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englischExperimental practices are present in virtually all fields of society and appear in a broad variety of forms. This volume examines the assumption that experimentation provides – according to Foucault – a societal mechanism which penetrates the contemporary shaping of our knowledge-based [...]
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englischBased on the examination of two vocational training schemes in the field of industry-related services, this study shows that vocationalism as an institutional category is still relevant under circumstances of network-based value creation. Nevertheless, there is no network-specific regulation [...]
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englischIn this study, evidence maps are tested on the health effects of engineered nanoparticles for the first time. The study demonstrates that this method is highly suitable for assessing and graphically illustrating uncertain nanotoxicological evidence in relation to scientific standards and can [...]
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englischIn this study, evidence maps are tested on the health effects of engineered nanoparticles for the first time. The study demonstrates that this method is highly suitable for assessing and graphically illustrating uncertain nanotoxicological evidence in relation to scientific standards and can [...]
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englischBased on the examination of two vocational training schemes in the field of industry-related services, this study shows that vocationalism as an institutional category is still relevant under circumstances of network-based value creation. Nevertheless, there is no network-specific regulation [...]
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englischThere is now ample evidence of a rise in ‘non-standard work arrangements’ in many industrialised economies, yet only rarely does theoretical and empirical work probe the question of why the risk of temporary employment varies. Focusing on temporary employment, the author extends the scope of [...]
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englischThere is now ample evidence of a rise in ‘non-standard work arrangements’ in many industrialised economies, yet only rarely does theoretical and empirical work probe the question of why the risk of temporary employment varies. Focusing on temporary employment, the author extends the scope of [...]
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englischClassical economics has failed to adequately describe how markets function because equilibrium curves have never truly reflected the complex reality of economic activity. ”Competition and Society” therefore describes the process of competition as a sequence of ever-changing competitive [...]
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englischThe new form of welfare state, which encourages people to actively seek work, and its organisations, which are run according to economic criteria, are the results of far-reaching reforms. What effect have those reforms had on the day-to-day running of advisory and employment organisations? [...]
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englischThis book investigates the mechanisms employed in authoritarian countries to generate consent at the workplace level, using the examples of automobile plants in China and Russia.
It focuses on three main mechanisms used to create consent: socialisation mechanisms responsible for the [...]
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