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Business, Economics & LawJanuary 2023What a waste
Outsourcing and how it goes wrong
by Andrew Bowman, Ismail Ertürk, Peter Folkman, Julie Froud, Colin Haslam, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver, Mick Moran, Nick Tsitsianis, Karel Williams
This is the first ever book to analyse outsourcing - contracting out public services to private business interests. It is an unacknowledged revolution in the British economy, and it has happened quietly, but it is creating powerful new corporate interests, transforming the organisation of government at all levels, and is simultaneously enriching a new business elite and creating numerous fiascos in the delivery of public services. What links the brutal treatment of asylum-seeking detainees, the disciplining of welfare benefit claimants, the profits effortlessly earned by the privatised rail companies, and the fiasco of the management of security at the 2012 Olympics? In a word: outsourcing. This book, by the renowned research team at the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change in Manchester, is the first to combine 'follow the money' research with accessibility for the engaged citizen, and the first to balance critique with practical suggestions for policy reform.
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October 2006Jahrbuch Menschenrechte 2007
Themenschwerpunkt: Privat oder Staat? Menschenrechte verwirklichen!
by Volkmar Deile, Franz-Josef Hutter, Sabine Kurtenbach, Carsten Tessmer
Im Mittelpunkt der neunten Ausgabe des Jahrbuch Menschenrechte steht die Diskussion über das staatliche Gewaltmonopol und die Menschenrechtsverantwortung von Unternehmen. Darf ein Staat seine Macht, seine Exekutive an private Gesellschaften abgeben? Welche Rolle spielen Söldnerheere oder private Sicherheitsfirmen in Gewaltkonflikten? Welche Auswirkungen hat diese Form des Outsourcings auf die Verwirklichung der Menschenrechte? Namhafte Wissenschaftler, Journalisten und Menschenrechtsverteidiger diskutieren im Jahrbuch Konzeptionen, wie Menschenrechte weltweit zu verwirklichen sind.
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April 2016Ecnomic Globalization and the Development of Chinese Industry
by Liu Zhibiao
The book centers on upgrading and transformation of Chinese industries, profoundly discusses the theoretical essence of “The 2nd wave of economic globalization” and opportunities it brings to Chinese industrial upgrading. China should promote the transformation and upgrading of its industries through wider opening-up, structural and institutional adjustments and innovations, so as to ascend to the higher end of global value chain and enjoy the benefts of the 2nd wave of economic globalization. Based on the theory of global value chain, the author argues that China should achieve industrial transformation and upgrading through outsourcing of producer service sectors and regional economic integration, reconstruct the national value chain in the new round of economic globalization to strengthen the international competitiveness of China’s industries and economy.
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Demonstrations & protest movementsJuly 2014Worker protests in post-communist Romania and Ukraine
Striking with tied hands
by Mihai Varga
Worker protests in post-communist Romania and Ukraine is a book about strategies of trade unions confronting employers in difficult conditions. The book's main idea is to study why and how successful forms of workers' interest representation could emerge in a hostile context. The post-communist context makes it difficult for workers and trade unions to mobilise, pose threats to employers, and break out of their political isolation, but even under such harsh conditions strategy matters for defending workers' rights and living standards. The cases studied in this book are 18 conflict episodes at 10 privatised plants in the Romanian steel industry and Ukraine's civil machine-building sector in the 2000s. This book should be relevant for anyone taking interest in how and to what extent workers can reassert their influence over the conditions of production in regions and economic sectors characterised by disinvestment (of which outsourcing and 'lean' methods of production are instances).
