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Marxist discourse around automation has recently become waylaid
with breathless techno-pessimist dystopias and fanciful
imaginations of automated luxury communism. This collection of
essays by both established veterans of the field and new voices is
a refreshingly sober materialist reflection on recent technological
developments within capitalist production. It covers a broad range
of digital aspects now proliferating across our work and lives,
including chapters on the digitalisation of agriculture, robotics
in the factory and the labour process on crowdworking platforms. It
looks to how 20th century Marxist predictions of the 'workerless
factory' are, or are not, coming true, and how 'Platform
Capitalism' should be understood and critiqued. Through rich
empirical, theoretical and historical material, this book is
necessary reading for those wanting a clear overview of our digital
world.
Marxist discourse around automation has recently become waylaid
with breathless techno-pessimist dystopias and fanciful
imaginations of automated luxury communism. This collection of
essays by both established veterans of the field and new voices is
a refreshingly sober materialist reflection on recent technological
developments within capitalist production. It covers a broad range
of digital aspects now proliferating across our work and lives,
including chapters on the digitalisation of agriculture, robotics
in the factory and the labour process on crowdworking platforms. It
looks to how 20th century Marxist predictions of the 'workerless
factory' are, or are not, coming true, and how 'Platform
Capitalism' should be understood and critiqued. Through rich
empirical, theoretical and historical material, this book is
necessary reading for those wanting a clear overview of our digital
world.
Currently it is fashionable to talk about digitisation,
robotisation, industry 4.0, but also about the gig economy, the
Millenials, precarisation and the like. However, the relevant
issues are too often taken in isolation, referring to an
extrapolation of overcome structures. The present collection aims
on moving further by qualifying some aspects, and also by
approaching the topic from distinct perspectives in order to arrive
at an assessment of emerging changes of the socio-economic
formation. Content Digitisation and Precarisation - Redefining Work
and Redefining Society * Economy of Difference and Social
Differentiation. Precarity - searching for a new interpretative
paradigm * Society under Threat of Precarity of Employment *
Precarious Employment: Definition of the Concept Given by Russian
Researchers * Digitisation: A New Form of Precarity or New
Opportunities? * Labour market performance and digitisation of
work: brief overview * Australia's precarious workforce and the
role of digitisation * The Czech Republic - a Case Study *
"Predictable uncertainty" - Social Land Programme in Hungary *
Affirmative and Alternative Discourses and Practices of Knowledge
Production and Distribution in Turkey * Electric dreams of welfare
in the 4th industrial revolution: An actor-network investigation
and genealogy of an Algorithm * Bringing Precarity to the Political
Agenda The Editors Vyacheslav Bobkov, Doctor of Economics,
Professor, Chief of the Laboratory of Problems of Life Quality and
Living Standards of the Institute of Socio - Economic Problems of
Population of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Peter
Herrmann, social philosopher, having worked globally in research
and teaching positions in particular on social policy and economics
Social quality thinking emerged from a critique of one-sided
policies by breaking through the limitations previously set by
purely economistic paradigms. By tracing its expansion and
presenting different aspects of social quality theory, this volume
provides an overview of a more nuanced approach, which assesses
societal progress and introduces proposals that are relevant for
policy making. Crucially, important components emerge with research
by scholars from Asia, particularly China, eastern Europe, and
other regions beyond western Europe, the theory's place of origin.
As this volume shows, this rich diversity of approaches and their
cross-national comparisons reveal the increasingly important role
of social quality theory for informing political debates on
development and sustainability.
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Trust Management II - Proceedings of IFIPTM 2008: Joint iTrust and PST Conferences on Privacy, Trust Management and Security, June 18-20, 2008, Trondheim, Norway (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2008)
Yucel Karabulut, John C. Mitchell, Peter Herrmann, Christian Damsgaard Jensen
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This volume contains the proceedings of the IFIPTM 2008, the Joint
iTrust and PST Conferences on Privacy, Trust Management and
Security, held in Trondheim, Norway from June 18 to June 20, 2008.
IFIPTM 2008 provides a truly global platform for the reporting of
research, development, policy and practice in the interdependent
areas of Privacy, Security, and Trust. Following the traditions
inherited from the highly successful iTrust and PST conference
series, IFIPTM 2008 focuses on trust, privacy and security from
multidisciplinary perspectives. The conference is an arena for
discussion about re levant problems from both research and practice
in the areas of academia, busi ness, and government. IFIPTM 2008 is
an open IFIP conference, which only accepts contributed pa pers, so
all papers in these proceedings have passed strict peer review. The
pro gram of the conference features both theoretical research
papers and reports of real world case studies. IFIPTM 2008 received
62 submissions. The program commit tee selected 22 papers for
presentation and inclusion in the proceedings. In addi tion, the
program and the proceedings include 3 demo descriptions. The
highlights of IFIPTM 2008 include invited talks and tutorials by
industri al and academic experts in the fields of trust management,
privacy and security, including Jon Bing and Michael Steiner.
