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Fair Wages

Fair Wages

Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead

EDWARD ELGAR PUBLISHING LTD
2025
sidottu
This essential book explores in depth the topic of income as a key driver of sustainable development. Revisiting his innovative Fair Wage approach, Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead examines the critical dimensions that define equitable wages and showcases fair wage achievements in brand supply chains. Thousands of companies have already implemented this approach, benefitting more than four million workers around the world.Vaughan-Whitehead shows how the Fair Wage concept has become a recognized methodology for improving company wage practices, leading to stakeholder-recognized international certification. He outlines the substantial wage advancements that have thus been attained in corporate supply chains, including by Unilever, Ikea, Puma and L’Oreal. Chapters investigate how reforms in pay systems, wage adjustment mechanisms and social dialogue can achieve vital living wage and income milestones. The book also illustrates how changing purchasing practices can enable sustainable wages and enhance working conditions globally. On a larger scale, it demonstrates how the Fair Wage approach can aid progress towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, especially with regard to inequalities, poverty, vulnerability and exclusion.This enlightening book provides a clear and practical roadmap for students and scholars of employment relations, labour policy and economics, sustainability and global supply chains. Fair Wages also brings practical insights and strategies for managers and investors to effectively implement sustainable development in their businesses. Finally, it is a crucial resource for practitioners and policymakers in economic and social institutions currently working to strengthen the global sustainability agenda.
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Albania in Crisis

Albania in Crisis

Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead

Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
1999
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At the beginning of the 1990's the first encouraging results on GDP growth combined with the fulfilment of international requirements led many to believe that Albania was a 'shining star' in Central and Eastern Europe. But in 1997 this progress was reversed by unprecedented institutional, political and social turmoil leading to a spiral of violence and chaos.This book presents, for the first time, a comprehensive analysis of the different factors behind the 1997 political, economic and social upheaval in Albania. It shows that the crisis was both predictable and complex, and not simply a matter of a disgruntled population attempting to regain their money. Using extensive and detailed evidence Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead identifies the major reasons for the growing discontent and final explosion: - the increase in unemployment, collapse of industrial production, inefficiency of the banking system, limitations and drawbacks of foreign investment, failure of mass privatization, falling living standards, and rising poverty. He examines the consequences of the crisis at the enterprise level, by region, sector, industry and property form using a unique survey of over 1,000 enterprises. In conclusion he offers a series of policy recommendations with a view to regenerating production whilst avoiding a new social explosion in a destroyed economy, weakened by political instability and the conflict in Kosovo.This unique book will be essential reading for all academics working in the area of transition as well as policymakers from international organizations involved in transition economies.
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EU Enlargement versus Social Europe?

EU Enlargement versus Social Europe?

Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead

Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
2003
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The decision to enlarge the European Union by ten (eventually thirteen) countries has surprisingly not been accompanied by much discussion of the implications for Social Europe. This has led to criticisms that enlargement is a purely economic process that will sweep aside important social considerations:Will the much lower labour costs and social standards in the applicant countries - especially those from Central and Eastern Europe - lead to 'unfair' competition or 'social dumping'?Will this process in turn encourage current EU member-states to run-down their own social provisions in order to be able to compete with the newcomers?Do the specific features of this new accession wave - the largest enlargement so far and including markedly less-developed countries - threaten the global survival of the so-called 'European Social Model'?What policies should be implemented in order to avoid a weakening of current European social standards?These are the main questions this book attempts to answer, on the basis of a comprehensive assessment of the social policy areas most relevant to EU enlargement - wages, working conditions, social protection, employment, industrial relations - while also addressing its most sensitive 'social dumping' aspects: capital relocation, labour migration, and redirection of trade.EU enlargement is higher than ever on the policy agenda and scholars and researchers of European Studies and social policy will find this book an invaluable reference.
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Fair Wages

Fair Wages

Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead

Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
2010
sidottu
Over the past decade the emergence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has helped to improve corporate governance by tackling such burning issues as child labour and human rights violations. However, as the author argues in this important new book, the time has now come to incorporate wage issues into CSR. Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead proposes a new methodology, the `Fair Wage' approach, providing CSR actors with a coherent and comprehensive set of fair wage dimensions and indicators. Application of this new approach in a large-scale auditing exercise on wages in Asia and a number of qualitative case studies in China provides unique, first-hand information on wage practices among suppliers. The results confirm the need to address wage issues using a broad spectrum of wage dimensions, including living wages, minimum wages, social dialogue, payment of working hours and wage development in accordance with prices, enterprise performance and changes in technology and human capital. The `Fair Wage' approach advocated in this book is a first, serious and concerted effort to address the issue of wages, which are increasingly being used as the adjustment variable at the end of the supply chain.Adverse wage developments clearly highlight the limitations of government action in regulating this aspect of the global economy. The ‘Fair Wage’ approach advocated in this book is a first, serious and concerted effort to address this critical issue. It will be required reading for practitioners and scholars of labour economics, development studies and CSR.
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Fair Wages

