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Building a democratic expertise to inform labour’s struggle for a just transition Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Jane Lethbridge
Increasingly, the concept of a just transition is shaping labour’s view of environmental justice but the experience of trade unions working towards just transitions has been mixed, although much ac...
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Varieties of just transitions in the European car industry Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Bob Hancké, Laurenz Mathei
This article examines the responses and strategies developed by business, unions, and governments to the electric turn in the industry in Germany and France, Europe’s main car-producing countries. ...
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International solidarity for a de-colonised Just Transition: electric vehicles and lithium in Mexico and Europe Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Karen Bell
The term ‘Just Transition’ (JT) gained global prominence through the Silesia Declaration on Solidarity and Just Transition agreed at the 2018 UN Climate Change Conference (COP24). However, there ha...
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Policy making and artificial intelligence in Scotland Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Hartwig Pautz
The article presents an exploratory qualitative single case study about whether and how artificial intelligence (AI) is used by the Scottish Government, about the key concerns relating to its usage...
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Levelling up or down? Addressing regional inequalities in the UK Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Felicia M. Fai, Philip R. Tomlinson
The UK has the widest regional inequalities among the advanced industrial economies. These regional inequalities are not new, but the persistence of the so-called North-South divide has become more...
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Levelling Up UK regions: scale-related challenges of Brexit, investment and land use Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Philip McCann
This paper discusses three of the key reasons why productivity growth in the UK is both so weak and also so regionally unbalanced. These reasons are Brexit, low levels of public and private investm...
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Space exploration as a propulsive industry in levelling up Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Leslie Budd, Stefania Paladini
In recent decades the importance of space exploration and its associated economy and industry have grown significantly. Beyond its scientific, technological, and engineering advantages space explor...
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EU enlargement in wartime Europe: three dimensions and scenarios Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Tyyne Karjalainen
The enlargement policy of the European Union from 2013 to 2022 was not only ineffective, but also lacked an active enlargement drive. Russia’s war in Ukraine changed the equation of costs and benef...
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Inequality: the scourge of the twenty-first century Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Syed Mansoob Murshed, Blas Regnault
Rising inequality is a ubiquitous problem, encompassing every geographical region and nation in the world. Inequality can be contended to have replaced unemployment as our most vital economic issue...
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When is a fund not a fund? Exploring the financial support for levelling up Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Graeme Atherton, Marc Le Chevallier
This paper will examine the different funding streams associated with the levelling up agenda pursued by the Conservative government elected in the United Kingdom in 2019. It will explore in detail...
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Third places in precarious workers’ lives: a scoping review of associated social experiences and outcomes Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Debbie Laliberte Rudman, Sarah Larkin, Kassandra Fernandes, Gorety Nguyen, Rebecca Aldrich
The contemporary increase in precarious employment has shaped lives marked by employment, economic, and social instability for many workers. While research has demonstrated deleterious physical and...
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Third places in precarious workers’ lives: a scoping review of associated social experiences and outcomes Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Debbie Laliberte Rudman, Sarah Larkin, Kassandra Fernandes, Gorety Nguyen, Rebecca Aldrich
The contemporary increase in precarious employment has shaped lives marked by employment, economic, and social instability for many workers. While research has demonstrated deleterious physical and...
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Levelling-up beyond the metropolis: is the UK government’s preferred governance model appropriate? Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Paul Hildreth, David Bailey
ABSTRACT We consider whether the UK government’s levelling-up governance model of Combined Authorities and metro-mayors is the most appropriate solution for beyond the metropolis. We draw on case study research from the Mersey Dee area between North East Wales and North West England. The paper addresses three propositions. First, that the underlying distinction between agglomeration-driven and place-based
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Levelling-up beyond the metropolis: is the UK government’s preferred governance model appropriate? Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Paul Hildreth, David Bailey
We consider whether the UK government’s levelling-up governance model of Combined Authorities and metro-mayors is the most appropriate solution for beyond the metropolis. We draw on case study rese...
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What needs to happen to ‘level up’ public health? Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Sarah Ayres, Andrew Barnfield, Geoff Bates, Anna Le Gouais, Nick Pearce
ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to examine what needs to happen in central, sub-regional and local government to ‘level up’ public health in the United Kingdom (UK). The Government's recent Levelling Up White Paper outlined ambitious targets for reducing regional disparities, including a ‘mission’ to tackle inequalities in healthy life expectancy and reduce inequalities in the social determinants
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What needs to happen to ‘level up’ public health? Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Sarah Ayres, Andrew Barnfield, Geoff Bates, Anna Le Gouais, Nick Pearce
The aim of this article is to examine what needs to happen in central, sub-regional and local government to ‘level up’ public health in the United Kingdom (UK). The Government's recent Levelling Up...
