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Regolamentare il lavoro agricolo e il mercato del lavoro per prevenire lo sfruttamento: la prospettiva italiana
Get PDFThe paper tries to answer to the question of how to promote a preventive approach to labour exploitation and, consequently, the necessary steps to facilitate a multi-dimensional regulatory system. We begin by offering a literature review on the topic of the regulation of agricultural work, from a multidimensional perspective, outlining global regulatory challenges and specific contextual responses. Next, we provide a brief insight into recruitment mechanisms within the farm industry and its effects on farm workers. We look at the role of the public services and private intermediaries, while also briefly highlighting main structural and critical aspects of Italian’s job placement services. In this scenario, technological solutions have been promoted to facilitate the matching of job supply and demand. The key issue concerns the following: are these services and measures able to encourage the interaction between employer and employee and respond to the recent demand for a skilled, trained and regular workforce? Although the scope of this question is too wide to address in a single essay, evidence from our research suggests that they are necessary but non-sufficient. We will then analyze and critically evaluate several regulatory instruments, from aspects of collective regulation and representation of workers to institutional instruments put in place to enhance self-regulatory practices (the so-called Rete del Lavoro Agricolo di Qualità and Regional approaches to incentivize labour law compliance and responsible business operations) and the experience of voluntary approaches in the absence of institutional support. In conclusion, we draw from the analysis and the critical reflection to suggest possible regulatory solutions and intervention and to develop guidelines for policy makers and labour scholars. In particular, we support the idea of a necessary integrated and multidimensional regulatory approach, to combine labour law regulation and repressive measures with a system of shared governance and increased businesses participation, alongside with the need to create local regulatory forums and enhance social dialogue.El presente articulo aborda la cuestión de la promoción de un sistema de prevención de la explotación laboral, cuestionando los pasos necesarios para el desarrollo de un sistema de regulación multidimensional.
En primer lugar, la contribución ofrece una visión general de la literatura sobre el tema de la regulación del trabajo agrícola desde una perspectiva multidimensional, esbozando tanto los desafíos globales como las respuestas locales específicas. En segundo lugar, se ofrece un breve enfoque sobre los mecanismos de contratación en el mercado laboral agrícola y los efectos producidos en los trabajadores. En particular, se examina el papel fundamental de los servicios públicos y de los intermediarios privados, y también destacamos los aspectos estructurales y los puntos críticos del sistema italiano de servicios de empleo. Sobre este tema in particular, la contribución se centra en el análisis de soluciones tecnológicas innovadoras para mejorar el mecanismo de adecuación de la oferta y la demanda de trabajo. La pregunta clave es: ¿son estos servicios capaces de fomentar la interacción entre empresarios y trabajadores y de responder a la creciente demanda de mano de obra regular, especializada y formada?
Los resultados de nuestra investigación sugieren que estos sistemas son necesarios pero no suficientes. En este sentido, el análisis se amplía a la evaluación crítica de diversos mecanismos de regulación, desde una perspectiva multidimensional que incluye las herramientas proporcionadas por la negociación colectiva y la representación de los trabajadores, los instrumentos institucionales y las prácticas de autorregulación (la llamada Red de Trabajo Agrícola de Calidad y los instrumentos regionales para la promoción del respeto de los derechos laborales y el emprendimiento responsable). También se tienen en cuenta algunas experiencias puramente voluntarias que se han desarrollado en ausencia de apoyo institucional.
En conclusión, nos basamos en el análisis y la reflexión crítica para sugerir las posibles soluciones normativas y la intervención, para desarrollar directrices para los responsables políticos y los estudiosos del trabajo interesados en el tema. En particular, apoyamos la idea de un necesario enfoque regulador integrado y multidimensional, que combine la regulación del derecho laboral y las medidas represivas con un sistema de gobernanza compartida y una mayor participación de las asociaciones profesionales, junto con la necesidad de crear foros reguladores locales y potenciar el diálogo social.
Il presente contributo affronta il tema della promozione di un sistema di prevenzione del fenomeno dello sfruttamento lavorativo, interrogandosi su quali siano i passaggi necessari per favorire lo sviluppo di un sistema regolatorio multidimensionale. In apertura il contributo offre una panoramica della letteratura sul tema della regolazione del lavoro agricolo in ottica multidimensionale, andando a delineare sia le sfide a livello globale, sia le specifiche risposte locali. Successivamente, si offre un breve focus sui meccanismi di reclutamento nel mercato del lavoro agricolo e sugli effetti prodotti sui lavoratori: in particolare, si guarda al ruolo fondamentale dei servizi pubblici e degli intermediari privati, evidenziando altresì gli aspetti strutturali e le criticità del sistema italiano dei servizi di collocamento. Sul tema, il contributo si concentra inoltre sull’analisi delle soluzioni tecnologiche innovative per il miglioramento del meccanismo di incontro tra domanda e offerta di lavoro. La domanda chiave è la seguente: tali servizi sono capaci di incoraggiare l’interazione tra datori di lavoro e lavoratori e rispondere alla crescente domanda di manodopera regolare, specializzata e formata? Benché la portata di questa domanda sia troppo estesa per poter essere analizzata compiutamente in un solo articolo, i risultati delle nostre ricerche suggeriscono che tali sistemi sono necessari ma non sufficienti. In quest’ottica, l’analisi si allarga ad una valutazione critica di più meccanismi di regolazione, in ottica multidimensionale: dagli strumenti forniti dalla contrattazione collettiva e la rappresentanza dei lavoratori, agli strumenti istituzionali e le pratiche di auto-regolazione (la cosiddetta Rete del lavoro agricolo di qualità e gli strumenti regionali per la promozione del rispetto dei diritti del lavoro e l’imprenditoria responsabile), tenendo conto altresì di talune esperienze di stampo meramente volontario, sviluppatesi in assenza di supporto istituzionale.
In conclusione, si propongono soluzioni regolatorie e interventi al fine di proporre linee guida per policy makers. In particolare, il presente contributo sostiene la necessità dell’adozione di un approccio regolatorio integrato e multidimensionale, che sappia combinare gli strumenti di tutela forniti dal diritto del lavoro e dall’utilizzo dell’apparato repressivo con un sistema di governance condivisa che preveda una più ampia partecipazione delle associazioni di categoria ai processi regolatori per il contrasto allo sfruttamento lavorativo, affiancato dalla creazione di centri di regolazione locali e dalla promozione del dialogo sociale
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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