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Endō Shūsaku: a literature of reconciliation
In: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series
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Passing for History
In: Feminist media histories, Band 8, Heft 3, S. 115-126
ISSN: 2373-7492
This essay will realize an intersectional historiographic approach to the career of Ina Ray Hutton, one of the most important band leaders during the rise and fall of the swing era. Hutton was known as the "blonde bombshell of rhythm," an appellation that was critical not only to her popular notoriety but also to her success performing a sustained act of racial passing, the full public awareness of which has arrived in a belated and untimely fashion (absent from her obituaries). Although her passing was likely known within certain delimited communities, it was hidden from the larger dominant white culture of the day and from the popular memory of her trans-media audience. This study will focus on the contexts of her work at the beginning of her career, and end with her late career on local and network television as sites that provide new speculative interventions to recognize the significance of this singular performer.
Occupational Stratification in Contemporary Britain: Occupational Class and the Wage Structure in the Wake of the Great Recession
In: Sociology: the journal of the British Sociological Association, Band 51, Heft 6, S. 1299-1317
ISSN: 1469-8684
Occupations traditionally played a central role in stratification accounts. In the wake of the Great Recession, debates regarding the extent and nature of occupational stratification have been reinvigorated. An exploration of occupational wage stratification patterns defined by both detailed occupational unit groups and the broader occupational class categories of the National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification (NS-SEC) reveals the proportion of wage inequality between occupations and occupational classes has remained broadly stable 1997 to 2015. No compelling evidence is found for growing wage inequalities between detailed occupations within NS-SEC categories. This article underlines the continued utility of occupations and particularly the NS-SEC grouping of them in describing the structure of stratification in contemporary Britain.
Barry Robertson. Royalists at War in Scotland and Ireland, 1638–1650
In: Journal of Scottish historical studies, Band 36, Heft 1, S. 104-106
ISSN: 1755-1749
Understanding variation in the efficacy of financial participation across Europe: The role of country-level factors
In: Economic and industrial democracy, Band 39, Heft 2, S. 195-227
ISSN: 1461-7099
Little is known about variation in the efficacy of financial participation across countries. This article examines the relationship between two types of financial participation (profit-sharing and employee share-ownership) and labour productivity across 29 European countries using a representative workplace survey. Consistent with theoretical expectations, profit-sharing is associated with superior labour productivity when it is open to all employees, whilst the evidence for employee share-ownership is more mixed. Analysis reveals considerable variation in the efficacy of both schemes across Europe. Country-level collective bargaining coverage has the greatest explanatory power in accounting for cross-country variation in efficacy. In countries with higher levels of collective bargaining coverage, profit-sharing performs less well, whereas employee share-ownership performs better, relative to countries with lower collective bargaining coverage. These findings shed light on the comparative dimension of the financial participation–labour productivity link.
The Grass Catcher: A Digression about Home
In: The Journal of New Zealand Studies, Heft 21
ISSN: 2324-3740
I read Ian Wedde's memoir over Christmas 2014 on Waiheke Island, where I had been taken on holiday as a child sixty years earlier, delighting in his non-judgemental evocation of the 1950s—that culturally embarrassing decade that was a paradise to grow up in. In his account of a Blenheim childhood I encountered echoes of my mother's recall of her childhood there in the 1920s. For the baby-boomers this is a defining literary registration of our era from within the lucid recall of a major writer of our generation. Sargeson's or Frame's New Zealand childhood worlds are distant now, and it is engaging to recognize a collective narrative not mired in puritanism or poverty. The Grass Catcher is a welcome generational story of place, community, and language.
Book review: Jake Rosenfeld, What Unions No Longer Do
In: Work, employment and society: a journal of the British Sociological Association, Band 30, Heft 1, S. 202-204
ISSN: 1469-8722
Intellectual Property at the Edge: The Contested Contours of IP. Edited by Rochelle Cooper Dreyfus sand Jane C. Ginsburg. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp 492. ISBN 978-1-10703-400-6. U.S. $130.00; U.K. $80.00
In: International journal of legal information: IJLI ; the official journal of the International Association of Law Libraries, Band 43, Heft 23, S. 455-457
ISSN: 2331-4117
Ireland and the Popish Plot - By John Gibney: Reviews
In: Parliamentary history, Band 29, Heft 2, S. 251-253
ISSN: 1750-0206
The Lion City and the Fragrant Harbor: The Political Economy of Competition Policy in Singapore and Hong Kong Compared
In: The Antitrust bulletin: the journal of American and foreign antitrust and trade regulation, Band 54, Heft 3, S. 517-577
ISSN: 1930-7969
Collective Action and Responses to Poor‐Quality Recycling in St. John's
This paper discusses the lack of proper recycling programs in St John's, NL and explains the relevance of collective action and rational choice theories in addressing the matter. The city has done a poor job of implementing proper recycling programs, and is one of only two provincial capitals that does not offer a government-funded curb‐side recycling program. While some private recycling programs do exist in the city, they are inefficient and thus viewed by the populace as a waste of time. As most people believe that their individual waste contributions will not make much difference to the overall state of the environment, waste continues to accumulate and negatively impact the environment, as well as the image and state of the city. Collective action theory, as discussed by Ostrom, offers several possible solutions, such as privatization of territory or discussion amongst the populace. Unfortunately, such solutions are impractical for this particular problem. The government must step in and impose a recycling "Leviathan" by implementing mandatory recycling and forcing citizens to recycle or be left with their own refuse. Only by making recycling a self-interested priority for the populace will St John's be able to improve its waste management practices.
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