scholarly journals Workplace Restructuring and its Discontents

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 123-141
Author(s):  
Warwick Tie
Keyword(s):  
Political Factor ◽  
Workplace Restructuring

This article analyses the role of fetish—unspoken attachments—within and against the 2020 proposal to restructure the College of Sciences at Massey University.I look at the roles played by three forms of fetish: the commodity fetish, the fetishisation of intellectual labour, and the fetish of knowledge-without-consequences. I analyse the restructuring and its opposition by mapping these fetishes and the deadlocks to which they lead. In addition to highlighting insights that the concept of fetish generates into the politics of the restructuring, I speculate on the role of fetish as a political factor in the contemporary moment.

scholarly journals National Character in the Context of Modern Societies

Monitor ISH ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-29
Author(s):  
Ines Markovčič
Keyword(s):  
National Identities ◽  
National Character ◽  
Political Factor ◽  
Cultural Patterns ◽  
National Symbols ◽  
Political Perspective ◽  
National Characteristics ◽  
National Values ◽  
Political Interests

Discussions of the realisation and transformation of national characteristics and the emergence of new national identities in contemporary modern societies are not to be reduced solely to the effects of globalisation, contemporary capitalism and market economy. What needs to be foregrounded and confronted is the ideological and political factor. Scientific studies primarily examine the national character in the context of culture and personality, focusing on the isomorphism of personality traits and cultural patterns, which are often assessed according to political interests and national values. As such, they help to shape the collective movement of each nation, displaying the interdependence between the nation and its national sentiments. What is essential to contemporary modern societies is the national state in a political sense. As a result, the national character is now more than ever assessed on purely pragmatic foundations, such as the role of politics, national values, and forms of nationalism. These forms dictate the national symbols, myths, and national sentiments about a common origin, which are fundamental to the existence and revitalisation of people within a particular nation, a nation with a common national identity. What is crucial, the national rituals and sentiments are supposed to create a feeling of unity. The awareness of the unity and the sense of the shared mission of a particular nation, especially in terms of its cultural and political homogeneity and its common past, form the basis of a political perspective in examining its national character. The role and study of the national character were intensified in the wake of national revolutions, world wars, and similar crises, especially in the context of promoting forms of nationalism: the uncertain circumstances led to new explanations of the nation’s realities on the basis of common-sense conceptions, which generated distinct ideological polarisations between ‘us’ and ‘them’.

scholarly journals «We» and «Others» - Their Actions and Our Reactions

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-145
Author(s):  
Larisa Nikolaevna Fedotova
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Information Policy ◽  
Political Factor ◽  
Special Position ◽  
Information Channels ◽  
Role Of Information

The article discusses the nature of our relationship to other countries, it considers the role of information channels, particularly television, in forming this relation. Mass media by selecting the facts creates value picture. TV occupies the special position, being the most heavily consumed by Russians. Information policy becomes a socio-political factor, which depends on certain structures, certain personalities as immediate actors taking place.

scholarly journals The Form of State and Development Policy: Case of Selected Asian Countries

1989 ◽  
Vol 4 (0) ◽  
pp. 105-128
Author(s):  
Kwang-Woong Kim
Keyword(s):  
Development Policy ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
National Development ◽  
Political Factor ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Class Politics ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Exact Role ◽  
Role Of Government

Since World WarⅡ, many social scientists in the West have proposed numerous theories to examine various issues of national development(Adelman and Morris, 1973; Amsden, 1984; Evans, Rueschemeyer and Skocpol, 1984; Higgott and Robinson, 1985; Zysman, 1983). These theories differ a great deal over the exact role which political factor plays in the process of economic development and industrialization. Pluralist theories, for example, argue that government plays no major role. These theorists assume that society as a whole is organized by interdependent institutional elements, and politics by competitive interest groups which vie for each other for maximizing their own interests. According to them, the polity and the economy are relatively autonomous so that the role of government is not significant in economic change. However, since they are interdependent in nature, certain associations are expected. On the other hand, the statists, particularly those with marxist perspectives, view that politics is essentially a matter of class politics where a hegemonic class rules over the state which in turn facilitates economic change to the benefit of the hegemonic class.

