Over the years, research on women in the fisheries moved from a framework of political economy to a framework of political ecology. This meant that analyses shifted away from labour, production relations and surplus value extraction typically grounded in Marxian modes of analysis, in favour of those focused on environmental sustainability, livelihood sustainability and a discourse on poverty. D...

The work provides the contributions of an empirical study recently carried out by University Valencia (Spain) in collaboration with Generalitat Valenciana (Regional Government). is mainly based on a qualitative methodology using in-depth interviews open to experts field (specifically 13) and presentations renowned speakers at 12th Economy Week Alzira (Valencia), which content analysis was appli...

In recent years considerable attention has been directed towards changes that have been occurring within the impact of JIT production on the labour process. Much of this debate has been hinged around attempts to contain and secure the increased vulnerability and dependency the utilisation of JIT creates for capital. As such attention has been focused on the increased opportunities for tightenin...

/RESUME In this paper we present comparative evidence from OECD countries concerning the impact of product and labour market regulations on innovation. While product and labour market policies usually aim at objectives other than innovation, they may have important consequences for the profitability of firms' innovative strategies. Our regression analysis provides some crosscountry evidence tha...