scholarly journals Service Work in the Pandemic Economy

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Aaron Benanav
Keyword(s):  
Service Sector ◽  
Service Work ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
The Past ◽  
Rapid Spread ◽  
Economic Stagnation ◽  
The Future ◽  
Working People ◽  
Economic Trends ◽  
Open Question

The rapid spread of COVID-19 interacted with long-unfolding economic trends to set a global tinder box aflame. Over the past thirty years, the world's workforce has increasingly found employment in low-wage, low-productivity jobs in the global services sector. The pandemic lockdowns hit these sorts of activities the hardest. Opportunities to work evaporated, spreading both poverty and hunger around the world. The same rise in global service sector employment shares, which amplified the pandemic lockdown's destructive effects, will now slow the pace of the recovery. The transition to a services-based economy has accelerated, due to what José Antonio Ocampo and Tomasso Faccio call “too much excess capacity and too little certainty about future demand,” which have depressed levels of investment and ushered in a period of economic stagnation. COVID-19 will make these tendencies worse. Weak economic recoveries will further entrench an economic order in which employers pay little attention to workers’ demands, deepening employment insecurity and economic inequality. The future for labor looks bleak. What that means for the future of working people remains an open question. Their fight for dignity, in the midst of the pandemic and post-pandemic eras, will prove decisive.

scholarly journals The essence and structure of creative abilities demonstrated by the future qualified workers in the sphere of services

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (2 (127)) ◽  
pp. 94-99
Author(s):  
Alona Kushnirenko
Keyword(s):  
Professional Education ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Interactive Technologies ◽  
Component Structure ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
The Future ◽  
Creative Abilities ◽  
Qualified Worker

The main task of professional education today is not to master a set of knowledge, but to develop the creative thinking of future qualified workers, their skills and abilities in performing independent search, analysis and evaluation of information. Self-actualization, self-affirmation and realization of creative abilities are also of great importance. Developing creative abilities is a way to motivate students in their learning. We live in the age of the scientific and technological revolution, and our life in all its manifestations becomes more diverse and more difficult at the same time, it does not require outdated or usual actions, on the contrary, it demands the mobility of thinking, rapid orientation, and a creative approach for solving big and small tasks. Nowadays, taking into account the dynamic development of industry and services, the competitiveness of future qualified workers in the service sector depends not only on their acquisition of a high level of knowledge of the technological process and manufacturing tasks, but also on their ability to solve communication and compositional problems. The purpose of the article is to determine the essence and structure of creative abilities of the future qualified workers representing the service sector. On the basis of the theoretical analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature, we offer our own interpretation of the creative abilities demonstrated by the future qualified workers of the services sector; creative abilities are associated with person’s integrated, dynamic qualities and properties which manifest themselves in developing essentially new ideas, in creating something qualitatively new in the services sector. Disclosing the structure of the creative abilities demonstrated by the future qualified workers of the services sector, we defined the following basic concepts for our research like: “services sector”, “a qualified worker”, “interactive technologies”. Having processed the regulatory-legal documents of professional (vocational) education, we have identified the component structure of the creative abilities demonstrated by the future qualified workers of the services sphere by means of interactive technologies: the stimulating-motivating, intellectual-heuristic, personality-targeted and constructive components. Different scientists’ approaches to the defining of the concept “abilities” and “creative abilities”, as well as the essence and structure of the creative abilities demonstrated by the future qualified workers in the services sphere by means of interactive technologies are considered in this article. Keywords: abilities, creative abilities, creativity, sphere of services, a qualified worker.

Understanding Body-Worn Camera Adoption

2020 ◽  
pp. 82-102
Author(s):  
Michael D. White ◽  
Aili Malm
Keyword(s):  
Diffusion Of Innovation ◽  
Diffusion Of Innovations ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
The Past ◽  
Rapid Spread ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Why Questions ◽  
Evidence Based Policing

In this chapter, the authors examine the past, present, and future of police BWCs. The spread of BWCs in policing has been extraordinary, especially given the cost and degree of difficulty in implementing and managing a BWC program. In this chapter, the authors use two different, complementary lenses to explain the rapid spread of BWCs. The first is the diffusion of innovations framework. The second lens is the evidence-based policing framework. Both the diffusion of innovation and evidence-based policing frameworks provide insights on the “how and why” questions regarding current rates of BWC adoption, and just as important, they provide an informed position to consider the prospects for BWCs in the future.

