75 6 Reproduction in the global marketplace Eric Blyth Introduction This chapter discusses the implications of the development of a global marketplace in reproduction services and proposes new directions for social work action based on the perspective that reproduction is an issue of human rights. Social work engagement with issues of reproduction – family planning, fertility, pregnancy and birth – varies both within and between countries. Sometimes services focus on a particular policy such as planned parenthood and population control, sometimes on
132 9 Blood and the law of the marketplace This book, as Chapter 1 explained, is fundamentally about human values and their relationship to those institutions and services in society with which social policy is con cerned. At this point, however, some readers may have begun to wonder whether it was turning into a technical exposition of blood transfusion services. This is not so. It was, however, essential to examine in depth and on a comparative basis the issues of freedom of choice, uncertainty and unpredictability, quality, safety, efficiency and
87 The new global marketplace SEVEN the new global marketplace Part Two explores the factors that have influenced migration policy development during the 10-year period from 1997 to 2007. The first three chapters focus on what interviewees described as major structural or ‘global’ forces that forced policy to develop in a particular way. The first of these forces was globalisation, the subject of this chapter. Specifically, interviewees referred to policy being forced to adapt to a new external environment of greater flows of labour, greater
Dom with the status of an anabolics coach given his formalized paid-for advice to his clients. Dom, therefore, was a figure who enjoyed substantial cultural capital within the hardcore fitness community and acted as something of an authority figure in Predator. Dom’s IPEDs, typifying the UK marketplace, were produced in a domestic UGL which he had used for several years prior to our interview. He had built up an ‘enduring relationship’ ( Fincoeur et al, 2015 : 242) with the UGL owner and was exceedingly complimentary of the lab’s legitimacy: N: So from your
145 NINE Chew ’em up or throw ’em up? Disorganised responses to interpersonal(ity) disorder and social disease Christopher Scanlon and John Adlam Introduction In this chapter, we ask how we might open up and maintain the ‘Agora’ or ‘marketplace’ as a public and social space that might allow for more inclusive conversations about the deeply troubled, troubling and troublesome dynamics that are at the heart of our divided and fragmented communities. To achieve this requires necessary translation of the often obfuscating and obscurantist, exclusive academic
restructuring the workforce, asset and human resource management, strategic planning, product development and marketing, as well as delivering leadership training for senior academics. These corporate elites now directly intervene and provide market-driven solutions that further assist universities to be competitive in the educational marketplace. There are multiple examples of ways in which corporate elites have influenced and reconfigured university governance and management. For example, the global firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) cites education as one of the
community organisations (VCOs) gain from such collaborations? What do their gains indicate about the policy context in which these organisations function? And what do the gains demonstrate about the future potential for community/university knowledge exchange schemes? On Merseyside, small VCOs engaged with the scheme in order to generate evidence for sustainability in a competitive marketplace where fragile organisations and the deprived communities they serve struggle for resources. Introduction There are significant gaps in our understanding of what might drive
geography emphasized ‘the cultural geographies of consumption spaces and places’ ( [1998] 2014 : 14), making space for research on independent businesses, marketplaces and other forms of retailing. However this frame of thinking continues to view these forms of retailing as marginal or alternative, animated more by social than economic values. Marketplaces or car boot sales tend to be ‘othered’ ( [1998] 2014 : 14; Crewe and Gregson, 1998 ) ultimately limiting a more diverse view of retail geographies. Economic geographers researching alternative trading and exchange
history, the US’s race policy is in a process of being re-crafted by policymakers and implemented by institutional gatekeepers. A process of racial realignment is already being entertained by the media, the workplace, the marketplace, the body politic, and the general population, impacting perceptions, conceptions, and judgments about who Latinos are and, more importantly, what will be their (New?) place in this racially stratified society in the 21st century. The pluri-national, pan-ethnic, and racially mixed peoples of Latin American origin in the US
-Town. He visited from time to time, bringing gifts for the kids and playing ‘cool uncle’ when he did, but he was sceptical that this small town of 2,000 people was the hidden, lucrative marketplace Amy made it out to be. B-Town also lacked the nightlife and entertainment that a young man like Echo was accustomed to. However, things changed one evening when Echo was out on the town in Glasgow with his friend James and younger brother Paul. The three of them bumped into members of a rival outfit, and after a brief altercation, Echo, James and Paul were thrown out of the
