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European trade unionism and politics
Title
European trade unionism and politics.
Creator
Neumann, Franz Leopold
Date Issued
1936
Identifier
1927557, CFDT1927557, ucf:4867
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/1927557
European trade unionism and politics
Title
European trade unionism and politics.
Creator
Neumann, Franz Leopold
Date Issued
1936
Identifier
1926912, CFDT1926912, ucf:4793
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/1926912
European trade unionism and politics
Title
European trade unionism and politics.
Creator
Neumann, Franz Leopold, Raushenbush, Carl, Laski, Harold J.
Date Issued
1936
Identifier
2180961, CFDT2180961, ucf:4953
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2180961
Marshall plan--recovery or war?
Title
Marshall plan--recovery or war?.
Creator
Allen, James Stewart
Date Issued
1948
Identifier
671398, CFDT671398, ucf:5565
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/671398
The Communists and the liberation of Europe
Title
The Communists and the liberation of Europe.
Creator
Levi, Maxine
Date Issued
1945
Identifier
DP0003093.PDF, 1927482, CFDT1927482, ucf:4857
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/1927482
The lesson of Czechoslovakia
Title
The lesson of Czechoslovakia.
Creator
Spivack, Robert G.
Date Issued
[1938]
Identifier
2683093, CFDT2683093, ucf:5031
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2683093
Fascism, the danger of war and the tasks of the communist parties: Report
Title
Fascism, the danger of war and the tasks of the communist parties: Report.
Creator
Kuusinen, O. W. (Otto Wille), Communist International Executive Committee
Date Issued
1934
Identifier
368027, CFDT368027, ucf:5371
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/368027
History of the working class
Title
History of the working class.
Creator
Anonymous
Date Issued
c1931
Identifier
671409, CFDT671409, ucf:5576
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/671409
WOMEN, WORK AND WELFARE: A CASE STUDY OF GERMANY, THE UK, AND SWEDEN
Title
WOMEN, WORK AND WELFARE: A CASE STUDY OF GERMANY, THE UK, AND SWEDEN.
Creator
Legg, Meredith, Hamann, Kerstin, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
This thesis examines how different welfare state regimes affect gender relations by examining variations in welfare regimes and outcomes for women between Western European countries. The research seeks to understand how the diverse systems of social provision affect women: particularly with regard to their position in the labor market and in their ability to balance occupational and domestic work. Using a comparative, qualitative approach, I compare three Western European welfare states ...
Show moreThis thesis examines how different welfare state regimes affect gender relations by examining variations in welfare regimes and outcomes for women between Western European countries. The research seeks to understand how the diverse systems of social provision affect women: particularly with regard to their position in the labor market and in their ability to balance occupational and domestic work. Using a comparative, qualitative approach, I compare three Western European welfare states (Germany, the United Kingdom, and Sweden) to evaluate gender-relevant welfare policy with female employment rates, unemployment rates, and wage differentials. Welfare states and labor market policies affect outcomes for women because these policies influence and structure womenÂÂ's ability to enter paid labor and at the same time perform the majority of household labor and care work. To study the effect of welfare state variations upon women, I argue that a gender-focused model of welfare states is necessary. I borrow from Diane SainsburyÂÂ's (1996) framework establishing two contrasting ideal-types and combine this with Pascal and LewisÂÂ' (2004) gender equality model. Using this framework, I will assess whether my case studies vary around specific gender dimensions of variation including bases of entitlement, maternal and parental leave, pension, and the organization of care work. Preliminary findings align Germany and the United Kingdom with a male breadwinner gender model and Sweden with a dual-earner dual-carer model, although recent policy reforms in Germany and the United Kingdom oriented toward a Scandinavian welfare model may affect future gender outcomes. My research question hopes to uncover how welfare regimes and specific gender-relevant policies support or ignore womenÂÂ's labor force participation by reconciling work and home for women through an evaluation of gender-relevant outcomes for women. Systematically looking at the structure of welfare state provision and outcomes through a gender-relevant framework enhances our knowledge of the ways in which the varieties of gender regimes accommodate or perpetuate womenÂÂ's inequality in democracies.
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Date Issued
2010
Identifier
CFE0002974, ucf:47946
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0002974
Asylum in Crisis: Structural Violence and Refugees in Siracusa, Italy
Title
Asylum in Crisis: Structural Violence and Refugees in Siracusa, Italy.
Creator
Kersch, Adam, Mishtal, Joanna, Matejowsky, Ty, Toyne, J. Marla, Geiger, Vance, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
In recent years, unprecedented numbers of migrants have arrived in Italy due to political, religious, ethnic and economic instabilities in West and North Africa and the Middle East. Simultaneously, the Eurozone Crisis and neoliberal austerity measures left the Italian government struggling to administer healthcare and legal services to all migrants. This study investigates the provision of essential services by the Italian state and two non-governmental organizations (NGOs), Emergency and...