scholarly journals Future of Rankings in Higher Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 8628-8635
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
First Century ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Past ◽  
Rapid Spread ◽  
The Future

In the late 1990s, some institutions started discussing the idea of comparing universities and educational institutions according to certain criteria. Since then, the rankings of universities have become widespread. With the rapid spread, extended and developed scientific progress and technological development every day as we have not seen before, and with the increasing spread of the Internet, these sites have become dependent on the Internet to obtain the data they rely on in the ranking of these universities. Because the ranking of universities, educational institutions, higher education institutions, colleges, and institutes is one of the main elements that have been used in the past two centuries, and because the ranking of universities has become one of the most important ways and means to measure the development or decline of universities, it was important to clarify the mechanisms of the ranking of universities in This period of the twenty-first century and the expected perception for tanking of university for the future period. The aim of this research paper is to present a study on the methods and methodologies that can be used to measure the ranking of universities, taking into account the technological development that has taken place over the past period and to determine what is the possibility of relying on the ranking in the future as a tool to measure the progress and development of universities and the possibility of relying on the Internet as a reliable means of ranking. Observations regarding the educational institutions' perception of ranking are also discussed. Keywords: Ranking, University Rankings, Higher Education Institutions Ranking, Future Ranking, Top Universities, Standards, Indicators, Future

scholarly journals Social policy, cold climates and economic recessions

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Stephens
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Case Scenario ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Economic Recessions ◽  
The Future

The aim of this article is to consider what could happen to social policy expenditure and parameters in a worst case scenario, if the financial crisis spills over into the goods and services sector. Academics are very good at making ex post analyses of why certain events occurred, and extrapolating  from this past experience to predict the future, but the future will be different. The starting point will not be the same –people have learnt from the past and have different reactions, the context will vary, and the political players and ideology will have changed. The policy adviser has to be forward thinking, anticipating events. It is in this context that this article is written.

scholarly journals The model of training future specialists in the sphere of service

2020 ◽  
pp. 50-56
Author(s):  
Alona Haraha
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Investment Activity ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
The Future ◽  
Tourism Professionals

The subject of the study is professional training of future specialists in the sphere of service. The purpose of this article is to analysis training and methodological support of the tourism industry and development of recommendations on formation of the variable part in the context of preparation of future specialists in the sphere of services in the investment activities. Objectives of the study – to analyze the professional training of specialists of the services sector to expand training and methodological support the training of specialist tourism, to highlight the essence and the main differences between the training of tourism professionals in various Ukrainian institution of higher education determine the main directions of investment activity, to propose a model of training specialists of the services sector to investment activities. Research methods. In the process of research were used the following General and specific scientific research methods: systematic approach, methods of logical generalization and comparison, scientific abstraction, synthesis techniques, logic synthesis and analogies. Methodological base of the research made the scientific works of domestic and foreign scientists and leading experts, analytical materials on the research problem. The results of the work. The analysis of professional training services, expanded training and methodological support of training of specialists of tourism covers the nature and the main differences between the training of tourism professionals in various institution of higher education of Ukraine, determined main directions of investment activities, the model of training of specialists of the service sector to investment activities. The scope of the results. The obtained results can be used by educational departments of institution of higher education of Ukraine to expand educational and professional programs, training systems, curricula and working programs. Conclusions. based on the analysis of the process of professional training of future specialists in the sphere of tourism investment activities and approaches of researchers to definition of preparation in General, the nature of the concept of readiness and its structure has been established: – the training of the future bachelor of tourism investment activities are an integral part of the General system of training of future specialists in the sphere of tourism and is regarded as the process of formation of readiness to implement the specified activities; – the readiness of the future specialist in the field of tourism investment should be considered as the result of special training that is an integral formation of positive motivation generated at the required level of professional knowledge, skills and experience of their use in practice, which meet the requirements of professional tourist activity. In the structure of readiness was allocated to the following components: motivational and personal, cognitive and activity and practice; – methodological analysis of the solution of the problem of professional training of tourism professionals in investing activities was carried out in a philosophical, General scientific (the use of basic principles of activity-based, practice-oriented, technological, systemic, and integrative approaches) and concrete scientific levels; – developed a theoretical model of preparation of future specialists of tourism investment should be considered as the integrity of the interacting structural components (target, motivation, theoretical and practical training, productive). The model becomes a reference point the build process, appropriate training in practice.

