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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Domestic services"”.
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The effect of compulsory competitive tendering in three Scottish hospitals domestic services on patients and staff.
… use of the private sector for the provision of domestic, catering and laundry services. The stated main objective of this exercise was to obtain better value for money from available resources by being more cost effective and efficient. The arguments for the introduction of competitive tendering …
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Market substitutes for housework: Variations in use
… on expenditures for time-saving durables and services. The theoretical framework of this study was derived from the household production model. Data were taken from the 1988-89 Consumer Expenditure Survey. The sample consisted of 2,126 families with 334 single-mother families and 1,792 …
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The Role of Facilities Management in the Control of Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI)
… the control of HAI. The focus of the study is on domestic services. The research methodology of the study employed both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Altogether, 81 interviews were carried out involving experts in the areas of FM and HAI in the National Health Service (NHS). The …
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Worker Behaviors to Organizational Change: How a Generational Workforce Responds to a Company Acquisition
… researcher’s company (Company A), a U.S. based domestic services Company, has been acquired by a significantly larger, globally based organization (Company B). Prior to the acquisition, Company A had completed a joint merger and acquisition with a company of similar assets. New leadership, new …
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Worker flows in South Africa from 2008 to 2019: Evidence from matched quarterly labour force survey
… industries (e.g., construction, agriculture, and domestic services) when compared to the rest. Therefore, although substantial gross worker flows in South Africa imply that the labour market as a whole is not as rigid as most people think, certain sub-sections of the labour market are definitely …
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Migrant sarifa settlements and state-Building in Iraq
… the army, civil service, construction industry, domestic services, manufacturing, police, and transportation. In contrast with how Baghdad's history has been portrayed, sarifa and kukh dwellings were arguably the most salient architectural feature of the mid-20th century capital. These dwellings …
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A study of learning, knowledge and processes of reflection within the worker education project
There are over a million women domestic workers in South Africa who are largely overworked, underpaid, unprotected, and undervalued and who are entrenched in a system that denies and reduces the value of their work and their skills. Such conditions are invariably tied to contexts that are …
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Women, work, and the BBC: how wartime restrictions and recruitment woes reshaped the corporation, 1939-45.
… into its radio programme streams through its domestic services, Overseas Services Division, and European Services Division. Most research on the British home front references the centrality of BBC radio in the everyday life of the nation. However, apart from a few exceptional studies there has …
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Patterns of international migration in the Santiago Metropolitan Area - Characterization of the immigrants' social space and contributions to the national policy debate
… where there is a growing demand, e.g. in the domestic services. Almost 50% of the international migrants live in five of the 34 communes of the SMA. This seems to be largely determined by two main factors: Migrants are found where job opportunities are, and they follow similar patterns like …