… lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride. According to Bloomberg News, Bishop Gianfranco Girotti says that the new sins, brought about by the phenomenon of globalisation, add a social dimension. A number of media outlets are linking the release of this list to recent surveys indicating that fewer and fewer Catholics are going to confession at all. The list includes: …

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… our time” (Anderson, 3). The existence of that nation, according to those who belong to it, is unquestionable. The nation is immutable, it has always existed and its members must impede its violation and ensure its future existence by putting it at the top of their priorities. But what is a nation exactly? This paper will to touch on some theoretical aspects of the nation through the case …

… criterion necessary for the construction of consent over neoliberalism. This concept refers to methods by which the public buy-into the neoliberal agenda. How were they convinced that neoliberalism was the most suitable method of capital accumulation?
This paper will concern itself with the discourse surrounding the ‘construction of consent’ of the neoliberal project. Who were the …

… of CSR which emphasize different areas, but the most contemporary and most applicable to the majority cases, is defined by the World Bank Group’s Corporate Social Responsibility Practice, as a department of Foreign Investment Advisory Service (FIAS): “Corporate social responsibility is the commitment of businesses to contribute to sustainable economic development by working with …

… this newly developed spirit. This paper traces the development of this complex urban phenomenon and examines how Parliamentarians came to attribute many of the social ills of the day, including criminal activity, to gin drinking. It is seen that the passage of the Gin Acts were counterproductive and in themselves a source of crime. It is explored how, through these Acts, Parliament sought to …

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… the worldwide economic storm, a wave of worker protests against factory closures is grabbing both public imagination and media attention.
Their story begins with a sign hanging from a factory gate: OUT OF BUSINESS. LOOK FOR WORK ELSEWHERE. Or else it begins with a letter in the mailbox: WILL NOT PAY FINAL MONTH’S SALARY OR PROCESS REQUESTS FOR SEVERANCE PACKAGES.
Or rather, their story …

… clean water. ( UNDP’s Beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty and the Global Water Crisis ) Although 70% of the earth is made up of water, only 2.5% is fresh water. Less than 1% of the earth’s water is renewable and ready for human consumption. ( Water Facts ) The world’s clean water supply is also decreasing from pollution, overuse and industrialization.
The 5 th World Water Forum, …

… the Canada Pension Plan Disability (CPPD) benefits program. CPPD ostensibly serves to provide income security to pension-contributors who find themselves incapable of work due to chronic health conditions. Rising CPPD caseloads during the 1980s and early 1990s coupled with growing debt aversion in Canada led to predictions that the pension well would soon run dry. Such fears lent credence …

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… my paper contains an assortment of words relevant to current labor studies – networks, struggle, unions – but one word, or more aptly, one concept, will certainly stand out as peculiar: work-well-fare. What is this concept? What does it mean? I argue that work-well-fare is a tendency towards a renewed class compromise for America; a meeting point for capital and labor to renegotiate …

… their new lives in their new country. These ideal images are based on hopes of a better, more plentiful, and freer life which could not be found in Algeria due to poverty, the heritage of French colonialism, and ethnic segregation. In The Suffering of the Immigrant, Abdelmalek Sayad presents a series of interviews with Algerian immigrants who arrived in France with similar hopes. One man …

… views pertaining to various forms of sexual relationships between humans, it is generally held that as long as such interactions occur between consenting adults they are “healthy.” Of course, one could speak of traditional-religious conceptions of heterosexual, monogamous and procreative sexual partnerships as being the only virtuous expression of love; however an increasing number of …

… Expropriation: Who is the Neo-Expropriater?
Primitive accumulation - a concept Marx previously used for addressing the initial inhumane stage of capitalism at which both the expropriation of the producers from the means of production and transformation of them into wage-labourers took place - has long been an absent reference point within the social sciences. Given that the academics …

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… rule of law in relation to cities reminded me just how manipulative elites can be. Frug, a distinguished Harvard law professor, is concerned with the deconstruction of the idea of the rule of law as it is popularly understood and disseminated by politicians, businesspeople, and “think” tanks. As Frug points out, this usually is a particular model of market regulation focusing on improving …

Comment by Daycare Grants: … law as a test for just a while so …

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… the World Bank is vaguely predicting stagflation - stagnation plus inflation - and expressing his concern about how this will affect workers and consumers. He also worries that government and central bank policies will exacerbate the pain experienced by these people. Stiglitz has frequently been lauded by those on the left as a more sensible economist than the outright corporate apologists …

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… OSDir
Richard Stallman is one of the founders of the Free Software Movement and lead developer of the GNU Operating System. His book is ‘Free Software, Free Society’.
JP : Can you first of all explain the “Free Software Movement’.
RMS : The basic idea of the Free Software Movement is that the user of software deserves certain freedoms. There are four essential freedoms, …

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