Despite their continuing importance to the UK economy and their employment of significant numbers of workers from a range of professions, the utilities have received scant attention from critical scholars of work. This neglect represents a missed opportunity to examine the impact of nearly twenty years of privatisation and marketisation on workers, their jobs and their unions. This thesis aims to make a contribution to knowledge here by investigating, contextualising and explaining changes in the labour processes of a privatised utility in the United Kingdom. The research is informed by oral history methods and techniques, rarely adopted in industrial sociology, and here used alongside labour process theory to reconstruct past experiences of work. Drawing on qualitative data sets, from in-depth interviews with a cohort of employees who worked continuously over three decades at the research site, British Gas’s Granton House, and on extensive company and trade union documentary evidence the research demonstrates how British Gas responded to restrictive regulation and the need to deliver shareholder value by transforming pre-existing forms of work organisation through introducing call centres. The call centre provided the opportunity for management to regain control over the labour process, intensify work and reduce costs. In doing so, the study identifies the principal drivers of organisational change, documents the process of change evaluates the impact on workers’ experience. Thus, as a corrective to much recent labour process theory the research offers both an ‘objective’ and ‘subjective’ account of change over an extended time. The contrast between workers’ experience of working in the clerical departments and in the call centre could not be starker. Almost every element of work from which workers derived satisfaction and purpose was abruptly dismantled. In their place workers had to endure the restrictive and controlling nature of call centre work. The relative absence of resistance to such a transformation is shown to be a consequence of failures in collective organisation, rather than the totalisation of managerial control, as the postmodernists and Foucauldians would have it.

The aim of this thesis is to examine how Christianity and fascism can be concatenated. The thesis has been conducted as a descriptive content analysis of the Swedish Association of Religious Reform (Sveriges Religiösa Reformförbund), established in 1929. In order to identify the Association’s socio-theological project and agenda, a Foucauldian inspired social constructionism theory has been applied. This thesis argues that by relying on a mission to ‘complete’ the Lutheran Reformation, which considered religion and culture alike, the Association’s struggle for a religious ‘rebirth’ also referred to the rebirth of Swedish culture and society. This assumption was correlated with contemporary conceptions of ‘race’ and Jews, culminating into the perception of Jesus as a masculine Aryan ideal.

This study examines the practical and political implications of sympathy as a mode of achieving the intercommunicative relationship between the self and the other, emphasizing the significance of subjective agency not simply guided by the imperative category of morality but mainly enacted by a hybrid of discourses through the interaction between the two entities. Scenes of Clerical Life, Eliot's first fictional narrative on illuminating the intertwining relation of religion to secular conditions of life, reveals that the essence of religion is the practice of love between the self and the other derived from sympathy and invoked by their dialogic discourses of confession which enable them to foster the communality, on the grounds that the alterity implicated in the narrative of the other summons and re-historicizes the narrative of the subject's traumatic event in the past. Romola, Eliot's historical novel, highlights the performativity of subject which, on the one hand, locates Romola outside the social frame of domination and appropriation as a way of challenging the universalizing discourses of morality and duty sanctioned by the patriarchal ideology of norms, religion, and marriage. On the other hand, the heroine re-engages herself inside the social structure as a response to other's need for help by substantiating her compassion for others in action. Felix Holt, the Radical, Eliot's political and industrial novel, investigates the limits of moral discourse and instrumental reason. Esther employs her strategy of hybridizing her aesthetic and moral tastes in order to debilitate masculine desires for moral inculcation and material calculation. Esther reinvigorates her subjectivity by simultaneously internalizing and externalizing a hybrid of tastes. In effect, the empowerment of her subjectivity is designed not only to provide others with substantial help from the promptings of her sympathy for them, but also to fulfill her romantic plot of marriage.

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Автор осуществляет теоретико-правовой анализ информационно-документационных технологий кадровой работы, выявить специфику их применения в органах местного самоуправления (МСУ) и разработать проект, направленный на их совершенствование. Метод исследования - основан на применении классических научных методов и приемов, на основе особенностей информационно-документационные технологии кадровой работы в органах местного самоуправления. Вместе с тем, в процессе выполнения магистерской диссертации были использованы различные подходы: экономический, индексный, сравнительный, экспертный, статистический, дедуктивный, т. д. Таким образом, проведенная работа подтверждает актуальность развития информационно-документационные технологии кадровой работы в органах местного самоуправления и демонстрирует возможность широкого практического применения разработанных методов по внедрению новых модулей в 1С 8 Предприятие, позволяющих не только оценивать текущую ситуацию, но и осуществить повышение эффективности информационно-документационных технологий кадровой работы Администрации города Екатеринбурга. / The author carries out a theoretical and legal analysis of information and documentary technologies for personnel work, identifies the specifics of their application in local authorities (LSGs) and develops a project aimed at improving them. The research method is based on the application of classical scientific methods and techniques, based on the peculiarities of information and documentation technologies of personnel work in local governments. At the same time, in the process of completing the master's thesis, various approaches were used: economic, index, comparative, expert, statistical, deductive, etc. Thus, the work carried out confirms the relevance of the development of information and documentation technologies for personnel work in local governments and demonstrates the possibility of wide practical application of the developed methods for introducing new modules in 1C 8 Enterprise, allowing not only to assess the current situation, but also to increase the efficiency of information and documentation technologies of personnel work of the Administration of the city of Yekaterinburg.

