Aufgrund der EU-Erweiterung sind zahlreiche Reformvorschlage zur Ratsprasidentschaft entstanden. Fur die Handlungsfahigkeit der EU ist entscheidend, inwiefern diese die Defizite der Rotation beheben, die Vorteile weiterhin ermoeglichen und die aus der Erweiterung resultierenden Herausforderungen bewaltigen koennen. Ausgehend von einer systematischen Erfassung der Vorschlage der Mitglieds- und Beitrittsstaaten, der EU-Organe und des Europaischen Konvents sowie der akademischen Institutionen werden die jeweiligen Vor- und Nachteile aufgezeigt. Dies erfolgt in Abhangigkeit der Weiterentwicklung des institutionellen Systems der EU, das durch Modelle operationalisiert wird. Die Perspektiven des europaischen Integrationsprozesses werden mit Reformoptionen der Ratsprasidentschaft in Einklang gebracht.

In the early twentieth century, Miami cultivated an image of itself as a destination for leisure and sunshine free from labor strife. Thomas A. Castillo unpacks this idea of class harmony and the language that articulated its presence by delving into the conflicts, repression, and progressive grassroots politics of the time. Castillo pays particular attention to how class and race relations reflected and reinforced the nature of power in Miami. Class harmony argued against the existence of labor conflict, but in reality obscured how workers struggled within the city's service-oriented seasonal economy. Castillo shows how and why such an ideal thrived in Miami's atmosphere of growth and boosterism and amidst the political economy of tourism. His analysis also presents class harmony as a theoretical framework that broadens our definitions of class conflict and class consciousness.

Managing Electrical Safety provides an overview of electric basics, hazards, and established standards that enables you to understand the hazards you are likely to encounter in your workplace. Focusing on typical industrial environments which utilize voltages much higher than household or office circuits the author identifies the eight key components of an electrical safety program and examines each using a model safety management process. You'll learn how to identify electrical hazards, how to prescribe necessary electrical Personal Protective Equipment, how to ensure that equipment is de-energized, and how to safely plan for work on or around exposed live parts.

From white-collar executives to mail carriers, public workers meet the needs of the entire nation. Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin edit a collection of new research on this understudied workforce. Part One begins in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth century to explore how questions of race, class, and gender shaped public workers, their workplaces, and their place in American democracy. In Part Two, essayists examine race and gender discrimination while revealing the subtle contemporary forms of marginalization that keep Black men and Black and white women underpaid and overlooked for promotion. The historic labor actions detailed in Part Three illuminate how city employees organized not only for better pay and working conditions but to seek recognition from city officials, the public, and the national labor movement. Part Four focuses on nurses and teachers to address the thorny question of whether certain groups deserve premium pay for their irreplaceable work and sacrifices or if serving the greater good is a reward unto itself. Contributors: Eileen Boris, Cathleen D. Cahill, Frederick W. Gooding Jr., William P. Jones, Francis Ryan, Jon Shelton, Joseph E. Slater, Katherine Turk, Eric S. Yellin, and Amy Zanoni

Contesting Precarity in Japan details the new forms of workers' protest and opposition that have developed as Japan's economy has transformed over the past three decades and highlights their impact upon the country's policymaking process. Drawing on a new dataset charting protest events from the 1980s to the present, Saori Shibata produces the first systematic study of Japan's new precarious labour movement. It details the movement's rise during Japan's post-bubble economic transformation and highlights the different and innovative forms of dissent that mark the end of the country's famously non-confrontational industrial relations. In doing so, moreover, she shows how this new pattern of industrial and social tension is reflected within the country's macroeconomic policymaking, resulting in a new policy dissensus that has consistently failed to offer policy reforms that would produce a return to economic growth. As a result, Shibata argues that the Japanese model of capitalism has therefore become increasingly disorganized.

