... , and also at how the various stories fitted together into the one that we delivered with such assertive nonchalance at the many workplaces we visited. Mikhail Bakhtin had a way of describing this. Morson and Emerson (1989: 17-18) point to the distinction Bakhtin draws between knowledge and acknowledgement. Many writers, as my colleagues and I had done, take theories and "knowledge" as representative ... argument is that through the use of these reified concepts for analysing workplace change much of what is important about the experience of being a worker in the late 1990's, about the e...

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... sub-group's position in the international labour market, by differences in power blocs and all in relation to international legal systems and organizations of power which set their own regulations or policies. By no means all states are integrated similarly into the movement that seems to be underway ... major economic and political power with the breakup of its principal adversary in the Soviet Union of old. However, as Lipset warned just before the term Globalization began to be familiar to people throughout the world, America's economic history is one which has encouraged what Engels r...

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THE SOUTH AFRICAN ECONOMY Brief economic history During the 1960s the South African economy expanded at an annual average rate of 5,5 percent and experienced average inflation of 2,4 percent. This compared with annual growth of 5,0 percent in industrialised Organisation for Economic Corporation and Development (OECD) countries and inflation of 2,9 percent. Dollar per capita income grew 73 percent during the decade. The 1970s were turbulent ... average annual depreciation has been just under 7 percent. The longer-term policy objective is to bring South Africa's inflation rate down to the same ...

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... be solved by an organization acting alone. Such partnerships represent "social problem-solving mechanisms among organizations from more than one economic sector" Waddock (1989). The stakeholder theory originated as an alternative theory of the firm, with the organization as the focus for the stakeholder relationship. Social partnerships, in contract, are unique as a relational form in the several ... the social partnership in Barbados can be judged to be successful. This in part can be contributed to the prevailing socio-cultural environment in the country. Barbados has had no history of ...

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... export coffee was long limited by an export quota system. When this system was abandoned in July 1989 and control over the production and marketing of coffee taken away from the Coffee Board of Kenya (CBK) in October 1992, Kenya greatly increased coffee sales. The coffee industry is now ... the Foreign Investment Protection Act (FIPA) in 1964, which guarantees the investor the right to transfer profits, dividends and capital out of Kenya. A number of development finance institutions, intended to cater for small and large-scale industries, were also established. The government is current...

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... to import plants and expand heavy industry could not be sustained" (Shirk 35). Deng took advantage of this economic crisis to discredit Hua and aim for leadership of the party. "Reform policies became Deng's platform against Hua for post-Mao leadership" (Shirk 36). Given this history of economic reform, it is evident that "under the present system economic questions are necessarily political questions" ( ... Dorn 43). Once Deng and his faction had prevailed, it was necessary for some sort of economic reform to evolve. The initial form the new economy took was not a radical one ... CCP ha...

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... accounted for a relatively large share of the employment reductions, more so than previous recessions. Levels decreased form July 1989 to June 1992 by a total of 22.5 percent. The magnitude of this drop was twice that of the average decrease. About one year before the start of the recession an about ½ year ... before the contraction, the number of discouraged workers began to increase. In ... before a recession was announced. Since March 2001 1.5 million jobs have been eliminated. Even before the layoffs began, corporate profits began a descent of record proportions. Many jobs were no...

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