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  <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/118672</id>
  <updated>2026-05-09T04:55:42Z</updated>
  <dc:date>2026-05-09T04:55:42Z</dc:date>
  <entry>
    <title>The Politics of Unpaid Labour: How the study of unpaid labour can help address inequality in precarious work</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/321950" />
    <author>
      <name>Pulignano, Valeria</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Domecka, Markieta</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/321950</id>
    <updated>2025-07-25T04:13:13Z</updated>
    <published>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: The Politics of Unpaid Labour: How the study of unpaid labour can help address inequality in precarious work
Authors: Pulignano, Valeria; Domecka, Markieta
Abstract: This book introduces a theory of the politics of unpaid labour, advancing our understanding of inequality within the context of precarious work. Arguing that this theory can help address the inequalities perpetuating the dynamics and processes underpinning stigma which surround the rise of precarious work under labour market reforms and societal and technological changes, the book forges a link between the micro properties of the social system and its macro-level structural patterns. The former relates to the motivations and meanings individuals attribute to the unpaid labour they perform in a context where employment is precarious, while the latter refers to how individuals build resilience through sustaining unpaid labour by accessing resources found within the private, social, and financial sphere of the family as well as in regulatory arrangements at the level of the state and other social institutions. The book's empirical section is based on extensive research comparing meanings of unpaid labour in creative dance, residential care, and online freelancing in Europe. The theoretical section advances current discussion in three ways. First, it establishes the characteristics differentiating employment from self-employment, and how these lead to a revised definition of unpaid labour. Second, it illustrates that unpaid labour is both shaped by class and serves to reproduce class interests, revealing ongoing changes in welfare, employment, and state institutional policies. Third, it considers the necessity to establish conditions within the labour market conducive to genuinely cultivating and honouring the diversity of human capabilities and actions within labour structures and promoting their manifestation.</summary>
    <dc:date>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Human Development and the Data Revolution</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/321949" />
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      <name />
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    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/321949</id>
    <updated>2025-07-25T04:13:09Z</updated>
    <published>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Human Development and the Data Revolution
Editors: Ojanperä, Sanna; López, Eduardo; Graham, Mark
Abstract: Human Development and the Data Revolution tackles a topic that in the age of data and digitalization has become timely in global development: what are the potential uses of large-scale data in the contexts of development, in particular, what techniques, data sources, and possibilities exist for harnessing large datasets and new online data to address persistent concerns regarding human development, inequality, exclusion, and participation. It also sheds light into the challenges and obstacles related to the safe and effective use of big data and computational approaches in development, given that safeguarding privacy and security as well as ensuring accurate insights are crucial principles when addressing development issues that often concern vulnerable or underserved populations. The book employs a global perspective to explore the latest advances at the intersection of big data analysis and human development. Bringing together pioneering voices from academia, development practice, civil society organizations, government, and the private sector, the book has a two-pronged focus on theoretical and practical research on big data and computational approaches in human development. It details the potentials of big data analysis for development and discusses how the challenges or barriers to the adoption of big data analysis might present limitations for its usefulness in contexts of development. The book reviews a range of relevant methods and tools and presents research results of projects employing big data in contexts of development in a language that is accessible to development researchers, scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and anyone interested in the topic.</summary>
    <dc:date>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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  <entry>
    <title>EU Law and Economics</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/321951" />
    <author>
      <name>Steinbach, Armin</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/321951</id>
    <updated>2025-07-25T04:13:05Z</updated>
    <published>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: EU Law and Economics
Authors: Steinbach, Armin
Abstract: This book examines the design and evolution of European law from the perspective of economics. It draws on various branches of the economic sciences—including rational choice and game theory, and institutional and behavioural economics—to expand our understanding of EU law and its effects. It seeks to complement doctrinal research on EU law by generating insights that are typically ignored in discussions of legal doctrine—including why the EU Treaties are designed as they are, how the Treaties and secondary EU law should be crafted, and how EU rules should be interpreted. While legal scholars draw on a range of interpretive methods, economics furnishes an alternative set of tools for explaining core legal principles such as conferral, subsidiarity, and mutual recognition. The law considers the actions of EU institutions in terms of their competences and instruments; economics, by contrast, can shed light on underlying motive dynamics—that is, on why Union institutions behave as they do within existing legal frameworks. This book devotes attention to EU Treaties and secondary law, as well as their adjudicative interpretation. The aim of the book is not to correct or revise existing legal perspectives, but rather to offer additional descriptive and normative metrics that expand our understanding of various issues, including in particular the decision-making behaviour of EU institutions and Member States. The book vividly demonstrates the immense value of harnessing the multifarious tools and methods of economics to analyse various issues in EU law, not least in relation to current reform debates.</summary>
    <dc:date>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>The Law and Politics of Brexit - Volume V: The Trade and Cooperation Agreement</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/305344" />
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    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/305344</id>
    <updated>2024-11-09T02:29:29Z</updated>
    <published>2024-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: The Law and Politics of Brexit - Volume V: The Trade and Cooperation Agreement
Editors: Fabbrini, Federico
Abstract: The purpose of this book is to offer a comprehensive analysis of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), a treaty concluded between the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK) on Christmas Eve 2020, and which officially entered into force on 1 May 2021. The book builds on a number of earlier volumes on the law and politics of Brexit, but goes beyond them by specifically considering in greater depth those policy areas of EU-UK cooperation which are included in the TCA: ie free movement of goods, customs, rules of origin, services, investment, public procurement, capital movement, intellectual property, transport, aviation, fisheries, health, energy, cyber, and regulatory cooperation, and UK participation in EU programmes. This book, however, does not provide only a technical legal analysis of core provisions of the TCA. Rather, consistent with the ethos of all earlier volumes, it takes an interdisciplinary and policy perspective. On the one hand, it contextualizes the TCA in the political and economic reality in which the treaty operates. On the other hand, it explores the TCA for what it is, but without assuming that this must be the inevitable landing zone of EU-UK cooperation. As such, the book reflects on what the possible prospects to further develop EU-UK relations may be going forward in light of new global, national, and local developments, including the war in Ukraine, a growing public opinion shift against Brexit, and the recent approval of the Windsor Framework defusing EU-UK tensions over Northern Ireland.</summary>
    <dc:date>2024-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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