Change in the Chilean social model

Chile modernized its social model in two stages characterized by different strategies: developmentalism (1924–73) and the Washington Consensus (1973–2008). In the first stage, the State pursued both social policies of universal coverage and land reform, while also building up the country's economic and institutional infrastructure. After the 1973 military coup, some public services were dismantled and privatized, and the labour movement was suppressed. Since the end of the dictatorship in 1990, resistance to state regulation and an anti‐labour bias have persisted, albeit to a diminishing degree due to advances in democratization and, latterly, the current world economic crisis.     

“三合一”型政府管理模式:现实与理论的全景式展示

建设法治型政府、责任型政府和服务型政府是我国政府进行政府改革的有益尝试,是用新的价值取向和路径选择对传统政府管理模式进行根本性或方向性的调整.本文将对这三种政府管理模式作一番现实考量和理论分析,以求正确处理好它们之间的关系,努力彰显出它们在目前我国市场经济发展水平和社会整体发展水平中的本色和个性,并使其相辅相成、相互促进,塑造"三合一"型政府管理模式,可以实现社会理想的崇高意蕴,契合"和谐社会"的构建,这对促进我国经济社会协调发展和全面进步,具有重大的理论和实践意义.     

Oiling the wheels? Flexible labour markets and the migration industry

ABSTRACT

The growing commercialisation of migration, often through a multiplicity of labour market intermediaries, is an issue of increasing academic interest. We seek to contribute to an emerging research agenda on the migration industries by exploring how one of the key actors that constitutes it, recruitment agencies, sits at the nexus between flexible labour market structures and migrant labour. Interviews with U.K. labour providers and low-wage employers form the evidence base for an analysis of the strategies developed by recruiters to derive commercial gain from connecting the so-called ‘supply’ and ‘demand’ sides of the flexible international labour market. We seek to contribute to understandings of the analytical categories within migration systems by illustrating how the migration industry interacts with other key stakeholders to structure international migration.     

全面建设小康社会与加快民族地区发展

民族地区地域广大 ,资源丰富 ,潜在市场广阔 ,在全面建设小康社会中具有十分重要的战略地位。同时 ,民族地区经济社会发展的滞后又给全面建设小康社会带来了许多困难。只有切实克服这些困难和问题 ,才能有效地推进全面建设小康社会的伟大事业。应加大国家的扶持力度 ,认真贯彻党的民族政策 ,解放思想 ,发挥优势 ,依靠科技进步 ,采取一系列措施 ,实现民族地区的跨越式发展。     

跨跃式发展是黑龙江省民族地区全面建设小康社会的关键

本文在分析黑龙江省民族地区社会经济发展存在的差距基础之上,提出跨跃式发展是黑龙江省实现全面建设小康社会的关键,同时就促使民族地区社会经济跨跃式发展阐述了自己的看法。     

论我国民族地区的跨越式发展

跨越式发展是民族发展的一种形式,也是加快我国民族地区经济文化发展的有效途径。文章结合我国国情,分析了我国民族地区要实现跨越式发展的原因和条件,并提出了具体措施和建议。     

关于西部农民基本法律意识结构的调查分析--以西宁市y村为例

分析西部农民的法律意识结构,对西部社会政治文明的建设具有基础意义。文章通过对西宁y村的典型实证分析,认为西部农民法律信仰的生成理应根植于法律的生活化积淀,因此要逐渐改变农民是法治社会的边缘人的传统,将他们推至法律生活的前台,以培养法治实现所必须的最深厚的民众基础。     

Becoming cosmopolitan: encountering difference in a city of mobile labour

ABSTRACT

Many who move countries today do so for work, and labour mobility – both temporary and permanent – is the mechanism by which countless people (both movers and stayers) come into contact with cultural difference. The domain of mobile labour is thus an important context through which to consider the transformative possibilities of encounters with racial and cultural difference. Situated within debates on everyday multi-culture and vernacular cosmopolitanisms, this essay considers the question of intercultural encounter at work in relation to the layered histories of race and variegated citizenships of mobile labour in Singapore. Exploring the micro-nature of cosmopolitan practices, the paper considers under what labour conditions might an outward-looking cosmopolitan sensibility and a convivial openness to otherness emerge among migrant workers, as against a set of survival-based intercultural capacities. I reflect specifically upon two cases of ‘incongruous encounter’ in workplaces reliant on precariously employed migrant labour: a mainland Chinese man and a Filipina woman who, because of Singapore’s racialised system of work visas, find themselves working in South Asian restaurants in Singapore’s Little India. They both engage ‘cosmopolitan practices’, yet their sensibilities differ sharply. Their stories highlight how, in a place like Singapore, the ‘encounter’ needs to be understood within a regime of mobile labour, situated racial hierarchies, and a highly stratified system of work visas. I further suggest that situational factors such as the nature of work including its spatial and temporal qualities, the mixture of co-workers, and recognition relations with superiors all mattered in framing the affective atmospheres of encounter. In a context of forced encounter, I argue that learnt capacities to function and interact across difference should not necessarily be romanticised as a cosmopolitan sensibility.     

元代回族诗人萨都剌与道教

元代萨都刺《雁门集》中保存有数十首涉道诗,是萨都刺寻访江南道教的历史记录。萨都刺作为东来的回回人,注意了解中国传统的儒释道文化。他足迹遍及江南道教名山宫观,与道门人士结为方外之友,这反映出在多元一体的中国社会中,不同民族宗教间的对话与交流。     

Female Labor Supply,Human Capital,and Welfare Reform

We estimate a dynamic model of employment, human capital accumulation—including education, and savings for women in the United Kingdom, exploiting tax and benefit reforms, and use it to analyze the effects of welfare policy. We find substantial elasticities for labor supply and particularly for lone mothers. Returns to experience, which are important in determining the longer‐term effects of policy, increase with education, but experience mainly accumulates when in full‐time employment. Tax credits are welfare improving in the U.K., increase lone‐mother labor supply and marginally reduce educational attainment, but the employment effects do not extend beyond the period of eligibility. Marginal increases in tax credits improve welfare more than equally costly increases in income support or tax cuts.