Teachers' unions are the organizations responsible for safeguarding the conditions of teachers' employment. Union supporters claim strong synergies between teachers' interests and students' interests, but critics of unions insist that the stance of teachers in collective bargaining may disadvantage students as unions reduce the power of administrators to manage, remove, reward or retain excellent teachers. In A Collective Pursuit, Lesley Laveryunpacks how teachers' unions today are fighting for contracts that allow them to earn a decent living and build "schools all students deserve." She explains the form and function of the nation's largest teachers' unions. Lavery then explores unionization campaigns in the Twin Cities charter schools. A Collective Pursuit also examines teacher strikes and contract negotiations, school finance and finance reform, and district and union attempts to address racial achievement gaps, to provide a context for understanding the economic, political, and demographic forces that inspire teachers to improve conditions for students. A Collective Pursuit emphasizes that while teachers' unions serve a traditional, economic role, they also provide a vast array of valuable services to students, educators, parents, and community members.

Contesting Precarity in Japan details the new forms of workers' protest and opposition that have developed as Japan's economy has transformed over the past three decades and highlights their impact upon the country's policymaking process. Drawing on a new dataset charting protest events from the 1980s to the present, Saori Shibata produces the first systematic study of Japan's new precarious labour movement. It details the movement's rise during Japan's post-bubble economic transformation and highlights the different and innovative forms of dissent that mark the end of the country's famously non-confrontational industrial relations. In doing so, moreover, she shows how this new pattern of industrial and social tension is reflected within the country's macroeconomic policymaking, resulting in a new policy dissensus that has consistently failed to offer policy reforms that would produce a return to economic growth. As a result, Shibata argues that the Japanese model of capitalism has therefore become increasingly disorganized.

In Conflicting Commitments, Shannon Gleeson goes beyond the debate over federal immigration policy to examine the complicated terrain of immigrant worker rights. Federal law requires that basic labor standards apply to all workers, yet this principle clashes with increasingly restrictive immigration laws and creates a confusing bureaucratic terrain for local policymakers and labor advocates. Gleeson examines this issue in two of the largest immigrant gateways in the country: San Jose, California, and Houston, Texas.

Conflicting Commitments reveals two cities with very different approaches to addressing the exploitation of immigrant workers both involving the strategic coordination of a range of bureaucratic brokers, but in strikingly different ways. Drawing on the real life accounts of ordinary workers, federal, state, and local government officials, community organizers, and consular staff, Gleeson argues that local political contexts matter for protecting undocumented workers in particular. Providing a rich description of the bureaucratic minefields of labor law, and the explosive politics of immigrant rights, Gleeson shows how the lessons learned from San Jose and Houston can inform models for upholding labor and human rights in the United States."

The long relationship between America’s colonizing wars and virulent anticommunism The colonizing wars against Native Americans created the template for anticommunist repression in the United States. Tariq D. Khan’s analysis reveals bloodshed and class war as foundational aspects of capitalist domination and vital elements of the nation’s long history of internal repression and social control. Khan shows how the state wielded the tactics, weapons, myths, and ideology refined in America’s colonizing wars to repress anarchists, labor unions, and a host of others labeled as alien, multi-racial, multi-ethnic urban rabble. The ruling classes considered radicals of all stripes to be anticolonial insurgents. As Khan charts the decades of red scares that began in the 1840s, he reveals how capitalists and government used much-practiced counterinsurgency rhetoric and tactics against the movements they perceived and vilified as “anarchist.” Original and boldly argued, The Republic Shall Be Kept Clean offers an enlightening new history with relevance for our own time.

Around the world, hundreds of millions of labor migrants endure exploitation, lack of basic rights, and institutionalized discrimination and marginalization. What dynamics and drivers have created a world in which such a huge--and rapidly growing--group toils as marginalized men and women, existing as a lower caste institutionally and juridically? In what ways did labor migrants shape their living and working conditions in the past, and what opportunities exist for them today? Global Labor Migration presents new multidisciplinary, transregional perspectives on issues surrounding global labor migration. The essays go beyond disciplinary boundaries, with sociologists, ethnographers, legal scholars, and historians contributing research that extends comparison among and within world regions. Looking at migrant workers from the late nineteenth century to the present day, the contributors illustrate the need for broader perspectives that study labor migration over longer timeframes and from wider geographic areas. The result is a unique, much-needed collection that delves into one of the world's most pressing issues, generates scholarly dialogue, and proposes cutting-edge research agendas and methods. Contributors: Bridget Anderson, Rutvica Andrijasevic, Katie Bales, Jenny Chan, Penelope Ciancanelli, Felipe Barradas Correia Castro Bastos, Eileen Boris, Charlie Fanning, Judy Fudge, Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres, Heidi Gottfried, Julie Greene, Justin Jackson, Radhika Natarajan, Pun Ngai, Bastiaan Nugteren, Nicola Piper, Jessica R. Pliley, Devi Sacchetto, Helen Sampson, Yael Schacher, Joo-Cheong Tham, and Matt Withers