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“A modern research profession’: government social research, evidence-based policymaking and blind spots in contemporary governance research Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2023-06-10 Julian Molina, John Connolly
ABSTRACT Recent debates on evidence-based policymaking have demonstrated limited engagement with the history of the Government Social Research (GSR) profession and its role in facilitating the translation of evidence into policy. Though there was a concerted scholarly focus on social research functions within government during the 1980s and 1990s, the recent limited focus on these professions has led
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People, places and policies beyond Brexit Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2023-06-07 David Bailey, David Hearne, Leslie Charles Budd
Published in Contemporary Social Science: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences (Vol. 18, No. 2, 2023)
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Balancing the incentives in English higher education: the imperative to strengthen civic influence for levelling up Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Chris Millward
The UK government’s levelling up strategy is the latest attempt to address the nation’s spatial inequalities. This issue has been amplified by voting in the 2016 referendum to leave the European Un...
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Balancing the incentives in English higher education: the imperative to strengthen civic influence for levelling up* Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Chris Millward
ABSTRACT The UK government’s levelling up strategy is the latest attempt to address the nation’s spatial inequalities. This issue has been amplified by voting in the 2016 referendum to leave the European Union, within which people in places with lower levels of educational qualifications and wages demonstrated their desire for change. These places have been characterised as ‘left behind’ by the pursuit
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‘Levelling Up? That’s never going to happen’: perceptions on Levelling Up in a ‘Red Wall’ locality Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Luke Telford
ABSTRACT Emerging as the flagship policy of the Conservative Government in 2019, the Levelling Up agenda identified the need to ameliorate the United Kingdom’s (UK) spatial inequalities with a particular focus on so-called left behind places. However, there is a dearth of qualitative research in these locales that explores what Levelling Up means to residents and how they believe it can be a success
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England’s catch-22: institutional limitations to achieving balanced growth through devolution Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Charlotte Hoole, Simon Collinson, Jack Newman
ABSTRACT International studies show that relative levels of regional (de)centralisation are associated with more or less balanced patterns of economic growth, well-being and resilience. Alongside supporting specific levels and types of devolution, prior studies emphasise the quality of local institutions as a key factor underlying balanced growth. This study empirically confirms the relative lack of
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England’s catch-22: institutional limitations to achieving balanced growth through devolution Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Charlotte Hoole, Simon Collinson, Jack Newman
International studies show that relative levels of regional (de)centralisation are associated with more or less balanced patterns of economic growth, well-being and resilience. Alongside supporting...
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Levelling up policies and the failure to learn Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Diane Coyle, Adam Muhtar
ABSTRACT UK policy targeting regional economic disparities has been characterised by frequent reversals and announcements, with multiple, uncoordinated public bodies, departments and levels of government responsible for delivery. Prior ‘place-blind' national policies have given way recently to ‘place-based' approaches, with a convergence between industrial and spatial policies. Yet a consequence of
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Levelling up policies and the failure to learn Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Diane Coyle, Adam Muhtar
UK policy targeting regional economic disparities has been characterised by frequent reversals and announcements, with multiple, uncoordinated public bodies, departments and levels of government re...
