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Book The Balance between Worker Protection and Employer Powers

Download or read book The Balance between Worker Protection and Employer Powers written by Nuno Cerejeira Namora and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the most important problems and challenges of the current labour market from the point of view of the balance between the parties of the employment contract. The contributions here are related to various pressing topics, including, for example, the future of work and worker protection on an international level against the strengthening of employers’ powers. In addition, the nature and limits of employers’ power, non-competition contractual clauses and workers’ rights in the face of new communication and information technologies are also discussed. The contributors are drawn from several countries, such as Portugal, Spain, Bolivia, Italy, México and Switzerland. The book will appeal to lawyers, legal experts, human resources experts, economist, judges, academia, and staff from companies and trade unions, and employers’ representation. The volume features insights and contributions in different languages, with chapters in Spanish (12), English (4) and Portuguese (5).

Book La libertad de empresa    un terrible derecho

Download or read book La libertad de empresa un terrible derecho written by Ignacio García Vitoria and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spain  a Global History

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  • Author : Luis Francisco Martinez Montes
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-11-12
  • ISBN : 9788494938115
  • Pages : 474 pages

Download or read book Spain a Global History written by Luis Francisco Martinez Montes and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, the Hispanic Monarchy was one of the largest and most diverse political communities known in history. At its apogee, it stretched from the Castilian plateau to the high peaks of the Andes; from the cosmopolitan cities of Seville, Naples, or Mexico City to Santa Fe and San Francisco; from Brussels to Buenos Aires and from Milan to Manila. During those centuries, Spain left its imprint across vast continents and distant oceans contributing in no minor way to the emergence of our globalised era. This was true not only in an economic sense-the Hispano-American silver peso transported across the Atlantic and the Pacific by the Spanish fleets was arguably the first global currency, thus facilitating the creation of a world economic system-but intellectually and artistically as well. The most extraordinary cultural exchanges took place in practically every corner of the Hispanic world, no matter how distant from the metropolis. At various times a descendant of the Aztec nobility was translating a Baroque play into Nahuatl to the delight of an Amerindian and mixed audience in the market of Tlatelolco; an Andalusian Dominican priest was writing the first Western grammar of the Chinese language in Fuzhou, a Chinese city that enjoyed a trade monopoly with the Spanish Philippines; a Franciscan friar was composing a piece of polyphonic music with lyrics in Quechua to be played in a church decorated with Moorish-style ceilings in a Peruvian valley; or a multi-ethnic team of Amerindian and Spanish naturalists was describing in Latin, Spanish and local vernacular languages thousands of medicinal plants, animals and minerals previously unknown to the West. And, most probably, at the same time that one of those exchanges were happening, the members of the School of Salamanca were laying the foundations of modern international law or formulating some of the first modern theories of price, value and money, Cervantes was writing Don Quixote, Velázquez was painting Las Meninas, or Goya was exposing both the dark and bright sides of the European Enlightenment. Actually, whenever we contemplate the galleries devoted to Velázquez, El Greco, Zurbarán, Murillo or Goya in the Prado Museum in Madrid; when we visit the National Palace in Mexico City, a mission in California, a Jesuit church in Rome or the Intramuros quarter in Manila; or when we hear Spanish being spoken in a myriad of accents in the streets of San Francisco, New Orleans or Manhattan we are experiencing some of the past and present fruits of an always vibrant and still expanding cultural community. As the reader can infer by now, this book is about how Spain and the larger Hispanic world have contributed to world history and in particular to the history of civilisation, not only at the zenith of the Hispanic Monarchy but throughout a much longer span of time.

Book Territory

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  • Author : David Delaney
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2008-04-15
  • ISBN : 1405153059
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book Territory written by David Delaney and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short introduction conveys the complexities associated with the term "territory" in a clear and accessible manner. It surveys the field and brings theory to ground in the case of Palestine. A clear and accessible introduction to the complexities associated with the term "territory". Provides an interdisciplinary survey of the many strands of research in the field. Addresses specific areas including interpretations of territorial structures; the relationship between territoriality and scale; the validity and fluidity of territory; and the practical, social processes associated with territorial re-configurations. Stresses that our understanding of territory is inseparable from our understanding of power. Uses Israel/Palestine as an extended illustrative case study. The author’s strong legal and geographical background gives the work an authoritative perspective.

