Rome is a paradox embodied in a city. It is both alive and buried, both pagan andChristian, both a small Mediterranean village and the historical centre of the westernworld. Rome is, and has for a very long time been, a place extraordinarily chargedwith preconceptions and prescriptions concerning cultural and historical heritage.Guidebooks to the city have, from the Middle Ages and onward, play…
Recent decades have seen great advances in science and technology that enable us – or, rather, those who have the requisite financial and technological resources – to explore and derive ever more benefits from the marine realm. In some ways, technological developments risk making legal frameworks obso-lete, addressing problems that are no longer pertinent or facilitating …
One of the main trends in labour relations across Europe – started already in the 1980s – is “decentralisation” in collective bargaining at the company level. This involves a shift from multi-employer bargaining to single-employer bargaining with trade unions or other workers representatives (Marginson, 2015; oecd, 2018; Traxler, 1995; Visser, 2016). This development continued in the la…
The web has been with us for more than a quarter of a century. It has become a daily and ubiquitous source of information in many peoples’ lives around the globe. But what does it tell us about historical and social change? For a researcher in the twenty-second century, it will seem unimaginable that someone studying the twenty-first c…