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Trust Management II - Proceedings of IFIPTM 2008: Joint iTrust and PST Conferences on Privacy, Trust Management and Security, June 18-20, 2008, Trondheim, Norway (Hardcover, 2008 ed.)
Yucel Karabulut, John C. Mitchell, Peter Herrmann, Christian Damsgaard Jensen
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This volume contains the proceedings of the IFIPTM 2008, the Joint
iTrust and PST Conferences on Privacy, Trust Management and
Security, held in Trondheim, Norway from June 18 to June 20, 2008.
IFIPTM 2008 provides a truly global platform for the reporting of
research, development, policy and practice in the interdependent
areas of Privacy, Security, and Trust. Following the traditions
inherited from the highly successful iTrust and PST conference
series, IFIPTM 2008 focuses on trust, privacy and security from
multidisciplinary perspectives. The conference is an arena for
discussion about re levant problems from both research and practice
in the areas of academia, busi ness, and government. IFIPTM 2008 is
an open IFIP conference, which only accepts contributed pa pers, so
all papers in these proceedings have passed strict peer review. The
pro gram of the conference features both theoretical research
papers and reports of real world case studies. IFIPTM 2008 received
62 submissions. The program commit tee selected 22 papers for
presentation and inclusion in the proceedings. In addi tion, the
program and the proceedings include 3 demo descriptions. The
highlights of IFIPTM 2008 include invited talks and tutorials by
industri al and academic experts in the fields of trust management,
privacy and security, including Jon Bing and Michael Steiner.
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Trust Management - Third International Conference, iTrust 2005, Paris, France, May 23-26, 2005, Proceedings (Paperback, 2005 ed.)
Peter Herrmann, Valerie Issarny, Simon Shiu
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This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 3rd International
Conference on Trust Management, held in Paris, France, during 23 26
May 2005. The conf- ence follows successful International
Conferences in Crete in 2003 and Oxford in 2004. All conferences
were organized by iTrust, which is a working group funded as a
thematic network by the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) unit
of the Information Society Technologies (IST) program of the
European Union. The purpose of the iTrust working group is to
provide a forum for cro- disciplinary investigation of the
applications of trust as a means of increasing security, building
con?dence and facilitating collaboration in dynamic open s- tems.
The notion of trust has been studied independently by di?erent
academic disciplines, which has helped us to identify and
understand di?erent aspects of trust.
Theaimofthisconferencewastoprovideacommonforum, bringingtogether
researchers from di?erent academic branches, such as the
technology-oriented disciplines, law, social sciences and
philosophy, in order to develop a deeper and more fundamental
understanding of the issues and challenges in the area of trust
management in dynamic open systems. The response to this conference
was excellent; from the 71 papers submitted to the conference, we
selected 21 full papers and 4 short papers for presentation. The
program also included two keynote addresses, given by Steve Marsh
from National Research Centre Canada, Institute for Information
Technology, and Steve Kimbrough from the University of
Pennsylvania; an industrial panel; 7 technology demonstrations; and
a full day of tutorials."
The book aims at presenting an updated version of the basic and
general human rights debates. While it is frequently suggested that
Human Rights are universal and indivisible, it is an undeniable
fact that this is far from being true. And if there was ever any
justification for talking about an ending to history, that
narrative has definitely lost all justification in the light of
recent developments. In fact, we are now witnessing a new harsh
round of global system competition, often at the edge of a global
hot war, now not anymore in a bipolar world but in a multipolar
setting.The book contributions include reflections on history and
theory, the reinterpretation of rights in different national
contexts and/or in relation to specific groups (e.g. women) and
areas (e.g. digitization).The book is meant to be a food for
thought, at the end arguing in favour of the need to redefine Human
Rights, reflecting the changes since the inauguration of the UDHR.
This book is based on the thesis that the process of European
integration is far more than just the building and further
development of institutions. It is far more than the adjustment of
economic and political procedures in a changing environmental and
ever new challenges. Instead it is a social process which takes
place even if the "social dimension" is underexposed by the
official policy. And just this makes it all the more interesting
because it shows the limits and opportunities to influence "great
history" by the social basis of soci(et)al being - the peoples and
their organisations. The main foci of the chapters in this book
are: the role and function of social policy, and the role and
function of civil society, namely the NGOs.
