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Online Consumer Mediation in Catalonia
A doctoral thesis at the UAB aims at considering whether mediation is an efficient mechanism of redress in the consumer domain, as well as to determine whether the B2C domain supports the introduction of ITCs and particularly, online mediation procedures. Moreover, the research aims at...
A new working class of services
According to a doctoral thesis defended at the Department of Sociology of the UAB, currently in Spain a new service-sector working class is emerging and replacing the traditional industrial working class. This study also raises the difficulties that this new segment of the population will...
Social factors in ants
A doctoral thesis read at the CREAF, at the UAB, attempts to characterise the social factors involved in the differentiation between workers and queens in ant colonies. Investigating ants' behavioural mechanisms, both physiological and pheromonal, this work confirms that both the queen and the workers influence...
Telework and Subjectivity
A UAB doctoral thesis has found, by means of several interviews, that teleworking gives the worker a greater degree of autonomy in organising schedules but, in turn, causes stress because when using new technologies to work, it is possible to reach a state of constant work. This research analyzes the processes...