scholarly journals Affect and Autocracy: Emotions and Attitudes in Russia after Crimea

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Samuel A. Greene ◽  
Graeme Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Panel Survey ◽  
Shared Experience ◽  
The Past ◽  
Economic Stagnation ◽  
The Future ◽  
Before And After

Our understanding of modern authoritarianism lacks a satisfying explanation for the genuine popularity of autocrats. While most of the literature on authoritarianism focuses on coercion, institutional manipulation, or clientelism, many contemporary autocrats clearly enjoy enthusiastic support even in times of economic stagnation or decline. We argue that part of the solution lies in unpacking the role of emotions in building support for rulers. Drawing on a unique panel survey conducted shortly before and after Russia’s annexation of Crimea, we discover that the resulting “rally” around the authoritarian flag involves much more than simply support for the leader or a simple increase in nationalism. Rather, we witness a broad shift in respondents’ emotional orientation. Driven by the shared experience of the Crimean “moment,” this shift improves people’s evaluation of their social, political, and economic surroundings in the present, the future—and even the past. The result is a new explanation of the nonmaterial means through which autocrats may succeed in bolstering their legitimacy.

Bhakti in the Shadow of Ambedkar

2021 ◽  
pp. 193-228
Author(s):  
Jon Keune
Keyword(s):  
Vital Role ◽  
Strategic Ambiguity ◽  
Social Equality ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Open Question

This chapter concludes the book by reflecting on the study of bhakti in the shadow of Ambedkar and its effects on historiography and ramifications for contemporary traditions. It argues hagiographers’ strategic ambiguity and the performative nature of bhakti traditions functioning as a resonance chamber led to an ideology of inclusive difference within the Vārkarī tradition. The semantic density of food facilitated this process especially well. In the 19th and 20th centuries, traditional strategic ambiguity and inclusive ideology did not measure up well against the newly articulated standard of social equality. Despite the fact that bhakti saints did not promote social equality per se, whether bhakti traditions and nondualist ethics could embrace it in the future remains an open question. If they can change, then commensality may play a vital role, as it did in the past.

Commentary: Growth Prospects and Financial Services

2009 ◽  
Vol 207 ◽  
pp. 4-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Weale
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Financial Services Industry ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
Financial Services Sector ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Growth Prospects ◽  
Services Industry

Over the past twenty years the expansion of the British economy has been supported by growth in the financial services industry. With the onset of the financial crisis it seems most unlikely that the financial services industry can, in the future, act as the sort of motor of growth that it had done in the past. This commentary provides an overview of the role of the financial services sector in the economy over the past twenty years and assesses likely developments in the future. It first assesses the contribution of the sector to the economy and then considers the issues surrounding its likely shape in the future.

scholarly journals Turgenev’s Anniversaries in the Memorial Culture of the Soviet Era

2018 ◽  
pp. 109-123
Author(s):  
Irina Koznova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Working People ◽  
Supporting Structures

The memory of the past is one of the supporting structures of society. Contributing orientation in time and space to society, the memory acts as a connection between the present and the future. With the help of memory, society maintains its identity. What society remembers or forgets is the cultural core of its values and meanings. Being the representation of the past, versatile and selective memory is undergone to constant reorganization in the society in accordance with the demands of the present. The Soviet project, aimed at forming of a new society and a person, offered also its own project of the past, created its culture of memory. Ideas about the past changed along with the change of the Soviet present and the vision of its future. An important component of the culture of memory are the commemorations. Anniversaries of signifcant events and historical fgures allow to organize the work of the past in the present, to enter them into the current cultural space. The anniversary reading of the classic authors of Russian literature in the Soviet period was associated with the idea of mastering the cultural heritage of the past by the working people. The methods and forms of their memorialization, aimed at mass perception and appropriation, corresponded to the heroic matrix, which played the main role in the institutionalization of the Soviet collective whole. This matrix, based on the class-party principle, had two successive profles: revolutionary-international and nationalpatriotic. In the Soviet period there were several important dates in memory of Ivan Turgenev. Honorings of the writer complied with a certain canon. Turgenev’s works were primarily understood from the point of view of their social signifcance, in the context of both the Turgenev era and the Soviet era. Its multivalent potential was mainly considered from two aspects: the service to the revolution and the service toRussia.

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