The world political economy and the future of the U.S. labor market

World Futures ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 21 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 147-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel E. Yevenes
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The U.S

Down-to-Earth Utopians

2020 ◽  
pp. 75-96
Author(s):  
Ronald W. Schatz
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Karl Mannheim ◽  
Clark Kerr ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
One Step ◽  
German Sociologist ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Over Time

The Labor Board vets insisted that they were always realistic and had no ideological convictions of any kind. This chapter argues that such a characterization is not accurate. Clark Kerr, John Dunlop, and the other veterans of the board’s staff were in truth utopians—not utopians as that term is usually imagined, but liberal reformers who believed that they could transform the world over time, one step at a time. The famous German sociologist Karl Mannheim termed that mindset “liberal-humanitarian utopian.” The chapter looks back to their youth to explain how they came to that worldview and how unarticulated utopian beliefs pervaded their teaching, writing, and other work. The chapter concludes with the prediction advanced by Clark Kerr, John Dunlop, Charles Myers, and Frederick Harbison that the U.S. and Soviet systems would converge in the future--a conviction that appeared realistic in the latter 1980s and the early 1990s.

Foreseeing the Future Lifestyle with Digital Music

2007 ◽  
pp. 59-75
Author(s):  
Masataka Yoshikawa
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Digital Music ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Usage Patterns ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
The U.S

This chapter aims to explore the future trajectory of enjoying digital music entertainment among consumers comparing the characteristics of the usage patterns of digital music appliances in the U.S. and those in Japan. As the first step of this research, the author conducted two empirical surveys in the U.S. and Japan, and found some basic differences in the usage patterns of a variety of digital music appliances. Next, a series of ethnographical research based on focus-group interviews with Japanese young women was done and some interesting reasons of the differences were discovered. In Japan, sharing the experiences of listening to the latest hit songs with friends by playing them with mobile phones that have the high quality, ring tone functions can be a new way of enjoying music contents, while hard-disk music players like iPod have become a de facto standard of the digital music appliances in the world.

scholarly journals Current state and prospects of professional self-determination of students of general educational institutions of Mariupol: on the materials of sociological research

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (9) ◽  
pp. 58-66
Author(s):  
O. A. Tashkinova ◽  
S. O. Mishchenko ◽  
K. Totska
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
Professional Orientation ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Professional Self ◽  
Available Resources

Youth is the future of our country. Therefore, it is important to create conditions for increasing the competitiveness of young professionals in the labor market. To do this, it is necessary to change the model of professional orientation of pupils in accordance with their abilities and needs of the labor market, to make it systemic and effective; as well as to coordinate the market of educational services and the labor market of a specific region, to create a developed motivational system in institutions of higher and secondary education focused on continuous education and self-improvement of a person throughout life, formation of social and professional subjectivity in student and student youth, active attitude to to himself, to his life and to the future profession. An important problem is the formation of professional self-determination in the young person himself, adequate, on the one hand, to the conditions of the regional market of educational services and the labor market, on the other - the abilities, needs and interests of the student himself. It is the active life position and the reality of requests for a future profession for students that will increase their competitiveness in the labor market. In connection with this, requirements for subjects that provide professional orientation among students of general education schools are changing, in relation to the goals, objectives and methods of this work.Professional self-determination is considered as a process of conscious and active search of a person by his place in the world of professions, developing his personal attitude to certain professions, and the choice of possible future professional activities.Professional self-determination for students is related to the orientation in the world of professions, an understanding of their own physical, mental and social capabilities, the formation of adequate, realistic professional intentions that fit the existing abilities, knowledge, skills, etc. This is the formation of his future professional image by analyzing his personality, available resources, general life self-determination of the individual, etc. It should be noted that the process of professional self-determination is rather complex and its effectiveness determines a set of objective and subjective factors.The ability to personal and professional self-determination arises and is formed when studying in higher education institutions. Professional self-determination begins with the design of the first idea of your future profession and the formation of the first professional intentions.Understanding the importance of the problem of professional self-determination of students, the Mariupol City Employment Center, together with the Department of Sociology and Social Work of the Priazovsky State Technical University, in February-March 2018 conducted a joint sociological study among students of secondary schools. Only 54% of students know which professions are most suitable for them in accordance with abilities, inclinations, types of temperament, thinking. But most students will choose a future profession that can provide them with high wages in the future. Many graduates are attracted by the prospect of opening their own businesses and going abroad.Thus, it is necessary to change the system of interaction of universities and secondary schools in the direction of effective professional orientation and involving students in the world of professions through socially useful activities. The task of subjects of professional orientation should be the formation of the necessary competences and socially significant qualities for pupils’ youth in order to increase their socio-professional subjectivity and acquaintance with the world of the profession through a system of trainings, mentoring, professional excursions and volunteering. It is then that real professional self-determination of students in the world of the profession, in accordance with their available resources and conditions of the modern labor market, will become possible.

