scholarly journals Employment and Labour Market Impact of COVID-19 Crisis - Part 1 – Analysis in Poland

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-115
Author(s):  
Joanna Rosak-Szyrocka ◽  
Ali Abdulhassan Abbas ◽  
Humair Akhtar ◽  
Craig Refugio
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Direct Impact ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Black Swans ◽  
The World ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
The One ◽  
Labour Market Impact

Abstract The world is changing really fast. This speed is caused by urbanization, technological development and the increasing demand for energy. Such changes have a direct impact on enterprises which function in the world of VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) with numerous surprises in the form of “black swans”, i.e. rare and unpredictable events. The modern history has not seen such a lockdown as the one caused by the coronavirus. Hairdressers, cosmeticians, restaurants, transportation and tourism are particularly affected by the negative effects of the pandemic. But while some lose, others profit: growth can be observed in the areas of e-commerce, courier shipping and parcel lockers. The article analyzes the labor market in covid times. The image of enterprises and employees of the future was discussed. The paper is an introduction part of an international research conducted as part of cooperation between Universities from Poland, Pakistan, Iraq and the Philippines.

scholarly journals Investigation of an Electrostatic Discharge Protective Biodegradable Packaging Foam in the Logistic Chain

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ákos Mojzes ◽  
Barnabás Tóth ◽  
Péter Csavajda
Keyword(s):  
Electrostatic Discharge ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Environmental Parameters ◽  
Thermoplastic Starch ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Packaging Materials ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Packaging System ◽  
Product Packaging ◽  
The One

Abstract Since the beginning of the 20th century, logistics has undergone a huge technological development, which has, however, resulted in many negative effects as well. The industry, particularly in the packaging industry has been a massive waste producer, although recently it has forced the use of new materials and it started to focus on environmentally friendly technologies. During the transportation of finished and semi-finished Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) sensitive products, the product packaging system has a vital role. These kind of packaging materials must be suitable to both logistic (protection against mechanical and environmental stresses) and special ESD protection requirements. During the transportation of printed-circuit electronic products, ESD defense is then of primary significance. However there is a huge disadvantage for the use of various shield bags. Namely, this kind of associated packaging is particularly pollutant, it causes a lot of inconvenience in the form of waste. In order to rule out these materials from the packaging system, new innovative solutions have to be found. The investigated TPS (thermoplastic starch biodegradable foam) is subjected to a validation, a long process to certify that this material unites properties of two types of packaging materials at the same time. On the one hand, this packaging foam has to meet the requirements product defense. On the other hand, the material must be anti-static under the logistic stress effects. In case it is found suitable, it can be an alternative of the conventional materials. In this article, we investigate the ESD characteristic of TPS foam. As this material sensitive for environmental parameters during transportation, we make the relevant Surface Resistance (Rs) tests on different temperature and humidity conditions. Based on result, the decision of the application can be done, as an ESD packaging material.

The Rise of Digital Repression

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Feldstein
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Political Repression ◽  
The World ◽  
Dna Collection ◽  
Opposition Movements ◽  
Mass Surveillance

This book documents the rise of digital repression—how governments are deploying new technologies to counter dissent, maintain political control, and ensure regime survival. The emergence of varied digital technologies is bringing new dimensions to political repression. At its core, the expanding use of digital repression reflects a fairly simple motivation: states are seeking and finding new ways to control, manipulate, surveil, or disrupt real or perceived threats. This book investigates the goals, motivations, and drivers of digital repression. It presents case studies in Thailand, the Philippines, and Ethiopia, highlighting how governments pursue digital strategies based on a range of factors: ongoing levels of repression, leadership, state capacity, and technological development. But a basic political motive—how to preserve and sustain political incumbency—remains a principal explanation for their use. The international community is already seeing glimpses of what the frontiers of repression look like, such as in China, where authorities have brought together mass surveillance, online censorship, DNA collection, and artificial intelligence to enforce their rule in Xinjiang. Many of these trends are going global. This has major implications for democratic governments and civil society activists around the world. The book also presents innovative ideas and strategies for civil society and opposition movements to respond to the digital autocratic wave.

scholarly journals The impact of convergent technologies on changing labor markets

KANT ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 240-245
Author(s):  
Tatiana Vorontsova
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Physical Strength ◽  
Humanistic Approach ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

