Oct 13, 2012Security, Private Security, Unions Private Security Provision – Still a Highly Contested Terrain in Germany Earlier this year, Volker Eick spoke with two experts on private security in Germany representing the industry and the unions, respectively. Oliver...
Jun 14, 2010Security, Conferences, 2010, Abstracts, Workfare Decommodification by Dispossession? (Non-)Volunteering Long-Term Unemployed on the Security Market In January 2005, the then Social Democratic-Green Government of Germany introduced the so-called Hartz Laws (Hartz IV). With this legislation,...
Jan 26, 2009Labor, Urbanization Good jobs, nae jobs, bad jobs: Skills, workfare and struggles over work. Alternative Economy Strategy seminar. Political concerns over work and employment in recent years have firmly centred around two main issues. Firstly, training policy has increasingly...
Sep 09, 2007Workfare, Housing, Conferences, 2005, Books Andrej Holm: Hartz IV und die Konturen einer neoliberalen Wohnungspolitik (2005) What follows is an analysis by Andrej Holm on the emerging of a neoliberal housing regime in Germany - part and parcel of the new workfare regime....
Apr 27, 2007Conferences, 2003, Workfare, Housing, Books Jacqueline Leavitt: Jobs and Public Housing - Old Programs and New Paradigms Public housing in the United States and Los Angeles began as a jobs program but job training programs are a relatively recent intervention in public...
Apr 13, 2007Security, Urbanization, Workfare, Housing, Books Review: Living and Working on the edge Eick, Volker/Sambale, Jens (Hg): Sozialer Wohnungsbau, Arbeitsmarkt(re)integration und der neoliberale Wohlfahrtsstaat in der Bundesrepublik und...
Aug 06, 2006Conferences, 2006, Security, Surveillance, Workfare Lori Beth Way: Re-Policing the Poor Americans have become increasingly unconcerned with the numbers of individuals who are incarcerated in this country (Garland, 2001). In essence,...
Aug 06, 2006Conferences, 2006, Labor, Unions Fred Seavey: Globalizing Labor in Response to a Globalized Security Industry Through mergers and acquisitions, the private security industry has become increasingly consolidated across the globe. Today, the six largest private...
Aug 04, 2006Conferences, 2006, Security, Workfare Volker Eick: Disciplining the Urban Poor Private security companies (though not a new phenomenon) are mushrooming since the early 1990s all over Germany (and beyond). The withdrawal of state...
Jun 29, 2006Conferences, 2006, Security, Labor, Unions Fred Seavey: Globalizing Labor in Response to a globalizes securitz industry We are currently working on a very limited computer basis (Debian Live System with US Keyboard). So this is just a test to announce that the first...