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Este estudo busca analisar determinados elementos de representação, presentes no Nanetto Pipetta de Aquiles Bernardi (1937). Entre eles, os aspectos culturais foram analisados de maneira mais detida, ao lado de questões sociais e políticas. A partir da análise e da interpretação, buscou-se compreender como aconteceu o trânsito da cultura da imigração italiana do Rio Grande do Sul de seu contexto real para os limites comportados pelo âmbito da ficção apresentados na obra. Nesse processo de transfiguração, buscou-se compreender de que maneira a cultura da imigração italiana e a cultura clerical colaboraram para que o texto literário analisado assumisse os contornos que o constituem, bem como qual o resultado dessa conjugação. / Submitted by Marcelo Teixeira (mvteixeira@ucs.br) on 2014-05-15T17:43:38Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Tania Perotti.pdf: 661348 bytes, checksum: 565b097bf4f823776f7a601377c84d49 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-05-15T17:43:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Tania Perotti.pdf: 661348 bytes, checksum: 565b097bf4f823776f7a601377c84d49 (MD5) / This study has searched the comprehension about certain representation structures found in Aquiles Bernardi s (1937) work. Among the aspects which build up this representation, the cultural aspects had been analysed in order to be more specific, which doesn t exclude social and politic questions when necessary. It s about a route where, from the analyses and interpretation, i tried to understand how the Italian Immigration culture from Rio Grande do Sul changes happened from its real context to the limits concerning the fiction aspect present in the book which is this work s corpus. In this process i intended to comprehend in what way the Italian Immigration and the clergy culture were helpful to the analysed work, as well as the result of this conjugation.

Este estudo busca analisar determinados elementos de representação, presentes no Nanetto Pipetta de Aquiles Bernardi (1937). Entre eles, os aspectos culturais foram analisados de maneira mais detida, ao lado de questões sociais e políticas. A partir da análise e da interpretação, buscou-se compreender como aconteceu o trânsito da cultura da imigração italiana do Rio Grande do Sul de seu contexto real para os limites comportados pelo âmbito da ficção apresentados na obra. Nesse processo de transfiguração, buscou-se compreender de que maneira a cultura da imigração italiana e a cultura clerical colaboraram para que o texto literário analisado assumisse os contornos que o constituem, bem como qual o resultado dessa conjugação. / This study has searched the comprehension about certain representation structures found in Aquiles Bernardi s (1937) work. Among the aspects which build up this representation, the cultural aspects had been analysed in order to be more specific, which doesn t exclude social and politic questions when necessary. It s about a route where, from the analyses and interpretation, i tried to understand how the Italian Immigration culture from Rio Grande do Sul changes happened from its real context to the limits concerning the fiction aspect present in the book which is this work s corpus. In this process i intended to comprehend in what way the Italian Immigration and the clergy culture were helpful to the analysed work, as well as the result of this conjugation.

Diploma thesis „Náměstí Míru – extension and rehabilitation of public space in Brno“ deals with the analysis of the current state of defined part of Masaryk district, the evaluation of the problems of the imaginary city center and the design of buildings along with the working transport solution. The aim of the thesis is to define „Náměstí Míru“ as a functional public space, that people can identify with. To modify traffic solutions to avoid confused situations and collisions between pedestrians, trams and cars. To design new buildings to replace brownfields, create new housing units, and offer opportunities for using an active parterre. Emphasis is placed on modern urbanistic approaches and views of the 21st century, compact building, multifunctionality of buildings, and prioritization of city planning and public spaces with priority on human, his interests, needs, and everyday life.

This thesis re-evaluates a positive reply given by the majority of existing secondary literature on the question of whether J. L. Fischer was a democrat and a theorist of democracy. On the other hand, some features of the author's work can cast doubts on his political orientation, and the existing secondary literature does not provide a clear disapproval of these doubts. The core of this thesis then lies in forging a newly designed interpretation of the author's compositional philosophy foregoing the Second World War. We are using the existential "bloody disjunction" of the author as our interpretational key with the hope that it can allow us to explain even the most difficult parts of J. L. Fischer's work constructively to the "uninformed reader". We are recognizing the specificity of this work as an author's-actor's creative expression. Therefore its internal expressional structure should not be reduced solely to the theoretical component without attention paid to the strong philosophical, artistic, and charismatic ambitions of the creator. This thesis interprets indicated components of Fischer's philosophy and his existential fight, which, even though manifested through breaches of argumentation, is at the same time giving to the compositional philosophy a whole new level of coherency. The...