The article analyzes the problems of the development of convergent technologies, which, on the one hand, make it possible to overcome the natural limitations of man and expand his capabilities, on the other hand, threaten humanity. The author identifies various research positions in assessing the prospects for NBIC convergence - from overtly alarmist to overly enthusiastic. A classification of possible results of technological innovations is proposed, in which changes in the natural world, the technical environment and the transformation of social relations and spiritual and moral values are highlighted. Trends in the labor market are noted such as job cuts due to automation, the polarization of the labor market for highly paid intellectual workers and cheap physical strength, the emergence of new professions that require special education in several areas, changes in the organization of labor by the type of network interaction, the emergence of new forms of employment - temporary, deprived of guarantees and infringing on social rights. The future labor market is characterized as fragmented and isolated. The conclusion is drawn about the need for a humanistic approach in assessing the prospects of technological development.

Rousseau and Critical Theory

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-55
Author(s):  
Alessandro Ferrara
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Political Order ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

InRousseau and Critical Theory, Alessandro Ferrara argues that among the modern philosophers who have shaped the world we inhabit, Rousseau is the one to whom we owe the idea that identity can be a source of normativity (moral and political) and that an identity’s potential for playing such a role rests on its capacity for being authentic. This normative idea of authenticity brings unity to Rousseau’s reflections on the negative effects of the social order, on the just political order, on education, and more generally, on ethics. It is also shown to contain important teachings for contemporary Critical Theory, contemporary views of self-constitution (Korsgaard, Frankfurt and Larmore), and contemporary political philosophy.

scholarly journals Theoretical and methodological approaches to periodization of technical and technological development

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Technological Development ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
The One ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Scientific Ideas ◽  
Selection Of

The article is devoted to the problem of technical and technological development, which in the modern globalized world is subject to the laws of cyclicity. The realities of today are evidence that in every country of the world coexist and interact elements of different levels of technological structures, which requires a balanced policy to manage their development. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to identify the main theoretical and methodological approaches to the periodization of technical and technological development of the world economy and the formation of generalized criteria for structuring periods of its cyclical dynamics. In the course of the research the tasks were solved, which consisted in the selection of those theoretical and methodological approaches that most fully cover the causal links between changes in technology and technology, on the one hand, and development – on the other; identifying in each approach the criteria of periodization and determining the possibilities of these approaches to describe the current situation. The methodological basis was such general scientific research methods as dialectics, analysis and synthesis, the unity of historical and logical, as well as methods of generalizations, comparisons and classifications. The result of their application was to clarify the essence and establish the specifics of the conceptual approaches of M. Kondratiev, С. Perez and S. Glazyev, which today are considered to be leading in explaining technical and technological development. Based on the comparison of these theoretical and methodological approaches, a generalized idea of the criteria for periodization of the latter is formed. The general conclusion of the study is the formation of scientific ideas about the stages through which society passes in its technical and technological development. This allows you to properly assess the current state of a particular economic system and choose more effective instruments of economic policy to guide its development through progress.

Assembling a Labor Market

2019 ◽  
pp. 20-42
Author(s):  
Jeffrey J. Sallaz
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Labor Costs ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Economic Process ◽  
Global Labor Market ◽  
Social Dynamic

The booming voice industry in the Philippines is a case of an emergent global labor market. New technologies developed over the past several decades allow companies to spin off or relocate their phone services anywhere in the world. Differences in labor costs across regions of the world matter, but the resulting search for ideal labor is as much a social as an economic process. To capture this social dynamic, this chapter analyzes markets as assemblages. The key mediators in such as assemblage are firms, states, and workers. This chapter provides the theoretical tools to understand labor markets as assemblages, and suggests why some assemblages are more stable than others.

scholarly journals LABOR MARKET OF UKRAINE IN CONDITIONS OF SYSTEM CRISIS

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (36) ◽  
pp. 496-503
Author(s):  
N. Yurchuk ◽  
H. Leshchuk ◽  
O. Tkachenko ◽  
A. Kotenok ◽  
D. Cherviakova
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Business Community ◽  
Market Model ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Flexible Response ◽  
The World ◽  
Labor Resources ◽  
National Labor Market

