Transitional Labor: Undocumented Workers in the Los Angeles Automobile Industry

1983 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 570-596 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Morales
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Automobile Industry ◽  
Industrial Change ◽  
Undocumented Workers ◽  
Current Period ◽  
Insight Into

This article examines the employment of undocumented workers by Los Angeles manufacturers of automobile parts. It suggests that this is part of a broad trend towards primary labor market erosion. The labor force is termed transitional because it is seen as facilitating firms during the current period of industrial change. Insight into the role of these workers is derived from eight case studies representing 926 workers. Regressions on the determinants of wages and the percent undocumented in the workplace are developed from 21 firms and 2,321 workers.

Exploring Parliament

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Leston-Bandeira ◽  
Louise Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Real Life ◽  
First Century ◽  
Practical Case ◽  
Assisted Dying ◽  
Fresh Perspective ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Law Making

Exploring Parliament offers a fresh perspective on an ancient institution. It provides a real-life insight into the inner workings, impact, and relevance of twenty-first century Parliament. Short academic and practitioner chapters are combined with relevant and practical case studies, to provide an introduction to Parliament's structures, people, and practices. As well as covering the broader structure of UK Parliament, this text explains the role of small parties in law-making, the design and space of Parliament, and offers illuminating case studies on highly topical areas such as the Backbench Business Committee, the Hillsborough Inquiry and recent pieces of legislation such as the Assisted Dying Bill.

Support of employers as a factor of labor market balance

2021 ◽  
pp. 8-12
Author(s):  
L.M. Nizova ◽  
N. M. Nabiev
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
The State ◽  
Employment Service ◽  
Employment Sector ◽  
Market Formation ◽  
The Creation

The priorities and problems of balancing the supply and demand of the labor force are investigated, the prerequisites and factors of the labor market formation are determined. The role of the employment service bodies in assisting employers in selecting the necessary employees is revealed. The causes and consequences between the creation and preservation of jobs, the state of employment and unemployment are established. Measures to stabilize the employment sector based on the formation of a civilized labor market are proposed.

Trust and Technology

2011 ◽  
pp. 236-258
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Insight Into

Chapter 6 to 8 focused on the trust related issues and the practices with regard to effective deployment and implementation of relevant technologies in order to enhance levels of trust in B2B e-commerce. The analysis presented in these chapters was on aggregate basis. In order to get an insight into the contexts and processes behind the initiatives taken by an organization in this regard, it is necessary to study these issues in the context of specific organization. In view of this objective, two case studies were conducted and the trust related issues and the role of technology in addressing these issues were traced. Though the case studies presented in this chapter differ from each other on a number of accounts, more or less similar structure has been used to organize the information contained in each of them. The purpose is to facilitate comparison between the practices being followed by the two companies under study.

scholarly journals Segmentation and the Role of Labor Standards Enforcement in Immigration Reform

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 431-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice Fine ◽  
Gregory Lyon
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Community Organizations ◽  
Labor Standards ◽  
Immigration Reform ◽  
Market Economies ◽  
Vulnerable Workers

Despite the fact that many low-wage, violation-ridden industries are disproportionately occupied by immigrants, labor standards and immigration reform have largely been treated as separate pieces of an otherwise interrelated puzzle. Not only is this view misguided, but this paper argues that strengthening labor standards enforcement would ensure that standards are upheld for all workers, immigrant and others. In addition, labor standards enforcement is instrumental to the erosion of sub-standard conditions in certain sectors, often referred to as the “secondary” labor market, that are associated with advanced market economies. Ensuring labor standards are upheld diminishes the incentive for employers to undercut wages by exploiting vulnerable workers, many of whom are immigrants. As this paper argues, strengthening enforcement must include not only “vertical” mechanisms, including strategic enforcement and penalizing and criminalizing egregious and repeated labor violators, but also “lateral” mechanisms, such as co-enforcement by workers and through worker and community organizations. The article illustrates the role of co-enforcement in labor standards through two case studies.

