Attempts to Build Postwar Europe from Below in Stuttgart: Failure or Forerunner?

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-380
Author(s):  
Bettina Severin-Barboutie
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
Foreign Worker ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
International Meeting ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Postwar Europe ◽  
Stimulation Of

Abstract On May 2, 1964, a so-called Emigrationsparlament held its constituent meeting in the house of the Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (dgb) in Stuttgart. The meeting was opened by a speech of the parliament’s president, Antonio Maspoli, in which he outlined the aims of the new institution and coined the phrase ‘The emigrant is a worker from and for Europe and Europe is his country’. In the months following the Emigrationsparlament gathered several times and Maspoli—a Swiss national known for his engagement in the trade unions in Switzerland—pleaded for the establishment of a ‘sort of a European parliament of the foreign worker’ in Stuttgart. Maspoli’s repeated claims initiated debates within the municipal government about the stimulation of self-help among foreigners and their growing involvement in issues concerning them. Furthermore, Maspoli obtained premises for the establishment of an international meeting point called ‘Europa-Club’. However, his wish of setting up a European parliament in Stuttgart remained unfulfilled. While the local government eventually established a council, the desired parliament of foreign workers did not come into existence. Hence, Stuttgart missed the opportunity to become the site of an elected European parliament and the activities of the ueg fell into oblivion.

Implikasi Kemasukan Pekerja Asing Di Malaysia: Suatu Tinjauan Awal

Sains Insani ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-77
Author(s):  
Intan Suria Hamzah ◽  
Sity Daud
Keyword(s):  
Development Process ◽  
Foreign Worker ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
The World

Malaysia experienced a number of the entry of foreigners in the world, mainly as low-skilled workers. Malaysia has been experiencing shortage of workers in main sectors such as construction, agriculture, industrial and service. Foreign workers are workers came from other countries who come to work in Malaysia for a certain period, they are also known as economic’s workers. The study found that foreign workers give benefits for country development process in variuos sectors but with their numbers growing and reaching millions of peoples were disturbing economy and local communities.Keywords: Foreign worker, demand, economy, PATI, crime, security Abstrak: Malaysia mengalami jumlah kemasukan warga asing yang besar di dunia, terutamanya sebagai buruh berkemahiran rendah. Malaysia telah mengalami masalah kekurangan buruh dalam sektor-sektor utama negara seperti pembinaan, perladangan, perindustrian dan perkhidmatan. Pekerja asing atau buruh asing merupakan pekerja yang berasal dari negara luar yang datang bekerja di Malaysia bagi sesuatu tempoh tertentu, ianya juga dikenali sebagai buruh ekonomi. Hasil kajian, mendapati pekerja asing telah membawa manfaat dalam proses pembangunan negara Malaysia dalam pelbagai sektor namun begitu dengan jumlah mereka yang semakin meningkat dan mencecah jutaan orang telah mengganggu-gugat ekonomi dan masyarakat tempatan.Kata kunci: Pekerja asing, permintaan, ekonomi, PATI, jenayah, keselamatan.

scholarly journals ‘To Me, Socialism Is Not a Set of Dogmas but a Living Principle’: Harry Atkinson and the Christchurch Socialist Church, 1890-1905

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
James E Taylor
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
Radical Reform ◽  
Political Agitation ◽  
Traditional Sense ◽  
Edward Carpenter ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Church