Alike in many aspects of their histories, Australia and the United States diverge in striking ways when it comes to their working classes, labor relations, and politics. Greg Patmore and Shelton Stromquist curate innovative essays that use transnational and comparative analysis to explore the two nations' differences. The contributors examine five major areas: World War I's impact on labor and socialist movements; the history of coerced labor; patterns of ethnic and class identification; forms of working-class collective action; and the struggles related to trade union democracy and independent working-class politics. Throughout, many essays highlight how hard-won transnational ties allowed Australians and Americans to influence each other's trade union and political cultures. Contributors: Robin Archer, Nikola Balnave, James R. Barrett, Bradley Bowden, Verity Burgmann, Robert Cherny, Peter Clayworth, Tom Goyens, Dianne Hall, Benjamin Huf, Jennie Jeppesen, Marjorie A. Jerrard, Jeffrey A. Johnson, Diane Kirkby, Elizabeth Malcolm, Patrick O'Leary, Greg Patmore, Scott Stephenson, Peta Stevenson-Clarke, Shelton Stromquist, and Nathan Wise

Alike in many aspects of their histories, Australia and the United States diverge in striking ways when it comes to their working classes, labor relations, and politics. Greg Patmore and Shelton Stromquist curate innovative essays that use transnational and comparative analysis to explore the two nations' differences. The contributors examine five major areas: World War I's impact on labor and socialist movements; the history of coerced labor; patterns of ethnic and class identification; forms of working-class collective action; and the struggles related to trade union democracy and independent working-class politics. Throughout, many essays highlight how hard-won transnational ties allowed Australians and Americans to influence each other's trade union and political cultures. Contributors: Robin Archer, Nikola Balnave, James R. Barrett, Bradley Bowden, Verity Burgmann, Robert Cherny, Peter Clayworth, Tom Goyens, Dianne Hall, Benjamin Huf, Jennie Jeppesen, Marjorie A. Jerrard, Jeffrey A. Johnson, Diane Kirkby, Elizabeth Malcolm, Patrick O'Leary, Greg Patmore, Scott Stephenson, Peta Stevenson-Clarke, Shelton Stromquist, and Nathan Wise

In response to mounting debt crises and macroeconomic instability in the 1980s, many countries in the developing world adopted neoliberal policies promoting the unfettered play of market forces and deregulation of the economy and attempted large-scale structural adjustment, including the privatization of public-sector industries. How much influence did various societal groups have on this transition to a market economy, and what explains the variances in interest-group influence across countries?

In this book, Agnieszka Paczyńska explores these questions by studying the role of organized labor in the transition process in four countries in different regions--the Czech Republic and Poland in eastern Europe, Egypt in the Middle East, and Mexico in Latin America. In Egypt and Poland, she shows, labor had substantial influence on the process, whereas in the Czech Republic and Mexico it did not. Her explanation highlights the complex relationship between institutional structures and the "critical junctures" provided by economic crises, revealing that the ability of groups like organized labor to wield influence on reform efforts depends to a great extent on not only their current resources (such as financial autonomy and legal prerogatives) but also the historical legacies of their past ties to the state.

This new edition features an epilogue that analyzes the role of organized labor uprisings in 2011, the protests in Egypt, the overthrow of Mubarak, and the post-Mubarak regime.

Mixing personal history, interviewee voices, and academic theory from the fields of care work, the sociology of work, medical sociology, and nursing, Taking Care of Our Own introduces us to the hidden world of family caregivers. Using a multidimensional approach, Sherry N. Mong seeks to understand and analyze the types of skilled work that family caregivers do, the processes through which they learn and negotiate new skills, and the meanings that both caregivers and nurses attach to their care work. Taking Care of Our Own is based on sixty-two in-depth interviews with family caregivers, home and community health care nurses, and other expert observers to provide a lens through which in-home care processes are analyzed, while also exploring how caregivers learn necessary procedures. Further, Mong examines the emotional labor of caregiving, as well as the identities of caregivers and nurses who are key players in the labor process, and gives attention to the ways in which the labor is transferred from medical professionals to family caregivers.