Fair Wages

Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead

Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
2011
nidottu
Over the past decade the emergence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has helped to improve corporate governance by tackling such burning issues as child labour and human rights violations. However, as the author argues in this important new book, the time has now come to incorporate wage issues into CSR. Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead proposes a new methodology, the `Fair Wage' approach, providing CSR actors with a coherent and comprehensive set of fair wage dimensions and indicators. Application of this new approach in a large-scale auditing exercise on wages in Asia and a number of qualitative case studies in China provides unique, first-hand information on wage practices among suppliers. The results confirm the need to address wage issues using a broad spectrum of wage dimensions, including living wages, minimum wages, social dialogue, payment of working hours and wage development in accordance with prices, enterprise performance and changes in technology and human capital. The `Fair Wage' approach advocated in this book is a first, serious and concerted effort to address the issue of wages, which are increasingly being used as the adjustment variable at the end of the supply chain.Adverse wage developments clearly highlight the limitations of government action in regulating this aspect of the global economy. The ‘Fair Wage’ approach advocated in this book is a first, serious and concerted effort to address this critical issue. It will be required reading for practitioners and scholars of labour economics, development studies and CSR.
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Programming Cloud Native Applications with Google Cloud

Programming Cloud Native Applications with Google Cloud

Daniel Vaughan

O'Reilly Media
2023
pokkari
Cloud native development gives you the power to rapidly build, secure, and scale software. But you still need to navigate many potential pitfalls along the way. Through practical examples, this book demonstrates how to use Google Cloud as a laboratory to enable rapid innovation, a factory to automate build and testing, and a citadel to operate applications at scale securely. Author Daniel Vaughan shows you how to take applications from prototype to production by combining Google Cloud services, a cloud native programming model, and best practices. By following an example project from start to finish, developers, architects, and engineering managers working with the Google Cloud Platform will learn how to build and run cloud native applications on Google Cloud with confidence. With this book, you will: Understand cloud native development concepts including microservices, containerization, and event-driven architecture Learn Google Cloud services that specifically support this development style: compute, persistence, messaging, DevOps, security and networking, and observability Confidently build cloud native applications on Google Cloud Learn how to address nonfunctional requirements such as security, observability, and testing Successfully make the transition from initial proofs of concept and prototypes to production systems
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Data Science: The Hard Parts

Data Science: The Hard Parts

Daniel Vaughan

O'Reilly Media
2023
nidottu
This practical guide provides a collection of techniques and best practices that are generally overlooked in most data engineering and data science pedagogy. A common misconception is that great data scientists are experts in the "big themes" of the discipline-machine learning and programming. But most of the time, these tools can only take us so far. In practice, the smaller tools and skills really separate a great data scientist from a not-so-great one. Taken as a whole, the lessons in this book make the difference between an average data scientist candidate and a qualified data scientist working in the field. Author Daniel Vaughan has collected, extended, and used these skills to create value and train data scientists from different companies and industries. With this book, you will: Understand how data science creates value Deliver compelling narratives to sell your data science project Build a business case using unit economics principles Create new features for a ML model using storytelling Learn how to decompose KPIs Perform growth decompositions to find root causes for changes in a metric Daniel Vaughan is head of data at Clip, the leading paytech company in Mexico. He's the author of Analytical Skills for AI and Data Science (O'Reilly).
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Analytical Skills for AI and Data Science

Analytical Skills for AI and Data Science

Daniel Vaughan

O'Reilly Media, Inc, USA
2020
nidottu
While several market-leading companies have successfully transformed their business models by following data- and AI-driven paths, the vast majority have yet to reap the benefits. How can your business and analytics units gain a competitive advantage by capturing the full potential of this predictive revolution? This practical guide presents a battle-tested end-to-end method to help you translate business decisions into tractable prescriptive solutions using data and AI as fundamental inputs. Author Daniel Vaughan shows data scientists, analytics practitioners, and others interested in using AI to transform their businesses not only how to ask the right questions but also how to generate value using modern AI technologies and decision-making principles. You'll explore several use cases common to many enterprises, complete with examples you can apply when working to solve your own issues. Break business decisions into stages that can be tackled using different skills from the analytical toolbox Identify and embrace uncertainty in decision making and protect against common human biases Customize optimal decisions to different customers using predictive and prescriptive methods and technologies Ask business questions that create high value through AI- and data-driven technologies
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Building WPF and Silverlight Applications