<p>In the early 1890s Harry Atkinson, the subject of this thesis, travelled to England and spent a year as foundation secretary of the Manchester and Salford Labour Church. In Manchester Atkinson worked closely with the Churchʼs founder John Trevor, took part in Labour Church services and worked with a variety of British socialist intellectuals and activists including Ben Tillett, Edward Carpenter and Robert Blatchford. Atkinson returned to New Zealand in late 1893 and three years later founded the Socialist Church in Christchurch. This was not a Church in the traditional sense—rather, it was a site for the debate, discussion and dissemination of radical and socialist literature and ideas, and a platform for political agitation and social reform. Its creed was to ‘promot[e] a fellowship amongst those working for the organisation of Society on a basis of Brotherhood and Equality’. Members of the Church included Jack McCullough, James and Elizabeth McCombs and Jim Thorn. The critical, yet downplayed, role that Atkinson played working behind the scenes as an important mentor and conduit in the emergent socialist subculture in Christchurch from 1896 to 1905 has been for the most part unexplored in New Zealand labour historiography. This thesis addresses this imbalance and examines the intellectual and associational activity of Harry Atkinson during the period 1890 to 1905 and reconsiders the work and key concerns of the Christchurch Socialist Church. It argues that the form of ethical socialism Atkinson experienced in Manchester, and later promulgated through the Socialist Church, has been mischaraterised as vague or, inaccurately, Christian Socialist. By situating Atkinson’s beliefs and activities within a wider transnational context of 1890s ‘New Life’ socialism, we can see his ideas and work as part of a broader ‘world of labour’, shaped by multi-directional flows and contacts. The varied networks through which Atkinson was exposed to books and ideas are illustrated and the thesis attempts to trace the diversity of his, and others, associational activity. It suggests that the colonial New Zealand socialism of the 1890s was not ‘without doctrine’, and that individuals engaged in richer intellectual and associational lives than is often acknowledged. However, it is shown that Atkinson and members of the Church, though inspired by foreign or overseas experiences, ideas and literature, focused primarily on local issues. These are also surveyed and include agitation for municipal government, female equality and the radical reform of democratic institutions. It is argued that a reconsideration of the lived experience of Atkinson and his wider circle provides a lens to investigate some important aspects of colonial New Zealand radicalism and socialism, outside the usual foci of trade unions, the workplace and formal labour politics.</p>

The “Laws of Reason” and the Surprise of the Natural Law

2001 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-175
Author(s):  
Hadley Arkes
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Natural Law ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
City Council ◽  
Minority Status ◽  
Lesbian Couples ◽  
The Law ◽  
The City

The city of Cincinnati, we know, can be an engaging place, but federal judge Arthur Spiegel also found, in the mid-'90s, that it could be quite a vexing place. The city council of Cincinnati had passed what was called the Human Rights Ordinance of 1992, which barred virtually all species of discrimination—including discrimination on the basis of “Appalachian origin.” But the bill also encompassed a bar on discrimination based on “sexual orientation.” This kind of bill, in other places, had been turned into a club to be used against evangelical Christians who might refuse, on moral grounds, to rent space in their homes to gay or lesbian couples. And so a movement arose in Cincinnati, modeled on a similar movement in Colorado, to override the ordinance passed by the council: this would not be a referendum merely to repeal the law, but a move to amend the charter of the municipal government and remove, from the hands of the local legislature, the authority to pass bills of this kind. In effect, this was an attempt to override an ordinary statute by changing the constitution of the local government. The amendment did not seek to make homosexual acts the grounds for criminal prosecutions; it sought, rather, to bar any attempt to make gay and lesbian orientation the ground for special advantages, quotas, or preferential “minority status” in the law. The framers of the amendment objected to the tendency to treat gays and lesbians on the same plane as groups that have suffered discrimination based on race, religion, or gender. The proposal, known as Issue 3, drew wide support and passed in a referendum in 1993. It was, of course, challenged in the courts, which is why it found its way into the hands of Judge Spiegel.

Problemen bij taalonderwijs aan buitenlandse arbeiders. Suggesties voor oplossingen.

1977 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 79-93
Author(s):  
W.F. Coumou
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Foreign Worker ◽  
Oral Proficiency ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Language Training ◽  
Standard Language

Language teaching to migrant workers in The Netherlands needs an improvement in two ways. Apart from various problems with regard to the environment in which the teaching of Dutch to foreign workers takes place, this type of language training also suffers from serious inadequacies in the linguistic and methodological field. This paper discusses a few of these latter problems pertaining to both the teacher and the learner, i.e. the foreign worker. With regard to the -- usually unpaid and voluntary -- teacher, we point out such factors as - inexperience with the teaching of a second language and the consequen-ces of such a situation - disparity between the language of the teacher and the dialect/sociolect of the environment in which the foreign worker finds himself; a dispa-rity because of the socio-cultural gap between the two - discrepancy between certain features in the teacher's dialect and those of the standard language in the teaching method - use of 'foreigner talk' in the class situation With regard to the learner we diseuse euch matters as - expectation of the foreign worker when learning the language of his new country of residence; an expectation which to a great extent diffe, from what can objectively be defined as learning objectives - lack of contact with speakers of Butch resulting in a low level of oral proficiency by the foreign worker - problems relating to 'Pidgin'--Dutch The language department of Netherlands Centre Foreigners is engaged in developping language materiale for migrant workers and their families, in particular for those who are speakers of 'Pidgin'-Dutch. Certain preliminary considerations concerning this teaching method are dis-cussed.

