the major problems of Indian economy. Industry is a social world in miniature where an association of variety of people like employers, executives, and supervisory personnel and workmen interact and execute a relationship known as industrial relations. This association of people not only influence labour relations but also social, economic, political and moral lives of the whole community. In other words, industrial life creates a service of social relationship which regulates the relation and working of wide variety of people either directly or indirectly or both industrial relations. The main aspects of industrial relations are to maintain industrial peace and avoidance of industrial life and development of industrial democracy. In under developed countries unemployment of labours are prepared any kindsof job. Most of the labour unions are involved in political issues especially in their party control in government. Labour unions play a significant role in political party. The study is intended to analyse the socio-economic aspects of the respondents, such as category, age, technical qualification, religion, community, number of dependents, residential status, mode of conveyance and debt of the respondents which are presented in tabular form as well as graphical presentation.

Introduction: collateral damage of social inequality -- From the agora to the marketplace -- Requiem for communism -- The fate of social inequality in liquid modern times -- Strangers are dangers ... are they indeed? -- Consumerism and morality -- Privacy, secrecy, intimacy, human bonds and other collateral casualties of liquid modernity -- Luck and the individualization of remedies -- Seeking in modern Athens an answer to the ancient Jerusalem question -- A natural history of evil -- Wir arme Leut' ... -- Sociology: whence and whither?

International audience ; Partant d'un état des lieux de la situation historique, politique et sanitaire de la société haïtienne, ce texte, rédigé en grande partie à la fin de l'année 2005, cherche à rendre compte de la relation entre la situation globale du corps humain et les différentes formes de violence dans un contexte structuré des rapports sociaux, à savoir la société haïtienne. Il s'agira de développer une étude des conditions du corps humain en Haïti dans ses interactions avec les domaines sanitaire, écologique, socioéconomique, politique, culturel et démographique. Quels sont les effets des politiques de santé – ou de leur absence – sur les populations, en termes d'inégalités sociales dans l'accès à la guérison ? Quelles sont les différentes formes d'inscription de la violence structurelle et politique dans les corps, vécues au quotidien chez les individus ? * * * Ce texte a pour objectif d'explorer les conditions du corps humain en Haïti à partir du concept de violence. Il s'agira de montrer que les conditions de vie actuelles sont le résultat d'un processus économique et politique donnant lieu à une violence qualifiée de « structurelle » par Farmer (2003a, 2004), qui est déterminante dans la prise en compte de la situation sanitaire et « corporelle » des Haïtien(ne)s. Le premier thème abordé renvoie aux notions de corps, de violence et de politique et, si l'on s'intéresse aux diverses formes de violence « ordinaire » constatées à l'heure actuelle en Haïti, il convient de se pencher sur les aspects historiques et politiques de la situation. C'est pourquoi la première partie

Cover Page -- Human Nature and the Social Order -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction by Philip Rieff -- Foreword by George Herbert Mead -- Introduction Heredity and Instinct -- Chapter I Society and The Individual -- Chapter II Suggestion And Choice -- Chapter III Sociability and Personal Ideas -- Chapter IV Sympathy or Understanding as an Aspect of Society -- Chapter V The Social Self-1. The Meaning of "I" -- Chapter VI The Social Self-2. Various Phases of "I" -- Chapter VII Hostilit -- Chapter VIII Emulation -- Chapter IX Leadership or Personal Ascendancy -- Chapter X The Social Aspect of Conscience -- Chapter XI Personal Degeneracy -- Chapter XII Freedom -- INDEX