Translated from the original German Lenin Neuentdecken and
available in English for the first time, this volume rediscovers
Lenin as a strategic socialist thinker through close examination of
his collected works and correspondence. Brie opens with an analysis
of Lenin's theoretical development between 1914 and 1917, in
preparation for his critical decision to dissolve the Constituent
Assembly in January 1918 in a struggle for power. This led from the
dialectics of revolutionary practice and social analysis to a new
understanding of socialism, which is compared and contrasted to the
alternative Marxist ideas and conceptions of the state posited by
Karl Kautsky and Rosa Luxemburg. Rediscovering Lenin then moves to
1921, when Lenin begins a new stage of his theoretical development
concerned with resolving the reversal of the revolution's aims and
its results. This process remains unfinished, and the questions
raised a hundred years ago remain: How can one intervene
successfully and responsibly in social and political crises? What
role do social science theories, ideological frameworks, and other
practices play in transforming the economic, political and cultural
power structures of a society? Brie concludes with a retrospective
on the ideas developed by Marx and in the Second International, and
their impact on Lenin's strategic thinking. Placing Lenin's writing
itself in the foreground and arguing from inside his own
self-learning, Rediscovering Lenin focuses on the reflective
relationship between ideology, theory, and practice.
Translated from the original German Lenin Neuentdecken and
available in English for the first time, this volume rediscovers
Lenin as a strategic socialist thinker through close examination of
his collected works and correspondence. Brie opens with an analysis
of Lenin's theoretical development between 1914 and 1917, in
preparation for his critical decision to dissolve the Constituent
Assembly in January 1918 in a struggle for power. This led from the
dialectics of revolutionary practice and social analysis to a new
understanding of socialism, which is compared and contrasted to the
alternative Marxist ideas and conceptions of the state posited by
Karl Kautsky and Rosa Luxemburg. Rediscovering Lenin then moves to
1921, when Lenin begins a new stage of his theoretical development
concerned with resolving the reversal of the revolution's aims and
its results. This process remains unfinished, and the questions
raised a hundred years ago remain: How can one intervene
successfully and responsibly in social and political crises? What
role do social science theories, ideological frameworks, and other
practices play in transforming the economic, political and cultural
power structures of a society? Brie concludes with a retrospective
on the ideas developed by Marx and in the Second International, and
their impact on Lenin's strategic thinking. Placing Lenin's writing
itself in the foreground and arguing from inside his own
self-learning, Rediscovering Lenin focuses on the reflective
relationship between ideology, theory, and practice.
With the process of a 'wider Europe' (EU-Commission President
Romano Prodi's 'ring of friends') that extends from Marrakech in
Morocco to St Petersburg in Russia gathering speed, the growing
rift between Europe and America also is about how to deal
politically with the countries of the Mediterranean-Muslim world.
The house of Islam (Dar al Islam) was pivotal to the European path
to the Renaissance and to the re-discovery of classic Greek
philosophy. The Mediterranean policy of the European Union aims at
a positive and co-operative relationship with the region. A
successful integration of the Mediterranean South would have
tremendous and positive repercussions for regional and world peace.
World-wide leading experts from the field of world systems
analysis, economics, integration theory, political science,
theology and area studies, agnostics, Christians, Jews and Muslims
alike discuss the issue with European decision makers. The outcome
is an interdisciplinary evaluation of this projected export of
peace, co-operation, dialogue and stability in the framework of
world centre-periphery relationships.
Dieses essential wendet sich den psychologischen Aspekten des
Tourismusmarketings zu, da Reiseangebote immateriell sind und bis
zum Reiseantritt nur als psychische Vorstellung im Kopf der Kunden
bestehen. Wesentliche Marketingprozesse, von der Werbebegegnung bis
zur Reiseentscheidung, werden durch zahlreiche psychologische
Gegebenheiten beeinflusst. Unter diesem Blickwinkel erfolgen im
essential thesenhafte Ausfuhrungen zu wesentlichen psychologischen
Sachverhalten des Tourismusmarketings. Am Beispiel von
Einzelsachverhalten werden markante Schwachstellen aufgezeigt,
welche die psychologische Bedeutsamkeit des Marketings
unterstreichen. Mit dem essential soll das Handlungsbewusstsein
gestarkt werden, Tourismusmarketing zukunftig mit psychologischen
Erkenntnissen zu verzahnen.
Dieses Buch bietet einen kompakten UEberblick zum Themenbereich
Tourismuspsychologie, fur den ein wachsendes Interesse besteht. Die
Tourismuspsychologie wird entlang einer Reisekette dargestellt.