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Gone but not forgotten (yet): Interreg in post-Brexit UK Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Irene McMaster, Heidi Vironen
ABSTRACT Territorial cooperation has a long history in the UK. Numerous stakeholders in the UK have a long-standing and active engagement in the EU’s Territorial Cooperation Programmes (also known as ETC and Interreg). Launched in 1990, Interreg is the EU’s framework for territorial cooperation, enabling joint actions and policy exchanges between national, regional and local actors from different Member
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Regulation in Scotland and Wales after Brexit Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2023-04-08 Michael Keating
ABSTRACT While the United Kingdom was a member of the EU, a number of regulatory competences were shared between the EU and devolved authorities in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. As Northern Ireland is governed by the Protocol, which requires dynamic alignment with most EU regulations, it is a case apart and this article deals only with Scotland and Wales. Where repatriated competences should
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Higher education and research: multiple negative effects and no new opportunities after Brexit Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Ludovic Highman, Simon Marginson, Vassiliki Papatsiba
ABSTRACT Brexit has weakened collaboration between UK higher education institutions and their EU counterparts, with negative implications for UK resources and capacity, without leading to new global strategies and opportunities. In 2020 the UK government withdrew from the Erasmus student mobility scheme and introduced the Turing scheme. While Erasmus had supported both outward UK student mobility and
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Brexit, trade and UK advanced manufacturing sectors: a Midlands’ perspective Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2023-04-01 David Bailey, Lisa De Propris, Alex De Ruyter, David Hearne, Raquel Ortega-Argilés
ABSTRACT The paper examines how Brexit has impacted on Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and suppliers in the UK Midlands, and to what extent such firms are reconfiguring their supply chains with the increase in trade barriers with Brexit. To do this, the paper aims to add to macro studies in the area by using a mixed-methods approach that combines descriptive quantitative analysis of secondary
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The impact of the post-Brexit migration system on the UK labour market Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2023-03-26 Jonathan Portes, John Springford
ABSTRACT The end of free movement and the introduction of the post-Brexit migration system represent a major structural change to the UK labour market. We provide a descriptive assessment of the impact on a sectoral basis. We examine how overall labour force growth has differed between sectors, both overall and in terms of the extent to which this growth was driven by migrant workers, both from the
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Brexit and ‘missing’ financial services jobs in the United Kingdom Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2023-03-26 Sarah Hall, Martin Heneghan
ABSTRACT In this paper, we examine the impact of Brexit on financial services employment in the UK. Initial estimates suggested that around 10,000 jobs could relocate from London to other EU financial centres as a result of Brexit. Official statistics show that the total number of job relocations that has taken place to date is lower than these estimates, but concerns have been raised concerning ‘missing’
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How did Brexit affect UK trade? Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Jun Du, Emine Beyza Satoglu, Oleksandr Shepotylo
ABSTRACT This paper assesses the effect of Brexit implemented through the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement on UK trade. Using COMTRADE data for the period of 2019 up to 2022Q1, and the method of synthetic difference-in-differences (SDID), we build a counterfactual UK that did not experience the change in its trade relationships with the EU. We show that the negative, large, and statistically significant
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‘Northern Ireland and the Economic Consequences of Brexit: taking back control or perpetuating underperformance?’ Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Graham Brownlow
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the economic implications of Brexit by making recourse to original archival studies as well as the literatures concerning modern British and European economic history as well as the Two Irelands. An overriding lesson is that Northern Ireland, like the UK as whole, has suffered from weaknesses in competition and productivity that have given rise to long-run economic
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When (EU) migration came to Great Yarmouth Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Catherine Barnard, Fiona Costello
ABSTRACT This article examines the impact of EU migration on Great Yarmouth, a coastal town in Norfolk, England. Great Yarmouth had the fifth highest ‘leave’ vote nationally in the UK Brexit referendum, at over 70%. In this article, we want to show that Great Yarmouth has always been a town of migration but the sudden arrival of large numbers of EU nationals, exercising their free movement rights,
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The value of esports football. Towards new models of consumption and participatory experience in Italy Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Barbara Mazza, Giovanna Russo
ABSTRACT The growth of esports due to the suspension of live sporting events highlights a change in the consumption of ‘mediated' sports. While traditional sports have come to a halt, the data highlights how, conversely, the number of following e-sports events on streaming platforms such as Twitch has increased. Starting from the recent digital acceleration of sport world (for techniques and regulations
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Editorial: Contemporary social science open access (CSS open) Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2023-01-13 David Bailey
Published in Contemporary Social Science: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences (Vol. 17, No. 5, 2022)
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports-based youth development: the case of the rugby association ‘Rebonds!’ Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Jean-Charles Basson, Loïc Sallé
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on organisations that work with economically disadvantaged youth such as Rebonds! [Pick yourself up!], an association that provides educational rugby programmes to underprivileged young people in Toulouse, France. During the pandemic, this association experienced social change in the form of a double movement. First, its actors sought to preserve
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Being a docile body: the effects on preadolescents of the social restrictions imposed during COVID-19 Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Simone Digennaro, Alice Iannaccone
ABSTRACT During the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, school activities in Italy have been provided through distance learning, with a consequent impact on the body of the students and their physical activity habits. The aim of this paper was to investigate the impact of a programme to sensibilize preadolescents towards the adoption of active lifestyles and to ‘activate’ the body to counteract the
