scholarly journals Repertoires of Resistance: The Handloom Weavers of South India, c.1800–1960

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 423-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karuna Dietrich Wielenga
Keyword(s):  
South India ◽  
Regulatory Regime ◽  
Collective Consciousness ◽  
Factory Workers ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
Internal Structures ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Changing Role

AbstractThe article describes and analyses contrasting forms of protest employed by handloom weavers in South India at two key points in time – the early nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. Following Tilly, it examines how changes in the state’s regulatory regime influenced modes of resistance, but extends this analysis to the influence of production structures and social/cultural factors such as caste. It also maps internal structures of solidarity and the changing role of caste and class in shaping them. It tries to show how repertoires of resistance altered with changes, not just in the regulatory regime, but the broader socio-economic context, and foregrounds their adaptability and dynamism. It explores forms of protest and organization shared by weavers with workers from a wide range of occupations (including factory workers). Above all, it questions the notion of the unchanging character of “primordial” identities while seeking to provide a fuller understanding of the emerging dynamic of collective consciousness amongst non-factory workers in modern India.

1. Tort: law and system

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Carol Brennan ◽  
Vera Bermingham
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Tort Law ◽  
Legal Knowledge ◽  
Related Area ◽  
System P ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Law

Without assuming prior legal knowledge, books in the Directions series introduce and guide readers through key points of law and legal debate. Questions, diagrams, and exercises help readers to engage fully with each subject and check their understanding as they progress. In civil law, tort provides remedy for a party who has suffered the breach of a protected interest. Tort law protects a wide range of interests. Currently, negligence is the greatest source of litigation with respect to tort. Torts of trespass to the person protect physical safety while trespass to property governs the ownership of property. The tort of defamation provides remedies for threats to one’s reputation. Another tort-related area deals with the protection of privacy from media intrusion. This chapter discusses the range of activity to which tort law applies and the types of harm for which it provides compensation. It also considers the main interests protected by the law of tort, how the law of tort differs from other branches of the law, and the role of policy and the human rights dimension in the law of tort.

The changing role of the salesperson: how should salespeople act today?

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 8-11
Author(s):  
Sandra Castro-González ◽  
Belén Bande
Keyword(s):  
Sales Force ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Business Context ◽  
Organizational Role ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight the nature and the organizational role of salespeople and, in particular, underscore the change in salespeople’s management in the current business context. Design/methodology/approach The paper briefly explains the role of salespeople in an organization and how salespeople are gaining prominence in customer management. From this point of view, the paper suggests steps to achieve the sale. Findings It is evident that salespeople must change the way they achieve sales goals within the organization. Currently, they need to adopt a more customer-centric approach, and the paper suggests how to do this. Practical implications The paper aims to provide key points for understanding and managing the sales force within the organization. Findings are relevant for those who must manage these workers or those who simply want to know more about the characteristics of the sales force. Originality/value The paper highlights the importance of salespeople in organizations and describes how they should be managed. In addition, in some ways, the paper helps improve readers’ perception of the sales position.

scholarly journals Sports Participation For Hong Kong Women And Hong Kong Initiatives

1995 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-30
Author(s):  
Mee Lee LEUNG
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Sports Participation ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Value System ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Child Bearing ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Changing Role

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in English; abstract also in Chinese.Historically, sports was globally understood within the context of a masculine value system both in the Eastern and Western Societies. The 'Ying' and the 'Yang' stand for female and male in the Chinese culture implied that the female are more fragile and submissive where as the male being more aggressive and stronger. With 90% of the population in Hong Kong being Chinese, the cultural belief in a Chinese society that "Women's place should be in the home" has confined women to attend household chores and child bearing activities. In early 20th century, with the changing role of women in China and especially in Hong Kong, women are more active that they were a decade ago. Women are equal nowadays in a wide range of activities because they are better educated, play a more committed role and live a more active life. Thus, their participation in sports has increased in the past decade both in recreation and in competition. This paper attempts to report on Hong Kong women's participation in major games and also to recommend strategies which can further enhance women's place in sports.歷史上，無論東西方社會，運動廣泛地被視為屬於雄性的項目。正如中國以陰陽來代表女男一樣，女性被認為較順從和脆弱的，而男性則較強壯和具攻擊性。在九成人口都是中國人的香港社會中，「女性應該留在家裡」的觀念曾規限著女性須要處理家務和照顧孩子的責任。踏入20世紀，女性對社會事務的參與也開始積極起來。時至今日，香港的女性在多方面都能跟男性般獲得平等對待。她們不單止得到較佳的敎育機會， 在社會的角色也越來越重要。因此，無論在運動比賽及健體活動上，女性的參與比十年前的大為提高。究竟香港女性過去在主要運動競賽上的參與情況和未來女性在運動發展上方針應該如何?這都是本文探討的綱領。

scholarly journals The New Dad: The Career-Caregiving Conundrum

2021 ◽  
pp. 197-212
Author(s):  
Brad Harrington
Keyword(s):  
White Collar ◽  
Boston College ◽  
Paternity Leave ◽  
Family Issues ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Transition To Fatherhood ◽  
College Educated

AbstractThis chapter draws mainly from “The New Dad” studies, a decade long research series done by the Boston College Center for Work & Family which studied the changing role of primarily college-educated, white-collar fathers working in large US-based corporate settings. The series explored the experiences of these fathers on a wide range of issues including their transition to fatherhood, work roles, definitions of success, attitudes on paternity leave and caregiving, and work-family issues.

