Progressive Law, Activism, and Lawyering in an Age of Preemption

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 252-267
Author(s):  
Rashmi Dyal-Chand
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Global Supply Chain ◽  
Environmental Movements ◽  
Improve Working ◽  
Detailed History ◽  
History Of ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Core Questions

Preemption is one of the most important legal doctrines for today’s progressives to understand because of its power to constrain progressive policymaking and social movement lawyering at the state and local level. By examining the detailed history of a decades-long campaign by the labor and environmental movements to improve working conditions in an industry at the heart of the global supply chain, Scott L. Cummings’s Blue and Green: The Drive for Justice at America’s Port (2018) provides a case study about the doctrine and impacts of preemption. The study also inspires lawyers and activists alike to reexamine core questions of factual relevance, representation and voice, and precedent.

Public Services Through Multi-Channel Issues and Challenges

2018 ◽  
pp. 273-300
Author(s):  
Velamala Ranga Rao
Keyword(s):  
Public Services ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Single View ◽  
The Public ◽  
Channel Integration ◽  
Services Delivery ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Stage 4 ◽  
State And Local

The objective of this chapter is 1) to understand multi-channel architecture, integration, and management; 2) to develop a framework for citizen relationship and grievance management system for a single view; 3) as a case study, to propose framework applied to find what types of channels are providing to the citizens get access to the public services at National, State, and Local level in India; 4) as a case study, to find out challenges and issues with implementation of multi-channel services delivery. The key findings of the case study are: 1) There is no declining in providing traditional channels after introducing modern channels. 2) The departments are offering mixed channels. 3) Usage of mobile-based applications, social media, and wi-fi are in pilot basis or at initial stage. 4) Multi-channel integration and management is not yet initiated. 5) Electricity and network coverage are main issues in implementation of modern channels. However, such initiatives have some issues and challenges to the developing countries like India.

Exportation of Manpower: A Case Study of Chinese Seasonal Laborers in an Agricultural District in Hokkaido

2020 ◽  
Vol 03 (02) ◽  
pp. 2050005
Author(s):  
Yoshihisa Godo ◽  
Tai Wei Lim
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Capita Income ◽  
National Average ◽  
Reciprocal Relationship ◽  
Agricultural Industry ◽  
Agricultural Laborers ◽  
History Of ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Wage Increases

Chiebun District in Hokkaido, one of Japan’s largest vegetable- producing districts, has a long history of accepting agricultural laborers from China. Previously, farms in Chiebun District recruited seasonal laborers from the northeastern part of China, where per-capita income is much lower than China’s national average. At that time, the main reason Chinese laborers came to work in Chiebun District was to earn money. However, because of wage increases in China, it became difficult for Chiebun District farms to recruit these seasonal laborers. Around the same time, consumers’ demands for new types of vegetables were increasing in other regions such as Hebei, Henan, and Shandon Provinces, creating the need to train the farmers in these areas. Farms in Chiebun District provide comfortable living and working conditions for Chinese laborers. In return, the Chinese laborers, as indispensable manpower, contribute to the prosperity of the local agricultural industry in Chiebun District. As such, Chiebun District presents a model of a reciprocal relationship between Japanese farms and Chinese seasonal laborers.

Citizen Relationship and Grievance Management System (CiR&GMS) through Multi-Channel Access for e-Government Services

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-67
Author(s):  
Velamala Ranga Rao
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Management System ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Single View ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Public ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
State And Local