Book The New New Journalism

Download or read book The New New Journalism written by Robert Boynton and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty years after Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, and Gay Talese launched the New Journalism movement, Robert S. Boynton sits down with nineteen practitioners of what he calls the New New Journalism to discuss their methods, writings and careers. The New New Journalists are first and foremost brilliant reporters who immerse themselves completely in their subjects. Jon Krakauer accompanies a mountaineering expedition to Everest. Ted Conover works for nearly a year as a prison guard. Susan Orlean follows orchid fanciers to reveal an obsessive subculture few knew existed. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc spends nearly a decade reporting on a family in the South Bronx. And like their muckraking early twentieth-century precursors, they are drawn to the most pressing issues of the day: Alex Kotlowitz, Leon Dash, and William Finnegan to race and class; Ron Rosenbaum to the problem of evil; Michael Lewis to boom-and-bust economies; Richard Ben Cramer to the nitty gritty of politics. How do they do it? In these interviews, they reveal the techniques and inspirations behind their acclaimed works, from their felt-tip pens, tape recorders, long car rides, and assumed identities; to their intimate understanding of the way a truly great story unfolds. Interviews with: Gay Talese Jane Kramer Calvin Trillin Richard Ben Cramer Ted Conover Alex Kotlowitz Richard Preston William Langewiesche Eric Schlosser Leon Dash William Finnegan Jonathan Harr Jon Krakauer Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Michael Lewis Susan Orlean Ron Rosenbaum Lawrence Weschler Lawrence Wright

Book Death in the Afternoon

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  • Author : Ernest Hemingway, Ernest
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2018-01-17
  • ISBN : 9781983811326
  • Pages : 482 pages

Download or read book Death in the Afternoon written by Ernest Hemingway, Ernest and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death in the Afternoon is a non-fiction book written by Ernest Hemingway about the ceremony and traditions of Spanish bullfighting, published in 1932. The book provides a look at the history and what Hemingway considers the magnificence of bullfighting. It also contains a deeper contemplation on the nature of fear and courage. While essentially a guide book, there are three main sections: Hemingway's work, pictures, and a glossary of terms.

Book Constitutionalism and Dictatorship

Download or read book Constitutionalism and Dictatorship written by Robert Barros and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-04 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is widely believed that autocratic regimes cannot limit their power through institutions of their own making. This book presents a surprising challenge to this view. It demonstrates that the Chilean armed forces were constrained by institutions of their own design. Based on extensive documentation of military decision-making, much of it long classified and unavailable, this book reconstructs the politics of institutions within the recent Chilean dictatorship (1973–1990). It examines the structuring of institutions at the apex of the military junta, the relationship of military rule with the prior constitution, the intra-military conflicts that led to the promulgation of the 1980 constitution, the logic of institutions contained in the new constitution, and how the constitution constrained the military junta after it went into force in 1981. This provocative account reveals the standard account of the dictatorship as a personalist regime with power concentrated in Pinochet to be grossly inaccurate.

Book Libertad de Empresa en el Estado Social de Derecho

Download or read book Libertad de Empresa en el Estado Social de Derecho written by Magdalena Correa Henao and published by Universidad Externado. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En España, que efectivamente está constituida desde 1978 en un Estado social y democrático de Derecho, no es poca la atención que la doctrina científica, además desde luego de la que ha debido prestarle el Tribunal Constitucional, ha dedicado ya al llamado orden constitucional económico. A pesar de la tarea dogmática y jurisprudencial ya cumplida, de la que desde luego da cuenta cabal M. Correa, en modo alguno puede decirse que huelgue lo que dice de la oportunidad e interés, incluso desde el lado español, del trabajo cumplido por la autora toda nueva interrogación al texto constitucional sobre su regulación de la economía para intentar descubrir las conexiones y los elementos sistemáticos que subyacen a ella y extraer desde los mismos algunas conclusiones sobre el papel de los poderes públicos, en especial de la Administración pública (pieza decisiva, cuando del Estado social se trata), en la materia. Sirvan de excusa, pues, estas líneas para volcar aquí, a modo de diálogo con la obra prologada y en homenaje a su método comparatista, algunas reflexiones sobre el sistema propio en alguna medida incentivadas por las sesiones de trabajo y discusión habidas con la autora a lo largo del proceso de gestación de aquélla.