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Editorial. Covid-19, sport and society Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2023-01-01 E. Michelini, N. Bortoletto, A. Porrovecchio
Published in Contemporary Social Science: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences (Vol. 18, No. 1, 2023)
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Does the COVID-pandemic affect the educational and financial inequality in weekly sport participation in the Netherlands? Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Malou Grubben, Remco Hoekman, Gerbert Kraaykamp
ABSTRACT This paper explores the impact of the COVID-pandemic on educational and financial inequality in level of weekly sport participation in the Netherlands. Restrictions due to the COVID-pandemic resulted in several barriers for people to continue sport participation. Lower educated people and individuals with financial problems are expected to have relatively few resources to adapt to the COVID
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Gender differences in the characteristics of gaming and esport aspirations in Hungary Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Klára Kovács, Zsolt Békési, Krisztina Győri, Dávid Papp
ABSTRACT In our paper, we present the research findings of our empirical survey conducted in Hungary related to the gender differences in the use, motivations, habits, and aspirations in video games and esports. The most important theoretical foundations of our research are provided by the critical feminist theory and, within that, the critical agenda and the feminist cultural studies (Birrell, 2000)
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Lampedusa, football and COVID-19: transitions at the border and the role of sport Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Alessio Norrito, Carolynne Mason
ABSTRACT Lampedusa is a remote Italian island, known as a border zone and European point of entry for many asylum-seekers coming by boat from North Africa. This research seeks to understand the value of sport in Lampedusa for its local and migrant population, in the context of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with experts from the local community
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Lessons from the UK’s handling of Covid-19 for the future of scientific advice to government: a contribution to the UK Covid-19 Public Inquiry Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2022-12-11 Susan Michie, Philip Ball, James Wilsdon, Robert West
ABSTRACT Despite strong expertise and a sophisticated scientific advisory system, the UK’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been, and continues to be, weak in terms of preventing death and illness, and damage to the economy. This article argues that an important reason for this failure has been that the policies of the UK government have at critical times failed to take adequate account of scientific
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Supporting interviews with technology: how software integration can benefit participants and interviewers Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2022-12-11 Monique H. Harrison, Philip A. Hernandez
ABSTRACT The interview experience is only one component of the process of interviewing – software programmes can coordinate the pre-interview steps and begin a digitally-mediated relationship with participants long before the actual interview commences. This essay provides examples of how researchers can maximise their time and energy by digitally coordinating the steps of the interview process, thus
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Self-testing for COVID-19 in Durban and Eastern Cape, South Africa: a qualitative inquiry targeting decision-takers Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Amanda N. Brumwell, Gbotemi B. Babatunde, Sonjelle Shilton, Jade Tso, Michael W. Wilson, Noeline Xulu, Jamila K. Adam, Monique M. Marks, Guillermo Z. Martínez-Pérez
ABSTRACT Innovative diagnostic solutions are essential to improve COVID-19 case detection and slow its spread in resource-constrained settings. To understand how South African communities may utilise rapid SARS-CoV-2 antigen self-testing and react to self-test results, we conducted a qualitative study, involving semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions, of healthcare workers, representatives
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Security politics and techno-securitisation in Star Wars: from the Fall of the Jedi to the Reign of the Empire Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Colin Atkinson
ABSTRACT The Star Wars franchise – and in particular the ‘in-universe’ period from the Fall of the Jedi to the Reign of the Empire – represents germane ground for the critical analysis of security in both everyday life and extraordinary circumstances. Although beginning with the films of the ‘prequel trilogy’ (1999, 2002, 2005) this period has most recently been covered in the animated television series
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Work–family policies and women’s job mobility: emerging divides in female workforce in Japan Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2022-06-25 Junko Nishimura
ABSTRACT The impact of work–family policies on women’s employment must be considered in the institutional context wherein policies are introduced. This study examines the impact of introducing work–family policies on job exit and change experienced by 25–45-year-old women since the 1990s in the Japanese context. The past three decades are characterised by a deepened labour market duality, continued
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Community sentiment influences community participation: evidence from Ethiopia Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2022-05-23 Bereket Roba Gamo, Duk-Byeong Park
ABSTRACT Community sentiment is an essential component of community development and can influence residents’ propensity to participate in their community. However, few studies have investigated the effect of community sentiment on community participation in the sub-Saharan region. This study aimed to examine social connectedness, community attachment and community satisfaction as factors influencing
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Covid-19 and the crisis of food insecurity in the UK Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2022-05-24 Hartwig Pautz, Damian Dempsey
ABSTRACT Over the past decade, food insecurity has been increasing across the United Kingdom. The 2020/21 Covid-19 global pandemic has further aggravated food insecurity. This article examines how Covid-19 affected food insecurity through, first, a review of existing literature on the UK and, second, through presenting research results from Scotland with a focus on four groups considered to be specifically
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Perceiving and managing Brexit risk in UK manufacturing: evidence from the midlands Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2022-05-24 David Bailey, Alex de Ruyter, Claire MacRae, Jon McNeill, Julie Roberts
ABSTRACT This paper assesses the risk implications of Brexit for UK-based, manufacturers, drawing on data generated from semi-structured interviews with senior managers and directors in the advanced manufacturing sector of the West Midlands region of the UK in 2021. The UK’s departure from the EU has led to increased socio-economic risk for manufacturing businesses, requiring careful management by
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Community sentiment influences community participation: evidence from Ethiopia Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2022-05-23 Bereket Roba Gamo, Duk-Byeong Park
Community sentiment is an essential component of community development and can influence residents’ propensity to participate in their community. However, few studies have investigated the effect o...
