Social partnership in ensuring decent labor remuneration

Social protection , decent work and development

Social partnership: Theory and practice

recent Korean governments have attempted to use social partnership as a mechanism to achieve cooperative and peaceful industrial relations and to balance economic effi ciency with social equity in the context of globalisation. This paper has two aims. First it seeks to put the current social partnership experiment in historical perspective and argues that current developments in Korean industri...

The Potential and Precariousness of Partnership: The Case of the Kaiser Permanente Labor Management Partnership

In 1997, the Kaiser Foundation Health Care and Hospitals, the Permanente Medical Federation, and a coalition of unions signed a national agreement creating one of the most ambitious labor management partnerships in U.S. history, initially covering some 58,000 employees. Based on field research and archival data, this paper analyzes the first eight years of this partnership in light of three str...

DECENT ALGEBRAIC SPACES Contents

Public Private Partnership and Social Infrastructure

Economic growth in a country largely depends on the standards of its social infrastructure. Education and healthcare are twin most important areas of social infrastructure. It also covers care of the elderly people a good objective of which can be met through social security measures. This apart, social infrastructure also includes women empowerment which can be largely achieved through their e...