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Providing an insightful analysis of the key issues and significant
trends relating to labour within the platform economy, this Modern
Guide considers the existing comparative evidence covering all
world regions. It also provides an in-depth look at digital labour
platforms in their historical, economic and geographical contexts.
Highlighting the diversity of experience of platform work, case
studies illustrate how general trends play out, both in online and
location-based labour platforms, across the globe. Chapters
illustrate a need for a post-pandemic regulatory requirement of
digital labour platforms at different policy levels, whilst
providing a general overview of key topics. Interlinking
contributions with a global scope and coverage identify the
challenges faced and offer thoughtful regulatory solutions. This
engaging book will be an invaluable resource for academics of
labour economics, legal and business studies and sociology. It will
also benefit policy makers in social and political geography and
political science looking for a deeper understanding of the topic.
Providing an insightful analysis of the key issues and significant
trends relating to labour within the platform economy, this Modern
Guide considers the existing comparative evidence covering all
world regions. It also provides an in-depth look at digital labour
platforms in their historical, economic and geographical contexts.
Highlighting the diversity of experience of platform work, case
studies illustrate how general trends play out, both in online and
location-based labour platforms, across the globe. Chapters
illustrate a need for a post-pandemic regulatory requirement of
digital labour platforms at different policy levels, whilst
providing a general overview of key topics. Interlinking
contributions with a global scope and coverage identify the
challenges faced and offer thoughtful regulatory solutions. This
engaging book will be an invaluable resource for academics of
labour economics, legal and business studies and sociology. It will
also benefit policy makers in social and political geography and
political science looking for a deeper understanding of the topic.
This book examines the transformation of the state in Central and
Eastern Europe since the end of communism and adoption of market
oriented reform in the early 1990s, exploring the impact of
globalization and economic liberalization on the region's states,
societies and political economy. It compares the different policies
and national strategies adopted by key Central and Eastern European
states, including the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia,
showing how initial internally oriented strategies of market
reform, privileging domestic sources of investment, had by the late
1990s given way to externally oriented strategies emphasising the
promotion of competitiveness by attracting foreign investment. It
explores the reasons behind this convergence, considering the
influence of internal and external forces, and the roles of
interests, institutions and ideas. It argues that
internationalization of the state is forged in the processes
through which domestic groups linked to transnational capital
attain domestic influence necessary to shape state policy and
strategy. These groups - the comprador service sector in particular
- constitute and organize political, social and institutional
support of the competition state in the region. Overall, this book
not only provides a detailed account of the political economy of
post-communist transformation in Central and Eastern Europe, but
also the processes by which states adapt to the forces of
globalization.
The economic crisis of 2008, starting from the US banking crisis,
affected economic and political development in varied ways around
the world. This edited volume examines the impact of the crisis on
Eastern Europe and Russia, and the resulting policy responses.
Taken as a whole, the economies of the former state socialist
countries - frequently still referred to as transition economies -
were hit hard by the crisis, suffering falls in GDP in 2009 that
were deeper than the average around the world. However, there was
considerable variety in the effects on individual countries, whilst
some continuing to grow, others suffered quite exceptional falls in
output. Policy responses were also quite diverse and do not
obviously fit with the nature and severity of economic factors. The
more general impacts on political life were also varied. In many
cases very much the same governments continued in power, while in
others there were significant changes and signs of a growing
instability in party and political structures. The articles in this
book explore these differences between countries and set them in a
wider international context. This book was published as a special
issue of Europe-Asia Studies.
The economic crisis of 2008, starting from the US banking crisis,
affected economic and political development in varied ways around
the world. This edited volume examines the impact of the crisis on
Eastern Europe and Russia, and the resulting policy responses.
Taken as a whole, the economies of the former state socialist
countries - frequently still referred to as transition economies -
were hit hard by the crisis, suffering falls in GDP in 2009 that
were deeper than the average around the world. However, there was
considerable variety in the effects on individual countries, whilst
some continuing to grow, others suffered quite exceptional falls in
output. Policy responses were also quite diverse and do not
obviously fit with the nature and severity of economic factors. The
more general impacts on political life were also varied. In many
cases very much the same governments continued in power, while in
others there were significant changes and signs of a growing
instability in party and political structures. The articles in this
book explore these differences between countries and set them in a
wider international context. This book was published as a special
issue of Europe-Asia Studies.
This book examines the transformation of the state in Central and
Eastern Europe since the end of communism and adoption of market
oriented reform in the early 1990s, exploring the impact of
globalization and economic liberalization on the region's states,
societies and political economy. It compares the different policies
and national strategies adopted by key Central and Eastern European
states, including the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia,
showing how initial internally oriented strategies of market
reform, privileging domestic sources of investment, had by the late
1990s given way to externally oriented strategies emphasising the
promotion of competitiveness by attracting foreign investment. It
explores the reasons behind this convergence, considering the
influence of internal and external forces, and the roles of
interests, institutions and ideas. It argues that
internationalization of the state is forged in the processes
through which domestic groups linked to transnational capital
attain domestic influence necessary to shape state policy and
strategy. These groups - the comprador service sector in particular
- constitute and organize political, social and institutional
support of the competition state in the region. Overall, this book
not only provides a detailed account of the political economy of
post-communist transformation in Central and Eastern Europe, but
also the processes by which states adapt to the forces of
globalization.
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