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Social and private goods: the duality of unpaid internships Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2022-05-23 Andrew Morrison
ABSTRACT This review paper offers a political philosophy perspective on the place that unpaid internships occupy within the UK’s graduate labour market. By reviewing a range of sociologically-oriented academic and sources, the paper concludes that we lack an understanding of the deeper historical and philosophical roots of the contentions surrounding this area of work. To address this, the review locates
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The Polish family in transition: a shift towards greater gender equality? Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2022-05-19 Anna Kwak
ABSTRACT This article aims at tracking patterns of both change and consistency with regard to women’s roles in Poland, with particular focus on family roles. This paper considers whether women’s disproportionate domestic labour and childcare constitutes the so-called double burden or a successful example of work–family balance. In addressing this question, the paper considers survey evidence concerning
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Do Europeans want children? The significance of job-related spatial mobility Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2022-05-12 Pedro Romero-Balsas
ABSTRACT Job-related spatial mobility (JRSM) includes different types of movement situations (long-distance commuting, overnighting, recent relocation, long-distance relationship and multi-mobile) regarding employment and family life and it has implications both for labour market relations and for embarking on parenthood. This article aims to determine how spatial mobility at work can influence childless
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The resilience of maternalism in European welfare states Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Mary Daly
ABSTRACT This article goes in search of contemporary maternalism in European social policy. It first undertakes a review of both the meaning and forms of maternalism querying how scholarship and policy framed maternalism in Europe and, secondly, assesses its significance in today’s European welfare state. The article argues that maternalism has been crowded out from the analysis of contemporary social
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Socioeconomic shocks, inequality and food systems in the Global South: an introduction Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2022-04-07 Evans Osabuohien, Gbadebo Odularu, Daniel Ufua, Darline Augustine, Romanus Osabohien
ABSTRACT Food and nutrition security is increasingly understood as the most vital component of human ecosystems for transforming raw materials into foods, nutrients, and health outcomes. In addition to the distortions in the global food and nutrition systems as reflected in the triple burden of undernutrition, micronutrient deficiency, and overnutrition, the COVID-19 pandemic has generated devastating
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Informal practices in politics and society in Brazil Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos
ABSTRACT In the social sciences, informality is regularly discussed as a territory: ‘the informal city’. However, during the Covid-19 pandemic, precarious informal workers gained attention as people were targeted for cash transfer policies to increase adherence to and diminish the negative impact of social distancing policies. Focusing on informal workers highlighted new discussions about informality
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Introduction: identity in an open world order Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2022-02-22 S. Petroccia, A. Pitasi, A. Folloni
ABSTRACT This study is a brief introduction to the themed issue titled Identity In An Open World Order, for which we are guest editors. With this introduction, we intend to review each paper of the themed issue and state how each contributes to debates and advance knowledge and explains what they add to social science until drawing out avenues for future research. The special issue is focused on the
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Restless sleep and emotional wellbeing among European full-time dual-earner couples: gendered impacts of children and workplace demands Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2022-02-03 Xiao Tan, Leah Ruppanner, Belinda Hewitt, David Maume
ABSTRACT Role strain theory illuminates how work and family impinge on our intimate lives in gendered ways. Drawing upon data from the 2012 European Social Survey, we estimate structural equation models to understand the links between work and family conditions on full-time dual-earning couples’ restless sleep and emotional wellbeing. Our results show that young children (aged two or under) disrupt
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Conceptualising and measuring levels of risk by immigration status for children in the UK Contemporary Social Science Pub Date : 2021-12-09 Leon Feinstein, Yousef Khalifa Aleghfeli, Charlotte Buckley, Rebecca Gilhooly, Ravi K. S. Kohli
ABSTRACT Extensive evidence exists on how characteristics and circumstances of children shape their lifepaths and outcomes, and on the scale of resulting need. However, little research exists assessing the numbers of children who may be at risk of harm or disadvantage due to their immigration status. In this paper, we sought to establish the degree to which it is possible to monitor the aggregate vulnerability