The experiment with neoliberal market-oriented economic policy in Latin America, popularly known as the Washington Consensus, has run its course. With left-wing and populist regimes now in power in many countries, there is much debate about what direction economic policy should be taking, and there are those who believe that state-led development might be worth trying again. Susan Gauss's study of the process by which Mexico transformed from a largely agrarian society into an urban, industrialized one in the two decades following the end of the Revolution is especially timely and may have lessons to offer to policy makers today.

The image of a strong, centralized corporatist state led by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) from the 1940s conceals what was actually a prolonged, messy process of debate and negotiation among the postrevolutionary state, labor, and regionally based industrial elites to define the nationalist project. Made in Mexico focuses on the distinctive nature of what happened in the four regions studied in detail: Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey, and Puebla. It shows how industrialism enabled recalcitrant elites to maintain a regionally grounded preserve of local authority outside of formal ruling-party institutions, balancing the tensions among centralization, consolidation of growth, and Mexico's deep legacies of regional authority.

Zeitarbeit und Telearbeit sind zwei Formen der Arbeitsflexibilisierung, die zu nehmend Bedeutung erlangen. Sie entsprechen einem steigenden Flexibilisie rungsbedarf in den Unternehmen. Wahrend die Zeitarbeit eher ein traditionel les Instrument zur Flexibilisierung von Arbeitsbeziehungen ist, bietet die Tele arbeit vollig neue Moglichkeiten der Arbeitsorganisation durch Anwendung mo derner Kommunikationstechniken. Die Unterschiede zwischen beiden Organi sationsformen bedingen getrennte Untersuchungsansatze, deren Ergebnisse in zwei eigenstandigen Teilen dieses Forschungsberichts dargestellt werden. Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung zur Zeitarbeit stehen neben der Analyse ihrer Flexibilisierungseigenschaften die Motive, die zur Nachfrage nach Zeitarbeit fuhren, insbesondere eine Differenzierung dieser Motive nach Unternehmens grossen. Um zu klaren, welche Bedeutung die Zeitarbeit im Kalkul der Unter nehmen gewinnen kann, wird ihr Verhaltnis zu anderen Formen der Arbeitsfle xibilisierung untersucht. Schliesslich werden auch arbeitsmarktpolitische lmpli kationen der Zeitarbeit erortert. Untersuchungsschwerpunkt bei der Telearbeit ist die Frage, in welchen For men diese inzwischen etabliert ist und inwieweit auch kleine und mittlere Un ternehmen daran partizipieren. Neben der Erorterung arbeitsschutzrechtlicher Fragen werden insbesondere die Probleme diskutiert, die in kleineren und mittleren Unternehmen bei der Einfuhrung von Telearbeit hinderlich sein kon nen. Neue Formen der Arbeitsorganisation, die ungewohnt sind und vom Normalar beitsverhaltnis im Sinne des Arbeitsrechts abweichen, werden vielfach als "atypisch" oder "prekar" mit erheblichem Misstrauen betrachtet. Demgegenuber muss sich die Erkenntnis durchsetzen, dass die Flexibilisierung der Arbeitsbe ziehungen in den Unternehmen nicht Selbstzweck, sondern die Reaktion auf veranderte Wettbewerbsbedingungen ist. Die vorliegenden Untersuchungen sollen dazu beitragen, eine differenziertere Betrachtungsweise zu vermitteln."

