Jaqalanka Limited and Free Trade Zone Workers Union (FTZWU) Dispute Settlement Process: Progress Report from Centre for Policy Alternatives

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Resetting Normal: Women, Decent Work and Canada\u27s Fractured Care Economy

Women in Canada have been disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic to an extent that threatens to roll back equality gains. Economic losses have fallen heavily on women and most dramatically on women living on low incomes who experience intersecting inequalities based on race, class, disability, education, and migration and immigration status. The pandemic crisis has highlighted the fragility of response systems and the urgent need for structural rethinking and systemic change

On sacred ground:the political performance of religious responsibility

Parts of this paper were presented at the 2013 Annual Conference of the British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS); at a ‘Post-War Sri Lanka’ workshop at the London School of Economics; and at a workshop on Muslims in Sri Lanka held at the University of Edinburgh.April 2012: In Dambulla, a bustling market town built around a crossroads on the northern cusp of Sri Lanka's central province, a mosque was attacked by a procession of protestors led by the chief priest of the nearby Buddhist temple. Ostensibly the protest was against the presence of the mosque on the grounds that it had been built in an exclusively Buddhist ‘sacred area’. Beginning with an empirical account of the attack on the Dambulla mosque, this paper argues that the preservation of what is deemed to be ‘sacred’ in Sri Lanka provides an effective idiom through which certain religious figures can intelligibly articulate political claims whilst maintaining critical distance from the dirty world of ‘Politics’. Corollary to this, and drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in Dambulla, the paper explores the various different meanings of politics locally: highlighting the interplay of everyday politicking and high-profile political performance.Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

Resetting Normal: Women, Decent Work and Canada\u27s Fractured Care Economy

Women in Canada have been disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic to an extent that threatens to roll back equality gains. Economic losses have fallen heavily on women and most dramatically on women living on low incomes who experience intersecting inequalities based on race, class, disability, education, and migration and immigration status. The pandemic crisis has highlighted the fragility of response systems and the urgent need for structural rethinking and systemic change

Right to adequate housing following forced evictions in post-conflict Colombo, Sri Lanka

Abstract onlyResearchers examine the consequences of a holistic understanding of “adequate housing,” by including the social and cultural impacts of housing. They contribute to a book that offers a close look at forced evictions, drawing on empirical studies and conceptual frameworks from both the Global North and South

Trends in income inequality, pro-poor income growth and income mobility

'We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of income growth across the income range, and the reshuffling of individuals in the income pecking order. We use it to explain how it was possible both for 'the poor' to have fared badly relatively to 'the rich' in the USA during the 1980s (when income inequality grew substantially), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Income growth was also pro-poor in Western Germany, more so than in the USA, and inequality did not rise as much.' (author's abstract)Die Autoren entwickeln einen analytischen Rahmen, innerhalb dessen untersucht werden kann, welche Veraenderungen in der Einkommensungleichheit im Zeitablauf in Zusammenhang mit dem allgemeinen Muster der Einkommenszunahme und der Umgruppierung von Einzelpersonen in der Einkommens-Rangordnung stehen. Hierdurch kann auch erklaert werden, wie es moeglich war, dass die Armen in den USA in den 1980er Jahren - als die Einkommensungleichheit betraechtlich anstieg - relativ schlecht im Vergleich zu den Reichen abschnitten, obwohl der Einkommenszuwachs zu ihren Gunsten sprach. Das Einkommenswachstum entwickelte sich in Westdeutschland ebenfalls zu Gunsten der Armen, mehr noch als in den USA, die Ungleichheit nahm aber nicht in gleichem Masse zu. (ICIUebers)German title: Trends der Einkommensungleichheit, die Armen beguenstigendes Einkommenswachstum und EinkommensmobilitaetAvailable from Deutsches Institut fuer Wirtschaftsforschung -DIW Berlin-, Berlin (DE) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekSIGLEDEGerman