scholarly journals Flexibilidad y sindicalismo

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cirila Quintero Ramírez
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Labor Flexibility ◽  
Northern Mexico ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Manufacture Industry ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Made In ◽  
The Way

Resumen:Este artículo analiza la relación entre sindicalismo y flexibilidad laboral. Particularmente, muestra algunas de las modificaciones que se han presentado en las instancias sindicales mexicanas a raíz de la introducción de esquemas flexibles en la industria manufacturera. El trabajo intenta ser un ejercicio metodológico sobre la forma en que distintos textos han abordado el impacto de la flexibilidad en los sindicatos y a partir de éstos extracta algunos de los aspectos que serían más relevantes para entender la vinculación entre flexibilidad y sindicalismo. El estudio se basa en algunos de los trabajos más clásicos sobre flexibilidad, relaciones laborales y sindicales en México.Palabras clave: Flexibilidad del trabajo, Sindicalismo, Industria manufacturera, Norte de México, Industria maquiladora.Abstract:The relationship between unionism and labor flexibility is analyzed in this article. In particular, some of the modifications made in Mexican unions, as a result of the introduction of flexible schemes in the manufacturing industry, are shown. This work attempts to be a methodological exercise in the way the impact of flexibility on unions has been approached in different texts, and, taking these texts as a starting point, to summarize the most important aspects in order to understand the connection between flexibility and unionism. This essay is based on some of the most notable works on flexibility and labor and union relations in Mexico.Key words: Labor flexibility, Unionism, Manufacture industry, Northern Mexico, Export-oriented industry.

Engels on women, the family, class and gender

2021 ◽  
pp. 194277862110000
Author(s):  
Sheila Margaret McGregor
Keyword(s):  
Historical Materialism ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
True Nature ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Women's Oppression ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
Socialist Movement ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

This article looks at Engels’s writings to show that his ideas about the role of labour in the evolution of human beings in a dialectical relationship between human beings and nature is a crucial starting point for understanding human society and is correct in its essentials. It is important for understanding that we developed as a species on the basis of social cooperation. The way human beings produce and reproduce themselves, the method of historical materialism, provides the basis for understanding how class and women’s oppression arose and how that can explain LGBTQ oppression. Although Engels’s analysis was once widely accepted by the socialist movement, it has mainly been ignored or opposed by academic researchers and others, including geographers, and more recently by Marxist feminists. However, anthropological research from the 1960s and 1970s as well as more recent anthropological and archaeological research provide overwhelming evidence for the validity of Engels’s argument that there were egalitarian, pre-class societies without women’s oppression. However, much remains to be explained about the transition to class societies. Engels’s analysis of the impact of industrial capitalism on gender roles shows how society shapes our behaviour. Engels’s method needs to be constantly reasserted against those who would argue that we are a competitive, aggressive species who require rules to suppress our true nature, and that social development is driven by ideas, not by changes in the way we produce and reproduce ourselves.

The Potential for Immersive Technology combined with Online Dating

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 125-135
Author(s):  
David Evans Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Online Dating ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Immersive Technology ◽  
Made In ◽  
Immersive Technologies ◽  
The Way

Whilst online dating has been around for several years; immersive technologies are relatively new to this type of interaction. The first forays into immersive VR online dating have only just being made in the past year. To what degree this type of technology will change the way that we date is potentially quite different from the current way that online dates are conducted. The way the technology works could make virtual dates seem as real as a physical date. Understanding how immersive technology functions gives some insights into the future of online dating and also the impact on the digital economy.

Talking About Greek Tragedy

Ramus ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
James McCaughey
Keyword(s):  
Greek Tragedy ◽  
Study Word ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Word Images ◽  
Made In ◽  
The Way

Greek plays were made in the theatre. We must watch our language when we talk about them, for we too are in the theatre. Most of us receive our critical training with works of art that are constructed and exist on the written page. We study word generating word, images interacting. And when we apply these techniques to plays we learn much; the way a playwright uses language, all the hidden things that make a play what it is. And some plays, an Ajax, or a Trojan Women, read so well that we are tempted to forget, or at least disregard that they were not in the first place made for reading. Not that the words are unimportant, but they point beyond themselves to realization in performance. They are as blueprints to a finished building.This does not mean that the critic must spend his time filling the gap between text and production. He will too soon find himself lost in speculation or tangled in archaeological problems. Rather, whatever we say of the words of a play must be conditioned by the fact that they are words for the theatre. A play cannot be something that it could not be on the stage. A sense of what it was in performance is at the same time the starting point and the final criterion of our criticism.

Studying China’s Rise

2021 ◽  
pp. 35-62
Author(s):  
Shaun Breslin
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
International Level ◽  
China’S Rise ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
China's Rise ◽  
Asking Questions ◽  
Research Agendas ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

The chapter suggests that different ways of studying China can not only generate different conclusions about the nature and consequences of China’s rise, but also the sort of evidence that is sought for and used to justify pre-existing presumptions. While the main focus in international relations scholarship is on the consequences of different theoretical preferences, the chapter points to the differences between domestic research agendas (asking questions about China) and more international level ones (asking questions about the impact of China|). The significance of the location and background of the researcher is also brought into the equation. In combination with the way that intentions are signalled by China’s leaders, the basic starting point of studies of China helps shape imaginations of China’s future, typically built around fundamental questions of trust (and the lack of it).