Foreseeing the Future Lifestyle with Digital Music

2009 ◽  
pp. 191-201
Author(s):  
Masataka Yoshikawa
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Digital Music ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Usage Patterns ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
The U.S

This chapter aims to explore the future trajectory of enjoying digital music entertainment among consumers comparing the characteristics of the usage patterns of digital music appliances in the U.S. and those in Japan. As the first step of this research, the author conducted two empirical surveys in the U.S. and Japan, and found some basic differences in the usage patterns of a variety of digital music appliances. Next, a series of ethnographical research based on focus-group interviews with Japanese young women was done and some interesting reasons of the differences were discovered. In Japan, sharing the experiences of listening to the latest hit songs with friends by playing them with mobile phones that have the high quality, ring tone functions can be a new way of enjoying music contents, while hard-disk music players like iPod have become a de facto standard of the digital music appliances in the world.

Foreseeing the Future Lifestyle with Digital Music

2009 ◽  
pp. 1223-1233
Author(s):  
Masataka Yoshikawa
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Digital Music ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Usage Patterns ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
The U.S

This chapter aims to explore the future trajectory of enjoying digital music entertainment among consumers comparing the characteristics of the usage patterns of digital music appliances in the U.S. and those in Japan. As the first step of this research, the author conducted two empirical surveys in the U.S. and Japan, and found some basic differences in the usage patterns of a variety of digital music appliances. Next, a series of ethnographical research based on focus-group interviews with Japanese young women was done and some interesting reasons of the differences were discovered. In Japan, sharing the experiences of listening to the latest hit songs with friends by playing them with mobile phones that have the high quality, ring tone functions can be a new way of enjoying music contents, while hard-disk music players like iPod have become a de facto standard of the digital music appliances in the world.

scholarly journals American World Empire or Declining Hegemony

2004 ◽  
pp. 516-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Boswell
Keyword(s):  
System Theory ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
World Economy ◽  
World System ◽  
Political Control ◽  
Global Political Economy ◽  
World System Theory ◽  
Fundamental Assumption ◽  
The World ◽  
The U.S

Gowan challenges the usefulness of world-system theory in accounting for the emergence of an American world empire. His argument is based on one fundamental assumption, that of overwhelming U.S. power in the contemporary period. The assumption, however, is flawed. The U.S. is clearly an uncontested military superpower, a world leader with the ability to project its power and interests around the world. But its economic hegemony is in decline, and it is no longer the overwhelming presence it once was in the world-economy. Moreover, Gowan is unable to support his thesis that the U.S. is becoming an empire over Europe. Although the U.S. occupation and administration of Iraq is an example of colonial imperialism, there is no evidence to show that the U.S. has begun to establish a core-wide empire. On the contrary, U.S. political control over Europe has declined to its lowest level in the post-WWII period. The persuasiveness of world-system theory in explaining the changing global political economy remains strong.

scholarly journals How Does Immigration Fit into the Future of the U.S. Labor Market?

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (2005) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pia M. Orrenius ◽  
◽  
Madeline Zavodny ◽  
Stephanie Gullo ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
The Future ◽  
The U.S

scholarly journals The Present and Future of Employment: Ibero-American Context

2021 ◽  
pp. 51-64
Author(s):  
E. Ermolieva
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Global Recession ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Digital Gap ◽  
Basic Features ◽  
The Impact

The world of work is changing rapidly. The impact of the current megatrends on the future of employment has been widely debated around the world and became a focus of numerous reviews of international organizations. The Sars-Cov-2 pandemic has added even more urgency to the discussion and has affected more countries, including Iberian Peninsula and Latin America. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic-induced lockdowns and related global recession of 2020 have created a highly uncertain outlook for the labor market and accelerated the arrival of the future of work. COVID-19 has shown us how rapid change can destroy jobs. But at the same time, it must be recognized that the labor market has fundamentally changed within just a few months of the pandemic with the spread of some non-standard employment such as tele- and platform work. Thus, the COVID-19 became a catalyst for the rapid changes that will define the future of the labor market in different parts of the world. But, as some results show, digital transformation in employment brought serious inequalities, called the digital divide with its multidimensional impact. For example, a new digital gap has emerged between the global North and the global South. Through these optics, the article attempts to summarize the results of studies that are monitoring how labor markets are changing in different regions of the world. And the main aim is to better understand the specifics of the situation in Spain, Portugal and Latin American countries which collectively are integral parts of the Ibero-American community. To achieve the goal, the principal tools of scientific analysis were used, including collecting and analyzing a significant body of empirical data from international sources and publications of national departments for labor and employment. The review helped to identify the basic features of the current moment and possible prospects in the development of the employment sector in Iberoamerica. Following the principle of comparative analysis research, the author comes to the conclusion that, on the one hand, the processes similar to the global trends are present, but, on the other hand, the peculiarities determined by the national characteristics of the Ibero-American content are quite obvious.

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