Having it all overseas: Aid workers and the international division of reproductive labour

This article examines the dynamics of power and privilege at work in international development through the prism of domestic service for expat aid workers in developing countries. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork amid aid workers and their domestic staff in Dakar, Senegal, I argue that access to affordable care work greatly enhances the lives of women who work overseas in development. The postcolonial underdevelopment and poverty that aid work addresses is paradoxically critical to the aid workers' own access to affordable care, family balance and the means to do their jobs. I put this insight into the larger scholarly conversation about domestic work and global inequality, including on the Global Care Chain.     

The context of employment discrimination: interpreting the findings of a field experiment

Although field experiments have documented the contemporary relevance of discrimination in employment, theories developed to explain the dynamics of differential treatment cannot account for differences across organizational and institutional contexts. In this article, I address this shortcoming by presenting the main empirical findings from a multi‐method research project, in which a field experiment of ethnic discrimination in the Norwegian labour market was complemented with forty‐two in‐depth interviews with employers who were observed in the first stage of the study. While the experimental data support earlier findings in documenting that ethnic discrimination indeed takes place, the qualitative material suggests that theorizing in the field experiment literature have been too concerned with individual and intra‐psychic explanations. Discriminatory outcomes in employment processes seems to be more dependent on contextual factors such as the number of applications received, whether requirements are specified, and the degree to which recruitment procedures are formalized. I argue that different contexts of employment provide different opportunity structures for discrimination, a finding with important theoretical and methodological implications.     

Ethnicity, migration and health: A population-based study of 338 refugees from Latin America, 396 nonrefugee immigrants from Finland and 161 from southern Europe and 996 age-, sex- and education-matched controls from Sweden

This article shows the influence of being a refugee from Latin America or a nonrefugee immigrant from southern Europe or Finland on self-reported illness, controlling for social factors and lifestyle. The study population consisted of 338 Latin American refugees, a random sample of 396 Finnish and 161 southern European immigrants and 996 age-, sex- and education-matched Swedish controls. The data were analysed unmatched with logistic regression (multivariate analysis) in main effect models. The strongest independent risk indicator for long-term illness was being a Latin American refugee (estimated odds ratio (OR)=2.96, 95% confidence interval (CI)=2.19–3.82). There was a significant association between being a Latin American refugee and period prevalence, ill health and unsatisfied need for care. Being a southern European or Finnish immigrant was a risk indicator of ill health but was not associated with the other dependent factors. Not feeling secure in daily life was a strong risk indicator for long-term illness and ill health (estimated OR=1.89, 95% CI=1.26–2.76 and OR=3.04, 95% CI= 1.97–4.48) respectively). Being a Latin American refugee was equal in importance to traditional risk factors such as overweight and not taking regular exercise for long-term illness and ill health.     

重庆市都市区人中就业现状及变化趋势

都市区作为重庆经济的核心区域,随着经济的快速发展以及城市化进程的加快,正对人口产生巨大的聚集效应,而人口就业将成为一个十分突出的问题。因此,准确把握劳动力供求变动趋势十分重要。为此通过模型运算,对2000-2020年的都市区劳动年龄人口和劳动力的供求变动趋势进行了预测分析。     

试论美术文化中的技术理性

无论从劳动产品的角度看,还是从社会的角度看,技术都是理性的表现;产品的生产过程,是一种技术展现的过程,即生产者的个性标记通过技术展现的过程,因此,技术本身也具有理性。理性的技术促进了人类社会的发展。     

“民工荒”：产业结构升级的契机——透视“民工荒”现象

在我国农村大量剩余劳动力需要转移、城市就业形势严峻的情况下,我国东南沿海地区出现"民工荒"现象值得关注。对此问题,众多学者曾从不同角度进行了分析,但大多是就现象而论。这里则从产业结构升级与相应的人力资源素质关系分析出发,认为"民工荒"是民工素质与产业结构升级不适应的结果,其根源在于民工双重身份所衍生的诸多问题,对此背后之原因进行了深入分析,同时就"民工荒"现象带来的警示进行了揭释。     

河南农业经济结构调整对农业劳动力的挑战

河南是农业大省,要使河南农业进一步发展,农民收入进一步增加,河南农业经济必须进行结构调整。农业经济结构调整的主体是农业劳动力,而农业劳动力素质,特别是农业劳动力文化素质的高低则成为河南农业经济结构调整的关键。文中重点分析了河南省农业劳动力文化素质的现状及与农业经济结构调整要求的差距,最后提出了提高河南省农业劳动力文化素质的对策。     

论拉伦茨氏裁判方法的实质

使用传统的判案理论系统分析了拉伦茨氏的方法论体系。指出，拉伦茨氏方法论的基础是欧洲传统“名判”逻辑，其设定目标乃个案公决。拉伦茨氏强调了法官“续造法”的权力。所续造的“法”不是条法，而是曾经自主运用诸条法的模式，它理应有“现行法”的拘束力。“条法库”的缺漏由审判员以法律运用技术补足。诸准则之不谐或与宪法条法的不谐需赖“法益衡量”调谐。分析结论是，拉伦茨氏片面突出法官的自主地位，其方法论在本质上是现代法治社会一种尚需调制的折衷系统。     

马克思生产劳动理论与SNA生产理论的比较研究

认为马克思关于生产劳动的内涵和外延的界定是随着生产目的和生产关系的变化而变化的 ,是分三个层次展开的 ,由此产生了不同外延的生产劳动概念。SNA的生产理论是确定 GDP生产范围的理论基础 ,它对生产活动的界定相当于马克思第一层次中的生产劳动 ,由此确定的GDP生产范围是非常广的     

劳动扬弃资本——《1844年经济学哲学手稿》中的私有制批判

私有制是马克思主义哲学的一个重要范畴 ,而对这个范畴进行理论批判起始于《184 4年经济学哲学手稿》。在《184 4年经济学哲学手稿》中 ,马克思认为异化劳动必然产生私有财产 ,私有财产反过来又定会造成新的异化 ,因而 ,要反对异化劳动必须同时反对私有财产。而反对私有财产 ,不是反对所有的私有财产 ,反对的只应是人格化的奴役人、奴役劳动的资本。所以 ,最终的出路只能是共产主义