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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Economic restructuring"”.
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Economic restructuring and income instability in California agriculture
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1991.
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Professionalisation or polarisation? : economic restructuring and changes in Cape Town's labour market
… have been on social inequality. Literature on economic restructuring in cities all over the world provided the framework of ideas within which this analysis was conducted. These works focused on how in many cities. progressive deindustrialisation has led to the loss of middle-income jobs, while …
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Labor and neighborhood organizing in the context of economic restructuring : six organizations in Hartford, Connecticut
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1991.
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Inter-group conflict in Chicago: The intersection of ethnicity and economic restructuring at the neighborhood level
… Chicago's West Side. With the intensification of economic restructuring in the early 1980's, the two population groups in Lawndale increasingly competed for control of the neighborhood's dwindling resource base. I investigate two interrelated research questions: (1) what is the link between the …
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Instability among middle class families and the impact of health insurance
… available to the middle class weakened. The new economic landscape following a period of economic restructuring has made it harder to earn a position in the middle class while the changed political landscape has possibly made it harder to maintain one's position. This research examines the extent …
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Solidarity, Global Restructuring and Deregulation: The Liverpool Dockers' Dispute 1995-98
… the specific interactions that developed between economic restructuring, political deregulatory processes and trade union responses after the 1979 election which saw Thatcher’s government embark upon a complete overhaul of this relationship. The Liverpool case brings together all those issues. The …
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Reversal of fortunes : the post-industrial challenge to work and social equality : a case study of "The Parks" community of Northwestern Adelaide / by Simon M. Nelder.
… interplay of the global-local and the impacts of economic restructuring; the inseparability of labour and housing markets; and, how the agency of private markets and the state interpenetrate each other.
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NEOLIBERALISM AND THE INDIAN VERNACULAR PRESS: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF NEOLIBERAL DISCOURSES AMONG KANNADA JOURNALISTS
… illuminate their understandings of the impact of economic liberalization on Kannada newspapers. The analysis of the responses demonstrated that while journalists from both the newspapers were acutely aware of the changes caused by neoliberal economic restructuring, they normalized such changes. …
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Municipal water supply governance in Ontario: neoliberalization, utility restructuring, and infrastructure management
This thesis examines the interaction of political-economic restructuring, sustainability, and the governance of municipal services in the province of Ontario, Canada. Two issues are studied: the restructuring of business models, and programs for sustainable infrastructure management (focusing on …
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Historic Preservation as an Economic Planning Tool: the Case Study of Mount Vernon, Missouri
… pride, educate the young and revitalize the economic atmosphere of blighted urban areas. The Missouri Main Street Program is intended to revitalize historic small town commercial districts. Using techniques developed by the National Main Street Center, the program seeks to foster economic …
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The Transformation of Place: Historic Theme Development in Small Town Commercial Districts
… as important community centers, given that economic restructuring has undermined the traditional economic and social roles of main street. In the face of past decline, communities across the United States are in the process of re-orienting their downtowns to new roles and functions. The …
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A Study to Determine Variables Necessary For Successful Downtown Revitalization Programs in Missouri's Communities
The decentralization of communities has created economic instability for many downtowns. In 1980, the National Trust for Historic Preservation adopted the Main Street Program to help revitalize the downtown areas of communities having a population between 5,000 and 50,000. This program is based on …
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The Political Economy of St. Catharines' Illicit Taxi Trade
The global restructuring of production has led to increasingly precarious working conditions around the world. Post-industrial work is characterized by poor working conditions, low wages, a lack of social protection and political representation and little job security. Unregulated forms of work …
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Ruptured Journeys, Ruptured Lives: Central American Migration, Transnational Violence, and Hope in Southern Mexico
… and contemporary processes of war, displacement, economic restructuring and social dislocation as people move through local spaces. Throughout the journey, the logics of migration and violence rework social relations based on race, gender and nationality where migrants are both victims of and …
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The platform economy in China: algorithm, labor, and digital capitalism
… of corporate power takes shape in China’s key economic and social transformations: economic restructuring, migrant labor surplus, favorable policy environments for the digital economy, and technology worship. Through this case, this project aims to theorize the consequences of digital …
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Electricity privatization : should South Korea privatize its state-owned electric utility?
… Monetary Fund in exchange for a tough economic restructuring that included massive privatization. The Korean government separated KEPCO's six generation subsidiaries from KEPCO in 2001 in the initial process of the privatization. However, the government has not taken any further action …
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Conectividad Alegal: Remaking and Resilience in the Bay of Havana
… west of the Bay. The Mariel marked an era of economic restructuring, a common occurrence in the past century. These policy changes aim to ease the day-to-day lives of Cuban citizens but also leave them vulnerable to foreign industries who seek to mine the area for its unregulated resources, …
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Recession as an agent in the restructuring of tourist accommodation
Academic research into economic restructuring in the tourist industry has solely focused on the strategies adopted by large chain hotel companies and little attention has been paid to the strategies adopted by small scale, family-run accommodation establishments. This sector is particularly …
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Britain's new industrial space? A case study of high technology Hertfordshire'
… one of explaining how the present period of economic restructuring is being translated into a period of spatial restructuring. A key element of such theories of change has been the "high technologies", defined both as a process of change and as the basis of new industries encapsulating new …
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Contested Ruralities: Housing in the Irish countryside
… over recent decades as a result of global economic restructuring, state intervention in agriculture, and changing demographies. These changes are often contested and the source of conflict and tensions, which in Ireland have manifested in the debate on living in the countryside. The Irish …
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