Organic and fair trade coffee in Chiapas
Essay - 8 pages - Services marketing
Though I have never been a coffee-drinker, the ideological and symbolic weight of coffee has not escaped me. With caffeine for the office worker and flavor for the distinguished upper-class palate, coffee's appeal stretches across many socioeconomic categories and occupies a unique register of...
Are the French rail strikes ethical?
Essay - 7 pages - Human resources
What are ethics? The definition of the dictionary is the following: “a set of principles of right conduct”. It is linked to morality too. We can find this concept in a lot of aspects of life. It touches the social environment. A good person is someone who follows an ethical and moral...
Wining and losing as a result of economic restructuring in Britain since 1980
Thesis - 5 pages - Economy general
During the past thirty years, British society has been involved in a dynamic of social change, a process so significant that it represents an historical turning point, when the certainties that have served to regulate the economy in the past, are no longer valid. The last comparable event was...
Assess the significance for employees of the decline in trade union recognition and collective bargaining
Thesis - 6 pages - Management
The continuous development of different working structures to accommodate the modern business environment has rendered the complex area of employment law a legal minefield. The significant variances in contemporary working relationship structures have compounded the need for legal certainty...
Compared human resources management models: China and France
Thesis - 5 pages - Human resources
This report is an analysis by comparison of two countries through their management of their Human Resources. Those two subjects of this essay are France and China. This choice is not just a coincidence but the result of my home country (France) and China where I have been for an internship two...
Internship summary sheet - Amazon
Internship report - 3 pages - Management
The internship is in EU Indirect Procurement at Amazon. I was based in the EU Headquarter in Luxembourg. The two categories which I was working on were Temp Labor and Manned Guarding in all Amazon warehouses across Europe. Nowadays Amazon is growing a 30% this year. Many new sites are to...
Nike case : hitting the wall
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
A firm's success depends on its social legitimacy. Usually, in the consumer's mind, the importance of a firm relies on what it can bring to the society. Therefore, for Nike, relocations basically mean that the company takes away jobs from US citizens. Moreover, Nike's labor scandals have...
Gender discrimination in the workplace
Thesis - 5 pages - Human resources
Even today, there is discrimination between men and women in the workplace. The salary for a man and a woman holding the same station is not the same. Women find it harder to reach senior positions in the organization. Since 1967, the participation rate of women in the professional field has...
Restructuring at Delphi Corporation: A Case Study
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
Since the 1999 spin-off from General Motors, Delphi Corporation has faced some severe challenges. A combination of increased commodity prices, increasing OPED liabilities, uncompetitive labor costs, and loss of market share from the US automakers, has led them to become the largest...
Creation of SMEs in Morocco
Thesis - 51 pages - Economy general
Unemployment has reached alarming levels and proportions in Morocco. Every year, more and more working people are being affected by this problem. The Moroccan labor force totals to about 10,347,000. Women constitute about 27.6% of the total work force. Of the 10,347,000, only about...
A discussion and analysis of Marx and Webers theories concerning the development of industrial capitalism
Thesis - 6 pages - Economy general
It is widely accepted that most of the developed countries in the world today are ‘capitalist' economies. Capitalism in economic terms is a free market system, involving little government intervention (a laissez-faire approach). Capitalism involves investment in the means of production...
Comparison of Lisa Rofel's Liberation Cohort and the Cultural Revolution Cohort
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The viewpoints of the women, regarding their place in society, in the different cohorts identified by Lisa Rofel differ significantly. The first two cohorts, the Liberation and Cultural Revolution, show the development of women from debased states to a place of advocacy. Essentially their views...
Shape of the Caribbean following emancipation
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In the Caribbean Diaspora, following the Emancipation from slavery (which took place at different historical moments, depending on the European nation controlling a particular colony) there were attempts to reconfigure the socio-economic, political and cultural landscape of domination that had...
Wal-Mart: Threat to economic diversity
Thesis - 4 pages - Services marketing
Wal-Mart is not just another department store, but is instead a huge conglomerate that treads the line of breaking anti-trust laws and labor laws. Its incursion into the American marketplace has made huge negative in-roads into small towns cultural identities, and has unfairly overridden...
A study on the origin and effect of the industrial revolution in England
Thesis - 12 pages - Economy general
The Industrial Revolution refers to the first breakthrough from a rural handicraft economy to a urban machine driven manufacturing economy that took place in England around 1780 C.E., and which, in the course of the next one hundred years, spread and established itself over much of Europe and...