Show moreIn recent years, unprecedented numbers of migrants have arrived in Italy due to political, religious, ethnic and economic instabilities in West and North Africa and the Middle East. Simultaneously, the Eurozone Crisis and neoliberal austerity measures left the Italian government struggling to administer healthcare and legal services to all migrants. This study investigates the provision of essential services by the Italian state and two non-governmental organizations (NGOs), Emergency and ARCI, respectively providing free medical and legal services, to incoming migrants in Siracusa, Italy. It analyzes migrants' perceptions of these services and evolving goals in Europe. Building upon preliminary fieldwork conducted in 2014, in January to July 2015 I undertook six months of participant observation in a migrant reception center and legal offices in Siracusa. During my research I conducted 72 unstructured and semi-structured interviews with migrants, NGO activists, lawyers, and doctors, and state physicians. This study analyzes Emergency's role as an entrance to the Italian healthcare system and ARCI as a facilitator of legal aid to migrants. I argue that the clinic's position on the outskirts of Siracusa functions as a means of exclusion, exacerbating divides between the local population and incoming migrants. Additionally, I provide insight into the provision of legal services to migrants in Siracusa, as well as how these migrants navigate geopolitical and legislative borders, and these borders' roles within the politics of the European Union and neoliberal ideologies. I argue that selective enforcement of asylum legislation and dearth of legal aid to migrants motivates many migrants to clandestinely flee Italy to seek futures in other European nations, consequently moving (")burdens(") of migrant reception. This research contributes to public policy and scholarship on health and migration policy as well as politics of conflict, while shedding light on the critical role of NGOs in a complex humanitarian crisis occurring in Southern Europe.
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Date Issued
2016
Identifier
CFE0006126, ucf:51166
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0006126
Soviet and Eastern European Reactions to American Exhibitions: Cultural Exchange and the Cold War, 1961-1976
Title
Soviet and Eastern European Reactions to American Exhibitions: Cultural Exchange and the Cold War, 1961-1976.
Creator
Miller, Jennie, Solonari, Vladimir, Lester, Connie, Walker, Ezekiel, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
After the signing of the Cultural Exchange Agreement in 1958, exhibitions of culture and technology were exchanged between the Soviet Union and the United States. These exhibitions continued to be exchanged well into the 1980s. This paper focuses on comment books from seven of these cultural exchange exhibitions, five in the Soviet Union and two in Eastern Europe, in the years between 1961 and 1976. The public nature of the comment books and the way they were treated by visitors made them a...
Show moreAfter the signing of the Cultural Exchange Agreement in 1958, exhibitions of culture and technology were exchanged between the Soviet Union and the United States. These exhibitions continued to be exchanged well into the 1980s. This paper focuses on comment books from seven of these cultural exchange exhibitions, five in the Soviet Union and two in Eastern Europe, in the years between 1961 and 1976. The public nature of the comment books and the way they were treated by visitors made them a space for expressions of popular opinions over the issues of public policy and ideology. As such, they provide contemporary historians with a unique glimpse into the mindset of ordinary Soviet and Eastern European citizens during the Cold War. Based on the evidence from the comment books, and using methods elaborated by cultural anthropologists, this study shows that challenged by the display of apparent American superiority, most Soviet visitors preferred to fall back on the official ideology which claimed the moral superiority of their system. In the 1960s and early 1970s, the Soviet citizens experienced an upswing in communist morale, expressed a desire to compete with America and a conviction that their system will ultimately prevail over capitalism. However, to what extent such declarations should be accepted at their face value as sincere expressions of Soviet citizens' deep-seated convictions and to what extent they should be seen as situational responses to the perceived humiliation at the hands of foreigners remains unclear.While most Soviet visitors were defensive, invested in their ideology, and competitive with America, their reactions were not monolithic. Some of them were clearly fascinated by American consumer products and expressed an envious yearning to get possession of them; others stressed their openness to cultural exchange. There were apparently sincere expressions of support to the policy of d(&)#233;tente, and of outrage over the Vietnam War. The Soviet visitors were aware of the unrest in American society caused by the civil rights movement, but were uninformed of the profound changes effected by this movement. Members of non-Russian minorities were interested in American ethnic diversity and sometimes implied their dislike of Moscow treatment of non-Russian nationalities. Eastern Europeans were less defensive and more open to American society and culture than the Soviets. Still, some of them also expressed pro-communist sentiments and national pride. There was one issue, however, on which the Soviets and Eastern were clearly more in tune with American popular culture than with their own governments: consumerism and the sentiment of entitlement to the high quality goods that Americans had access to while they did not. It was on this issue that the eastern bloc regimes were facing the greatest threat.
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Date Issued
2012
Identifier
CFE0004414, ucf:49384
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0004414
THE REORIENTATION OF IRANIAN TRADE FROM WEST TO EAST SINCE 1979
Title
THE REORIENTATION OF IRANIAN TRADE FROM WEST TO EAST SINCE 1979.
Creator
Bilger, Leslie, Sadri, Houman, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
Iran, with its attractive geographical position and its abundant natural resources, has had an undeniable attraction for the world's greatest powers over the history. Well before the creation of the Islamic Republic of Iran, this country established high level of economic interactions with a great variety of political partners. In recent years, the country's change of regime has had a crucial impact on those relationships. By analysing the trade data between Iran and Western countries (the U...
Show moreIran, with its attractive geographical position and its abundant natural resources, has had an undeniable attraction for the world's greatest powers over the history. Well before the creation of the Islamic Republic of Iran, this country established high level of economic interactions with a great variety of political partners. In recent years, the country's change of regime has had a crucial impact on those relationships. By analysing the trade data between Iran and Western countries (the U.S.A., Canada, the U.K., France, Germany, and Italy) as well as the major Eastern countries (China, Russia, and India), it is possible to establish a better understanding of how political events have impacted Iran's commerce with the world's major economic players. It is also possible to understand how the change of direction of the Iranian's imports and exports can impact the behavior of the other nations studied. This research focuses on the analysis of Iranian trade since 1969, ten years before the revolution and until 2009.
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Date Issued
2013
Identifier
CFH0004459, ucf:45117
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0004459