Book Teaching Translation from Spanish to English

Download or read book Teaching Translation from Spanish to English written by Allison Beeby Lonsdale and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many professional translators believe the ability to translate is a gift that one either has or does not have, Allison Beeby Lonsdale questions this view. In her innovative book, Beeby Lonsdale demonstrates how teachers can guide their students by showing them how insights from communication theory, discourse analysis, pragmatics, and semiotics can illuminate the translation process. Using Spanish to English translation as her example, she presents the basic principles of translation through 29 teaching units, which are prefaced by objectives, tasks, and commentaries for the teacher, and through 48 task sheets, which show how to present the material to students. Published in English.

Book The Wise Men

Download or read book The Wise Men written by Walter Isaacson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-06-04 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating blend of personal biography and public drama, The Wise Men introduces the original best and brightest, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to postwar chaos: Averell Harriman, the freewheeling diplomat and Roosevelt's special envoy to Churchill and Stalin; Dean Acheson, the secretary of state who was more responsible for the Truman Doctrine than Truman and for the Marshall Plan than General Marshall; George Kennan, self-cast outsider and intellectual darling of the Washington elite; Robert Lovett, assistant secretary of war, undersecretary of state, and secretary of defense throughout the formative years of the Cold War; John McCloy, one of the nation's most influential private citizens; and Charles Bohlen, adroit diplomat and ambassador to the Soviet Union.

Book Global Environmental Constitutionalism

Download or read book Global Environmental Constitutionalism written by James R. May and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting a global trend, scores of countries have affirmed that their citizens are entitled to healthy air, water, and land and that their constitution should guarantee certain environmental rights. This book examines the increasing recognition that the environment is a proper subject for protection in constitutional texts and for vindication by constitutional courts. This phenomenon, which the authors call environmental constitutionalism, represents the confluence of constitutional law, international law, human rights, and environmental law. National apex and constitutional courts are exhibiting a growing interest in environmental rights, and as courts become more aware of what their peers are doing, this momentum is likely to increase. This book explains why such provisions came into being, how they are expressed, and the extent to which they have been, and might be, enforced judicially. It is a singular resource for evaluating the content of and hope for constitutional environmental rights.

Book Spain

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Goodwin
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2015-07-21
  • ISBN : 1620403617
  • Pages : 711 pages

Download or read book Spain written by Robert Goodwin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden Age of the Spanish Empire would establish five centuries of Western supremacy across the globe and usher in an era of transatlantic exploration that eventually gave rise to the modern world. It was a time of discovery and adventure, of great political and social change-it was a time when Spain learned to rule the world. Assembling a spectacular cast of legendary characters like the Duke of Alba, El Greco, Miguel de Cervantes, and Diego Velázquez, Robert Goodwin brings the Spanish Golden Age to life with the vivid clarity and gripping narrative of an epic novel. From scholars and playwrights, to poets and soldiers, Goodwin is in complete command of the history of this tumultuous and exciting period. But the superstars alone will not tell the whole tale-Goodwin delves deep to find previously unrecorded sources and accounts of how Spain's Golden Age would unfold, and ultimately, unravel. Spain is a sweeping and revealing portrait of Spain at the height of its power and a world at the dawn of the modern age.

Book Without Criteria

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  • Author : Steven Shaviro
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2012-08-17
  • ISBN : 0262517973
  • Pages : 191 pages

Download or read book Without Criteria written by Steven Shaviro and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Deleuzian reading of Whitehead and a Whiteheadian reading of Deleuze open the possibility of a critical aesthetics of contemporary culture. In Without Criteria, Steven Shaviro proposes and explores a philosophical fantasy: imagine a world in which Alfred North Whitehead takes the place of Martin Heidegger. What if Whitehead, instead of Heidegger, had set the agenda for postmodern thought? Heidegger asks, “Why is there something, rather than nothing?” Whitehead asks, “How is it that there is always something new?” In a world where everything from popular music to DNA is being sampled and recombined, argues Shaviro, Whitehead's question is the truly urgent one. Without Criteria is Shaviro's experiment in rethinking postmodern theory, especially the theory of aesthetics, from a point of view that hearkens back to Whitehead rather than Heidegger. In working through the ideas of Whitehead and Deleuze, Shaviro also appeals to Kant, arguing that certain aspects of Kant's thought pave the way for the philosophical “constructivism” embraced by both Whitehead and Deleuze. Kant, Whitehead, and Deleuze are not commonly grouped together, but the juxtaposition of them in Without Criteria helps to shed light on a variety of issues that are of concern to contemporary art and media practices.

