The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 28, No. 2, April, 1997
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2024-03-28T09:20:53ZInterfering women: farm mothers and the reproduction of family farming
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Interfering women: farm mothers and the reproduction of family farming
O'Hara, Patricia
The continuance of family farming in Ireland is dependent on family formation and reproduction which are processes in which women are central actors. Family farming as a social form is organised around gender-based work roles so that farm women have responsibility for the care and sustenance of the farm family through their responsibility for children and work in the home. Despite this, relatively little is known about farm women's involvement in the reproduction of family farming. In this paper farm women's involvement in the evolution of family farming and on the structure of Irish society is explored by examining their influence on the exceptional educational attainment of farm children. This means that the focus is on farm women in their role as mothers rather than as wives. This in turn, involves a shift away from the more conventional tendency to view the family farm as an arena of production only, to seeing it also as a site of reproduction.
1997-01-01T00:00:00ZChallenging collectivist traditions: individualism and the management of industrial relations in greenfield sites
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Challenging collectivist traditions: individualism and the management of industrial relations in greenfield sites
Gunnigle, Patrick; Morley, Michael; Turner, Thomas
This paper explores developments in industrial relations and Human Resource
Management (HRM) in newly established ("greenfield") companies in the Republic of Ireland as a means of informing the debate on changing patterns of industrial relations. In particular, the paper focuses on the issue of individualism as a key dimension of management approaches to industrial relations. It is based on an empirical study of management approaches to industrial relations using a data set of new firms established in Ireland in the period 1987-1992.
1997-01-01T00:00:00ZEvaluation of the ratio of unemployment rates as an indicator of fair employment: a critique
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Evaluation of the ratio of unemployment rates as an indicator of fair employment: a critique
Bradley, John
A recent study by Gudgin and Breen (1996) criticised the use of the high and stable
ratios of Catholic to Protestant unemployment rates in Northern Ireland as a measure of the existence and extent of job discrimination. In spite of the sophistication and novelty of the modelling methodology used to justify their claims, I contend that their wider interpretation of the underlying causes of long-term structural labour market disadvantage in the Catholic community is flawed.
1997-01-01T00:00:00ZThe war on drugs: reports from the Irish front
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The war on drugs: reports from the Irish front
Butler, Shane
The phrase "war on drugs", as a metaphor or shorthand for national and international policies aimed at the prohibition of a range of psychoactive drugs, has been used so widely and for so long that its provenance is no longer entirely clear, but it appears to have had its origins in the United States about 1969, during the first administration of Richard Nixon (Bellis, 1981; Trebach, 1982). This was not, on the face of it, the most auspicious moment for America to commit itself to such a venture, coming, as it did, at the tail-end of the idealistic but unsuccessful "war on poverty" and at the height ofits other unsuccessful, and far more bloody, military engagement in South-East Asia. Bellis provides interesting historical background to this growth in popularity of military rhetoric in the drugs policy field, setting it in the context of the technical achievement represented by the successful landing ofAmerican astronauts on the moon in 1969.
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