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Music as an Attribute of the Ethnic Identity of African Americans
Procházková, Eva ; Tyllner, Lubomír (advisor) ; Blüml, Jan (referee) ; Kratochvíl, Matěj (referee)
The objective of the dissertation is a detailed study of the interactions between music and ethnic identity of a selected ethnic group - African Americans during several historical periods, and the use of information obtained from literary sources as research starting point for fieldwork. The main research question is: Music and its role in the formation of an African American ethnic identity today. The introductory chapters of the dissertation give an overview of basic concepts and theories and briefly clarify the terms African Americans, African American music, and ethnic identity in terms of their interconnection. The main part of the theoretical part of the study focuses on the role of music in the process of an African American ethnic identity formation and is divided into five chapters, each of which discusses interactions between music and ethnic identity in different historical periods, for example during slavery times in North America and the Reconstruction of the South, during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, or in the so-called post-soul era of the 1980s and 1990s. The summary of the existing knowledge from literary sources serves as a theoretical basis for a two-month qualitative fieldwork research conducted in Chicago, USA in...
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Modes of termination of employment
Kuchlerová, Pavla ; Štefko, Martin (advisor) ; Procházková, Eva (referee)
In my graduation theses I focused on the ways to terminate the employment relationship.I enforced chracteristics of each way of the termination and legal possibilites for using it.I mentioned the differences between present - day legal regulations end previous legal regulations. I engaged in specific changes of termination of the employment relationship brought by the present Labour Code in the area of legal regulations, as in the part concerning applicable legal regulations, so in the part defining individual ways of termination of the employment relationship. In the conclusion of this graduation theses I would like to focus on the Labour Code especially with the view of what improvements or on the contrary impairment has brought in the area of legal regulations in termination of the employment relationship on the part of employers and employees. Next I would like to mention several conceptual changes in the Labour Code, which are being prepared by ministry of labour and social affairs. In content of this I would like to introduce some of my de lege ferenda considerations. The Labour Code of 2006 was accepted embarrassedly since its release. It was welcomed by someone, but deprecated by others. The Labour Code was positively classificated especially by trade unions, whom the new legal regulation brought...
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Posting employees within the provision of services
Kotrčová, Šárka ; Štefko, Martin (advisor) ; Procházková, Eva (referee)
76 POSTING OF WORKERS IN THE FRAMEWORK OF PROVISION OF SERVICES RESUMÉ This thesis deals with posting of workers in the framework of provision of services. As I had considered this subject-matter to be topical and very useful for every undertaking in the European Community I decided to analyze current legal background of this area both at the European level and at the Czech level. The aim of this paper is to provide with an overview on the current situation, reveal the lacks of the legislation, eveluate the effectivity of the regulation, make suggestions of improvement and illustrate a possible development in this area in the future. A sufficient part of my thesis is focused on the comparison of the Czech and Belgian legislation concerning posted workers and their work conditions. The paper is divided into six chapters. The first chapter makes an introduction into the topic of posting workers. Chapter two explains the basic principles of free movement of services within the European Community of which the posting of workers is an integral part. The basis of the thesis is then the third chapter which is directed on the European directive concerning posting of workers itself. This chapter defines the basic terminology of the directive, introduces the scope of its application, minimum work conditions, position...
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The Labour Office and its role in solving unemployment
Stádníková, Jana ; Štefko, Martin (advisor) ; Procházková, Eva (referee)
Resumé This diploma thesis is aimed at the task of labour office solving unemployment issues. Labour offices are specialized administrative authorities which fall within the competence of Ministry of labour and social affairs. I have chosen this topic in consideration of the global economic crisis and the current problems of unemployment which reached the alarming 9,9 % at the end of March 2010. The first chapter pays attention to the historical development of labour offices in Czechoslovakia, more precisely in the Czech republic since the formation of Czechoslovakia in 1918 till nowadays. This chapter clearly shows how employment policy can be influenced by political establishment of a country and what impact it can have on the social standards of its inhabitants. The following chapter deals with the right to work and the right to be employed which is contained in Czech, European and international documents. The right to work and the right to be employed has an international basis which was followed by the Czech repulic and which inspired the Czech republic to form the general ground of the Czech legal regulation. The third chapter presents the determination of applicability of labour office and the competence confided to labour offices in accordance with Employment Act, No.435/2004 Coll. The labour office...
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Notice of termination of employment
Mandík, Zdeněk ; Štefko, Martin (advisor) ; Procházková, Eva (referee)
71 Název diplomové práce v anglickém jazyce Notice Abstract This thesis is aimed to describe notice in Czech Labour Code, which is effective from January 1st , 2007. The thesis analyses the differences between contemporary Labour Code and previous Labour Code from year 1965 and compares Czech Labour Code with comparable codes in EU countries. The aim is to consider, whether the regulation of notice is well-arranged and at once flexible (mainly for employers) and protects the employees. Finally, the thesis compares regulations of liability in former Labour Code and new Labour Code. The thesis is composed of six chapters. Chapter One is introductory and describes the aims of thesis and basics of employment. Chapter Two is focused on sources of law related to notice, including historic sources of law in Bohemia and Czechoslovakia, International Public Law and international organizations, EU labour law, Czech labour code and its changes (i.e. so-called technical amendment, judgment of the Constitutional Court and new prepared so-called conceptual amendment). Chapter Three is focused on regulation of notice as amended. It's divided into nine parts, which deal with reasons of notice served by employer, notice's form and delivering, grounds of termination, notice periods, withdrawal of notice, trade union...
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