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György Széll

    Education, labour & science
    European social integration - a model for East Asia?
    Quality of life and working life in comparison
    Making popular participation real
    Arbeitsorientierte Wissenschaft und Forschung in den neunziger Jahren in Europa
    New democracies and old societies in Europe
    • 2018

      The onset of democracy in South Africa provided South Africans with the opportunity to build a truly democratic, non-racial, non-sexist society in which there would be opportunity for all to make material, social and intellectual progress. This vision was enshrined in a Constitution intent on deepening democracy by treating people with dignity and ensuring that democratic participation was not restricted to a trip to the voting booth once every five years. To give democracy real meaning, the Constitution declared that municipalities, in particular, must facilitate public participation for true legitimacy in its development endeavours. Various mechanisms have been put in place to achieve this objective, but the process has not been without its impediments and difficulties. This book reviews the context, approaches and challenges to the public participation process using international comparisons.

      Making popular participation real
    • 2009

      The book presents the contributions of an international workshop organised in November 2007 at the GSIS/SNU. Sixteen renowned authors from Europe and North-East Asia present the main lines of the European Social Integration process in the perspective which elements may be applicable to a regional integration in this part of the world. It became clear that the European Integration was first of all a political process although the economic forms seem to have been dominating. Social integration is the glue which at the end will bring and keep Europe together.

      European social integration - a model for East Asia?
    • 2009

      The topic on the quality of life and working life in a comparative perspective between Japan and Germany is of high relevance for the sustainability of our societies. The interdisciplinary approaches from the diverse fields of social sciences, i. e. sociology, psychology, economics, political science, architecture and environmental studies cover the diverse issue as well from a theoretical, empirical and historical perspective. The volume assembles the 26 best contributions to the 10th meeting of the German-Japanese Society for Social Sciences, which took place in August 2008 in Osnabrück.

      Quality of life and working life in comparison
    • 2008

      Education, labour & science

      • 607 pages
      • 22 hours of reading

      This book presents a selection of presentations during the Fifth Congress of the International Network «Regional and Local Development of Work and Labour». The congress took place at the University of Osnabrück in September 2006. However, it was not a traditional congress, but it revived the practice of «future workshops», which were invented by Robert Jungk. The book assembles 33 articles covering all social sciences by authors from 16 different Austria, Brazil, Denmark, Germany, France, India, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Spain, and Sweden. It is dedicated to the democratization of the different spheres of society from a grassroot-perspective.

      Education, labour & science
    • 2001

      Ten years after the break down of the Berlin Wall, the withering away of real existing socialism but also of the welfare state, Europe is preparing for its re-unification. Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic have already entered the NATO, nine more countries from the former Soviet Block and the Mediterranean are preparing themselves to enter the European Union. After hundreds of years of war the era of peace and welfare which seemed to be so near has vanished in new wars and atrocities. Fundamentalisms and globalisation question democracy as such. Nowadays the new term is good governance . The nation-state is stronger than imagined, and seems even to become the only refuge against global shareholder capitalism. Will the old civil societies be able to develop new forms of democracy in the heritage of our past?

      New democracies and old societies in Europe
    • 1991

      This work explores the complex dynamics of labor relations and management in transitioning economies, focusing on both Eastern and Western contexts. It begins by establishing a general framework for understanding the restructuring of labor relations, examining the evolution of work identity and payment systems in both capitalist and socialist settings. The discussion includes the impact of technical progress and decentralization on socialist economies, alongside the interplay between capitalism, socialism, and business organizations. The text delves into self-management, highlighting case studies from Bulgaria and Poland, illustrating the challenges and realities of implementing self-management in various contexts. It further investigates new management forms and labor relations, featuring Hungary's evolving labor system and collective work organization practices in Czechoslovakia. The transformation of trade union structures is also a focal point, addressing issues of business democracy, current reform trends in Yugoslavia, and the pursuit of autonomy within Hungarian unions. The role of trade unions in fostering participation and navigating technological changes in the German Democratic Republic is critically analyzed. Legal and political restructuring is examined through labor legislation in Bulgaria, industrial democracy in Poland, and the transition to a free market in Romania. The work concludes with reflections on di

      Labour relations in transition in Eastern Europe