A Chinese Model for Labour in Europe?

Based on long-term fieldwork in multiple locations, our article questions the approach that posits a Chinese model of work and employment relations as increasingly exporting its form of labour management and dominating worldwide. It does so by focusing on Europe and discussing two labour regimes considered as typically Chinese: the Chinese fashion workshops in the Italian fashion industry, and the Foxconn electronics plants in the Czech Republic. Our findings bring new insights to bear on issues for which research is still thin on the ground and challenge the hypothesis of a \u2018Chinesisation\u2019 of work and employment practices in Chinese small firms and MNCs operating in Europe. We move the focus away from the simple analysis of firm management prevailing in the literature and suggest that, in order to understand the firm\u2019s behaviours, the role of the state, the unions, the migrant workers and the role of temporary work agencies should all be taken into consideration

Perinatal outcomes among immigrant mothers over two periods in a region of central Italy

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The number of immigrants has increased in Italy in the last twenty years (7.2% of the Italian population), as have infants of foreign-born parents, but scanty evidence on perinatal outcomes is available. The aim of this study was to investigate whether infants of foreign-born mothers living in Italy have different odds of adverse perinatal outcomes compared to those of native-born mothers, and if such measures changed over two periods.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>The source of this area-based study was the regional hospital discharge database that records perinatal information on all births in the Lazio region. We analysed 296,739 singleton births born between 1996-1998 and 2006-2008. The exposure variable was the mother's region of birth. We considered five outcomes of perinatal health. We estimated crude and adjusted odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) to evaluate the association between mother's region of birth and perinatal outcomes.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Perinatal outcomes were worse among infants of immigrant compared to Italian mothers, especially for sub-Saharan and west Africans, with the following crude ORs (in 1996-1998 and 2006-2008 respectively): 1.80 (95%CI:1.44-2.28) and 1.95 (95%CI:1.72-2.21) for very preterm births, and 1.32 (95%CI:1.16-1.50) and 1.32 (95%CI:1.25-1.39) for preterm births; 1.18 (95%CI:0.99-1.40) and 1.17 (95%CI:1.03-1.34) for a low Apgar score; 1.22 (95%CI:1.15-1.31) and 1.24 (95%CI:1.17-1.32) for the presence of respiratory diseases; 1.47 (95%CI:1.30-1.66) and 1.45 (95%CI:1.34-1.57) for the need for special or intensive neonatal care/in-hospital deaths; and 1.03 (95%CI:0.93-1.15) and 1.07 (95%CI:1.00-1.15) for congenital malformations. Overall, time did not affect the odds of outcomes differently between immigrant and Italian mothers and most outcomes improved over time among all infants. None of the risk factors considered confounded the associations.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Our findings suggest that migrant status is a risk factor for adverse perinatal health. Moreover, they suggest that perinatal outcomes improved over time in some immigrant women. This could be due to a general improvement in immigrants' health in the past decade, or it may indicate successful application of policies that increase accessibility to mother-child health services during the periconception and prenatal periods for legal and illegal immigrant women in Italy.</p

Banche dati Lsu/Lpu: report nazionale

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Biblioteca Centrale - P.le Aldo Moro, 7, Rome; Biblioteca della Camera dei Deputati, Rome / CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle RichercheSIGLEITItal

Caratteristiche demografiche, tempi di formazione e di ricerca del lavoro= tra i laureati DAMS (settore spettacolo)

'Progetto di fattibilita' di ricerca e studio sulla collaborazione professionale dei laureati D.A.M.S. - Settore spettacolo - per una formazione mirata'. Collana Studi e Ricerche A.E.C.A. - 1996Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Biblioteca Centrale -. P.le Aldo Moro, 7, Rome / CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle RichercheSIGLEITItal

Analisi del sistema pensionistico obbligatorio: i dati di base e gli indicatori di gestione

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Biblioteca Centrale - P.le Aldo Moro, 7, Rome; Biblioteca della Camera dei Deputati, Via del Seminario, 76, Rome / CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle RichercheSIGLEITItal

Gli andamenti finanziari del sistema pensionistico obbligatorio

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Biblioteca Centrale - P.le Aldo Moro, 7, Rome; Biblioteca della Camera dei Deputati, Rome / CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle RichercheSIGLEITItal

Lista Spettacolo.it. Collocamento dello Spettacolo

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Biblioteca Centrale - P.le Aldo Moro, 7 , Rome / CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle RichercheSIGLEITItal

Diritti in crescita. Terzo- quarto rapporto alle Nazioni Unite sulla condizione dell'infanzia e dell'adolescenza in Italia

Si tratta del terzo e quarto rapporto del governo italiano alle Nazioni Unite sullo stato di attuazione della Convenzione sui diritti del fanciullo (ratificata dal Governo italiano con L.176/1991) nel Nostro Paese. E' un panorama su quello che \ue8 stato fatto a livello normativo e di interventi sociali, sanitari, economici, ecc, sui diversi ambiti di vita dei bambini dal 2001 al dicembre 2008. Il rapporto risponde a specifiche guidelines predisposte dal Comitato ONU e a osservazioni che lo stesso comitato ha fatto sulla relazione precedente