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Physical Work, Customer Service, or Teamwork? : Language Requirements for Seasonal Cleaning Work in the Booming Arctic Tourism Industry

2021

In many parts of the world, cleaning services are mostly subcontracted, which means intense competition and increased demand for efficiency. Consequently, the terms and conditions of employment have declined and the turnover of workers is high. Remote areas such as the Arctic face particular difficulties recruiting and retaining cleaning workers. Nonetheless, possibilities to earn and aspirations for a better life bring center – periphery, cross-border, and lifestyle mobilities to the peripheral north, especially in winter. This chapter examines cleaning as seasonal blue-collar work in a booming tourist destination in Arctic Finland. Applying an ethnographic and discourse analytical approac…

Agency of labour in a flexible pan-European labour market : a qualitative study of migrant practices and trade union strategies in the Netherlands

2015

Regulatory frameworks on intra-EU mobility and flexible cross-border employment relations have stimulated competition on labour costs by recruiting migrants via cheaper labour market regimes. While it allows firms to remunerate migrants under different terms and conditions, blurring regulatory boundaries also generates opportunities for non-compliance, resulting in violations of migrant labour rights across Europe. Against this background, this thesis explores the agency of labour, more specifically of temporary migrant workers and unions, and the ways they cope with and respond to the competitive dynamics of the pan- European labour market. This study draws on 90 qualitative interviews wit…

Kuopion taidemuseon Toivolan kokoelman vanha eurooppalainen taide

2000

Ulkomaisen työvoiman rekrytointi : suomalaisten työnantajien rekrytointikäyttäytymisen tarkastelua 2003

2004

Globaalit lahjakkuudet palkitsevat talouksia kasvulla

2018

Arvio teoksesta William R. Kerr, The gift of global talent. How migration shapes Business, Economy & Society, Standford University Press, 256 sivua nonPeerReviewed

Empowering Absence? Assessing the Impact of Transnational Male Out-Migration on Left behind Wives

2023

Experiences of left-behind family members of transnational migrant workers have been in the shadow of academic discourse on migration. To contribute to the slowly growing body of literature, this study explores the impact of male out-migration on left-behind wives. The study proposes and applies a novel framework to estimate Women Empowerment Index (WEI) for comparing the empowerment level across households with and without men in transnational labor. Cross-sectional surveys and unstructured interviews were used to collect data from 373 respondents from three selected areas in Nepal. Results indicate that left-behind wives experience a higher degree of decision-making authority, physical mo…

"Me ei haluta niitä huti-investointeja tehdä, mitä vähemmän sen parempi" : maahanmuuttajien rekrytointiprosessi maaseudun pk-yrityksissä

2020

Tässä pro gradu -tutkielmassa tutkitaan maaseudun pk-yritysten maahanmuuttajien rekrytointiprosessia ja maahanmuuttajien rekrytointiin liittyviä ongelmia. Tutkimuksen tavoitteena on kuvata ja ymmärtää maahanmuuttajien rekrytointiprosessia maaseudun pk-yrityksissä ja siten lisätä tietoa ja ymmärrystä maahanmuuttajien rekrytoinnista. Pk-yritysten rekrytointiprosessia tarkasteltiin etenkin Breaughn (2016) rekrytointiprosessin mallin avulla. Valmiiksi kerätty aineisto oli tehty osana WeAll Finland -tutkimushanketta. Haastattelut tehtiin pk-yritysten omistaja-yrittäjille tai toimitusjohtajille eri puo- lella Suomea. Tässä tutkimuksessa tutkittavia yrityksiä oli mukana 11 eri maakunnasta. Tutkitt…

Properties of transmembrane helix TM1 of the DcuS sensor kinase of Escherichia coli, the stator for TM2 piston signaling

2021

Abstract The sensor kinase DcuS of Escherichia coli perceives extracellular fumarate by a periplasmic PASP sensor domain. Transmembrane (TM) helix TM2, present as TM2-TM2′ homo-dimer, transmits fumarate activation in a piston-slide across the membrane. The second TM helix of DcuS, TM1, is known to lack piston movement. Structural and functional properties of TM1 were analyzed. Oxidative Cys-crosslinking (CL) revealed homo-dimerization of TM1 over the complete membrane, but only the central part showed α-helical +3/+4 spacing of the CL maxima. The GALLEX bacterial two-hybrid system indicates TM1/TM1′ interaction, and the presence of a TM1-TM1′ homo-dimer is suggested. The peripheral TM1 regi…

UCOT: Semiautomatic Generation of Conceptual Models from Use Case Descriptions

2008

This paper describes a prototype of a system to auto matically analyze use cases and create a conceptual model based on the analysis. Grammatical parser and Abbott’s heuristic are used to process the use cases. User can modify the conceptual model by refining entities and relations, as well as roles for the entities. The model can be exported to be further utilized with object oriented analysis or domain specific modeling. The system is evaluated based on the analysis of use cases used to describe the system itself. The quality of models depends essentially on the quality and writing conventions of the use cases. If the use cases are written using subject-predicate-object struc ture and usage…

Corporate Reputation and the News Media in Finland

2011

Finland makes an interesting case study for the news media on public’s images and opinions (Carroll & McCombs, 2003) for several reasons. First, the news media in Finland is dominated by one major newspaper (cf. Ainamo, 2003), and it is interesting to see whether there is great consensus in public opinion due to this homogeneity (for opposing views, see Moring 2005). Second, Finland is a relatively small country (5 million inhabitants) for both business and media, and it could be speculated that the news media’s effects are less visible than in larger countries (where diffusion of news occurs directly via social contagion). Third, Finland has been a breeding ground for top innovations and s…