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This volume explores how digitalization--in different forms--affects the welfare state. Digitalization is likely to have a lasting impact on work, welfare, and the distribution of income. It will radically transform not only social risks in health, education and the labour market, but also the means by which these risks are addressed. The volume studies how digitalization affects policies as well as the underlying power relationship between actors, i.e. the politics of the welfare state.The volume brings together internationally renowned welfare-state scholars to identify- the socio-economic challenges that result from rapid technological change;- the ensuing political conflicts and struggles in the domain of welfare state reform broadly defined;- how these changes challenge and shape existing labour market and welfare state arrangements.Overall, the volume explains the potential and real political and policy responses to these challenges, grasps the contours of future developments, and reflects on whether the current wave of technological change might promote the emergence of a new paradigm of welfare state policy-making.The rapid and accelerating pace of technological change has potentially radical ramifications for the welfare state that demand an engagement with possible future scenarios. The authors therefore adopt a forward-looking perspective. Based on this approach, the volume uniquely offers a theoretically informed empirical basis for social science and public debates about the long-term implications of the digital revolution for the welfare state, covering a broad range of policy areas such as education, pensions, labour market policies, tax policy, and health care.

Anhand einer durchgängigen Fallstudie wird die Geschäftsprozessintegration mit Hilfe von SAP-Technologien erläutert. Konzeptionelle und technische Grundlagen, insbesondere die Einführung in die verwendete Integrationsplattform SAP PI und SAP Business Workflows, werden der Fallstudie vorangestellt. Die Fallstudie des Buches beschäftigt sich mit der Ermittlung der Umweltwirkung von Produkten und thematisiert damit eine Problemstellung, die im Kontext unterschiedlicher Geschäftsprozesse und Branchen auftritt: um das kundenseitige Informationsbedürfnis zur Umweltwirkung eines Produktes erfüllen zu können, werden Produktionsdetails entlang der Wertschöpfungskette von der Rohstoffentnahme bis zum Vertrieb gesammelt. Auf Grundlage der so gewonnenen Daten erhält der Verbraucher Aufschluss über die Herkunft der verarbeiteten Rohstoffe und die angewendeten Produktionsverfahren. Die erforderlichen Prozesse werden am Beispiel des produktbezogenen Carbon Footprint (PCF) konzipiert und implementiert.

Anhand einer durchgängigen Fallstudie wird die Geschäftsprozessintegration mit Hilfe von SAP-Technologien erläutert. Konzeptionelle und technische Grundlagen, insbesondere die Einführung in die verwendete Integrationsplattform SAP PI und SAP Business Workflows, werden der Fallstudie vorangestellt. Die Fallstudie des Buches beschäftigt sich mit der Ermittlung der Umweltwirkung von Produkten und thematisiert damit eine Problemstellung, die im Kontext unterschiedlicher Geschäftsprozesse und Branchen auftritt: um das kundenseitige Informationsbedürfnis zur Umweltwirkung eines Produktes erfüllen zu können, werden Produktionsdetails entlang der Wertschöpfungskette von der Rohstoffentnahme bis zum Vertrieb gesammelt. Auf Grundlage der so gewonnenen Daten erhält der Verbraucher Aufschluss über die Herkunft der verarbeiteten Rohstoffe und die angewendeten Produktionsverfahren. Die erforderlichen Prozesse werden am Beispiel des produktbezogenen Carbon Footprint (PCF) konzipiert und implementiert.

Information technologies have evolved to an enabling science for natural resource management and conservation, environmental engineering, scientific simulation and integrated assessment studies. Computing plays a significant role in the every day practices of environmental engineers, natural scientists, economists, and social scientists. The complexity of natural phenomena requires interdisciplinary approaches, where computing science offers the infrastructure for environmental data collection and management, scientific simulations, decision support, documentation and reporting. Ecology, environmental engineering and natural resource management comprise an excellent real-world testbed for IT system demonstration, while presenting new challenges for computer science. Complexity, uncertainty and scaling issues of natural systems constitute a demanding application domain for modelling, simulation and scientific workflows, data management and reporting, decision support and intelligent systems, distributed computing environments, geographical information systems, heterogeneous systems integration, software engineering, accounting systems, control systems, as well as sustainable manufacturing and reverse logistics. This books offers a collection of papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Environmental Engineering, held in July 2013, in Lüneburg, Germany. Recent success stories in ecoinformatics, promising ideas and new challenges are discussed among computer scientists, environmental engineers, industrial engineers, economists and social scientists, demonstrating new paradigms for problem solving and decision making.

