Ratcheting Labor Standards: Regulation for Continuous Improvement in the Global Workplace

Ratcheting Labor Standards: Regulation for Continuous Improvement in the Global Workplace

Executive Summary It is a brute fact of contemporary globalization—unmistakable as activists and journalists catalog scandal after scandal—that the very transformations making possible higher quality, cheaper products often lead to unacceptable conditions of work: brutal use of child labor, dangerous environments, punishingly long days, starvation wages, discrimination, suppression of expressio...

The race to China and implications for global labor standards.

Global Labor Standards: their impact and implementation

This paper reviews the critical issues concerning the establishment of a global system of labor standards. Global labor standards have gained a renewed prominence in policy debates with the rise of the new international division of labor, in which developing countries are producing an ever-increasing share of the world’s manufactured exports. This paper takes a close look at the research and th...

Continuous Improvement Framework for Global Software Development

Overview and Motivation Rapid development of the telecommunication industry progressively introduces new and enhanced functionalities into existing software systems thus increasing the system size and complexity. The software systems of telecommunication equipment become very large software systems where high reliability requirements are even harder to reach. The most common project type for de...

the search for the self in becketts theatre: waiting for godot and endgame

this thesis is based upon the works of samuel beckett. one of the greatest writers of contemporary literature. here, i have tried to focus on one of the main themes in becketts works: the search for the real "me" or the real self, which is not only a problem to be solved for beckett man but also for each of us. i have tried to show becketts techniques in approaching this unattainable goal, base...