Environmental Policies and The Reproduction of Business as Usual: How Does It Work?

This paper aims to advance knowledge about corporate environmentalism by using new concepts and methods. We broaden the concept of the firm as “differentiated composite actor” by including not only managers but workers and unionists as actors. We descend into the “hidden abode of production” using Lefebvre’s concept of “everyday life” to explore the barriers environmental policies experience in this sphere. We base our explorations on life-history interviews to understand how the imaginaries of production are embedded in people’s self-conceptions. We identify seven barriers to the implementation of environmental practices: deficient regulations, collusion between controller and controlled, de-prioritisation, hierarchism, compartmentalisation, specialisation, and social unsustainability. A “necessity discourse,” legitimating the priority of efficiency and product quality over environmental sustainability, subjugates alternative sustainable practices. The paper concludes with a discussion of the results in the light of previous investigations, suggesting that the concept of the everyday could enrich future research.     

Governing health and safety at lower tiers of the computer industry global value chain

Global brands remain under increasing pressure to ensure labor standards and codes of conduct are met by their suppliers. Little is known about how this is addressed by lower tier suppliers. We investigate whether, and how, occupational health and safety standards permeate down the computer industry value chain. We compare first and second tier suppliers' engagement with a private voluntary industry code, the Electronic Industry Code of Conduct, and the publicly regulated European Union Directive on the Restriction of Hazardous Substances. We find the industry code absent at the lower tier, yet second tier suppliers do implement the European Union Directive. This is achieved without support from public agencies or global value chain linkages. Our findings question the emphasis placed on chain governance in studies of labor compliance in global value chains, and suggest that alternative and complementary approaches may be required for effective labor compliance throughout the value chain.     

提高劳动收入在国民收入中的比重

劳动收入增长落后于经济增长,分配关系不合理。要解决劳动收入比重下降问题,就必须正确理解我国收入分配指导方针,深入探讨按劳分配的内在含义,建立以劳动工资为主体的收入分配机制,健全工会集体谈判制度,转变政府职能,建立健全社会保障机制。     

Analyzing Brazilian vehicle documents for authenticity by easy ambient sonic-spray ionization mass spectrometry

Using desorption/ionization techniques such as easy ambient sonic-spray ionization mass spectrometry (EASI-MS), it is possible to analyze documents of Brazilian vehicles for authenticity, providing a chemical profile directly from the surface of each document. A method for the detection of counterfeit documents is described, and the falsification procedure is elucidated. Forty authentic and counterfeit documents were analyzed by both positive and negative ion modes, EASI(±)-MS. EASI(+)-MS results identified the presence of (bis(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate plasticizer and of dihexadecyldimethylammonium biocide in both types of documents. For EASI(-)-MS results, the 4-octyloxybenzoic acid additive ([M + H](+): m/z 249) is present only in counterfeit documents. It was also found that counterfeit vehicle documents are produced via Laserjet printers. Desorption/ionization techniques, such as EASI-MS, offer therefore, an intelligent way to characterize the counterfeiting method.     

中国民事诉讼法学成长的启示——以知识社会学为视角的分析

从知识社会学考察,中国民事诉讼法学成长表现为四种知识的生产,即普法法学、注释法学、理论法学、实践法学,民事诉讼法与民事诉讼法学的关系结构构成了民事诉讼法学知识生产的社会环境。每种知识的生产既是对特定关系结构的表达,受特定关系结构的制约,又参与了关系结构的创造。民事诉讼法学知识生产是在历史的变迁中进行的,又是通过民事诉讼法学家群体来实现的。     

论中央苏区妇女对农业生产的贡献

本文对中央苏区妇女参加农业生产的动因、政策与措施以及作用进行了历史考察,认为苏区妇女参加农业生产是妇女自我解放后觉悟的充分表达,而苏区政府的广泛宣传、发布法令、建立妇女组织为妇女参加农业生产提供了政策和制度保障,最终实现了妇女解放与革命的互动。     

文书提出命令的适用范围探讨

文书提出命令是大陆法系国家或地区民事诉讼中一方当事人向对方当事人或诉讼外第三人收集证据的主要手段。近年来,文书提出命令制度有了新的发展,其适用范围更是改革热点。在我国的民事诉讼法中,当事人收集证据的手段和方法相当不完善,因此,确有必要对文书提出命令的相关问题加以探讨,以期促进我国证据收集制度的完善。     

Dueling experts and imperfect verification

In the Dueling Experts Game, adversarial experts strategically produce “good” or “bad” evidence to support their partisan testimony. Good evidence is probative while bad evidence has no evidentiary value. The new feature of this Game is that Judge sometimes erroneously identifies good evidence as bad evidence and vice versa. Along the Game’s equilibrium path, each partisan expert produces only good evidence if it supports his side. When favorable good evidence is unavailable, an expert produces bad evidence to support his testimony. Hence, dueling experts always contradict one another. Despite their conflicting testimony, one of the experts invariably produces the available good evidence for Judge. Therefore, Judge always receives the available good evidence. A central result is that the quality of experts, including their ability to persuade judges using available good evidence, and the quality of judges – their ability to distinguish good from bad evidence – determine the accuracy of verdicts. Remarkably, the likelihood that experts are endowed with good evidence does not matter provided that this likelihood is not identically zero or one.     

要切实加强工会劳动保护监督检查工作——认真学习江泽民同志关于安全生产的重要批示

针对我国安全生产形势严峻 ,重、特大事故多发 ,江泽民同志对安全生产作了重要批示 ,各地深入开展安全生产大检查 ,扭转安全生产被动局面。工会作为工人阶级群众组织 ,要加强和改进劳动保护监督检查工作 ,积极为实现安全生产形势根本好转作贡献。