Gender divisions of labour in the post-Fordist economy: the maintenance of occupational sex segregation in the financial services sector
Bank ; Division of labour ; Economic restructuring ; Finance ; Financial services ; Labour ; Labour market ; Post-Fordism ; Sexual discrimination ; United Kingdom ; Woman
Consuming the tourist gaze : imaginative geographies and the reproduction of sexuality in Lugu Lake
China ; Cultural identity ; Cultural studies ; Division of labour ; Economic development ; Ethnic minority ; Geographical imagination ; Hotel trade ; Natural landscape ; Sexuality ; Social organization ; Tourism ; Yunnan
Future changes in the size and composition of the British labour force a regional projection exercise
Modèle matriciel de projection démographique de la population régionale et de la main-d'oeuvre. Application à la Grande-Bretagne, divisée en deux régions: l'Angleterre du nord-ouest et le reste de la Grande-Bretagne selon l'âge, le sexe, l'état
Division of labour ; Employment ; Europe ; Female work ; Gender difference ; Labour ; Part-time work ; Research ; Sexual discrimination ; Western Europe ; Woman
Employment ; Firm concentration ; Industrial concentration ; Industrial production ; Industry ; Labour productivity ; Professional qualification ; Sexual discrimination ; Technology ; Textile industry ; United Kingdom
Employment ; Employment policy ; Europe ; European Union ; Female work ; Gender difference ; Labour market ; Legislation ; Manpower ; Sexual discrimination ; Social policy ; Unemployment ; Woman
This article analyses the vulnerability of adolescent girls to HIV in the township of Chibavi in Mzuzu City, Malawi, through the lens of an informal labour relation locally known as ganyu. It argues that while youth in Chibavi generally work ganyu
, the particularly oversized domestic roles of encumbered orphans against a backdrop of extremely deprived material circumstances and weak kin ties propelled them into prolonged ganyu contracts and compelled them to more readily concede to sexual demands ‘imposed
’ by those who offered them ganyu. This study adds to the understanding of how the spatial transformation of this enduring ad hoc labour makes it a relation that potentially shapes vulnerability to HIV in Malawi. It also wrestles with the question of why
Financing ; Geographical association ; Human geography ; Inter-disciplinary approach ; International cooperation ; Labour market ; Methodology ; Physical geography ; Practice of geography ; Research ; Research programme ; Research technique
dimension internationale de plus en plus importante. Article divisé en trois parties : structure institutionnelle actuelle de la géographie britannique ; état actuel et récentes avancées de la recherche en géographie physique puis en géographie humaine.
; Industrial policy ; Industrial restructuring ; Industrial sector ; Industrial space ; Industry ; Labour industry ; Regional disparities ; Textile industry
Il s'agit d'une synthèse sur l'industrie française. La France est-elle devenue une véritable puissance industrielle ? Elle est au 2è rang européen et au 4è mondial mais tout cela a un prix social fort. Le livre est divisé en 3 chapitres