Sources that are mainly used will be oral narratives and reports of former contract workers. ... The model of contract work between the GDR and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV) started first with an agreement in 19803. ... Since the beginning of the 1970s, several bilateral contracts at colleges and technical colleges had been made between the two states, so that many young students from the SRV were sent to East Germany. ... Vietnamesische Gastarbeiter in den europäischen RGW-Ländern compiled by Klaus Fritsche in 1991 is a report on the development of the cooperation between both s...

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" (Rawls) and secondly "social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are both: a) reasonably expected to be to everyone's advantage and b) attached to positions and offices open to all.... Rousseau was an advocate of a type of social contract that was to be essentially used as a guide by which the establishment of a proper society was feasible. ... He states that this person formed by such a social contract holds in him the general will, knowledge of the interests of everyone wants whether they realize it or not. ... This is in direct conflict with Rawls'...

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Brandeis University's well known professor, Peter Woll, states that, "[Madison's] view that the natural diversity of interests would prevent particular groups from dominating politics found a later incarnation in American social science of the 1950s and 1960s" (Woll). The Madisonian system agrees to the social contract, and as Englishmen we must comply with the liberties and free speech of groups granted in our constitution. ...

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Contrary to mercenaries, private military and security companies are transnational corporations legally registered which obtain contracts from governments, private firms, intergovernmental and non governmental organizations. In low intensity armed conflicts or post conflict situations such as Afghanistan and Iraq their employees, contracted as civilians but armed as military personnel, operate in "grey zones" as unlawful combatants without oversight or accountability, under murky legal restraints2 and often with immunity. ... This principle was reaffirmed by the United Nations Decl...

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Escobar concluded his article recognizing that for post-development to be a socially effective tool depends on how we assess the current state of modernity. He posits that we are moving beyond the paradigm of modernity, both epistemologically and socially. ... They particularly point out the success stories of the cooperative culture in Spain and the social/solidarity economy movements in Quebec to highlight post-development theory in action. ... Establishing a clear definition of the social/solidarity economy as deriving from collective entrepreneurship has allowed this movement to demonst...

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Furthermore, James Piazza mentions how globalization has undermined the political left in the countries of the developed world when he states "the social democratic and socialist parties in the West have become increasingly conservative in economic issue areas such as the regulation of workplace practices, redistributive taxation, and expansion or maintenance of the welfare state". Moreover, as Herbert Kitschelt contends, "the changes that occurred in the 1970s and 1980s in the social, economic and cultural structures of the advanced capitalist countries demanded that the social...

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At the moment, beyond the social trauma the fashion industry has caused to both the underpaid workers in foreign lands and the global mentality and attitude towards beauty, it gravely affects our environment through its excessive transportation, misuse of energy, landfill impact and carbon emitions. ... Regarding the consumer aspect there is a lack of information and understanding of how clothing items are created and how cheap prices result in high costs in terms of social and environmental capital. ... Furthermore, most chain brands are not manufacturers, they contract independent garment...

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She also acknowledge by mentioning that fund raisers are one of the main disadvantages of charters schools in order to keep afloat, she continues by pointing out the lack of diversity and programs like sports, music and arts, at the same time the instability for not being a contract school. ... He also claims that "Strategies such at these represent significant investments it the social capital of parents because they fundamentally change the relationship between parents-school" (Noguera p98). ... Factors such as social-economic growth or family environments might affect student's atte...

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It positions in the 2nd quin-tile on getting credit, ensuring speculators, and shutting a business, managing licenses and upholding contracts. ... This would get done by the utilizing of the measurable bundle for Social Sciences (SPSS) computer version of the software 6.0, the determination of which was ensuing upon the way that all the textile firms utilize the same sort of innovation for creation. ...

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However Graham Allan and Graham Crow (2001) explain that marriage is no longer seen as a contract, but it's seen as a relationship which offers mutual care and affection for the individuals, sometimes this is not the case therefor resulting in divorce, similarly functionalists such as Ronald Fletcher (1966) argue that the cause of high divorce rates could be due to the romanticization of marriage, people now marry for love therefore have very high expectations of marriage and when their expectations aren't met they're unwilling to make compromises hence leading to divorce. ... ...

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Further, the role of community-based nursing entails collaborating with nurses with the communities, as well as the populations in addressing healthcare and social problems. ... Further, the practice goes beyond taking care of the sick to encompass health education, advocacy, social reforms, and community organizing. ... In most cases, the community-based nursing target the vulnerable populations and the most disadvantaged members of the community, including the homeless, orphans, the frail elderly, sedentary individuals, teen mothers, smokers, and those at high risk of contracting specific il...

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Cunningham allegedly used his position on a defense appropriations subcommittee to funnel millions of dollars in contracts to the firm (Ginsberg, Lowi, Weir, Tolbert 450). ... Additionally, the education level and social status of interest group members and lobbyists give them an immediate advantage in influencing Congress. ... People with high levels of education and social status have an edge over those who don't, which is unequal opportunity for ordinary people to have an impact on government. ...

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There are various ethics in line with counseling, for instance; confidentiality in handling of clients' information, safety of the client and those surrounding him/her, lack of discrimination under all circumstances, and not being involved in sexual or other social affiliation with the clients (Waichler, 2010). ... A good counselor should posses most if not all of this characteristics; he or she should have an identity where he or she understands his/her strengths and weaknesses and how to deal with them, should be honest sincere and authentic, should be able to put life aspects into pers...

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Factors that significantly effect the nature and the progression of the therapy are the ethnicity and cultural background of the patient, the social context, the environment in which the therapy is conducted and the attitude that the patient may have toward psychotherapy. ... Through this framework they established that some determinants of personality are common (biological), some are particular to a certain social group, and some features are unique and come from individual learning experiences that in turn influence values and beliefs (Leong & Lee, 2006). ... Varma (1988) defines Western ...

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This theory disregards the "biological" and "mechanistic" approaches of scientific management and the belief that "employees are assets to their companies," the human relations theory introduced and implementation of methods when it came to increasing labour productivity as they proposed that human psychological and moral qualities such as goals, motivation and values should be taken to account, according to (Armstrong, 1996:36) "The Psychological contract underlines the relationship between employees and employers and provides the context in which motivation...

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Around the world, unemployment or the threat of it remains one of the main challenges to long-term social sustainability. Indeed, the experience of recent years has underscored social sustainability as key to longer-term competitiveness, and thus to sustainable growth. ... More recently, in order to better place the discussion of competitiveness in the societal and environmental context, the World Economic Forum has begun exploring the complex relationship between competitiveness and sustainability as measured by its social and environmental dimension. ... Government attitudes toward markets a...

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The extension of labour rights as a form of human right is a fairly modern philosophical and legal exercise. According to Kolben, "a large and growing number of labor law and industrial relations scholars have argued that labor rights ought to be understood and conceptualized as fundamental human r...

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