Secondary Precarity in Asia: Family Vulnerability in an Age of Unfree Labour

ABSTRACT

Scholarly discussions of precarious work have identified and analysed the conditions and structures that produce precarity, the contextual nuances that characterise worker relations across a range of sites and sectors and the possibilities of resistance by the precariat. In these studies, workers are often discussed with inadequate attention to their social embeddedness. Taking workers’ embeddedness in social relations and norms as a starting point for analysis, this article explores a secondary aspect of precarity amongst families of exploited workers. This aspect is analysed according to three registers of vulnerability and risk: economic (household and livelihood), intimate (anxiety and negative emotional relations) and physical (mobility and movement). The article outlines this framework through a case study of trafficked fishers and their families from Cambodia and the Philippines. Human trafficking is an extreme form of precarious labour, characterised by unfreedom and hyper-exploitation. The article contributes to the understanding of the trafficking of migrant fishers, which has not seen rigorous academic documentation and is relatively poorly understood in comparison to other forms of trafficking.     

The veterans’ gala: the use of tradition in an industrial labour conflict in contemporary Kazakhstan

ABSTRACT

Since its privatization in 1995, Kazakhstan’s largest steel mill has been in a restructuring process characterized by workforce reduction, augmented pressure on remaining jobs and labour conflict over wages, work conditions and corporate social responsibility. In 2013, in an attempt to re-establish harmonious relationships with workers, management invited the mill’s former labour aristocracy to join a newly established veterans’ council, a forum resembling traditional aksakal councils, to discuss the company’s difficult situation. In the context of a banquet in honour of the veterans, tradition became the contested terrain over which labour and capital struggled to endorse their own visions of the industrial future. As corporate capitalist visions of efficiency and professionalism, ethno-national concerns for harmony and stability, and practices rooted in the Soviet labour legacy clash, tradition is staged by actors as a practice which can either affirm or challenge industrial leadership in a labour conflict.     

论信息化带动工业化的非均衡路径

以信息化带动工业化,就是以"带"为手段,大力发展信息技术,以"动"为传导,优化产业结构,提升企业竞争力,目的是实现社会生产力的跨越式发展。分析制约信息化战略的供给与需求两方面因素发现,赶超战略的可行途径与应有之义具有非均衡性,大力推进城市信息基础设施建设,积极参与国际商务中心竞争,培育若干个都市群的国际竞争优势,以此带动中小城镇与整个国民经济发展是实施信息化战略的现实选择。     

论海上保险中代位求偿权的范围——兼论对《海商法》第254条的理解

本文就海上保险代位权的立法目的、性质 ,代位权的范围在实践中的利弊等方面分析讨论了《海商法》2 5 4条的有关规定。     

海上保险诉讼时效相关问题探究

诉讼时效是对海上保险相关主体影响重大的一项制度,而学者对《海商法》第264条“时效”的定性问题一直存在争议,从诉讼时效的目的功能、诉讼时效与除斥期间的区别,以及整个法律体系的用语等角度分析之后,可以看出该条所述“时效”是指诉讼时效;代位求偿权是维护保险人利益的一项制度,因代位求偿权的特殊性,其诉讼时效的起算点一直争议不断.《保险法司法解释（二）》明确规定保险代位求偿权诉讼时效的起算点,且从代位求偿权作为法律规定的权利等角度看海上代位求偿权诉讼时效也应该起算于取得权利时.     

大陆静脉产业园与台湾环保科技园对比研究

经济的快速发展,带来了能源过度消耗和环境被破坏的问题。为了实现可持续发展,台湾和大陆都以建立环保类园区的形式鼓励环境保护、资源循环利用。对比台湾和大陆园区的发展,现阶段大陆应从明确权责关系、健全相关法律法规、提供有效的政策支持和加强宣传四方面着手,产业化、规模化和标准化地建设静脉产业园区。     

海商法视角内的海盗强索赎金问题

海盗劫持船舶已成为威胁国际航运安全的重要因素,大多数海盗劫持船舶事件最终都以向海盗缴纳赎金的方式解决。虽然海盗行为属于国际刑法的研究范畴,但海盗索取赎金的后果关乎船货双方的风险和损失分担问题,因此,有必要在海商法的视角内对此加以研究。根据海盗索取赎金时所指向的对象,赎金分为船货赎金、船员赎金和乘客赎金三类,应通过赎金的性质确定风险的最终承担者。     

加快资源开发 培育新兴产业——铜仁地区硅石资源概况及开发利用的调查报告

在硅石资源应用范围不断扩大、需求量不断增长以及国内"河硅"资源日益枯竭的背景下,加快硅石资源的开发和综合利用研究,有利于促进铜仁地区培育新兴产业,加快新型工业化进程。     

论海上火灾免责

海上火灾免责 ,从其定义、起因 ,到举证顺序 ,举证对象 ,也即火灾起因的举证责任和承运人过失的举证责任等至关重要的问题 ,我国立法上存在较明显的缺陷 ,一是未分清火灾举证责任的举证顺序。二是未区分火灾起因的举证责任与承运人过失的举证责任。三则有关举证责任的规定 ,含义模糊易引起歧义 ,实际上已经造成某些权威人士的错误解释。四则在保留“承运人本人”狭窄的范围的同时 ,却引进《汉堡规则》中的明示举证责任 ,而且有过之无不及。     

论海上拖航向海上救助拖带的转化

海上拖航与海上救助拖带是两种性质不同的海上服务 ,但在具体实务工作中 ,拖带双方对这两者的区别和联系的认识还存在很大的差异 ,以至自从海上拖航出现以来 ,因这一问题产生的争议及涉讼现象屡见不鲜。本文论述了两者的区别、前者向后者转化的条件及转化后的影响。