Industrial business groups in a context of deindustrialization. The Uruguayan Case, 1980-2015

During the 1990s, a series of institutional transformations took place that strongly affected the national productive structure, as well as its agents. Among the main effects of the new openness and liberalization policies are: the loss of relevance of the manufacturing sector in the economy, the abandonment of the complex system of tariffs and subsidies and the accelerated growth of foreign direct investment. How have these transformations impacted the structure of national industrial business groups? This is the central question that guides the article.The paper takes two samples from large industrial business groups in the late 1980s and in 2015, comparing their evolution in both benchmark years. In the construction of both samples, information was taken from the Central Bank of Uruguay, the Montevideo Stock Exchange, Official Newspaper and press sources, in addition to previous work. The evidence presented shows that aspects such as size, level of diversification and the form of family control have not varied much in each period. In this sense, the groups have remained stable around certain attributes. On the other hand, there are notable variations in the formation of alliances, the sector distribution of the business portfolio and the links with the government in different modalities.These variations and permanence can be explained by the impact of the new institutional context in the framework of a small economy like Uruguay. Although similar reforms in other countries in the region have strengthened national business groups (promoting their internationalization and their internal expansion into new business areas), the Uruguayan case seems to represent the opposite. In this way, the paper contributes to the discussion about family groups and their adaptation to the context of the second globalization in peripheral economies

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The feminist and domestic workers’ movements: disconnected practices, discursive convergences

The article explores the relationship between women’s rights and feminist and domestic workers’ movements by drawing on qualitative data gathered in a comparative study on domestic workers’rights in Italy, Germany, Spain, India, the Philippines, Taiwan, Colombia, Brazil and Ecuador (2016–21). Despite the frequent disconnection between the two movements at the practical level, a possible convergence may be identified in the discursive frames that domestic workers’ rights activists make use of. The analysis focuses on two feminist anti-capitalist frames recurring in mobilisations for domestic workers’ rights, addressing the valorisation of reproductive labour and the transnational commodification of care. Domestic workers’ activism tends to build on these frames beyond their mainstream forms and to expand them in intersectional ways, enlarging their capacity to include racialised, low-class, migrant and other minority groups. This becomes a creative force at the level of discourse, where different alliances may take place in a less visible way.The article explores the relationship between women’s rights and feminist and domestic workers’ movements by drawing on qualitative data gathered in a comparative study on domestic workers’ rights in Italy, Germany, Spain, India, the Philippines, Taiwan, Colombia, Brazil and Ecuador (2016–21). Despite the frequent disconnection between the two movements at the practical level, a possible convergence may be identified in the discursive frames that domestic workers’ rights activists make use of. The analysis focuses on two feminist anti-capitalist frames recurring in mobilisations for domestic workers’ rights, addressing the valorisation of reproductive labour and the transnational commodification of care. Domestic workers’ activism tends to build on these frames beyond their mainstream forms and to expand them in intersectional ways, enlarging their capacity to include racialised, low-class, migrant and other minority groups. This becomes a creative force at the level of discourse, where different alliances may take place in a less visible way

Towards a reception system that recognizes, addresses and reduces the situations of vulnerability of asylum seekers and refugees in Italy

The VULNER project conducted an extensive inquiry in eight countries – in Europe (Belgium, Germany, Italy, and Norway), the Middle-East (Lebanon), Africa (Uganda and South Africa), and North America (Canada). The inquiry thus covered a variety of policy contexts, ranging from humanitarian responses in first countries of asylum (Lebanon and Uganda) to asylum and other related processes addressing the protection needs of migrants in Western countries (Belgium, Germany, Italy, and Norway). The objective was to gain a better understanding of the multiple challenges, promises, and pitfalls of relying on ‘vulnerability’ as a conceptual tool to design and implement institutional responses to migrants’ protection needs. Based on the results of the second research phase (2021-2022) in Italy, this policy brief proposes concrete policy recommendations on how to design migration and asylum policies in Italy, which effectively consider and address the vulnerabilities among refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants

Modeling of smart materials with thermal effects: dynamic and quasi-static evolution

International audienceWe present a mathematical model for linear magneto-electro-thermo-elastic continua, as sensors and actuators can be thought of, and prove the well-posedness of the dynamic and quasi-static problems. The two proofs are accomplished, respectively, by means of the Hille-Yosida theory and of the Faedo-Galerkin method. A validation of the quasi-static hypothesis is provided by a nondimensionalization of the dynamic problem equations. We also hint at the study of the convergence of the solution to the dynamic problem to that to the quasi-static problem as a small parameter – the ratio of the largest propagation speed for an elastic wave in the body to the speed of light – tends to zero

An asymptotic strain gradient Reissner-Mindlin plate model

In this paper we derive a strain gradient plate model from the three-dimensional equations of strain gradient linearized elasticity. The deduction is based on the asymptotic analysis with respect of a small real parameter being the thickness of the elastic body we consider. The body is constituted by a second gradient isotropic linearly elastic material. The obtained model is recognized as a strain gradient Reissner-Mindlin plate model. We also provide a mathematical justification of the obtained plate model by means of a variational weak convergence result

A new duality approach to elasticity

International audienceThe displacement-traction problem of three-dimensional linearized elasticity can be posed as three different minimization problems, depending on whether the displacement vector field, or the stress tensor field, or the strain tensor field, is the unknown. The objective of this paper is to put these three different formulations of the same problem in a new perspective, by means of Legendre-Fenchel duality theory. More specifically, we show that both the displacement and strain formulations can be viewed as Legendre-Fenchel dual problems to the stress formulation. We also show that each corresponding Lagrangian has a saddle-point, thus fully justifying this new duality approach to elasticity