Beginnend bei der Werbebegegnung bis hin zu den Urlaubserinnerungen
nach der Reise werden wesentliche psychologische Sachverhalte
behandelt. Schwerpunktthemen hierbei sind: Aufgaben und Ziele der
Tourismuspsychologie, Gestaltung touristischer Werbung, der
Reiseentscheidungsprozess, Reise- und Urlaubsangste, Erleben am
Urlaubsort, Fuhrung von Teams und Reisegruppe. Dieses Lehrbuch
wendet sich vor allem, aber nicht nur, an Studierende. Es
unterstutzt alle Verantwortlichen und Mitarbeiter im touristischen
Bereich dabei, das Verhalten der Reisenden besser zu verstehen und
angemessen darauf reagieren zu koennen. Zum Autor: Der Autor ist
Lehrbeauftragter an der Hochschule Harz, an den dualen
Hochschuleinrichtungen BA Eisenach und iba Erfurt sowie an der
Heimerer-Akademie Leipzig. Schwerpunkte seiner Lehrtatigkeit sind
Tourismusmanagement und Psychologie. Seit 2013 halt er Vorlesungen
und Seminare zur Tourismuspsychologie an der Hochschule Harz
Focusing on the themes of conflict, communication, and
globalisation, this book provides interdisciplinary studies of
modern and contemporary Asia and highlights the latest developments
in Asian Studies. Beginning with a discussion on the role of
communications, the book offers theoretical and methodological
considerations on dealing with conflict and communication. It then
explores selfother relationships through an investigation of the
ethical structure of responsibility in the context of
globalisation. In the following chapters, contributors from China,
Germany, Ireland, Japan and South Korea provide a clear grasp of
conflicts and communications within and beyond Asia from political,
economic and cultural perspectives. They offer insight on a wide
range of topics including the Sino-Japanese conflict, the political
and ideological struggles between the two Koreas, Asian countries
responses to the economic crisis, the World Fair and globalisation,
the development of NBA culture in China, and Sino-Western
comparison on mother-in-lawdaughter-in-law dynamic. The book
concludes that Asias rise should present more opportunities than
conflicts and threats, and that it will eventually lead to the
emergence of a multipolar world.
The chapters of the present book analyse contemporary societal
challenges and changes in light of the social quality approach and
French regulationist thinking. This means overcoming as much as
possible existing boundaries of social science in some main areas:
Interdisciplinary approaches are important, but should be pushed
beyond the mainstream concept, aiming at an integrated social
science approach; Critique of economism is important, though we
should not forget that the question is not about "how much" but
about what kind of economy; Increasingly obvious is the lack of
social integrity of contemporary growth policies, but less obvious
is what is needed to fundamentally change the scene; Treating
globalisation as a matter that goes beyond widening and deepening
relations of countries and regions around the globe, seeing it as a
news stage of world systems; By working along these different
frontlines, the chapters take up important issues that can be found
in different areas as "growth beyond GDP", "human development",
"quality of life", "world systems and the like. In the end, it is
about looking at the current political-economic patterns and the
possibilities they entail when it comes to the claim that "another
world is possible".
The book gathers different contributions - they can all be linked
to recent orientations by the main contributor, Paul Boccara who
states the need for a new mod le anthroponomique. According to the
work of the well-known French academic and political activist the
current challenges need more than a simple change of the economic
system - even if such reorientation is surely also needed and has
to be in itself far-reaching. However, going beyond economic
changes the challenge of the time has to face the need to redefine
the position and role of humanity in the wider relationship to
others and to nature. The contributions gathered in the present
volume are discussing both, generic questions of such revolutionary
processes and the need of changes in concrete areas as labour
market policies, political strategies, financial control and the
like.
With the processes of globalization, we are more than ever
confronted with the paradoxes inherent in modern statehood. The
characteristics of modern statehood are: (1) securing freedom from
feudal oppression or despotism, (2) legislating for equality among
citizens, (3) focusing on inclusion to incorporate the previously
excluded into the system and finally (4), of the utmost importance,
establishing the principle of individualism as a primary goal. The
social construct of ethnicity gives rise to a second paradox. It
develops as a material force if and when it grips the masses.
Logically, any such construct as ethnicity is exclusive to the
extent on which it depends on otherness. The erection of hegemonic
structures to deal with these issues and also with the
confrontation of shifting borders is at the core of this book.
