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Solidarity and social behaviour: how did this help communities to manage COVID-19 pandemic?
Tập 40 Số 9/10 - Trang 1183-1200 - 2020
PurposeDuring the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic lockdowns, stay at home or
work from home, many have argued that the westernised non-pharmaceutical
interventions (NPI) do not provide remedial in low-income countries like
Nigeria, where informal job seekers, street traders, informal labourers and
artisans depend mainly on the informal economy. By applying social solidarity
(SS) and community-base...
Retirement concerns and financial literacy in Brunei
Tập 40 Số 3/4 - Trang 342-365 - 2020
PurposeDespite the inclusion of financial literacy in retirement studies, there
are limited studies that look into retirement concerns and how financial
literacy plays a role in managing retirement concerns. Understanding retirement
concerns prior to retirement is important given how it affects retirement
satisfaction. Therefore, this paper aims at assessing the retirement concerns in
Brunei and t...
Population and environment by 2000AD – a social manifesto
Tập 20 Số 8 - Trang 55-68 - 2000
Considers the consequences of population growth in relation to space, resources
and conflict. Covers environmental issues such as water and pollution. Uses
India in the year 2000 as a case study, looking at areas such as housing,
agriculture, transport, water, food and environment. Discusses the plans of the
country and concludes that an integrated plan for population with development is
needed to...
IS THERE A ‘CRISIS’ IN THE WELFARE STATE?
- 1981
Most contemporary British social policies have developed within an institutional
and intellectual framework which is commonly referred to as the welfare state,
and which first became firmly established in Britain after the second world war
at the beginning of a period of historically high rates of economic growth. The
embodiment of social policies within a particular set of public institutions
req...
MANAGEMENT AND LABOUR IN TRANSITION: THE CASE OF ZIMBABWE
Tập 6 Số 2 - Trang 83-102 - 1986
The way in which management and related personnel practices contribute to the
organisation and control of the labour process during a period of political
change intended to move towards socialism is examined. Rhodesia's colonial
history and the position of foreign and multinational corporations in the
economy have been determining the changes taking place in employing
organisations. Workplace demo...
COMPUTERS IN HUMAN SERVICES: INHERENT SOCIAL VALUES AND USER INVOLVEMENT
- 1990
Arriving at England in 1830 and being confronted with the newest technology of
early industrialism, the Danish philosopher and historian, Bishop N.F.S.
Grundtvig, realised at once that technology is something more than “speechless
nature”. Technology is also the incarnation of human and social nature, which
you don't need to be a technician to be able to appreciate. Actually it is
tempting to say ...
Lay Characteristics and Religious Attitudes in the Church in Wales
Tập 13 Số 8 - Trang 50-66 - 1993
In 1920 that part of the Church of England located in Wales was disestablished
and became an autonomous and self‐governing Province of the Anglican communion.
It owes its name “The Church in Wales” to two main considerations: it could not
be called the Church of Wales because the argument for disestablishment was that
the Welsh people were predominantly nonconformist; it could not be called the
Ch...
Women's work interruptions and career prospects in Germany and Sweden
Tập 32 Số 9/10 - Trang 561-575 - 2012
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to focus on two welfare state regimes with
differing degrees of de‐familialisation strategies, Germany and Sweden, to study
whether and how women's career interruptions influence their labour market
prospects. By comparing women with continuous careers to those with
discontinuous careers due to: parental leave or homemaking; unemployment; or
other reasons, the a...
Social capital in a tolerant society? a response to treasurer Costello’s presentation to the Sydney Institute
Tập 24 Số 1/2 - Trang 1-20 - 2004
On 16 July 2003 the Australian Government’s Treasurer, the Honourable Peter
Costello, addressed the Sydney Institute on his vision for a tolerant Australian
society. Drawing from Putnam’s research Costello argued that tolerance will flow
from an active voluntary sector. However, Costello’s proposed model for a
“tolerant” society fails to acknowledge that all behaviour is strategic and that
volunta...
Barriers to outsourcing domestic chores in dual‐earner households
- 2010
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the reasons women living in
dual‐earner households give for not outsourcing domestic chores so as to
understand better the barriers to the outsourcing of domestic
labour.Design/methodology/approachThe analysis is based on a web questionnaire
survey amongst 550 staff of a large service‐sector employer in the UK. Using the
Likert scale, reasons why hous...