The Transformation of Sherwood Forest in the Twentieth Century: The Role of Private Estate Forestry

Rural History ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
DUNCAN KOTTLER ◽  
CHARLES WATKINS ◽  
CHRIS LAVERS
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Private Land ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Land Owners ◽  
Forestry Commission ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Changing Role

Despite the demise of many landed estates in the twentieth century, the creation of the Forestry Commission and consequent massive afforestation, over two-thirds of British woodland remained in the hands of private land owners at the end of the century. Little research has been carried out into the changing role of landed estates in forming and maintaining woodland landscapes in this period. This paper examines forestry on the Thoresby estate, Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire using a wide range of sources. It demonstrates the dynamic nature of this landscape during the twentieth century. Rather than being a slowly changing woodland landscape, it has been transformed through interventions by land agents and landowners in response to changing social, economic and government policy pressures.

Planning and Knowledge

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Conflict And Cooperation ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
And Control ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Empirical Material

This book uses an international perspective and draws on a wide range of new conceptual and empirical material to examine the sources of conflict and cooperation within the different landscapes of knowledge that are driving contemporary urban change. Based on the premise that historically established systems of regulation and control are being subject to unprecedented pressures, the book critically reflects on the changing role of planning and governance in sustainable urban development, looking at how a shift in power relations between expert and local cultures in western planning processes has blurred the traditional boundaries between public, private, and voluntary sectors.

scholarly journals The extraordinary and changing role of women in Dutch language history

2020 ◽  
pp. 219-244
Author(s):  
Marijke van der Wal ◽  
Jan Noordegraaf
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Language History ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Dutch Language ◽  
Leading Question ◽  
Changing Role

Since the second half of the sixteenth century, there has been a tradition of publishing grammars, dictionaries, and linguistic treatises, composed by male authors of various professions. Although women do not seem to have played a visible role in language codification and language studies in the Netherlands, at least two extraordinary femmes savantes stand out. The first of these from the seventeenth century was Anna Maria van Schurman, a highly admired scholar and polyglot who maintained an international network of correspondence and was familiar with a wide range of languages. Her eighteenth-century counterpart, Johanna Corleva, was interested in rational grammar, translated the Grammaire générale et raisonnée (1660) into Dutch, and compiled a Dutch dictionary according to particular explicit principles. Attention will also be paid to female activities in education, from elementary schools to academia. Throughout this chapter, the leading question will be why, despite the activities described, Dutch ‘linguistics’ was such a predominantly male enterprise for more than three centuries.

1. Tort:

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera Bermingham ◽  
Carol Brennan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Tort Law ◽  
Legal Knowledge ◽  
Related Area ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Law

Without assuming prior legal knowledge, books in the Directions series introduce and guide readers through key points of law and legal debate. Questions, diagrams, and exercises help readers to engage fully with each subject and check their understanding as they progress. In civil law, tort provides remedy for a party who has suffered the breach of a protected interest. Tort law protects a wide range of interests. Currently, negligence is the greatest source of litigation with respect to tort. Torts of trespass to the person protect physical safety while trespass to property governs the ownership of property. The tort of defamation provides remedies for threats to one’s reputation. Another tort-related area deals with the protection of privacy from media intrusion. This chapter discusses the range of activity to which tort law applies and the types of harm for which it provides compensation. It also considers the main interests protected by the law of tort, how the law of tort differs from other branches of the law, and the role of policy and the human rights dimension in the law of tort.

Policy Paradigm Shift and the Changing Role of the State: The Development of Social Policy in China since 2003

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
King-Lun Ngok ◽  
Genghua Huang
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
The State ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
Policy Paradigm ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Changing Role

Since 2003 the rapid development of China's social policy has aroused much academic interest. This research places the development of social policy in China's political and economic context, focusing on the changing role of the state in making and implementing social policy. Based on the policy paradigm theory, this article builds up a framework to analyse the shift of social policy paradigms in post-Mao China, examining the changing role of the Chinese state in social welfare and social development. It argues that China's latest round of social policy expansion was driven by the social problems accumulated during the economic reforms, with change triggered by the SARS crisis, and its shape finally determined by the central political leadership led by Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao in a top-down manner.

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