This paper revisits the notions of contract and status found in classical sociology, legal theory, and labour law. Adopting an historical perspective, it explores the fragmentation of the status of industrial citizenship during the neoliberal period and discusses the enduring usefulness of the...

This paper revisits the notions of contract and status found in classical sociology, legal theory, and labour law. Adopting an historical perspective, it explores the fragmentation of the status of industrial citizenship during the neoliberal period and discusses the enduring usefulness of the...

Problem Definition: Online short-term house rental platforms, which traditionally matched individual owners with individual customers (P2P), has recently experienced an influx of corporate players on the supply side controlling multiple assets. Our goal is to understand the implications of this...

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the changing impact of corporatism - cooperation between business, labour and state interest groups - over the period 1960-2010 and across industrialised economies on the development of the share of labour in national income. Also due to data issues this...

"This illuminating book considers the roles of social partners in regulating work and welfare through corporatist arrangements in three countries - all of which have strong traditions for social partner involvement. In the comparative study of Denmark, the Netherlands and Austria, Mikkel Mailand...

Increased competition in the stock exchange industry, exacerbated by technological advancements, has motivated many exchanges to engage in mergers and acquisitions as a strategic choice for stemming the competition tide. We examine the stock and product markets effects of financial exchange...

The fundamental objective of the study is to determine the competency level of selected private corporations such as Philex Mines and HEDCOR in rendering projects and programs as relates to its CSR. Furthermore, it has also aimed to analyze whether or not the CSR projects and programs of these...

Intermediary institutions are difficult to grasp because they are always “in-between” something else. It is therefore hardly surprising that they are typically regarded as mere reflections of structures or interests located outside the institutions themselves. The objective of this chapter...

As Hacker and Pierson (2010) have observed, politics is primarily organization: "organized combat." To understand the outcomes of politics, we have to look at how it is organized over time: by whom and with what resources? I take Sweden as an example of how politics as organized combat has...

Communal revolts and the politicization of labor -- The fabrication of the urban body politic -- The political economy of freeman status -- Corporatism, proletarianization and the patriarchal order -- Equality, solidarity and the decline of brotherhood -- Epilogue: dis/assembling the workplace...

in the past few years there has been a fundamental change in the functioning of most of the stock exchanges and their governance structure. The inadequacy of proper governance practices and standards of transparency in many exchanges had eroded the investor's confidence and as a result a...

This paper presents empirical data on the perceptions of national level social partnership in Ireland. It looks at the impact of the Irish social partnership process on the union-member relationship and the implications of the different views at workplace level of national partnership agreements

Das Buch thematisiert die neuen Anforderungen, denen die wechselseitige Interaktion von Wohlfahrtsverbandswesen, Sozialverwaltung und Sozialpolitik(-ern) ausgesetzt ist. Infolge gesellschaftlicher und politischer Veränderungen zeigt sich seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre ein Wandel innerhalb der...