Exploring Sex Traders Status in Labour Relations

Ethnic Diversity: Exploring the Status of Asian-American Public Relations

Using in-depth interview, this study attempted to explore the current status, concerns, barriers and roles of Asian-American public relations practitioners in the United States. The findings of the study show that while many are satisfied with their current careers in public relations, Asian-American practitioners confirmed the existence of racial and gender stereotypes that may challenge full ...

The Crisis of Labour Relations in Germany

It is generally agreed amongst academic commentators that the combined pressures of increased international product market competition, market deregulation and unification have severely strained the German ‘model’ of industrial relations (e.g. Goodhart, 1994; Carlin and Soskice, 1997; Gall, 1997; Streeck, 1997). Employers’ fear of the relative decline of German industrial competitiveness have p...

Individual and Collective Regulation of Labour Relations

Proposals for the reform of labour legislation have been central to the reform agenda of international financial institutions, most particularly the World Bank, and have been pressed particularly on the governments of countries which formerly have had socialist or social democratic forms of labour market regulation. This reform agenda is based on a neo-liberal conception of the labour market, a...

Performance-related Pay and Labour Relations in German Municipalities

Exploring Time Relations in Semantic Graphs

The analysis of temporal relationships in large amounts of graph data has gained significance in recent years. Information providers such as journalists seek to bring order into their daily work when dealing with temporally distributed events and the network of entities, such as persons, organisations or locations, which are related to these events. In this paper we introduce a time-oriented gr...