Citizens are demanding greater access to interaction with government through their preferred channels or devices. The private sector uses different channels for their services, citizens except same level of services from the public sector. Therefore public sector needs to focus on creating multiple delivery channels (Traditional such as face to face, Telephone and Modern channels such as Website, E-mail, SMS), so that citizens can have ‘channels of choice', depending on specific needs, demands and preferences in order to increase citizens' participation and satisfaction. For this reason, the paper's purpose is 1) To understand multi-channel architecture, Integration, Management and its Strengths & Weakness 2) To develop a frame work for Citizen Relationship and Grievance Management System (CiR&GMS) for a single view 3) By applying proposed framework, To identify what types of channels are providing to access public services at National, State and Local level governments in India as a case study 4) To find out challenges and issues in implementation of multi-channel service delivery. The key findings of the case study are: a) There is no declining in providing traditional channels after introducing modern channels b) Many departments are offering mixed channels c) Usage of Mobile/SMS, Social media and Wi-Fi hotspots based channels are in initial stage d) t-Government channel is not yet initiated in any department e) Multi-channel integration and management is not yet initiated by many departments, these departments are managed channels as separate silos. The proposed framework may provide some guidance to the decision and policy makers in the public sector. However, such initiatives have many challenges to the developing countries like India.

Studying Racial Violence in America

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward González-Tennant
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Population Density ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
Detailed History ◽  
Multidisciplinary Study ◽  
Rural Settings ◽  
Single Moment ◽  
History Of ◽  
Geospatial Mapping

The primary goal of The Rosewood Massacre is to shed a light on the deep temporal connections between past racial violence and modern social inequality. González-Tennant’s approach involves a multidisciplinary study of racial violence and a new investigation of the destruction of Rosewood, Florida. This is not a study of a single moment or even the destruction of a single community, which was not truly destroyed, but rather displaced. Instead, it is a search for answers to the question of how culture, society, and violence intersect across time and space. González-Tennant’s study of Rosewood draws on additional datasets to construct an interpretive framework that begins with a case study—a microhistorical study—and builds toward a theory offering a fuller explanation of how ordinary citizens turned on their neighbors in terrifying ways. While previous studies of Rosewood accurately record approximate numbers of African Americans living in the area prior to the riot and present a broad review of the town’s development, they do not construct a detailed history of the town’s development through time. Collecting such information is difficult in rural settings. No maps or city directories exist for Rosewood due to its relatively remote location and low population density. We require new methods to explore the development of such rural contexts. In Rosewood, the use of geospatial mapping to analyze and interpret hundreds of property deeds demonstrates the development of a particular pattern of African American homeownership, and the role it played in contributing to the town’s destruction.

Introduction and History of Veteran Homelessness

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Jack Tsai
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
The Other ◽  
Public Health Importance ◽  
Detailed History ◽  
Homeless Veterans ◽  
History Of ◽  
Comprehensive Text ◽  
Us Veterans

Homelessness among US Veterans is a problem that has existed for more than five decades, and the health and social well-being of our Veterans are of major public concern. This introductory chapter sets the tone for the book and describes what Veteran homelessness is, how it is defined, and key historical events in the conceptualization and approach to Veteran homelessness. The chapter begins with a case study of a homeless Veteran, followed by a brief discussion of how homelessness is defined and why homeless Veterans are a population of public health importance. The author provides a selective detailed history of Veteran homelessness starting in the 1800s and the Civil War to the present day with ongoing conflicts in the Middle East. The chapter concludes with a brief overview of the other 10 chapters in this book and the work of leading thinkers in the field that together provide a comprehensive text on the programs, services, and research related to the care of homeless US Veterans.

Blue and Green

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott L. Cummings
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Global Supply Chain ◽  
Truck Drivers ◽  
Long Beach ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Environmental Groups ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

This book is about the struggle over the future of work and the environment on the edge of the global economy. It traces the history of conflict in an industry that is not widely known, but sits at the epicentre for the global supply chain: short-haul trucking responsible for moving the mass of imports from enormous cargo ships to warehouses and retailers around the country. The book’s specific focus is on the largest and most important campaign at the nation’s largest and most important port complex, which straddles the border of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California. Over nearly two decades, labor and environmental groups—bound together in a pivotal “blue-green” alliance—carried forward a monumental campaign to transform working conditions for drivers and environmental conditions for communities. At bottom, the book tells a story of the unceasing resolve of courageous people seeking to make lives better for some of the most marginalized members of society: immigrant truck drivers barely scrapping by as they deliver goods to be sold by some of the richest and most powerful companies in the world; residents of neighbourhoods whose poverty consigns them to inhale the noxious residue of global trade. How law serves as a tool in their struggle is the book’s central question.