The Role of Perfectionism in Student Suicide: Three Case Studies from the UK

2010 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jo Bell ◽  
Nicky Stanley ◽  
Sharon Mallon ◽  
Jill Manthorpe
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Fear Of Failure ◽  
Theoretical Support ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

A number of studies have investigated the relationship between suicide and perfectionism but none to our knowledge have been based on studies of completed suicides. This article aims to provide important insight into the potency that certain profiles of perfectionism can claim in the path to suicide by presenting three case studies from a U.K. study of student suicide. Collectively, these case studies provide theoretical support for existing frameworks and are consistent with other literature which emphasizes those forms of perfectionism that engender severe self-criticism and self-doubt and fear of failure as most destructive.

scholarly journals GHOSTLY LABOR: ETHNIC CLASSISM IN THE LEVANTINE PRISM OF JACQUELINE KAHANOFF'SJACOB'S LADDER

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amr Kamal
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Cultural Model ◽  
Jacob's Ladder ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractIn her writings, the Egyptian-born Israeli author Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff advocated Levantine cosmopolitanism, which she dubbed Levantinism, as a unique cultural model particular to the Eastern Mediterranean. Through an analysis of Kahanoff's novelJacob's Ladder(1951), this article questions the nostalgic image often associated with Egyptian cosmopolitanism. I argue that this text provides rare insight into the process through which Levantine culture developed amid several competing imperial and nationalist projects. In particular, I show how the novel's depiction of Levantine spaces documents the marginalized role of the working class in the education of elite Levantine society and its acquisition of cultural capital. My analysis also explores how the construction and sustenance of a celebrated image of the Levantine past depended on the racialization of labor, or what I call “ethnic classism.” Through this latter process, a labor force made up of other cosmopolitan subjects was Orientalized and relegated to the background where it served to highlight a European-like Levantine cosmopolitanism.

scholarly journals The development of spatial differentiation of unemployment in Czechia through evolutionary and institutional approaches: the example of the Karvinsko and Jablunkovsko regions

Geografie ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 126 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-220
Author(s):  
Filip Vrbík ◽  
Pavlína Netrdová
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Spatial Patterns ◽  
Economic Geography ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Spatial Differentiation ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Regional Unemployment ◽  
Insight Into

The aim of this paper is to gain insight into the dynamics of spatial differentiation of unemployment on the municipal and microregional levels in Czechia. The spatial patterns of unemployment are quantitatively evaluated; and, based on these results, two microregions are chosen as case studies (Karvinsko and Jablunkovsko). These microregions are spatially close but underwent a totally different evolution in regional unemployment. Factors that affect different dynamics of unemployment are identified based on the analysis of their historical development and interviews with local agents. Thus, potential causes of dissimilar trajectories are revealed. The theoretical framework of the research is based on a combination of evolutionary and institutional approaches in economic geography that emphasize the role of history, continuity, local specifics and informal norms and practices in local and regional development.

scholarly journals Real World Learning: Simulation and Gaming

2020 ◽  
pp. 187-214
Author(s):  
Jonathan Lean ◽  
Jonathan Moizer ◽  
Cathrine Derham ◽  
Lesley Strachan ◽  
Zakirul Bhuiyan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Real World ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Classroom Setting ◽  
Real World Learning ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract Simulations and games are being used across a variety of subject areas as a means to provide insight into real world situations within a classroom setting; they offer many of the benefits of real world learning but without some of the associated risks and costs. Lean, Moizer, Derham, Strachan and Bhuiyan aim to evaluate the role of simulations and games in real world learning. The nature of simulations and games is discussed with reference to a variety of examples in Higher Education. Their role in real world learning is evaluated with reference to the benefits and challenges of their use for teaching and learning in Higher Education. Three case studies from diverse subject contexts are reported to illustrate the use of simulations and games and some of the associated issues.

The Impact of 1970s Repatriates from Africa on the Portuguese Labor Market

ILR Review ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 330-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. Carrington ◽  
Pedro J. F. De Lima
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Effect ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Labor Market Conditions ◽  
Market Effect ◽  
The Impact

This paper examines the labor market effect of the retornados who immigrated to Portugal from Angola and Mozambique in the mid-1970s following Portugal's loss of its African colonies. The retornados increased the Portuguese labor force by roughly 10% in just three years. Two analyses suggest contrasting conclusions. First, comparisons of Portugal with Spain and France indicate that any adverse effect of the retornados was quantitatively swamped by the Europe-wide downturn in labor market conditions in the 1970s. Second, comparisons between districts within Portugal indicate that the retornados may have had a strong adverse effect on Portuguese wages, suggesting that immigration may be considerably more harmful than previous case studies have concluded. The authors, however, regard the results of the within-Portugal analysis as less reliable than those of the comparison across countries.

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