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2019Safe as Houses
Grenfell, disaster housing, and the outsourced state
by Stuart Hodkinson
As the tragedy of the Grenfell tower fire has slowly revealed a shadowy background of outsourcing, private finance initiatives and a council turning a blind eye to health and safety concerns, many questions need answers. Stuart Hodkinson has those answers. He has worked for the last decade with residents groups in council regeneration projects across London. As residents have been shifted out of 60s and 70s social housing to make way for higher rent paying newcomers, they have been promised a higher quality of housing. Councils have passed the responsibility for this housing to private consortia who amazingly have been allowed to self-regulate on quality and safety. Residents have been ignored for years on this and only now are we hearing the truth. Stuart will weave together his research on PFIs, regulation and resident action to tell the whole story of how Grenfell happened and how this could easily have happened in multiple locations across the country.
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July 2024The Untold Stories of African Agriculture
Lessons from Ethiopia
by Tsedeke Abate
This landmark volume presents the results of a comprehensive and coherent in-depth assessment of Ethiopian agriculture and draws lessons from it to generate actionable recommendations that will inform policy decisions and priority setting for agricultural transformation across Africa. Policy makers in Africa are faced with the challenges of ensuring food and nutrition security and the economic wellbeing of their rapidly growing populations while at the same time maintaining the integrity of their natural resource base. Between 2000 and 2021, 74% of the growth in overall crop production on the continent was derived from increases in land area expansion, while increases in yield contributed only 26% of the growth. This unchecked expansion of land use puts the sustainability of the natural resource base under severe pressure. Even though some countries have made substantial increases in their farm productivity over the last two decades, the overall performance for Africa is far behind other regions. For the most part, in Africa, agriculture is not fulfilling its expected functions of food and nutrition security, increased export earnings, import substitution, and raw material supply for local industries. Attempts have been made to transform African agriculture over the years, but few countries have succeeded in achieving sustainable change. Using examples from Ethiopia this book identifies the major factors for success and the root causes of underperformance, and offers evidence-based recommendations for future decision making, policy change and the creation of growth. This book: · Draws on a unique set of case studies from Ethiopia described and told from a truly African perspective. · Emphasises to policy makers in Africa that development cannot be outsourced and there are no shortcuts; it is only through consistent effort and sustained support for their agricultural research and development that positive change can be brought about. · States that past agricultural development efforts by the international community have not properly included a strong African voice, and that therefore, all future academic research, policies and strategies dealing with the continent's agriculture and food security should be formulated by Africa's own leading thinkers and experts. · Is not a polemic; its arguments are knowledge and evidence based, building a compelling picture of how agricultural development can be sustained for the future.
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June 2024At the Very Bottom of the System
How migrant workers ensure prosperity for us
by Sascha Lübbe
The author reveals structural problems and offers solutions – an urgently necessary book, not least with a view to the acute shortage of skilled workers 450,000 migrant workers toll on German construction sites, work in sometimes inhumane conditions in meat factories or as truck drivers, and let’s not forget the hordes of cleaners in German hotels and companies. They are systematically exploited and cheated out of their wages. Sascha Lübbe exposes the octopus-like network of partly criminal companies in a shadowy world where the boundary between the legal and the illegal is blurred. In his evocative book with interviews with those aff ected, he reveals how a parallel system has established itself in the German working world, but also how those affected resist.
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October 2024Renunciation and Freedom
Survivial in the future
by Jean-Pierre Wils
The situation in our society is precarious. The ecological shocks are omnipresent. The mere continuation of our lifestyles fixated on expansion and self-development has long since reached its limits. As if intoxicated by ourselves, we consume our world voraciously and without restraint. We need moderation and frugality that lead us out of the ecological and social dead ends and hold both the individual and Politics to account. We are by no means powerless and are perfectly capable of leading a life that offers prospects for a humane future. However, our idea of freedom needs urgent correction. For this endeavour to succeed, we need the courage to face reality and the willingness, in a spirit of solidarity, to say goodbye to a false life and join the alliance of renunciation and freedom. Then we will be free – differently and better.
