This article critically interrogates the meaning of freedom and its current potential relationship with social relations in around work as introduction to this special issue. interrogation is vital given neoliberalism’s evaluative promise for more individual corporate freedom, while concurrently limiting conditions experience/expression workers. Consequently, there are concerns about working “p...

This paper examines whether international human rights organizations (HROs) influence the protection of religious freedom, and effect is different on for institutions versus individuals. study not only reveals institutional individual dimensions restrictions with an exploratory factor analysis, but also uses fixed effects models to analyze cross-national time-series data covering 1990–2003. The...

Imagine organizations where bosses give employees enormous freedom to decide what to do and when to do it. Imagine that workers are allowed to elect their own bosses and vote directly on important company decisions. Imagine organizations where most workers aren’t employees at all, but electronically connected freelancers living wherever they want to. And imagine that all this freedom in busines...

the millennium development goals (mdgs) are eight international development goals and 21 targets that all countries have agreed to achieve by the year 2015. central asian countries have shown uneven progress in achieving these goals. this paper conducts a comparative study of the impact of economic integration of the regional countries into the world economy on uneven progress of central asian ...

The free and open source software (F/OSS) computing movements have argued that F/OSS projects lead to better software, freedom from vendor control, and social benefits by sharing software and its associated source code. While these movement grew out of the interests of programmers to write better software for their own purposes, the open source movement has focused on gaining widespread adoptio...