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Circular Migration and the Rights of Migrant Workers in Central and Eastern E…
By adopting a rights-based approach, this open access book sheds light on the different legal and policy instruments that have been adopted to implement circular migration policies in the EU and their consequences for the rights of migrant workers. It contributes to the understanding of the meaning of this concept in general, in the EU, as well as more specifically with regard to its Eastern ne…
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- 10
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- 9783030526894
- Collation
- xi; 261p;
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- 325.24 CIR Z
Making sense of work through collaborative storytelling
Collective sense making starts with individual stories. Stories influence how we construct our sense of self in relation to others and our social environment, especially within the world of work The stories we tell ourselves at work, particularly during times of change, impact our relationships and the collaboration with those who are engaged in the same work activities. Stories that we take…
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- -
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- 9783030894467
- Collation
- 119p.
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- -
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- 658.02 SIL m
Universities and regional engagement : from the exceptional to the everyday
The study of universities’ role in regional engagement has traditionally been focusing on exceptional cases. This book presents a reconceptualision which embraces its underlying complexity, and proposes a roadmap for a renewed research agenda. Starting from the grassroots level of universities’ "everyday" engagements, the book delves into the manifold ways in which university knowledge agen…
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- -
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- 9781003150299
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- xiv, 246 p. : ill.
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- -
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- 378.103 IAK u
Bondage : labor and rights in eurasia from the sixteenth to the early twentie…
For the first time, this book provides the global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe, and the Indian Ocean between the 16th and 20th centuries. It contests common views on free and unfree labor, comparing the latter to many Western countries where wage conditions resembled those of domestic servants. This gave rise to extreme forms of dependency in the colonies, not only under …
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- -
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- 9781785336607
- Collation
- ix. ;270 p.
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- 331.0950903 ALES b
Outh-north migration of eu citizens in times of crisis
The global fi nancial and economic crisis has been hitting the European Union severely since 2008. Although the economic crisis began in advanced economies and then spread all over the globe, its impact and implications are far from being equally distributed geographically. This is particularly visible within the European Union. While some countries, mainly in the North,…
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- -
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- 9783319397634
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- 224 p.
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- -
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- 304.8. MIKO o
The International Turn in American Studies
The volume is a contribution to the ongoing debate on the internationalization of American Studies. The essays by European, American and Latin American scholars provide critical evaluations of a wide range of concepts, including trans-national and post-national, international, trans-atlantic, trans-pacific, as well as hemispheric, inter-American and comparative American studies. Combining theor…
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- -
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- 9783653036572
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- 372 p. : ill
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- 973.071 MES t
Labour and value : rethinking Marx's theory of exploitation
In this book Ernesto Screpanti provides a rigorous examination of Marx’s theory of exploitation, one of the cornerstones of Marxist thought. With precision and clarity, he identifies the holes in traditional readings of Marx’s theory before advancing his own original interpretation, drawing on contemporary philosophy and economic theory to provide a refreshingly interdisciplinary exegesis. …
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- -
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- 9781783747818
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- 144 p. : ill.
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- -
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- 179.8 SCR l
Grand design dan panduan program laboratorium sosial LIPI: berbagi pengalaman
Para peneliti sosial di lingkungan LIPI telah menghasilkan banyak rekomendasi dan refleksi teoritis sebagai solusi untuk mengatasi berbagai persoalan bangsa. Namun, sebagian besar rekomendasi, konsep, proposisi, model dan teori yang dihasilkan belum sampai pada tahap diakui secara luas (well proven) oleh akademisi dan para pemangku kepentingan lainnya. Kelemahan tersebut menjadi latar belakang…
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- -
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- 9789797999674
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- xii, 70 p .; ill, ; 21 cm
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- -
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- 300 SOE g
Robotics, AI, and humanity : science, ethics, and policy
This open access book examines recent advances in how artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics have elicited widespread debate over their benefits and drawbacks for humanity. The emergent technologies have for instance implications within medicine and health care, employment, transport, manufacturing, agriculture, and armed conflict. While there has been considerable attention devoted to robot…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030541736
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- x, 269p. : ill.
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- -
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- 174.9629892 ROB r
Textbook of patient safety and clinical risk management
Implementing safety practices in healthcare saves lives and improves the quality of care: it is therefore vital to apply good clinical practices, such as the WHO surgical checklist, to adopt the most appropriate measures for the prevention of assistance-related risks, and to identify the potential ones using tools such as reporting & learning systems. The culture of safety in the care enviro…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030594039
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- xiii, 496p. : ill.
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- -
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- 616 TEX t
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