Characteristics & performances of exports in India
Thesis - 9 pages - Economy general
India has registered outstanding growth performances in recent years. Its growth along with that of China has been anticipated to help sustain growth of global economy as economic prospects world over are not bright. Indian economy grew at more than 8% after 2003. India's trade has shown...
Nike in China and Vietnam
Thesis - 3 pages - Business strategy
With China and Vietnam holding a majority of Nike's factories, production is being done at very low costs due to cheap labor. With poorly enforced labor laws, along with the law prohibiting workers from forming unions, it is very easy to find workers in these countries. Although...
Strategy proposal for an MNC who wants to invest or expand in a specific country - New Group Renault strategic plan: "Drive the Future"
Market study - 7 pages - International economy
In this work, we analyze Renault's strategic plan for 2017-2022, called "Drive the Future" on three levels: the company's source of competitive advantage (section 1), the reasons for choosing the target of investment in emerging country, such as China (section 2) and finally the content...
The Rise And Fall Of The Slave Trade
Essay - 6 pages - Modern history
One of humanities most shameful and horrific periods, is the time of the transatlantic slave trade. This system of transporting human captives and agricultural goods to Europe and the Americas started on a small scale, and rapidly grew to catastrophic proportions. Originally, the slaves were...
Law of copyright with amendments and case studies showing infringement
Case study - 23 pages - Other law subjects
The first copyright act in India was passed in 1914. It was a replica of the English copyright act of 1911. The act, presently in use was legislated in the year 1957 and is known as copyright act of 1957 and was amended with the copyright act of 1999.It adopted many principles and provision...
Asian immigration policies in Canada: 1880-1923
Thesis - 5 pages - Modern history
Today Canada prides itself on being one of the most multicultural countries in the world. This country has people from all over the world. All of these different people have different stories. The story of Asian-Canadians is an interesting one, even though they are a large minority group in...
Performance appraisal at an inflatables company
Dissertation - 44 pages - Management
Different terms are use to denote human resource management. They are labor management, labor administration, labor management relations, employee employer relations, industrial relations, personnel administration, personnel management, human asset management, human resource...
New ways of promoting gender equality
Thesis - 14 pages - Sociology & social sciences
This paper provides an overview of gender inequality comparing Europe and North America through media perspectives and company front runners within each region. It will provide an analysis of the methods used by companies and how actions are successfully carried out. As well it will discuss the...
Industrial network: Providing specifically adapted products for customers
Essay - 3 pages - Services marketing
The economies of scale, defined as the reduction in cost per unit resulting from increased production realized through operational efficiencies, constitute one of the key goals for firms to improve their competitiveness. But this productive model seems to be in the same time contradictory to the...
The American reality: Life in the working class
Thesis - 19 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In 1848, as the spread of capitalism and the Industrial Revolution were forever changing the social, political and economic landscape in Europe and America, early social theorist Karl Marx defined the working-class as those “laborers who must sell themselves piecemeal… a commodity like...
East London love story
Thesis - 112 pages - Literature
They were both children of poverty, born into the dark slums of East London. Yet their worlds could hardly have been more different. Eric De Milo blessed with a loving Italian family and an artistic gift that gave him a chance for a better life. On the other hand, Helena Whitman who knew little...
The hand that files the cradle (on Form 1040) A proposal to emulate paid parental leave through the tax code
Case study - 20 pages - Educational studies
“Sarah O. had no paid maternity leave from her college teaching jobs after her first two children were born. She had only about three weeks off, once from a semester break and once by arranging for a substitute. She could not afford to take the unpaid leave to which she was entitled with her...
Rise of the corporate state
Case study - 7 pages - Economy general
Our history has been marked by intense and often violent class struggles, and the government has played a partisan role in these conflicts, mostly on the side of big business. In 1845 in New York, Baltimore, New Orleans, St. Louis and other urban areas, the richest 1% owned the biggest share of...
The International Workers' Association
Case study - 5 pages - Human resources
This document is a summary of the debates which took place within the International Association of Workers of the Congress at Brussels. It highlights the divisions within this authority by connecting them with the social position of the parties and traces the stage of evolution of the society....
Reasons behind the wage determinations in the manufacturing sector
Thesis - 5 pages - Human resources
The real wages of European workers have experienced a decline over the last few years. In real terms, the results show a decline of the labor compensation per hour - 16,5 per cent in 1996-1999, 28 per cent in 2000-2003, and 33 per cent in 2003-2006. Moreover, the workforce considered...