Die Globalisierung ist keineswegs als ein linearer und einheitlicher Prozess zu begreifen, wie dies in einer rein oekonomistischen Deutung oft angezeigt wird. Zwar finden zahlreiche Phanomene in der Globalisierung im Rahmen ihrer universalen Entgrenzung einen gemeinsamen Bezug, doch sind die Effekte regional und sektoral ganz unterschiedlich und oft auch widerspruchlich. Der systemische Widerspruch ist geradezu ein Grundsymptom der Globalisierung. Unter dem leitenden Aspekt einer "Gleichzeitigkeit des Ungleichen" werden in diesem Lehrbuch strukturelle Phanomene in insgesamt 14 Kapiteln vorgestellt und diskutiert. Dabei handelt es sich jeweils um staatsubergreifende Aspekte und Fragestellungen wie die internationale Migration, den modernen supranationalen Terrorismus, das weltweite demographische Wachstum, den Klimawandel, die Neuen Kriege, die Revolutionen im arabischen Raum und den Moeglichkeiten, die durch die neuen Kommunikationstechnologien kognitiv bereit stehen. Die Darstellung richtet sich gleichermassen an Studierende sowie Lehrende und politisch Interessierte.

The UAW's Southern Gamble is the first in-depth assessment of the United Auto Workers' efforts to organize foreign vehicle plants (Daimler-Chrysler, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, and Volkswagen) in the American South since 1989, an era when union membership declined precipitously. Stephen J. Silvia chronicles transnational union cooperation between the UAW and its counterparts in Brazil, France, Germany and Japan, as well as documenting the development of employer strategies that have proven increasingly effective at thwarting unionization. Silvia shows that when organizing, unions must now fight on three fronts: at the worksite; in the corporate boardroom; and in the political realm. The UAW's Southern Gamble makes clear that the UAW's failed campaigns in the South can teach hard-won lessons about challenging the structural and legal roadblocks to union participation and effectively organizing workers within and beyond the auto industry.

Die zehn Studien des Buches uber den Philosophen und Padagogen Eduard Spranger (1882-1963) vermitteln das politische Portrat eines konservativen Intellektuellen. Spranger beteiligte sich in der ersten Halfte des 20. Jahrhunderts, in wechselnden Herrschaftsverhaltnissen, intensiv an der ideologischen Auseinandersetzung um die nationale und kulturelle Identitat. In der Einheit des Deutschseins - unter Ausschluss alles Nichtdeutschen, besonders des Judischen - wollte Spranger die Gegensatze in der deutschen Gesellschaft und die wachsende Komplexitat des modernen Lebens imaginar aufheben. Das Ideal der "Deutschheit" sollte Individualitat und Staatlichkeit versoehnen. Spranger fasste diese Vorstellung in die Formel: Durchseelung des Staates und Durchstaatlichung der Seele.

Fur Wissensgesellschaften, die vom Aufbau und der Verwertung kulturellen Kapitals abhangen, kann die Arbeitsmarktintegration von hochqualifizierten Migrant(inn)en eine Chance sein. Der vorliegende Band befasst sich mit verschiedenen Migrantengruppen, die ihre akademischen Bildungstitel in die Arbeitsmarkte von Deutschland, Kanada, Turkei und Grossbritannien einbringen. Er rekonstruiert mit qualitativen Methoden die Bildungs- und Berufserfolge der Kinder von Migranten ebenso wie die Chancen und Risiken, mit denen Akademiker/innen konfrontiert sind, die z.B. aufgrund von Partnerschaften, Jobangeboten oder als Fluchtlinge in ein Land kommen. Die An- und Aberkennung von kulturellem Kapital, die Erfahrung von Diskriminierung, aber auch von sozialer Unterstutzung gehen in den Lebensgeschichten der Migrant(inn)en komplexe Verbindungen ein, die uber ihre erfolgreiche Arbeitsmarktintegration entscheiden.

Der Fehlzeiten-Report, der vom Wissenschaftlichen Institut der AOK (WIdO) und der Universitat Bielefeld herausgegeben wird, liefert jedes Jahr umfassende Daten und Analysen zu den krankheitsbedingten Fehlzeiten in der deutschen Wirtschaft. Der Report beleuchtet detailliert die Entwicklung in den einzelnen Wirtschaftszweigen und stellt aktuelle Befunde und Bewertungen zu den Grunden und Mustern von Fehlzeiten in Betrieben vor.