The present book gathers edited contributions from a conference
which had been held end of 2010 in Ankara, Turkey. This event
brought together scientists and trade unionists from several EU-
and non EU-countries, exploring one of the major, though frequently
underestimated challenges of societal integrity. This continuing
debate of the experts of the European S.U.P.I.-Network focussed in
particular on the more fundamental issues of precarity. As much as
precarity is a matter of socio-individual concern, having severe
repercussions on the life of an increasing number of people, it is
moreover a development that fundamentally challenges. It questions
many of the values claimed by enlightenment and capitalist
revolutions as universal, including solidarity, mutual support and
equality - though they are formally still claimed as valid; and
moreover these developments are part of structural changes that
easily fissure the contemporary mode of production. Does this mean
the end of society? Or could it be a take-off for another
renaissance?
The book provides a critical contribution, looking at the
development of social ad health services. Though discussing also
contemporary issues, the focus is a more fundamental critique,
dismantling the ideological questions that are behind these
developments, standing in the context of the critique of capitalism
and modernisation. In addition, one contribution looks in
particular at the development of human resources in the UK and in
another contribution an analysis of empirical data is provided - it
looks at the perspective from EU-NGOs active in the sector of
social service provision. The book concludes with a contribution
compiled by an informal network of various EU-NGOs, looking in an
exemplary way at difficulties faced by the recent developments of
marketisation and liberalisation.
This volume brings together a cross-section of papers presented at
the 33rd International Council of Social Welfare (ICSW) conference
in Tours, France, in July 2008. Although it is a more or less
random compilation, the contributions raise important topics
offering great insight into the multiplicity of ways that nations
and communities are responding to the challenges of globalisation
as well as internal demands for greater social justice and equality
as well as mechanisms for civil society. The authors are working
across disparate national settings which makes it especially
interesting by providing very different perspectives and allows as
well to look at possible convergences. A main issue is a global
approach to social policy and social development but tailored to
local communities is required. It is as well underlined that
limitations on strict "professional" domains can easily do more
harm than allowing gain.
This book examines various aspects of youth and community work
drawn from an Irish context but spanning European and international
perspectives. Authors locate the subject matter at source, whilst
exploring some of the impediments that policy, practice and actors
must contend with. Significantly, the contributors locate their
reflections within European and global contexts, whilst critiquing
developing trends and outcomes so as to better understand key
issues in Irish Youth and community work in particular and wider
Irish civil society as a whole.
Die internationale Tagung Processes of Social Reorientation within
the Social Structure aus der die Beitr ge zu diesem Buch
resultieren, wurde in Kooperation der Freien Universit t Berlin mit
dem Bundesministerium f r Arbeit und Soziales durchgef hrt. Sie
fand vom 31.1.2007 bis 1.2.2007 in den R umlichkeiten des
Bundesministeriums in Berlin statt. Am 1.2.2008 wurde das
internationale Netzwerk S.U.P.I Social Uncertanty, Precarity,
Inequality gegr ndet, um die schon mehrj hrig bestehenden
Arbeitszusammenh nge zwischen den betei-ligten Wissenschaftlern zu
institutionalisieren und zu professionalisieren. Um das wachsende
Ph nomen der prek ren Arbeitsverh ltnisse und seinen Einfluss auf
den Arbeitsmarkt und die Gesellschaft zu verstehen, m ssen auf
einem europ ischen Level vor-rangig zwei Aspekte herausgestellt
werden: die konomische Krise und die Arbeitsmarktre-formen. Ein
europ isches Projekt, das auch politisch Einfluss auf die
Reorganisation des pro-duktiven konomischen Systems mit den
Anforderungen eines neuen Sozialsystems nimmt, wird in der
augenblicklichen Situation dringend ben tigt. Die Herausforderung f
r die Kapa-zit ten des Europ ischen Sozialmodells hat die
unterschiedlichen Erfahrungen der Mitglieds-staaten der Europ
ischen Union und die jeweiligen Beziehungen zwischen Institutionen
und B rgern zu ber cksichtigen. Der Entwurf eines stabilen Europ
ischen Sozialmodells muss die individuellen Rechte und kollektiven
Notwendigkeiten herausarbeiten, um es in Relation zu pragmatischen
Umsetzungsstrategien zu positionieren. Erste Bausteine auf dem Weg
zu einer konstruktiven Auseinandersetzung ber die Einfl sse und
Effekte atypischer Besch ftigungsverh ltnisse auf die europ ischen
Gesellschaften wur-den f r diesen Band erarbeitet. Vor dem
Hintergrund unterschiedlicher Erfahrungen werden von den Autoren in
inter- und intradisziplin ren Beitr gen Zustandsbeschreibungen,
Gegen-wartsanalysen und Perspektiven vorgestellt.
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