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Blood river: ins dunkle Herz des Kongo
In: National-Geographic-Taschenbücher 340
In: Afrika
Still Evidence-Based? The Role of Policy Evaluation in Recession and Beyond: The Case of the National Minimum Wage
In: National Institute economic review: journal of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, Band 219, S. R26-R40
ISSN: 1741-3036
This article explains the role of evidence in determining the recommendations made by the Low Pay Commission (LPC) for the National Minimum Wage (NMW). First, it sets out the process of recommending the minimum wage including the role of evidence. Second, it summarises the evidence available on the impact of the minimum wage before discussing how that evidence has informed the recommendations for the adult rate of the minimum wage in the LPC's reports. It concludes by assessing the extent to which the NMW might be regarded as a success and considers whether the recent financial crisis will alter the evidence-based approach so far adopted by the LPC.
Workplaces, Low Pay and the Gender Earnings Gap in Britain
In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 10453
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Characterising spatial logistics employment clusters
In: International journal of physical distribution and logistics management, Band 44, Heft 3, S. 221-241
ISSN: 0020-7527
Purpose– The purpose of this paper is twofold. First to identify economic activities and broader spatial logistics functions that characterise an urban setting, and second to delineate significant spatial logistics employment clusters to represent the underlying regional geography of the logistics landscape.Design/methodology/approach– Using the four-digit Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification, industries "explicitly" related to logistics were identified and aggregated with respect to employment. A principal component analysis was conducted to capture the functional interdependence of inter-related industries and measures of spatial autocorrelation were also applied to identify spatial logistics employment clusters.Findings– The results show that the logistics sector accounts for 3.57 per cent of total employment and that road freight, postal services, and air and space transport are major employers of logistics managers. The research shows significant spatial clustering of logistics employment in the western and southern corridors of Melbourne, associated spatially with manufacturing, service industry and retail hubs in those areas.Research limitations/implications– This research offers empirically informed insights into the composition of spatial logistics employment clusters to regions that lack a means of production that would otherwise support the economy. Inability to measure the size of the logistics sector due to overlaps with other sectors such as manufacturing is a limitation of the data used.Practical implications– The research offers policymakers and practitioners an empirically founded basis on which decisions about future infrastructure investment can be evaluated to support cluster development and achieve economies of agglomeration.Originality/value– The key value of this research is the quantification of spatial logistics employment clusters using spatial autocorrelation measures to empirically identify and spatially contextualize logistics hubs.
Extreme wellness at work: Whose body counts in the rise of exceptionalist organisational fitness cultures
In: Organization: the interdisciplinary journal of organization, theory and society, Band 30, Heft 3, S. 453-472
ISSN: 1461-7323
Management has long concerned itself with controlling workers' bodies, with organisational wellness discourses being its latest fixation. This article's purpose is to introduce and understand 'whose body counts' – a discourse of bodily exceptionalism in performative organisational cultures. Using ethnographic methods, this article presents an analysis of a CrossFit workplace health promotion at an underperforming US corporation, to identify a complex process of empowerment, self-exploitation and disciplinary regulation to produce performative outcomes. This research illustrates how the workplace health promotion generates a pervasive discourse of exceptionalism underpinned by workers' reflexive exploitation, overarched by peer-surveillance and reflexively embraced through extreme individualised performativities. Critically, it is revealed how individuals competitively engage in communicative labour to demonstrate devotion to self-care that is translated into organisational commitment. Specifically, unquestioned discursive ambiguities are shown to cunningly empower limitlessness meritocratic striving that pits workers against each other, creating constant negotiation of 'whose body counts' by subjugating others.
Coworking: A Transdisciplinary Overview
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Sociological Research in the Digital Age: Where Have We Come From; Where Are We Going?
In: Sociological research online, Band 28, Heft 4, S. 897-902
ISSN: 1360-7804
Reflections on the 9/11 Decade
In: The RUSI journal: publication of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, Band 156, Heft 4, S. 4-10
ISSN: 1744-0378