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Technology: general issuesDecember 2000Outsourcing Management Functions for the Acquisition of Federal Facilities
by Committee on Outsourcing Design and Construction-Related Management Services for Federal Facilities, Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment, National Research Council
In this study outsourcing is defined as the organizational practice of contracting for services from an external entity while retaining control over assets and oversight of the services being outsourced. In the 1980s, a number of factors led to a renewed interest in outsourcing. For private sector organizations, outsourcing was identified as a strategic component of business process reengineering-an effort to streamline an organization and increase its profitability. In the public sector, growing concern about the federal budget deficit, the continuing long-term fiscal crisis of some large cities, and other factors accelerated the use of privatization measures (including outsourcing for services) as a means of increasing the efficiency of government.
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Service outsourcing: A New Drive for the Openning-up of China
by Wang Xiaohong
The book reveals to the readers how service outsourcing helps in terms of openning-up and innovation, and finally overal upgradation of the whole sector in a countr. It also points out the specific path to gradation of service in China under the global digital economy basing on solid case-studying.
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Lifetyle & personal style guidesJanuary 2014Downsize With Style
A 5-Step Process To Create A Happy Home and Refine Your New Lifestyle
by Bettina Deda
Downsize with Style is the first practical guide for empty nesters helping them reduce stress while downsizing, get rid of clutter and excess stuff, prioritise what to keep and optimise storage. Downsize with Style received the following accolades: * Shortlisted – Agent’s Pick of the Month, Andrew Lownie, London, October 2104 * Rated ‘Outstanding’ – Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards, November 2014 * Bronze medal at the 2015 Independent Publisher Book Awards, National category Home & Garden * Finalist 2015 USA Best Book Awards The book is based on an easy-to-follow 5-step process to achieve a stylish and functional home in a more compact space. De-clutter and tidy up Find your personal style Visualise your ideas Layout your space Start decorating Additionally, it covers expert tips from international designers, real estate and removal specialists.
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Loveoid
by JL Morin
This cli-fi love story is a Cygnus 1st Place Sci-fi Award Winner; Book Excellence Award Finalist, Erotica; ScreenCraft Semifinalist (top 12% of submissions); Fish shortlist (top 4% of submissions); Global Thriller Book Awards for High Stakes and Lab Lit Novels shortlist An American euthanasist and an Egyptian astrological farmer delve into the evolution of the collective soul ... as an extremophile virus targets a select few. The twisted scientific changes of our present-day lives catalyze love in parallel universes, as love-lacking predators on top kill off life on earth. Loveoid grapples with the dilemmas of the latest generation of humankind ⎯ that the loving don't survive. In the present-day novel Loveoid, Olivia unravels a virus that only harms the corporate elite. In combat with media, governments and corporations, Olivia finds love, and comes to question her own ideals. The impossibly mixed match encounters life-threatening obstacles, as Khalid elicits her darkest fears, yet lights the way with astrological farming and ancient holistic remedies. Will love allow them to stay human? "Loveoid is a wildly unique and immensely realized science fiction thriller set in a dystopian present in which overpopulation is decimating the Earth and its natural resources at a rapid rate. Additionally, the world of the story is incredibly deep, filled with dense detail and nuance that give the impression of a very realized universe." ⎯ScreenCraft "With a new, scary virus as the backdrop, Olivia and Khalid navigate love, cures, and a different world. A timely novel with an interesting message about love and nature." ⎯Booklist "The smart choice to set this eco-thriller in the present brings home the tenebrous climate prognostications we usually reserve for another year." ⎯Brussels Express "As overpopulation grows, natural resources are depleted, species go extinct, and the polar ice caps continue to melt. People now check into euthanasia hotels to escape a hopeless future.... The story's premise is interesting."