The study deals with identifying trends in the labor market in Ukraine, which is significantly influenced by threatening external and internal factors. The authors prove in the article that the incentives to reform this market today are significantly weakened by the negative effects of the crisis, which covers all spheres of life — from the economy to health care. It was found that the negative trends of the world and national markets contribute to the decline in the quality of human capital of labor resources, worsen the structure of the national labor market. The multi-vector nature of the crisis leads to the formation of a multiplicative effect — its various aspects increase the influence of each other. As a result, the negative pressure of the crisis factors on the national labor market is increasing with growing pace. The authors prove that the old extensive approach of managers to the use of labor resources of Ukraine has outlived itself. The existing model and approaches to its reform given the current scale of threatening trends do not meet the criteria of effectiveness. Ukraine needs a new labor market model. The efforts of government officials and the influence of the business community should be aimed at forming a model whose goals will be: stabilizing the economic, social and political situation in Ukraine, reducing the risk of uncontrolled growth of social tensions, forming a flexible response to neutralize the effects of the crisis. It is pointed out that the lack or even slowdown of the reaction to the existing negative tendencies inherent in the labor market in Ukraine can cause significant and drastic social and political changes. The originality of the article is stipulated by the need to identify labor market trends under the influence of the crisis and the situation on the world labor market, identify factors that lead to the consolidation of an extensive labor market model in a permanent crisis, identify factors that contribute to this and negative consequences for the economy.

Firms

2019 ◽  
pp. 45-64
Author(s):  
Jeffrey J. Sallaz
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Call Centers ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Theoretical Terms ◽  
Business Units ◽  
Phone Calls ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Labor Market

Firms and business units that control the technologies to handle phone calls actively constructed a global labor market for voice services. In theoretical terms, they can be considered a form of liquid “voice capital.” An analysis of consulting reports reveals how voice capital sees the world as graded according to cost and human capital. Such grading offers voice capital two potential pools of labor: India and the Philippines. The ethnographic literature on voice offshoring to India shows that there was no stable assemblage there. Men use call centers as steppingstones toward technology jobs, while women who work as call agents are stigmatized.

Labor in Agriculture

2020 ◽  
pp. 7-15
Author(s):  
Philip Martin
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Farm Workers ◽  
Farm Families ◽  
Farm Production ◽  
The World ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The One ◽  
Work Done

This chapter explains the two major types of workers employed in agriculture—farmers and their (unpaid) family members, and hired workers. The incomes of farm families are the difference between what they receive for the commodities they sell and the costs of producing them, while the earnings of farm workers reflect the wages they earn per hour, day, or week. The average incomes of farm families are higher than for nonfarm families, while the earnings of farm workers are lower than for nonfarm workers. About 40 percent of the one billion people employed in agriculture around the world are hired workers, and they are generally on the bottom rungs of the labor market in both industrial and developing countries. The share of work done by hired workers rises with economic development as farm production concentrates on fewer and larger farms.

Инженер 2020: на стыке технологий, дизайна, предпринимательства. Онлайн-конференция по инженерному образованию

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 174-178
Author(s):  
А.Н. Алёшин
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
The Other ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

В сложный период пандемии коронавируса и экономического кризиса особенно остро встает вопрос занятости специалистов и перспектив трудоустройства выпускников вузов. С одной стороны, мир уже давно перешел на технологические рельсы, где одну из главных ролей играет инженер, с другой стороны, неясно, будут ли востребованы на постпандемийном рынке труда как молодые, так и опытные инженеры. Кто такой современный инженер и что от него ждут российские работодатели? Более 20 ведущих экспертов технологических компаний и инженерных вузов собрались вместе, чтобы ответить на этот и многие другие вопросы в рамках первой российской онлайн-конференции по инженерному образованию CEE 2020, организованной АНО "еНано" и Фондом инфраструктурных и образовательных программ Группы РОСНАНО. In the difficult period of the coronavirus pandemic and the economic crisis, the question of the employment of specialists and the prospects for employment of university graduates is especially acute. On the one hand, the world has long passed over to technological rails, where an engineer plays one of the main roles, on the other hand, it is unclear whether both young and experienced engineers will be in demand in the post-pandemic labor market. Who is a modern engineer and what do Russian employers expect from him? More than 20 leading experts from technology companies and engineering universities came together to answer this and many other questions at the first Russian online conference on engineering education CEE 2020, organized by ANO eNano and the Fund for Infrastructure and Educational Programs of the RUSNANO Group.

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