Constructing Labour Regionalism in Europe and the Americas, 1920s–1970s

Trade Liberalization in the Americas: Are Regionalism and Globalization Compatible?

The experience of Blacks in Europe and the Americas

In this chapter I argue that there are four modes of ethno-somatic stratification in Europe and the Americas: the North American mode of binary mobilization, the Afro-Caribbean mode of pluralistic underdevelopment, the North European mode of proletarian incorporation, and the Latin mode of hegemonic blanqueamiento or whitening.1 Each mode refers to a unique configuration of ethno-racial ideolog...

MT Users and Usage: Europe and the Americas

Does anyone actually use machine translation? That's a question which has reappeared at regular intervals throughout the more than four decades in which people have tried to program computers to translate from one human language to another. The short answer is “yes,” people do—not as much as some might wish, but more than many believe. Success using MT has proven to be an elusive goal for many ...

Unions and Labour Market Institutions in Europe

We investigate the evolution of unionisation, considering both economic and institutional factors. While economists typically study the effects of labour market institutions treating unionisation as given and focusing on rent-seeking motivations, in this paper we study how union membership is itself related to the economic environment and, in particular, to labour market institutions. We argue ...

the relationship between learners critical thinking ability and their performance in the reading sections of the tofel and ielts test

the study reflected in this thesis aims at finding out relationships between critical thinking (ct), and the reading sections of tofel and ielts tests. the study tries to find any relationships between the ct ability of students and their performance on reading tests of tofel and academic ielts. however, no research has ever been conducted to investigate the relationship between ct and the read...