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Educational reception in Rotterdam and Barcelona: policies, practices and gaps
The reception of newcomer youngsters by schools constitutes a policy issue in Europe already for decades. This book deals with how practitioners in Rotterdam and Barcelona apply existing policies for the reception of immigrant students, the dilemmas they face and the strategies they design as a response. Using a combination of discursive, organizational, and ethnographic research techniques, th…
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- 9789089646446
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- 312p. : ill.
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- 371.909492385 BRU e
The digital transformation of labor : automation, the gig economy and welfare
Through a series of studies, the overarching aim of this book is to investigate if and how the digitalization/digital transformation process causes (or may cause) the autonomy of various labor functions, and its impact in creating (or stymieing) various job opportunities on the labor market. This book also seeks to illuminate what actors/groups are mostly benefited by the digitalization/digital…
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- 9780429317866
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- xxi, 349p. : ill.
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- 331.11 DIG d
Working in China : ethnographies of labor and workplace transformation
After a quarter of a century of market reform, China has become the workshop of the world and the leading growth engine of the global economy. Its immense labour force accounts for some twenty-nine per cent of the world's total labour pool but all too little is known about Chinese labour beyond the image of workers toiling under appalling sweatshop conditions for extremely low wages. Working in…
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- 9780203966983
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- xiii, 251p. : ill
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- 331.10951 WOR w
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