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In today’s market economy and evolving society, it is essential to update legal mechanisms to protect the rights of participants in civil transactions. Tort law plays a vital role in regulating compensation for damage caused by rights violations. It is aimed at assisting victims, establishing liability, and preventing harmful acts, usually resulting in monetary compensation as a form of redress. This article aims to study the current state of tort law in Ukraine, identify problematic aspects in this area, and determine the prospects for its development and improvement in the context of European integration. To achieve the goals and objectives of the study, the author uses a combination of general theoretical and unique scientific methods and techniques of scientific knowledge. The methodological basis of the study is the dialectical method.

The study aims to develop a theoretical model of “satisfaction-loyalty-involvement” in modern HRM-architecture to create a mechanism to strengthen employee involvement in the production process. The study statistically determined the socio-psychological factors influencing satisfaction, loyalty, and involvement in professional activity. It was found that an employee’s attitude (on the example of respondents from Russia) to a company (satisfaction-loyalty-involvement) depends on gender: correlation coefficient 0.631, (p < 0.05), age: 0.690 (p < 0.05), total years in office: 0.572 (p < 0.05), but the greatest – on the level of education – 0.807 (p < 0.05), and does not depend on marital status (0.241), having children (0.041) and level of wages (0.062). According to the results of the correlation analysis the individual psychological features influencing the level of satisfaction were determined. The received information is important for managers and executives to take constructive action and manage their workforce intelligently.

The article analyzes the religious situation in Kazakhstan during the pandemic. In the new conditions of the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which is spreading at an unprecedented speed and causing significant damage to human health and national security, new challenges and solutions are required in the activities of public and state structures. The new living conditions led to changes in the activities of all religious associations, which were primarily associated with prohi- bitions and restrictions on worship and mass religious events in accordance with the requirements of sanitary standards. It should be taken into account that the epidemiological situation in the country also had a very serious impact on the activities of state bodies, including those authorized to perform functions in terms of religious policy. New epidemiological requirements strongly influenced state-confessional re- lations and interfaith interactions in Kazakhstan, despite the stable religious situation in the country.

Some individual funding schemes aim at recognizing excellence of early and/or mid-career researchers, allowing them to boost their potential via munificent endowments, autonomy, and employment security. In Italy, this is the case of “Futuro in Ricerca” (FIRB), which is in many regards similar to the European Research Council (ERC) scheme. Both schemes are supposed to make excellence thrive, which is understood also in terms of publishing in leading journals and establishing international collaborations. The paper checks whether FIRB recipients are thereafter more performative in terms of quality of publication (ranking of target journals and international co-authorships), testing against a randomly extracted control group of Italian academics of similar age, rank and discipline. The study tests also against ERC recipients active in Italy. Results of difference-in-difference tests show that i) FIRB recipients improve their capacity to publish in highly ranked journals, similarly to what ERC recipients do; ii) these schemes do not incentivize international co-authorships; iii) FIRB is not conducive of notable changes within non-bibliometric disciplines.

Simultaneous with the rise of Labour Process Theory (LPT), Italy was the centre of a parallel and prominent theorisation of the labour process in an overlapping intellectual and social context: operaismo. Both have undergone a recent resurgence. This paper provides a critical commentary on the development and claims of operaismo, drawing out some comparisons with LPT. Diversity in the operaist traditions and trajectories are recognised, but the paper focuses on areas where contrasts and conflicts between LPT and aspects of operaismo continue to have salience. There are similarities in the ideas and goals of the two approaches, with both focusing on the dynamic interplay between labour and capital in the hidden abode of production. But operaismo is also an explicitly political project in that it seeks to identify privileged class subjects that can act as the vanguard of broader social transformation. Through an examination of a range of issues concerning changing workplace regimes and how to study them, we find this and other differences have significant analytical, normative and methodological dimensions.

In the last decade, several sectors of the Italian labour market have witnessed a rise in conflictual union activities carried out mostly by subcontracted migrant workers. Taking two grassroots unions in the North Italian meat processing sector as case studies (SICobas and ADLCobas), this paper investigates why and how migrant workers organise themselves through rank-and-file unions. In particular, the paper aims at understanding whether and how migrant workers’ mobility power interplays with and influences their associational power, shedding light on the nexus between labour mobility and its mobilisation. After illustrating how grassroots unions develop in the Italian context, the paper analyses how migrant workers enhance their mobility power through rank-and-file unions and how these unions, in turn, utilise members’ mobility as a resource to broaden their organisations. In conclusion, the paper argues that the presence of a highly mobile labour force does not weaken and could even strengthen mobilisations. Consequently, mobility power can be conceptualised not only as an individual strategy but also as a collective resource.

L'articolo ricostruisce criticamente la traiettoria del dibattito sulla Labour Process Theory (LPT) da Braverman in poi. Analizza i classici della seconda ondata e i principali fondamenti della cosiddetta ‘core theory’ del LPT. Descrive il dibattito suscitato dalla formalizzazione della core theory rispetto al cambiamento delle strutture produttive. Individua alcuni filoni di proficuo dibattito interno, cruciali per l'analisi delle attuali tendenze e trasformazioni del lavoro: il soggetto mancante, il ‘connectivity gap’ e il ruolo della tecnologia. Il modo in cui il dibattito interno alla LPT ha affrontato queste questioni è promettente e riafferma la rilevanza della LPT come quadro analitico che rimane cruciale nell'attuale sociologia del lavoro.

This article suggests that Labour Process Theory (LPT) could engage more substantially with the spheres of ecology and social reproduction. By drawing on ecological and feminist Marxist literatures, it seeks to recast a materialist analysis of the capitalist labour process, which is reconstructed as an ecological process as well as a process structurally shaped by spaces and institutions where the social reproduction of workers and the working class take place. Drawing from the collective and individual work done over the last few years within these areas, the article translates abstract observations in more operative analytical categories by reinstating the relevance of socio-ecological indeterminacy of the labour process, the materiality of the body, the commodity and the workplace, the intertwining between exploitation and disciplining and by introducing the notion of reproductive subsumption.

Obiettivo macro dell’articolo è quello di riflettere sull’attuale disagio socio-economico delle famiglie italiane, attraverso una ricognizione multidimensionale e statistica del fenomeno e una ricostruzione delle maggiori teorie sociologiche che si sono occupate di povertà. Viene approfondito, altresì, il ruolo strategico del Servizio Sociale considerando il complesso d’interventi professionali e le misure normative posti in essere e previsti per il prossimo futuro. Fra scenari mutevoli e sfide complesse.

Il saggio presenta uno studio su una particolare tipologia di autori di reato con-tro le donne i sex offender. Attraverso le narrazioni di 40 detenuti in 2 carceri ita-liane, si vuole far emergere la struttura sociale diseguale e gli stereotipi di genere, ma soprattutto i modelli di neutralizzazioni che questi uomini utilizzano per colpe-volizzare le vittime, oppure per negare il reato. I risultati mostrano una negazione di qualunque responsabilità.