Information technologies have evolved to an enabling science for natural resource management and conservation, environmental engineering, scientific simulation and integrated assessment studies. Computing plays a significant role in the every day practices of environmental engineers, natural scientists, economists, and social scientists. The complexity of natural phenomena requires interdisciplinary approaches, where computing science offers the infrastructure for environmental data collection and management, scientific simulations, decision support, documentation and reporting. Ecology, environmental engineering and natural resource management comprise an excellent real-world testbed for IT system demonstration, while presenting new challenges for computer science. Complexity, uncertainty and scaling issues of natural systems constitute a demanding application domain for modelling, simulation and scientific workflows, data management and reporting, decision support and intelligent systems, distributed computing environments, geographical information systems, heterogeneous systems integration, software engineering, accounting systems, control systems, as well as sustainable manufacturing and reverse logistics. This books offers a collection of papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Environmental Engineering, held in July 2013, in Lüneburg, Germany. Recent success stories in ecoinformatics, promising ideas and new challenges are discussed among computer scientists, environmental engineers, industrial engineers, economists and social scientists, demonstrating new paradigms for problem solving and decision making.

By the 1920s, Jews were--by all economic, political, and cultural measures of the day--making it in America. But as these children of immigrants took their places in American society, many deliberately identified with groups that remained excluded. Despite their success, Jews embraced resistance more than acculturation, preferring marginal status to assimilation. The stories of Al Jolson, Felix Frankfurter, and Arnold Rothstein are told together to explore this paradox in the psychology of American Jewry. All three Jews were born in the 1880s, grew up around American Jewish ghettos, married gentile women, entered the middle class, and rose to national fame. All three also became heroes to the American Jewish community for their association with events that galvanized the country and defined the Jazz Age. Rothstein allegedly fixed the 1919 World Series--an accusation this book disputes. Frankfurter defended the Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti. Jolson brought jazz music to Hollywood for the first talking film, The Jazz Singer, and regularly impersonated African Americans in blackface.Each of these men represented a version of the American outsider, and American Jews celebrated them for it. Michael Alexander's gracefully written account profoundly complicates the history of immigrants in America. It challenges charges that anti-Semitism exclusively or even mostly explains Jews' feelings of marginality, while it calls for a general rethinking of positions that have assumed an immigrant quest for inclusion into the white American mainstream. Rather, Alexander argues that Jewish outsider status stemmed from the group identity Jews brought with them to this country in the form of the theology of exile. Jazz Age Jews shows that most Jews felt culturally obliged to mark themselves as different--and believed that doing so made them both better Jews and better Americans.

This book is a political biography of Arkadij Maksimovich Maslow (1891-1941), a German Communist politician and later a dissident and opponent to Stalin. Together with his political and common-law marriage partner, Ruth Fischer, Maslow briefly led the Communist Party of Germany, the KPD, and brought about its submission to Moscow.

This book is a political biography of Arkadij Maksimovich Maslow (1891-1941), a German Communist politician and later a dissident and opponent to Stalin. Together with his political and common-law marriage partner, Ruth Fischer, Maslow briefly led the Communist Party of Germany, the KPD, and brought about its submission to Moscow.

Im Zentrum dieses Buches stehen die Klassiker des politischen Denkens. Das Buch ordnet deren Gedanken in ihren zeitlichen Kontext ein und verdeutlicht auf diese Weise, inwieweit die Ideen der Klassiker durch konkrete politische Situationen gepragt wurden. Eine wirkungsgeschichtliche Bewertung gibt Aufschluss, welche Spuren die Klassiker im politischen Denken und Handeln spaterer Generationen hinterlassen haben.