Building WPF and Silverlight Applications

S. Barber; Marlon Grech; Daniel Vaughan

APRESS
2009
nidottu
Building WPF and Silverlight Applications takes a novel approach to the business or learning about these two exciting and powerful technologies. We recognize that, if you're interested in these topics, you're probably a professional developer. As such, you need to know more than just the new technology's grammar and syntax. You need to know good design patterns, how to build robust n-tier architectures to support your code, how to deploy and maintain it. In short, all those small but important details that are so often omitted when you work through code samples in a book or on MSDN. Our book aims to redress this balance. In a series of clearly structured chapters we give you an information packed tutorial in how these technologies work-their similarities and their differences-and explain how they can be integrated with the best architectural design patterns for maximum efficiency and ease of use. Then we go one stage further and work through a series of projects from design, through implementation to deployment showing the thinking and detail required to create fully working WPF and Silverlight applications that will stand up to use and abuse in the real world of professional work. What you'll learn * How to structure a WPF/Silverlight application * To use WF to create complex workflows to drive your apps business processes * Best Practice for communicating with a SOA backbone * Work with Silverlight and RIA services, to provide a rich client experience * Use RESTful WCF to publish RSS feeds * How to create true n-Tier apps using all of the technologies discussed above Who this book is for Building WPF and Silverlight Applications gives developers learning about WPF and Silverlight 3 a deep grounding in the techniques required for using WPF and Silverlight in the professional environment. The book emphases the design patterns and n-tier architectural planning that is required to enable applications to stand up to real-world use and abuse by end users. This is critical information for the professional developer but it is very often omitted from training manuals and online articles. The book focuses on two of the most widely used, and widely purchased, technologies with the Microsoft programming environment: Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight 3. By dealing with both technologies together the book covers both web and desktop programming and will have a very wide audience appeal.
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Everyday Security Threats

Everyday Security Threats

Daniel Stevens; Nick Vaughan-Williams

Manchester University Press
2016
sidottu
This book explores citizens' perceptions and experiences of security threats in contemporary Britain, based on twenty focus groups and a large sample survey conducted between April and September 2012. The data is used to investigate the extent to which a diverse public shares government framings of the most pressing security threats, to assess the origins of perceptions of security threats, to investigate what makes some people feel more threatened than others, to examine the effects of threats on other areas of politics and to evaluate the effectiveness of government messages about security threats. We demonstrate widespread heterogeneity in perceptions of issues as security threats and in their origins, with implications for the extent to which shared understandings of threats are an attainable goal. While this study focuses on the British case, it seeks to make broader theoretical and methodological contributions to Political Science, International Relations, Political Psychology, and Security Studies.
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Everyday Security Threats

Everyday Security Threats

Daniel Stevens; Nick Vaughan-Williams

Manchester University Press
2019
nidottu
This book explores citizens' perceptions and experiences of security threats in contemporary Britain, based on twenty focus groups and a large sample survey conducted between April and September 2012. The data is used to investigate the extent to which a diverse public shares government framings of the most pressing security threats, to assess the origins of perceptions of security threats, to investigate what makes some people feel more threatened than others, to examine the effects of threats on other areas of politics and to evaluate the effectiveness of government messages about security threats. We demonstrate widespread heterogeneity in perceptions of issues as security threats and in their origins, with implications for the extent to which shared understandings of threats are an attainable goal. While this study focuses on the British case, it seeks to make broader theoretical and methodological contributions to Political Science, International Relations, Political Psychology, and Security Studies.
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Focus BrE 2 Student's Book & MyEnglishLab Pack

Focus BrE 2 Student's Book & MyEnglishLab Pack

Vaughan Jones; Sue Kay; Daniel Brayshaw

Pearson Education Limited
2016
muu
Focus is a rich, varied, carefully levelled course for upper secondary students. Specially designed to motivate older teens, it helps them to track their level and achieve the exam results they need. With its unique blended learning package, Focus is the flexible course that gets results.
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Focus BrE 4 Student's Book & MyEnglishLab Pack

Focus BrE 4 Student's Book & MyEnglishLab Pack

Vaughan Jones; Sue Kay; Daniel Brayshaw

Pearson Education Limited
2016
muu
Focus is a rich, varied, carefully levelled course for upper secondary students. Specially designed to motivate older teens, it helps them to track their level and achieve the exam results they need. With its unique blended learning package, Focus is the flexible course that gets results.
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