Rethinking TV History

1997 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 501-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Gomery
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Country Music ◽  
Early History ◽  
History Of ◽  
National Networks ◽  
A Site ◽  
Social Demographic ◽  
Demographic Policy

The writing of the early history of U.S. television has long concentrated on the rise of dominating national networks. Based on principles of social, demographic, policy, and urban history, I propose we rethink historical analysis, and begin at the local level. To illustrate the power of this approach, I offer a case study of the place of Washington, D.C., as a site for network news. In the mid-1950s, it was also an important example of live locally produced country music. As a community, Washington presents an important site where forces such as migration and suburbanization shaped the early history of television.

Environment, Process and Policy: A Reconsideration

1969 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 1172-1182 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
State And Local

In recent years a growing body of research has used multivariate statistical techniques to examine the relationship between aggregate environmental characteristics and the public policies of state and local governments. This research has been concerned primarily with isolating or demonstrating the social, economic, and political correlates of either public policies (e.g., expenditures, revenues and referenda issues) or governmental structures (viz., form of government, size of election districts and type of ballot).One advantage of the aggregate approach, beyond the relative accessibility of data, is that it permits a systematic, comparative study of states or cities. On the local level this comparative approach provides a convenient supplement to the earlier case study approach which was concerned with the political processes and issues of particular cities.A number of hypotheses have been suggested by studies employing either the case study or aggregate approaches. In those observations dealing with government structure, attention is usually directed to the council-manager plan as an example of progressive government. That is, city governments which are reform-oriented are likely to be found in more affluent, better educated, homogeneous, middle-class cities. The notion is that the middle class prefers a more efficient, professional city administration. Conversely, the mayor-council plan is usually associated with older, machine-type politics which allegedly reflects the preferences of the less affluent, less-educated, working class and ethnic minorities who are most concerned about political representation.

scholarly journals Mixed Connective Tissue Disease- A Rare and Distinct Rheumatological Case Study

KYAMC Journal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-63
Author(s):  
Kazi Shihab Uddin ◽  
Muhammad Alamgir Mandal ◽  
Md Zulfikar Ali
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus ◽  
Systemic Sclerosis ◽  
Connective Tissue ◽  
Lupus Erythematosus ◽  
Systemic Lupus ◽  
Detailed History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Skin Conditions ◽  
Bluish Discoloration

In this article we present this 35 year old lady with history of fever, multiple joints pain with swelling and skin conditions such as tightening, glistening and bluish discoloration while exposure to cold. After taking detailed history and clinical examinations, she was found to have features consistent with multiple rheumatological conditions such as systemic lupus erythematosus and systemic sclerosis. With directed and specific investigation she was diagnosed to have Mixed Connective Tissue disorder.KYAMC Journal Vol. 8, No.-1, Jul 2017, Page 61-63

scholarly journals Political Leadership in Policy Implementation: Case Study of Rural Transport Accessibility in Kuala Krai, Kelantan, Malaysia

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Maria Mohd Ismail ◽  
Raja Noriza Raja Ariffin
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Transport Accessibility ◽  
State And Local ◽  
The Government

Politics plays a major role in every aspect of the government development plan. Kelantan is an interesting case in understanding the different political leadership involved in the implementation process. This study reports how politics influenced the development of rural transport accessibility in Kuala Krai, Kelantan. In-depth interviews were conducted among 33 respondents; 13 policymakers from the federal, state and local level and 20 villagers covering all the three sub-districts in Kuala Krai, Kelantan, Malaysia. The findings were presented based on the emerging themes emerged from the analysis. The findings confirmed that politics is the primary mover in formulating and implementing any transport accessibility plan in the study area. The findings also provided ultimate insights for policymakers at multiple decision-making level involved in formulating and implementing for an accessible rural transport system for the rural communities.

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