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Urban Agriculture As Embedded In The Social And Solidarity Economy Basel: Developing Sustainable Communities, Isidor Wallimann
Urban Agriculture As Embedded In The Social And Solidarity Economy Basel: Developing Sustainable Communities, Isidor Wallimann
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The Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) is a viable strategy in dealing with some contemporary problems known both in industrial and developing countries. Addressed is how local populations could reach certain objectives and satisfy certain needs using techniques characteristic of SSE and, thus, carve out a social and economic space of their own vis-à-vis anonymous markets, global actors, local and national elites. Illustrated further is this strategy on the example of Urban Agriculture Basel, a unit of the Social Economy Basel. Within this self governed space, it is suggested, a path can be laid for the necessary transition towards local, …
Social And Solidarity Economy For Sustainable Development: Its Premises - And The Social Economy Basel Example Of Practice, Isidor Wallimann
Social And Solidarity Economy For Sustainable Development: Its Premises - And The Social Economy Basel Example Of Practice, Isidor Wallimann
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The SSE is a viable strategy in dealing with some contemporary problems known both in industrial and developing countries. SSE is contextualized against the background of recent developments: The liberalization of goods and capital flows world wide, continued industrialization, and the increased global division of labour. Addressed is how local populations could reach certain objectives and satisfy certain needs using techniques characteristic of SSE and, thus, carve out a social and economic space of their own vis-à-vis anonymous markets, global actors, local and national elites. Within this self governed space, it is suggested, a path can be layed for the …
Assessing Past Strategies For Countering Terrorism, In Lebanon And By Libya, Louis Kriesberg
Assessing Past Strategies For Countering Terrorism, In Lebanon And By Libya, Louis Kriesberg
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American strategies to deal with terrorist attacks against Americans in Lebanon in the 1980s and by Libya since the beginning of the 1980s are examined. The consequences of the various strategies employed by U.S. government officials over time and the strategies employed by American non-governmental actors and by international organizations are compared. In addition, alternative strategies that might plausibly have been employed are also discussed. Official actions that relied largely on military methods and were conducted unilaterally tended to be less effective, even counterproductive, compared to actions that were multilateral and relied significantly on diplomatic approaches, often aided by intermediaries.
Transforming Intractable Conflicts, Louis Kriesberg
Transforming Intractable Conflicts, Louis Kriesberg
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No abstract provided.
On The Edge Of Scarcity: Environment, Resources, Population, Sustainability, And Conflict, Michael N. Dobkowski, Isidor Wallimann
On The Edge Of Scarcity: Environment, Resources, Population, Sustainability, And Conflict, Michael N. Dobkowski, Isidor Wallimann
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These essays address one of the most pressing and significant issues that humanity has confronted to date - the lack of life-sustaining resources. Michael N. Dobkowski and Isidor Wallimann establish a disturbing but realistic scenario of the disastrous future that awaits humankind as surplus populations collide with dwindling resources. Authors consider a number of cause-and-effect situations on industrialization, biophysical limits, exponential population growth, and genocide, to name a few. This volume is a critical contribution to the field and will serve as an ideal introduction to courses in the environment, population, resources, genocide, and social conflict.
Can The World Industrialization Project Be Sustained?, Isidor Wallimann
Can The World Industrialization Project Be Sustained?, Isidor Wallimann
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No abstract provided.
Misreading Weber: The Concept Of 'Macht', Isidor Wallimann
Misreading Weber: The Concept Of 'Macht', Isidor Wallimann
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Max Weber's definition of power (Macht), as presented in English texts, is examined in the light of the German original. Differences and discussed and an attempt is made to convey the sense of Weber's original definition. Examples of research based on operationalizations of earlier versions are then evaluated
Prostitution And Changing Morality In The Frontier Cattle Towns Of Kansas, Isidor Wallimann, Carol Leonard
Prostitution And Changing Morality In The Frontier Cattle Towns Of Kansas, Isidor Wallimann, Carol Leonard
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No abstract provided.
