LABOUR STANDARDS AND THE “RACE TO THE BOTTOM”: RETHINKING GLOBALISATION AND WORKERS RIGHTS FROM DEVELOPMENTAL AND SOLIDARISTIC PERSPECTIVES ESRC Centre for Business Research‚ University of Cambridge Working Paper No. 279 By Professor Ajit Singh Faculty of Economics and Politics University of Cambridge Cambridge CB3 9DE Email: as14@econ.cam.ac.uk Tel: +44 1223 350434 Fax: +44 1223 740479 and Ann Zammit Independent Consultant currently with UN Research Institute for Social Development
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GENERAL SOCIOLOGY/SOCIETY CULTURE “ETHNIC GROUPS AND RACISM” I. INTRODUCTION Race and ethnicity are important concepts in the field of sociology and are ones that are studied a great deal. Race plays a large role in everyday human interactions and sociologists want to study how‚ why‚ and what the outcomes are of these interactions. A race is a human population that is believed to be distinct in some way from other humans based on real or imagined physical
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INDENT It was my first race of the season on the no-cut cross country team and when I crossed the finish line‚ I nearly collapsed. By the next race‚ I knew that I wanted to improve. After the second race‚ I looked at my time and as usual‚ I came in last place. Having the least athletic experience on the team‚ it did not surprise me. However‚ what came as a shock to me was that it would be a personal win. INDENT The starting gun fired and it felt as if everything was in slow motion. The clatter of
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skin‚ but we all belong to one human race” ! He worked as an Assistant Secretary General in the United Nations in 1947‚ then was given the role of Secretary General‚ that is‚ the leader of the UN in 1997. Kofi Annan went on to achieve the noble peace prize in 2001‚ for his work ‘to achieve a better organised and peaceful world.’ The famous quote “we may have different religions‚ different languages‚ different coloured skin‚ but we all belong to one human race” contextualises Kofi Annan’s values
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love‚ one must choose to yield body and soul in order to yield the destiny of the future. Often‚ when society faces great opposition‚ man chooses to act upon his God given convictions as he relates them to the hurts of people. One such man was George Washington. Preparing for greatness every step of the way‚ Washington developed God graced courage and humility through every crisis that he faced as he lead the colonial people to freedom and stature among the nations of the world. It is evident
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Critical Race Theory and the perceptions of ‘Otherness’ - A case study consisting of the students and the lecturers in the Faculty of Engineering. Gundo .V. Maswime1‚ Belinda Johnson2 School of Politics‚ University of KwaZulu-Natal‚ Howard College Campus KEYWORDS: Otherness Critical race theory Binary paradigm Vygotsky’s theory Piaget’s theory Thomas‘s Theorem A B S T R A C T This action research paper explores the perceptions
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The space race‚ a race to see who could make it to space first. It had origin ties to the arms race between America and the Soviet Union. The purpose of this research paper will be to get information on just what the space race was. Along with that‚ the following questions will be answered: What events lead up prior to the space race? What was America’s and the Soviet Union’s involvement in it? And finally‚ what were the end results of the Space Race? What was the space race? It was a competition
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* * * * * * * * ESSAY QUESTION: * * * What role did civilisation‚ the enlightenment period and the pursuit of science play in the creation of Slavery and Race Degeneration? * * With reference to at least two text discuss how and why race slavery was utilised and whether it must be interconnected with civilisation itself to exist. Difference and creation of othering to exemplify freedom has existed long before the enlightenment period utilised
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Introduction This essay discusses and provides a critical analysis of George Simmel’s (1858-1918) concept of culture and further discussed with a critical analysis on Modern and Money Culture. Simmel was a leading early twentieth century European-German scholar who had an apparent and solid influence on sociology in the United States. Although Simmel is classically labelled as a sociologist‚ the depth and breadth of his interest such as philosophy‚ sociology‚ socio-psychology‚ aesthetics‚ cultural
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The poem "Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes purposefully is reminiscent of Walt Whitman’s "I Hear America Singing" in which Whitman is optimistic about this land of democratic opportunity. Hughes‚ however‚ writing from a black man’s perspective‚ is much less optimistic about what American has been or will be. While Whitman’s’ poem was very unstructured in blank verse‚ Hughes’s poem is more tightly controlled with rhyme‚ tone‚ rhetorical questions‚ and more unified with repeated anaphora
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