Der Schwerpunkt der diesjahrigen Ausgabe widmet sich der Bedeutung chronischer Erkrankungen fur das betriebliche Gesundheitsmanagement. Der Wandel des Krankheitspanoramas betrifft in erheblichem Masse auch die betriebliche Ebene. Erkrankungen des Ruckens, der Atemwege, Herz-Kreislauf- sowie psychische Krankheiten sind besonders verbreitet und haben ein bedeutendes chronisches Potenzial. Einerseits kann die Entstehung chronischer Erkrankungen betrieblich bedingt sein, andererseits wirken sie sich negativ auf Produktivitat, Krankenstand und damit auf die Produktionskosten aus. Langzeit-Arbeitsunfahigkeit ist verantwortlich fur einen grossen Teil der Ausfalltage. Der Fehlzeiten-Report behandelt betriebliche Strategien zur Gesundheitsforderung und Pravention von chronischen Erkrankungen und zeigt zudem Wege und Moglichkeiten auf, wie Unternehmen die betriebliche Wiedereingliederung erfolgreich gestalten konnen. Aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse aus der deutschen und internationalen Literatur werden erganzt um Berichte guter Praxis aus Betrieben und Sozialversicherungstragern.

Umfassende Daten und der aktuelle Schwerpunkt machen den Fehlzeiten-Report 2006 zu einem wertvollen Ratgeber fur Unternehmer, Fuhrungskrafte und Arbeitnehmervertreter sowie alle, die Verantwortung fur den Arbeits- und Gesundheitsschutz in Unternehmen tragen.

• Aktuelle Statistiken zum Krankenstand in allen Branchen
• Die wichtigsten fur Arbeitsunfahigkeit verantwortlichen Krankheitsarten
• Anzahl und Ausmass der Arbeitsunfalle
• Die Krankenstandsentwicklung in den einzelnen Bundeslandern
• Verteilung der Fehlzeiten nach Monaten und Wochentagen
• Krankenstandskennzahlen fur zahlreiche Berufsgruppen
• Kosten der krankheitsbedingten Fehlzeiten

Pressestimmen:

"Seit 1999 uberzeugt der jahrlich erscheinende Fehlzeiten-Report als Sammelband zum einen mit einer breiten und fundierten Beitragssammlung verschiedenster Expertinnen und Experten zu spezifischen Fragestellungen der betrieblichen Arbeitsschutz- und Gesundheitspolitik. Zum anderen liefern die Reports umfangreiche und aktuelle Daten zu krankheitsbedingten Fehlzeiten." (Journal of Public Health)

"Nach wie vor stellt der Fehlzeitenreport fur alle, die sich mit der Materie befassen, sei es in Wissenschaft und Politik oder in der betrieblichen Praxis, ein unverzichtbares Standardwerk zum Themenbereich Arbeitswelt und Gesundheit dar." (Sozialpolitik aktuell)

"Dieser Report geht die erwerbstatigen Menschen, Personalverantwortliche, aber auch Entscheidungstrager in der Politik an." (FAZ)"

Muchos paises han determinado el potencial de la nanotecnologia en los sectores agropecuario y alimentario y estan invirtiendo de manera considerable en sus aplicaciones a la produccion de alimentos. Sin embargo, debido a los pocos conocimientos que existen sobre los efectos en la salud humana de tales aplicaciones, muchos paises reconocen la necesidad de examinar previamente los consecuencias para la inocuidad de los alimentos de la tecnologia.En respuesta a tales peticiones, la FAO y la OMS consideran que era oportuno convocar una reunion de expertos sobre el tema con el fin de definir el trabajo futuro para abordar la cuestion a nivel mundial."

In the 1930s, the unemployed were organizing. Jobless workers felt they were "entitled" to a new kind of government protection-the protection from undeserved unemployment and the financial straits that such unemployment created. They wanted dignified forms of relief (including work relief) during the Depression, and unemployment insurance after. Becoming Entitled artfully chronicles the emergence of this worker entitlement and the people who cultivated it. Abigail Trollinger focuses largely on Chicago after the Progressive Era, where the settlement house and labor movements both flourished. She shows how reformers joined workers and relief officials to redeem the unemployed and secure government-funded social insurance for them. Becoming Entitled also offers a critical reappraisal of New Deal social and economic changes, suggesting that the transformations of the 1930s came from reformers in the "middle," who helped establish a limited form of entitlement for workers. Ultimately, Trollinger highlights the achievements made by reformers working on city- and nation-wide issues. She captures the moment when some people shed the stigma that came with unemployment and demanded that the government do the same.