⎯Library Journal "Morin's wit can be delicious" ⎯Canberra Times, Australia "I take heart from her ethereal intuition: true love is what eventually will separate man from vegetable." ⎯Andreas Bergsten, Author, The Rift "About time some serious writers and artists grappling with the biggest issue of our time--maybe all time. This story shows that engagement is fully underway!" ⎯Bill McKibben, Founder 350.org JL Morin grew up in inner-city Detroit. She proffered moral support while her parents sacrificed all to a failed system. Wondering what the Japanese were doing right, she decamped to Tokyo. Her debut Japan novel, Sazzae, won an eLit Gold Medal, and a Living Now Book Award. Her second novel, Travelling Light, was a USA Best Book Awards finalist, and her third, Trading Dreams, became ‘Occupy’s first bestselling novel’. Her climate fiction novel, Nature’s Confession, won first place in the Dante Rossetti Book Awards; a Readers’ Favorite Book Award; a LitPick 5-Star Review Award; and an excerpt received an Honorable Mention in the Eco-Fiction Story Contest, published in the Winds of Change anthology of eco-fiction. Her second cli-fi novel, Loveoid, is a Cygnus Sci-fi 1st place winner, among others. Her cli-fi novels are on course syllabi at many universities. Ivy League professors have facilitated discussions with JL Morin’s writing, and it is discussed in textbooks, such as Science Fiction and Climate Change: A Sociological Approach, by Andrew Milner, and J. R. Burgmann, 2020, published by Oxford University Press. Her most recent work, Tuck-a-tuck Dragon, is a diverse rhyming children’s book illustrated by children throughout their childhood from the ages of 2–21. JL Morin’s writing draws on a breadth of experience. She traded derivatives in New York while studying nights for her MBA at New York University’s Stern School of Business; worked for the Federal Reserve Bank posted to the 103rd floor of the World Trade Center; presented the news as a TV broadcaster; and she is adjunct faculty at Boston University. Morin’s fiction has appeared in The Harvard Advocate and Harvard Yisei, and her articles and translations in The Huffington Post, Library Journal, The Detroit News, European Daily, Livonia Observer Eccentric Newspapers, The Harvard Crimson, and Agence France Presse while she worked in their Middle East Headquarters.
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Labour economicsApril 2006
Analyzing the U.S. Content of Imports and the Foreign Content of Exports
by Committee on Analyzing the U.S. Content of Imports and the Foreign Content of Exports, National Research Council
Mass media has frequently covered stories concerning "outsourcing" or the moving of U.S. jobs to foreign locations by U.S. multinational companies. More often than not this "outsourcing" is of benefit to the companies' owners and managers. The discussion has spilled over into the political debate with candidates for national office making statements and suggesting policies for dealing with the issue. Due to the fact that many companies have fragmented the production process, however, it is difficult to examine the effect of "outsourcing"- the transfer of a business function from inside a firm to an outside source, with no reference to borders of countries- and "offshoring"-the movement of jobs that had been in the United States to a foreign location, without regard to business ownership- on the U.S. as many imports contain U.S. parts and many exports contain foreign parts. In the current situation, Congress mandated a study by the National Research Council, which was undertaken by the Committee on Analyzing the U.S. Content of Imports and the Foreign Content of Exports under a contract with the U.S. Department of Commerce. Analyzing the U.S. Content of Imports and the Foreign Content of Exports presents the findings of the committee.The committee refers to the availability and quality of data on the foreign content of U.S. exports and the domestic content of U.S. imports as "the content question." This was not been an easy task as data on actual content simply do not exist.
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Analytical chemistryOctober 2013Bioanalysis for Service Users
by Anne-Francoise Aubry, Jim X Shen
This book provides an important reference resource for users of bioanalytical services and will be helpful to nonexperts who need to interpret bioanalytical data or outsource bioanalytical assays. The eight chapters address many of the difficult issues and challenges in bioanalysis together with the capabilities, applications, advantages and limitations of the main technological platforms utilized. Validation principles and the experimental approaches used to establish validation parameters are explained, as well as the regulatory expectations regarding assay performance during routine sample analysis. Some guidance regarding outsourcing of bioanalytical assays and common assay performance issues and pitfalls is provided to help readers interact more knowledgeably with bioanalytical scientists and better follow investigations in the bioanalytical laboratory.