scholarly journals Public Management in local government units in the example of the municipality of Mstów

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.28) ◽  
pp. 262
Author(s):  
Judyta Kabus ◽  
Radomir Kańa ◽  
Joanna Nowakowska-Grunt
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Regional Development Strategy ◽  
New Public

Today’s units of local government is identified not only with the power that is necessary for the realization of public tasks but above all, it is accentuated by the importance of meeting the needs which are important from the point of view of the community, including the Management processes.The purpose of this work is to present a smooth and effective public management process carried out by the municipal government of Mstów. This municipality applies practical New Public Management instruments in building and implementing the regional development strategy. The article was prepared on the canvas of literature studies on the management, organization, and planning of universal services of a public interest and analysis of the statistical data collected by the municipality.  

Foreign Bodies at Work: Good, Docile and Other-ed

2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noorman Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Bodies ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Foreign Worker ◽  
Construction Workers ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Total Institution ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Depth Interviews

AbstractThe lived, and oftentimes silenced, experiences of "foreign workers" articulate the negotiation of power relations between "citizen" and "foreigner", and "Us" and "Them". These are translated into discursive practices that, in effect, legitimize and entrench differences — hence, inequalities — that effectively discipline the "foreign worker" as "not one of Us". By taking the example of Bangladeshi construction workers in Singapore as a case study, I argue in this paper that the workspaces of "foreign construction workers" in Singapore typify that of a "total institution", which correspondingly moulds the worker into a discursive ideal — the "good, docile Other". Such impositions and productions of Otherness, however, face rupture as workers (re)negotiate, (re)work, and (re)inscribe their everyday lives through the employment of what James Scott (1985, 1987) terms "everyday 'resistances'" in rising above that which subjugates them. I will present in this paper primary data elicited and collated from direct participant observation, fieldwork, and in-depth interviews conducted in a construction project in Singapore.

Environmentally-Directed Organizational Citizenship Behavior of the Municipal Government Officials in Cebu

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gelena Asis- Dimpas ◽  
Maria Victoria Uy Sy ◽  
Judy Ann Ong Ferrater-Gimena
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Supervisory Support ◽  
Organizational Setting ◽  
Government Officials

The greening of organizations is not only confined to the creation of formal management systems, activities or technologies. Over the years, environmentalists have learned that various stakeholders of an organization utilize discretionary approaches to understand the interaction between humans and the environment (Lehman et al., 2004). The discretionary approach is known as environmentally-directed organizational citizenship behavior (OCBE) which focuses on the voluntary green initiatives done by employees within the organizational setting (Daily, Bishop, & Govindarajulu,2009). This study aimed to identify the environmentally directed organizational citizenship deeds observed and practiced by fifteen selected municipalities in Cebu, Philippines.  The results revealed that OCBE deeds relative to environmental concerns, organizational commitment, supervisory support for environmental efforts and perceived social performance of the local government units were the most common behaviors exhibited by the local officials and their staff.  Another objective of the paper was to determine the extent of demonstration of the identified OCBE deeds among the department heads and staff of the fifteen (15) municipalities involved in the study.  The findings showed that the identified OCBE deeds were demonstrated by the municipal government officials and staff to a very great extent. Quantitative data were taken from the survey conducted among one hundred forty respondents comprising of local government officials and their staff from fifteen municipalities in Cebu, Philippines.  The purposive sampling method was employed in choosing the sample respondents. The municipalities involved in the study were the top fifteen (15) performing local government units who participated in the E – GWEN program of the province.  The list of the municipalities was provided by the Office of the Vice Governor of Cebu in conjunction with a non – government organization who is a partner of the province in the concretization of the E-GWEN undertaking.  This study serves to contribute to the scarce extant literature on the pertinence of OCBE in improving the efficiency and efficacy of environmental management from the perspective of the public sector.     Keywords - Environmentally-directed citizenship behavior, pro-environmental behavior, organizational citizenship behavior, environmental conservation efforts, organizational commitment

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