British union revival strategies range from recruitment and US-style organising approaches and workplace partnerships through union mergers and restructuring to efforts to (re-)build political and institutional conduits. Social movement unionism (SMU), unionism which extends beyond concern with matters of job regulation to ‘reaching out’ to other groups to emphasise social justice aims, has nev...

Foreign direct investment in developing countries has recently received a renewed attention as a major determinant of financial development. Indeed, where markets are financially constrained, foreign investment offers a viable financing opportunity assorted with a transfer of technological and managerial know-how. In this paper, we examine the determinants of foreign investors’ participation in...

Abstract This article demonstrates the utility of combining individual survey data with social media content in order to analyze how context predicts behavior. The lack valid and reliable measures contexts interaction which individuals are embedded has remained an Achilles heel method. reason is that collection direct observation requires qualitative analysis context, which, hitherto, been too ...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to test empirically two major conceptualizations of parent-child relations in later adulthood-intergenerational solidarity-conflict and ambivalence paradigms-and their predictive validity on elders' quality of life using comparative cross-national data. METHODS Data were from a sample of 2,064 elders (aged 75 and older) from the five-country OASIS stud...

In November 2011, a draft National Development Plan (NDP) was released that addresses two of South Africa's major challenges: poverty and inequity. Health and economic development are interdependent, presenting an important opportunity through the NDP to integrate health within goals of broader socio-economic development. Reviewing the NDP identified gaps based on evidence and the epidemiologic...

This paper analyses the association between traditional family structures based on intergenerational and gender tasks and kinship solidarity and the family and employment policies in Southern European countries (Spain, Italy and Greece) from a compared perspective. In this way, the paper studies how the persistence of structures and family strategies associated with the male breadwinner model a...

With the Derg's overthrow in 1991, Eritrea embarked on the construction of a new state. New economic institutions were created, and considerable reform undertaken. Problems in co-ordinating reform and reconstruction were largely avoided, mainly because of the institutional ‘clean slate’ facing the country at independence and the high level of social solidarity and other social capital that char...

Historically, cultural accounts and descriptions of blood banking in Britain have been associated with notions of altruism, national solidarity and imagined community. While these ideals have continued to be influential, the business of procuring and supplying blood has become increasingly complex. Drawing on interview data with donors in one blood centre in England, this article reports that t...

Several years of professional nursing practices, while living in the poorest neighbourhoods in the outlying areas of Brazil's Amazon region, have led the author to develop a better understanding of marginalized populations. Providing care to people with leprosy and sex workers in riverside communities has taken place in conditions of uncertainty, insecurity, unpredictability and institutional v...

In order to advance science while preserving social solidarity and institutional trust, clinical research must carefully manage ethical tensions created by the two overlapping dynamics of conflict and uncertainty. One of these dynamics is inherent in the research enterprise itself and the other arises in the particular context of a public health emergency. One test for both the moral soundness ...