Reputation in Democracies

Reputation ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 241-254
Author(s):  
Gloria Origgi
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
Uncritical Acceptance ◽  
Or Organization ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Made In ◽  
The Way

This chapter contains an attempt to understand the implications of reputation for epistemic life and public decisions. It explains the way people think about themselves and their role as informed citizens must adapt to a certain transformation. People need to develop new tools to govern their actions and the circulation of their opinions. The chapter connects the theme of the movie “Birdman” with reputation, which implies that what people say about others and about everything that exists provides the only available window through which we people come to know themselves and recognize the world. Most political and institutional decisions today are made in an irresponsible manner because based on the uncritical acceptance of potentially spurious indicators announcing that the reputation of a certain person or organization, for instance, is merited, even when no one has bothered to examine how such a conclusion was reached. The chapter ends by examining the impact of specific reputational signals and their power of seduction.

scholarly journals The impact of Two-way FDI on the upgrading of global value chain of China’s manufacturing industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 251 ◽  
pp. 01077
Author(s):  
Qiannan Zhang ◽  
Yiyin Huang ◽  
Miraj Ahmed Bhuiyan
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Fixed Effect Model ◽  
Global Value Chain ◽  
Effect Model ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Leading Industry ◽  
The Impact

Manufacturing industry is the leading industry in China’s national economy. The participation of global value chain (GVC) in China’s manufacturing industry is very high, whereas its GVC status is very low. The inward foreign direct investment (IFDI) and outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) are the main ways for China’s manufacturing industry to integrate into the global value chain. Previous studies mainly focused on the upgrading of GVC in China’s manufacturing industry from the perspective of single IFDI or single OFDI. This paper takes the perspective of “Two-Way FDI” as the starting point. Using the panel data of China’s manufacturing sub-industries, this paper analyzes the mechanism of IFDI, OFDI and two-way FDI influencing GVC. The Fixed Effect Model is established to analyze the impact of IFDI, OFDI and two-way FDI on GVC upgrading of China’s manufacturing industry.

Pretesting Impact of Operational Complexity in Malaysia’s Electrical and Electronics Manufacturing Industry

2014 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nasuha Lee Abdullah ◽  
Khairur Rijal Jamaludin ◽  
Hayati Habibah Abdul Talib
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Common Method Bias ◽  
Data Collection Instrument ◽  
Method Bias ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Scale Data ◽  
Made In

Scientific research requires data collection instrument that is valid and reliable. This paper describes the framework and operationalization of the variables before outlining the process of developing the instrument to assess the impact of operational complexity (OC) on quality management (QM) practices and operational performance (OP) relationships in Malaysia’s Electrical and Electronics (E&E) manufacturing industry. It also highlights issues of common method bias, reliability and validity of the instrument, pretest method and response rate. The pretest result is then discussed. The paper concludes that personal interviews are especially effective in detecting ambiguity in the instrument. Pilot run provides insights to the challenges ahead such as low response rate, tedious data analysis procedures and enables informed decision to be made in preparation for full-scale data collection.

scholarly journals South Korea and Chinese Conflict over THAAD: How it started and the way it ended

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anggraining Tias
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Defense System ◽  
Missile Defense ◽  
Nuclear Development ◽  
Historical Comparative ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Made In ◽  
The Way

After North Korea’s fourth nuclear tested in January 2016, U.S. and South Korea has an official discussion started in early February 2016. The choice to deploy the anti-missile defense system THAAD was made in July 2016 and therefore the first launchers in May 2017. This launch was in line with the tenure of President Moon Jae In at that point. President Moon Jae In initially opposed THAAD but has now accelerated its deployment in response to North Korea’s nuclear test on September 3. Even before the official THAAD discussion started, Beijing expressed its opposition to the system. Although China is additionally against  North Korea’s nuclear development, THAAD is seen as an arrange to undermine China’s strategic interests within the region. And because of this, China giving a ‘punishment’ to South Korea.                This research aims to describe how the conflict between South Korea and Chinese can happen, the impact of the place THAAD in South Korea to the relations between two countries, and the way the conflict ended. This research uses neorealism as an approach. The methodology employing a qualitative method and collecting the data employing Historical-comparative research.

scholarly journals The Potential for Immersive Technology combined with Online Dating

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 125-135
Author(s):  
David Evans Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Online Dating ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Immersive Technology ◽  
Made In ◽  
Immersive Technologies ◽  
The Way

Whilst online dating has been around for several years; immersive technologies are relatively new to this type of interaction. The first forays into immersive VR online dating have only just being made in the past year. To what degree this type of technology will change the way that we date is potentially quite different from the current way that online dates are conducted. The way the technology works could make virtual dates seem as real as a physical date. Understanding how immersive technology functions gives some insights into the future of online dating and also the impact on the digital economy.

scholarly journals Marketing Implications of Framing in the Decision‑Making

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (5) ◽  
pp. 1267-1273
Author(s):  
Peter Gál
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Framing Effect ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Managerial Decision ◽  
Marketing Practice ◽  
Managerial Decision Making ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Framing is a psychological concept closely related with decision‑making. It says, that the way the information is served to the recipients, affects their opinion about a certain issue and, consequently, their decisions. Frame presents perception of the reality, since the limits of rationality often don’t allow people to capture the reality in its complexity. Framing is manifested in several ways. The first relates to the starting point from which the reality is perceived. This dimension causes that people perceive differently the description of decision options formulated in terms of gains (positive frame) or losses (negative frame). The second dimension relates to the size or the width of the frame, i.e. whether the reality is seen from a wider or a narrower perspective. The aim of this study was to examine the impact of framing on the decision‑making. The framing effect was studied by the analysis of answers to three problems, which were part of a broader questionnaire survey. The questionnaire was inspired or compiled from similar researches. The sample was 176 graduate university students (41 % men) of management major. The basic descriptive statistics and independent samples t‑test were used for it. The results proved that the way the problem was framed to the respondents determined the outcomes of their decision‑making. The implications both for the overall managerial decision‑making and more specifically for the marketing practice are presented as well.

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