European Interuniversity Press - Böcker

Au moment où le citoyen européen est interpellé par les média et la politique sur les enjeux de l'Europe et sur l'avenir d'un Grand Marché Intérieur, et au moment où il sera appelé aux urnes pour élire une troisième fois le Parlement Européen, ce ...

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Notre civilisation repose sur une perpétuelle anticipation: je cotise pour ma pension, je risque mon capital dans une entreprise qui me donnera demain travail et argent, je renonce aux avantages immédiats en pratiquant charité et partage pour gagn...

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Cet ouvrage est le compte-rendu d'une rencontre organisée par le Centre européen 'Travail et Societé' (ECWS) sur le thème 'Migrants et travail en Europe'. La première partie, 'les données de cadrage', précise le contexte dans lequel se pose actuel...

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Nous sommes les héritiers d'une société qui a érigé le travail en valeur nucléaire. Il est l'activité par excellence, le moyen à travers lequel l'homme trouve sa réalisation. Elément fondamental de notre civilisation, il constitue aussi la carte d...

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L'ère de la chenille rampante, rivée, collée, plaquée au sol, accrochée à sa feuille, cette ère-là est révolue. Définitivement. Encore un chapitre de l'histoire de l'humanité qui se clôt. La page se tourne. Une nouvelle page blanche, vierge, autre...

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Ce livre présente les principaux textes d'une conférence européenne sur la formation professionnelle qui s'est tenue à Paris sous ce titre, les 14 et 15 septembre 1989. Mais le titre lui-même est révélateur d'une dimension nouvelle de la Communaut...

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C'est avec la compétence de ses citoyens que l'Europe joue son avenir. Ses succès futurs ou ses échecs possibles dépendront des efforts de formation que nous sommes prêts à consentir à brève échéance. Dans quelles conditions et avec quelles chance...

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L'Europe au-delà du chômage propose, dans un langage clair, en une alternance dynamique d'opinions personnelles et de travaux communs, une série de perspectives sur l'avenir des sociétés européennes et sur les moyens d'éliminer des discours de cri...

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In a context of increasing polarization of public opinion about religious questions, how do issues involving religion appear in France, the United States, Belgium, and Canada? Parliamentary commissions, governmental reports, and laws pertaining to...

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« Shaping Pay in Europe: A Stakeholder Approach focuses on pay systems applied in the European Union. Giving due attention to the institutional setting of the European pay systems, the book discusses how European companies may approach pay as...

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In the 19th century, the metropolis became the soothsayer of societies. Here, probabilities of progress could be perceived, felt and smelt; here was the showcase of each nation's prime productions and representations. Travellers took to the metrop...

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The book tackles a key issue for the European Union: Fiscal Federalism. It evaluates the applicability of this theoretical perspective for the EU. Conversely, it pinpoints ways in which the diversity of existing fiscal settings and organisations, ...

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This collection of papers derives from the multidisciplinary workshop of young researchers which took place in Louvain-la-Neuve on 11-13 June 2003. It is based on actual case studies in the sectors of transport, data-processing and telecommunicati...

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Is there a specifically 'European response' to international terrorism? Bringing together practitioners and academic experts this volume analyses the international context, threat perceptions and multi-dimensional nature of EU counter-terrorism me...

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The activation-based intervention paradigm is being adopted by several European countries resulting in major reforms to the social welfare system. The spread of the activation paradigm has had major repercussions, not only for welfare intervention...

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In most of the EU's fifteen Member States sectoral collective bargaining is an important process, if not the principal means of regulating relations between employers and employees. Yet the sectoral level of social dialogue has long been neglected...

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La proposition d'aide a l'Europe formulee par le general Marshall le 5 juin continue a occuper au cours du second semestre de 1947 le devant de la scene. Il est tout de suite evident que l'on se dirige vers la coupure du continent en deux. Mais un...

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The complexity of African-American identities is a central concern in Toni Morrison's writing. Speaking of « the enormous layers of lives that [black Americans] live, she has commented that « If I examine those layers, I don't come up wi...

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The fast-growing body of postcolonial drama is progressively gaining its just recognition in the twentieth-century canon of English-language plays. From the vantage point of various samplings along the Trans-Pacific axis linking English Canada, Au...

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Roberto Ciulli is one of the most exciting and provocative theatre directors of our time. In these conversations he expounds the transformative ideas on theatrical improvisation which have challenged actors and audiences alike to rethink what they...

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The importance of public opinion in the process of European integration was brought into sharp focus at the start of the 1990s. Discussion about the future of Europe comes in a variety of forms, however, depending on the circumstances of the count...

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In this publication, scholars from various disciplines and from a dozen countries of Europe and other continents intend to make explicit what has remained implicit in the creation or adoption of symbols and myths for a Europe that is under constru...

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This volume is a collection of contributions about the history and practice of travel and travel writing from a variety of academic disciplines including anthropology, history, linguistics and literary criticism. It brings together scholars from o...

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The book analyses the transnational Alpine region where historical, social, and geo-economic specificities have led to a distinctive type of democracy and identity. Differentialist identities, multi-level consociational accommodation, and corporat...

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Throughout the industrialised world trade unionists are reforming their organisations as part of a strategy to adjust to new labour market, economic and political circumstances. This volume examines the role of merger activity in this process of r...

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Japan and the European Union are two « civilian powers that have dramatically extended and diversified their role on the world stage and that have launched together an Action Plan dealing with peace and stability, economic, environmental, com...

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This is the first collection of critical essays to appear about the Wooster Group. Since the 1970s this groundbreaking, New York-based performance company has led the way in crystallizing the conditions of contemporary stage practice at the inters...

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Popular culture can no longer be exclusively seen as a source of escapism. It can amuse, entertain, instruct, and relax people, but what if it provides inspiration for religion? The Church of All Worlds, the Church of Satan and Jediism from the

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Among the intellectual debates of the last forty years, the critique of cultural canons has attracted the highest share of public attention, stirring academic, educational, and media controversies on both sides of the Atlantic. Postmodernism, femi...

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In recent years, new and more intrusive surveillance technology has found its way into workplaces. New medical tests provide detailed information about workers' biology that was previously unthinkable. An increasing number of employees work under ...

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