The Development of Competitive Industries: The Role of State Government Actors

Despite widespread adoption of Porter's Industrial Cluster Theory as a policy development framework by federal and state governments over the past decade, Australia remains significantly below the OECD average in terms of its industries' economic contributions to real wealth creation ( Brown 2000 ; OECD 1998 ). The major cause cited for this relatively poor performance has been inability of key government officials to implement effective industry policy that simultaneously avoids de facto protectionism and distortion of competition. This article provides an insight into the key policy decisions undertaken by the Tasmanian state government that coincided with development of an internationally successful shipbuilding industry in that state. As such, this article provides a reflection on policy initiatives that may be valuable for government officials elsewhere.     

建立"中国-东盟文化产业合作区"的战略构想

在中国—东盟自由贸易区的基础上,构建“中国-东盟文化产业合作区”,可以实现这一区域内文化产品的交流、贸易与服务,促进文化产业的发展,保护文化多样性,共同维护这一区域的文化安全,抵御西方文化深层介入。这一合作区域的建立不仅是实施中国文化产业发展“走出去”战略的重要实践,更有助于中国文化产品和服务在东南亚市场的拓展。     

国际文化产业的非均衡竞争与中国的竞争方略

文化产业的国际性发展是经济全球化和文化全球化的集中反映。作为一种产业,它的发展必然跟随着经济全球化的步履不断地扩大经营规模,拓展发展空间,走向世界。推进中国文化产业的国际化进程,是我国融入全球化大潮的重要途径。当今世界文化产业竞争的平台就是WTO,世界贸易组织各种现行的国际贸易协议中有关文化艺术产品的规定,作为游戏规则将对中国发生效力。     

养老服务业的市场需求分析

老龄化程度的不断加深,为我国养老服务业的发展提供了客观需要和外在的基础条件。本文首先阐述了养老服务业的市场构成和影响养老服务业市场需求的诸多因素,然后在消费者调查的基础上,着重分析了我国养老服务业的市场需求潜力。     

论经济不发达地区如何发展文化产业

我国广大的经济落后地区经过２０多年的改革开放，经济、文化有了巨大发展，但与先进省、市相比，差距还很大。深入研究这些地区文化产业发展思路，真正让文化产业成为该地区支柱产业，当前应重点解决五个方面问题：更新观念；确立文化战略；优化文化资源配置；培育文化市场；完善文化机制。     

第三产业与城市化互动关系探析

城市化是工业化的空间聚集表现,工业化推动第三产业的发展,决定了第三产业崛起与城市化都是工业化的产物。城市化是第三产业发展的需求基础,第三产业是城市化重要的经济源泉和后续动力,第三产业与城市化具有互相促进的互动关系。要在工业化进程中推动城市化和第三产业的发展,促进第三产业与城市化的互动关系。     

发展四川电子信息产业风险投资的对策

在IT时代 ,电子信息产业风险投资具有特别重要的意义。本文对发展电子信息产业风险投资的几个关键问题进行了思考 ,提出了构建四川电子信息产业风险投资发展结构体系的四个思路     

论加入WTO后的云南旅游业

21世纪 ,经济全球化的进程将进一步加快 ,中国加入世界贸易组织 ,经济将面临全球化和“入世”的全面影响 ,旅游业将不可避免地卷入经济全球化大潮中。作为旅游资源大省 ,西部第一旅游强省 ,云南省要在 2 1世纪把云南省建成在东南亚有影响的国际旅游目的地 ,就必须超前谋划 ,趋利避害 ,抓住机遇 ,迎接挑战     

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.