Alienation — In Marx And Modern Empirical Sociology, Isidor Wallimann
Alienation — In Marx And Modern Empirical Sociology, Isidor Wallimann
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Inhalt: Die Arbeit nimmt die Diskussion zu Marx’ Konzept der Entfremdung wieder auf und kommt zu dem Ergebnis, daß zwischen den Ansichten des Jungen“ und des „alten“ Marx keine grundsätzlichen Unterschiede bestehen. Sie behauptet, daß Marx’ Konzept sich ausschließlich als objektive Definition verstehen läßt und es unter der Voraussetzung, daß dieses Konzept aufrechterhalten werden soll, unmöglich ist, in Entfremdung als solcher die Ursache jeweils bestimmter Verhaltensweisen, Erfahrungen, Einstellungen und Gefühle anzusetzen. Die genannten Schlußfolgerungen werden auch hinsichtlich des Marxschen Konzeptes des „wahren Bewußtseins“ geltend gemacht, wobei hier wie dort auf unangemessene, ja inkorrekte Übersetzungen von MARX hingewiesen wird. Die Arbeit …
Toward A Theoretical Understanding Of Ethnic Antagonism: The Case Of The Foreign Workers In Switzerland, Isidor Wallimann
Toward A Theoretical Understanding Of Ethnic Antagonism: The Case Of The Foreign Workers In Switzerland, Isidor Wallimann
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Inhalt: Der Import ausländischer Arbeitskraft (vor allem aus Südeuropa) ist für die nordeuropäischen Länder in der Zeit nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg zum gemeinsamen Merkmal geworden. Ein vorrangiges Beispiel ist die Schweiz. Die Probleme, die mit dieser Wanderung von Arbeitskraft verbunden sind, sind vielfältiger Natur. Zu den Hauptproblemen gehört die Diskriminierung ausländischer Arbeitnehmer durch die einheimische Bevölkerung. Die Ursprünge dieser Diskriminierung können theoretisch mithilfe tauschtheoretischer Prämissen - und unter Beachtung der Konsequenzen, die Wettbewerb auf dem Arbeitsmarkt nach sich zieht - erklärt werden. Im Rahmen einer derartigen Analyse kann zugleich gezeigt werden, in welcher Weise die verschiedenen Formen von Diskriminierung, wie …
Reply To Gerald Gordon And Selwyn Becker, "Organizational Size And Managerial Succession: A Re-Examination", Louis Kriesberg
Reply To Gerald Gordon And Selwyn Becker, "Organizational Size And Managerial Succession: A Re-Examination", Louis Kriesberg
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No abstract provided.
Careers, Organization Size, And Succession, Louis Kriesberg
Careers, Organization Size, And Succession, Louis Kriesberg
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The analysis is based upon data from a national study of heads of public health and mental health programs at the state and local levels. Consistent with Grusky's findings, heads of large public health and of large mental health departments at the state level tend to have shorter tenure periods than heads of small departments. Although the positions are filled by political appointment, the professional requirements are sufficiently important that the mechanisms discussed by Grusky can operate. furthermore, the kind of career line, itinerant or home guard, also is relevant; this helps the findings that at the local level length …
Occupational Controls Among Steel Distributors, Louis Kriesberg
Occupational Controls Among Steel Distributors, Louis Kriesberg
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A steel gray market, condemned by the government, flourished in the period following the outbreak of hostilities in Korea. The steel-distribution system was analyzed to understand why some distributors participated in the gray market and others did not. Distributors were typed according to their relationship to the distribution system; each type experienced different degrees of control from suppliers, customers, and colleagues; and the norms prescribed by these agents of control also differed. This analysis then suggested some general observations about the nature of occupational norms and occupational organization.
Retail Furrier: Concepts Of Security And Success, Louis Kriesberg
Retail Furrier: Concepts Of Security And Success, Louis Kriesberg
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The separation of the artisan function into specialized manufacturing, distributing, and retailing occupations has occurred in most trades. In studying a contemporary example of this process, different occupational values were found to be associated with different occupational situations. retail furriers operating custom fur shops think of the secure furrier in self-oriented terms; those operating business fur shops think of the secure furrier in customer-oriented terms. Because of the nature of success in the United States and the social organization of the retail fur trade, less difference was noted in their characterization of the successful furrier.