Book Poetry and Ethics

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  • Author : Andrea Grieder
  • Publisher : Globethics.Net
  • Release : 2018-06
  • ISBN : 9782889312436
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Poetry and Ethics written by Andrea Grieder and published by Globethics.Net. This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book on the topic of ethics and poetry consists of contributions from different continents on the subject of applied ethics related to poetry. It allows for a comparison of the healing power of words from various religious, spiritual and philosophical traditions.

Book Cervantes Y la Libertad

Download or read book Cervantes Y la Libertad written by Luis Rosales and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book La libertad de empresa

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  • Author : Antonio Cidoncha
  • Publisher : Civitas
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9788447025046
  • Pages : 412 pages

Download or read book La libertad de empresa written by Antonio Cidoncha and published by Civitas. This book was released on 2006 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En el artículo 38 de la Constitución española se dice, en su primer inciso: "Se reconoce la libertad de empresa en el marco de la economía de mercado". Pues bien, la obra que tiene el lector en sus manos se ocupa de la interpretación de este enunciado. Se trata de un asunto complejo, ya que la propia Constitución contiene en su seno enunciados potencialmente devastadores para la libertad de empresa, como muestra el segundo inciso de ese mismo artículo, en el que, después de decirse que los poderes públicos aseguran el ejercicio de esta libertad, así como la defensa de la productividad, se añade que dichas tareas han de llevarse a cabo "de acuerdo con las exigencias de la economía general y, en su caso, de la planificación". La obra se asienta en dos tesis centrales. La primera: la libertad de empresa se reconoce en el marco de un sistema económico determinado, la "economía de mercado", expresión que, lato sensu, es sinónima de "capitalismo de mercado". Esto significa que nuestra Constitución, que no es neutral en cuanto al sistema político, tampoco lo es en cuanto al sistema económico, como tampoco admite la coexistencia de varios sistemas económicos: el único sistema económico admisible es el que expresamente ha incorporado a su seno, con exclusión de los demás. Significa también que nuestra Constitución, si bien delimita el sistema económico atendiendo al conjunto de sus normas (la economía de mercado se reconoce en el marco de la Constitución, no la Constitución en el marco de la economía de mercado), también lo garantiza, siendo así que la garantía constitucional se articula a través de cada una de las piezas de que se compone: propiedad privada, libertad de empresa y mercado. Se hace referencia especial al mercado como instituto garantizado, así como a su necesaria unidad, no sólo desde la perspectiva interna sino también desde la perspectiva comunitaria. La segunda tesis central es que la libertad de empresa no es una mero instituto garantizado, o un derecho subjetivo enteramente subordinado a las exigencias del interés general económico. La libertad de empresa es un derecho fundamental, esto es, un derecho subjetivo constitucional que, justamente por su condición de fundamental, tiene un contenido esencial que debe ser respetado por el legislador. A la determinación de este contenido esencial provee el capítulo central de esta obra. No se olvida el autor de la relevante dimensión objetiva de la norma del artículo 38 de la Constitución, que no limita sino que amplia el derecho subjetivo, en tanto de ella se deriva una habilitación a los poderes públicos para potenciar la libertad de empresa, de la que está siendo manifestación el proceso liberalizador que vive nuestra economía, auspiciado por nuestra integración en la Unión Europea y animado por el fenómeno de la globalización. La liberalización cuenta con legitimidad constitucional, pero también con límites constitucionales, singularmente los derivados de la cláusula de Estado Social. En fin, se trata de una obra de Derecho Constitucional, pero que ha requerido del apoyo de otras disciplinas jurídicas (muy singularmente del Derecho Comunitario), así como de la ciencia económica. Por ello, va dirigida no sólo a juristas, sino a todos los que estén interesados en saber como está regulada en la Constitución española (y en la "Constitución europea") una manifestación tan relevante de la libertad humana como es la libertad económica.