Monday 14. of June 2010

When private and public policing merge: Thoughts on commercial policing

It’s common knowledge that the field of security has gone through dramatic transformations, these last years, most notably because of the growth of the private security industry. As stated by Ian Loader or Lucia Zedner, this is...
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When private and public policing merge: Thoughts on commercial policing


Category: Policing the Crisis, Abstracts

Sunday 16. of September 2007

World Cup 2010: Privatizing Security in South Africa (G4S)

In April 2007 a global fact finding team from different unions went to South Africa, Malawi and Mozambique to find out about the employment practices of the global player "Group 4 Securicor (G4S)". The team interviewed G4S...
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World Cup 2010: Privatizing Security in South Africa (G4S)


Category: Security, welfare & workfare Security

Friday 04. of August 2006

Volker Eick: Disciplining the Urban Poor

Missing picture of barb wire Private security companies (though not a new phenomenon) are mushrooming since the early 1990s all over Germany (and beyond). The withdrawal of state responsibilities for public services in general goes with the privatization of...
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Volker Eick: Disciplining the Urban Poor


Category: Presentations

Thursday 29. of June 2006

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 paper is in: Fred Seavey on the organizing of security guards in Hamburg, Germany
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Fred Seavey: Globalizing Labor in Response to a globalizes securitz industry


Category: Abstracts & Papers