Despite nearly three decades of ostensibly pro-employer economic reforms in India, trade union membership and density India appear to have risen. Although similar trends been reported investigated other emerging economies such as China South Africa, the revival thesis is yet be fully explored. Using large-scale official survey data from 1993–1994 2011–2012 primary collected through 56 interview...

The past inflexibility of international banks in granting concessions (like elimination of surcharges, partial debt cancellations, lower interest rates, etc.) is linked by Ortiz to case-by-case strategy adopted in debt renegotiations. Within this context, the fear of setting precedents is seen as a major explanation in the banks' negotiating stance. To renew political commitment to the improvem...

The spectacular revival of economic sociology in the US in the 1980s and in Europe at the beginning of the 21st century will be regarded as part of a paradigm shift in social sciences. Whereas classical sociology almost always dealt with normatively defined situations and value-based actions in which individual decisions, interests, and other situational aspects disappear from view, neo-classic...

Introduction he new Russian president repeatedly has claimed that the economic revival of Russia is the principal goal of his administration. After an initial period of uncertainty, the policies that Putin and his aides have chosen to improve the economic performance of the country have become clearer. They are (1) a “strong state,” able to enforce the rule of law, and (2) a liberal economic po...

Literary works are the carriers of many regulations, values, norms, beliefs, structures and existential, cultural, and social aspects of their time. Many of the social and cultural realities of past centuries embedded within the extant literary works of those centuries can be identified and followed through. The critical approach in discourse analysis of literary texts provides a more precise k...