Young workers in a deindustrialising economy : the case of Christchurch, 1976-1996
Deindustrialization ; Employment ; Local economy ; Local labour market ; New Zealand ; Occupational activity ; Part-timework ; Service ; Young people
The article explores the employment destinations of young adults in the Christchurch labour market from the 1970s to recent times with a view to identifying how labour market opportunities facing them have changed.
This paper is based on a recent nationwide survey concerning industrial responses to rising labor costs and shortages. Four types of corporate strategies are discussed: the recruitment of part-timeworkers, the importation of foreign workers
The gender contract and part-time paid work by women - Finland and Germany compared
Comparative study ; Cultural studies ; Europe ; Family ; Female work ; Finland ; Gender difference ; Germany ; Labour ; Part-timework ; Tertiarization ; Woman
The development of the westernmost part of the Wadden Sea in historical time in Geomorphology of the Wadden Sea area, final report of the section Geomorphology of the Wadden Sea Working Group.
The history of this part may serve as an example for the development of other parts of the Wadden Sea. Historical information on this area dates back to Roman times, but until the 10-12th century the data are very scanty. In the 15th and 16th
it is embedded. The article is focussing on temporary employment, agency contracts and part-timework, their spatial distribution and the strategies of employers and employees. The region of Stuttgart (Germany) and Lyon (France) have been selected as case studies
. As examples, the Author analyses the increasing significance of fixed-term and agency contracts in the metal industry and the development of part-timework in banking. - (IFL)
The paper discusses the restructuring processes within labour and the increasing presence of flexible forms of employment. As a contribution to labour geography, the paper is looking at work within the social, political and cultural context in which
. At the same time the commuters (who today account for roughly 90 % of the working population) mobility behaviour is changing. Almost 60 % travel to work by car. Public transport - with the exception of railways - has lost considerable shares in some parts
. Around agglomerations commuting movements are increasing strongly (tangential movements). Working in the city while living in the surrounding rural area is still very popular. - (IfL)
Indigenous work groups in Nigerian savannah agriculture: a strategy against labour shortages
Studies in various parts of the Nigerian savannah have shown that farmers in a vast area in this region already respond to peak labour demanding periods by reducing the amount of time spent on non-agricultural activities. The potential in solving
farm labour problems therefore seems to lie in a more efficient utilization of the amount of labour already allocated to agriculture. Indigenous work group systems should be considered as one potential in this context. (L'A.).
Commuting ; Consumption ; Economic cost ; Household behaviour ; Spatial choice ; Time-distance ; Transport cost ; Trip ; Urban area ; Utility function
L'interaction entre la demande des ménages en biens de consommation et en loisirs d'une part, et l'offre de travail à des distances variées d'un centre urbain d'autre part, fait l'objet de l'étude. Les rentes foncières sont déterminées de manière
Demographic behaviour ; Development ; Employment ; Female work ; Living conditions ; Part-timework ; Social change ; Woman ; Working population ; World
Berlin ; Employment ; Foreign worker ; Germany ; Minority ; Post-communism ; Social integration ; Urban population ; Vietnamese people
The paper provides an overview on the ethnic landscape of Berlin, which had strikingly been different in the two parts of the city and has been changing since 1992. Differences existing between the eastern and western part of the city predominantly
influence where certain minorities are likely to settle down. The primary intention of the A. is to reveal the characteristics and the ongoing social processes taking place in the last two decades in Berlin. At the same time A. points out some possible ways
of integration by exploring the relationship between groups of former guest workers and the majority of the society. - (AM)
Farmers as workers in Japan's regional economic restructuring, 1965-1985
Agricultural people ; Agriculture ; Farm ; Household ; Industrial employment ; Industrial restructuring ; Japan ; Labour ; Living standard ; Part-time farming
Division of labour ; Employment ; Europe ; Female work ; Gender difference ; Labour ; Part-timework ; Research ; Sexual discrimination ; Western Europe ; Woman
). Finally, he discusses these two forms, full-time and part-time farms, with respect to the current problem of environmental protection, and government agricultural measures. (nach Seuster).
The author presents a primarily economic analysis of the competing and complementary relationship existing between these two forms of livelihood. He also examines certain social aspects (farmhands as wageearners, the attractiveness of the work
Bavaria ; C 14 dating ; Canal ; Germany ; Hydraulic works ; Jura ; Lacustrine sediment ; Middle Ages ; Palaeo-environment ; Palaeoclimate ; Peat ; Stratigraphy ; Watershed
. Despite the important geostrategic relevance of the construction it is not clarified if the canal was ever used as a working waterway. In this study the AA. present new C data from the continuous and buried peat layer of the central part of the fosse
. The C data document peat growth during Carolingian times and especially during the High Medieval. Both phases of peat growth might support by a more humid climate with an enhanced groundwater table. Multiple high-resolution stratigraphic records
of the central trench fillings derived from grain size distributions and from peat and sapropel classifications indicate for the first time clear evidence for a limnic facies, suggesting the existence of former ponds. However, the majority of these limnic facies
reveal High Medieval ages. This ongoing study does not prove the use of the fosse as a canal during Carolingian times yet.