On the Relationship between Social Science, Participation Processes and Changes in Industrial Work in Germany

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-268
Author(s):  
Gerhard Leminsky
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Action Program ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Practical Development ◽  
Humanization Of Work ◽  
Workplace Restructuring ◽  
The Relationship

The following contribution to this debate should be understood as originating from the viewpoint of a scientist associated with the trade unions, who from the beginning of the 1970's was closely involved in both the conceptual and the practical development of the themes which can best be jointly described as the Humanization of Work (in German "Humanisierung der Arbeit", or HdA). The German Federal Government's action program of the same name, dating from 1974, and a series of related publications (published by Campus) have provided unique insights into the complexity of workplace restructuring schemes which are still forthcoming. In my discussion I will concentrate on the problems of the achievement of new goals, using the example of humanization and work structuring, and the challenges associated therewith for trade unions, companies and social sciences, but I shall only be able to touch peripherally on the role of the state.

scholarly journals Creating and Sustaining Local Union Capabilities The Role of the National Union

2002 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann C. Frost
Keyword(s):  
Communication Channels ◽  
National Union ◽  
Workplace Issues ◽  
Local Union ◽  
Union Representation ◽  
Automotive Steel ◽  
Workplace Restructuring ◽  
And Training

SummaryDrawing on case study evidence from the automotive, steel, and glass making industries, this article examines the role played by the national union in shaping local unions’ abilities to develop and sustain the capabilities critical to managing on-going workplace restructuring. The author presents evidence suggesting the importance of five national union characteristics. These characteristics are the breadth of the national union’s representational coverage; the extent of its education and training focus on new workplace issues; the resources it devotes to research on the implications of new workplace practices; the presence of multiple communication channels; and its structuring of local union representation.

scholarly journals The Genesis of Advertising Communication in the Republic of Belarus: The Ontological Status

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Solodovnikova
Keyword(s):  
Technological Factor ◽  
High Sensitivity ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Factor ◽  
Sovereign State ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Advertising Communication

The paper presents the research based on the Belarus’s archival materials to trace the genesis of advertising communication starting from the 10th century to present-day Republic of Belarus. The work reveals that the formation and development of advertising communication evolved on the basis of European-wide traditions, but had a number of specific peculiarities. If the technological factor prevails to the forms of advertising communication and ways to reach the target audience, the social political factor has predetermined the content and role of advertising in modern Belarusian society: in the absence of a sovereign state and profound territorial fragmentation, advertising activities in Belarus appeared as a result of the manufacturers’ needs to promote their goods and services. The specifics of advertising communication in the Republic of Belarus are manifested in the slower rate of development progress in comparison to the European level and in the high sensitivity to the political context.

scholarly journals Organization of the territorial protection of the population of Koeleria Delavignei in the Kablukovsky rural settlement of the Kalinisky municipal district of Tver region.

2021 ◽  
pp. 156-174
Author(s):  
Ольга Борисовна Бахтилова ◽  
Анна Алексеевна Рыбакова
Keyword(s):  
Rural Settlement ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Political Factor ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Municipal District ◽  
Data Book ◽  
Tver Region ◽  
The Village ◽  
Socio Economic Factors

В данной статье приводится описание опыта организации территориальной охраны популяции вида растений, занесенного в Красную книгу Тверской области, - Келерии Делявиня, произрастающей на территории деревни Видогощи в Каблуковском сельском поселении Калининского муниципального района Тверской области. Организация территориальной охраны популяции определяется видовыми экологическими и биологическими особенностями и ограничивается социально-экономическими факторами муниципальной территории. Отдельно выделена роль социально-политического фактора, как стимулятора организации юридических запретов на хозяйственную деятельность на территории. Here we describe the experience of organizing the territorial protection of the population the Red Data Book of the Tver Region plant species, Koeleria delavignei, growing on the territory of the village of Vidogoschi in the Kablukovsky rural settlement of the Kalininsky municipal district of the Tver Region. The organization of territorial protection of the population is determined by the specific ecological and biological characteristics and is limited by the socio-economic factors of the municipal territory. Separately, we treat the role of the socio-political factor as a stimulator of the organization of legal bans on economic activities in the territory.

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