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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Labor Practices"”.
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Detroit Crime Trends: Examining Large Business Labor Practices
<p>This study examines the relationship between the changes in large company employment of the top twenty-five large businesses in Detroit and the crime rate from 2012 to 2014. Previous research has asserted that a significant correlation exists between unemployment and crime but does not …
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Public Policy Implications of Nlrb and Court Interpretations of Employer Unfair Labor Practices, 1961-1966
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-09T19:32:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6910788.pdf: 30327689 bytes, checksum: cc827adb91b5bf4ec3d0d2baf34592c8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1968
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The evolution of work and the growing contingency of labor practices in the Massachusetts life sciences industry
… employment arrangements. In 2005, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated that about four percent of total employment in the U.S. was comprised of contingent workers. Just five years later this figure nearly doubled to 7.9 percent according to a report by the U.S. Government Accountability …
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Worker rights protection in Mexico's Silicon Valley : confronting low-road labor practices in high-tech manufacturing through antagonistic collaboration
… from scholars regarding the protection of labor rights and the means for improving labor conditions in the developing world. In the past half-decade, scholars have paid greater attention to these issues in the electronics manufacturing industry, particularly in response to recent …
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The Public Policy Implications of National Labor Relations Board and Court Decisions Interpreting The Unfair Labor Practices of Management, 1955-1960
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A Location in Parts
… around online gig economies, their attendant labor practices, and notions of time and space in the digital workplace. Though many of the examples from this document are specific to the Indian context and the Global South, they are also acutely relevant to multiple Local Souths. This thesis …
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Economic Space, Practice, and Identity: Business and Labor In the Qat Industry of Sana'A Yemen
… (employing at least fourteen percent of the labor force). While a small body of literature explores qat consumption, and the qat industry in a macroeconomic sense, very little is written about the cultural economy surrounding qat production (qat farming, distribution, and retail) or the …
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The impact that selected National Labor Relations Board decisions have had on certain aspects of academic administration at private colleges and universities
… ancillary support personnel and unfair labor practices. Each of these chapters begins "with a short introduction to the subject area followed by descriptive briefs of the related, landmark cases heard by the National Labor Relations Board. Following the briefs, there is an analysis that …
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Improving Labor Market Design to Reduce Labor Abuse in the Global Supply Chain in Southeast Asia
Forced labor and labor abuse have become a growing concern in the global supply chain. Evidence suggest that more than 25 million people are victims of forced labor, and that much of this problem stem from the recruitment process. In collaboration with the Issara Institute (Issara), a non-profit …
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Labor violations and discrimination in the Clark County outcall entertainment industry
… from two key issues facing sex workers: labor violations and prejudice. The purpose of this study is to investigate unethical labor practices and institutional sexism, racism, and classism in the Clark County outcall entertainment ("escort") industry. To analyze these issues from a sex …
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All the King's Men: Slavery and Soldiering at the Cabrits Garrison (1763-1854)
… in the British army, including enslaved laborers and soldiers of African descent, this study attempts two broad goals: (1) to critically examine the anthropological phenomena of African-Caribbean social formation through a study of settlement patterns and material culture, and (2) to …
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Fashion, Freedom, and Feminism: The Transcendent Work of Rosa Genoni and Her "Tanagra Dress" Reimagined
… it is still also largely reliant on manual labor, specifically minority women labor. This dependance upon manual labor correlates with its long history of worker exploitation and sweated labor. The concentration of exploitative labor practices in the fashion industry have made it a focal …
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Beneth corporate codes of conduct : what drives compliance in two Mexican garment factories
… on the surface, they appear to have similar labor practices. They have comparable policies vis-à-vis their workers in terms of recruitment, promotion system, grievance system, and benefits. However, upon conducting fieldwork at the plants, I found that, despite similarities on paper, there …
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The Potosi-Cobija route: archaeology of colonial transportation in the south Central Andes
… an important reorganization of transportation labor, and official investment in imperial road infrastructure. However, my results contradict the idea of centralized imperial control of the peripheral flow of resources based on official road infrastructure. They indicate the continuity of native …
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"A Sea of Red Ink and Broken Dreams": Copyright, Gatekeeping, and the Curtailing of Creativity and Creators' Rights in the Age of Streaming
… (SAG-AFTRA) went on strike to protest unfair labor practices after a breakdown in contract negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP). From the picket line to social media, creators decried the reduction of wages in terms of minimums and residuals, the …
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The fantasy of masculinity: a study of masculinity in strip clubs across three Midwestern metropolitan areas
… or voyeurism. Through a range of interactional labor practices, strippers fulfill the emotional needs of male patrons and facilitate emotional expression, often concerning that which can compromise their masculinity. However, because these interactions are situated within the hypersexualized, …
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Peasantry to industry : labor and Chinese cokemaking township and village enterprises
… examines the symbiotic relationship between labor relations and the resilience and performance of regional economies. I hypothesize that the institutional structure of the recent phenomenon of Chinese Township and Village Enterprises (TVEs) creates opportunities for industrial labor relations …
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An Analysis of the Fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt
… racial intermarriage, the franchise, and convict labor practices. He also explored the ramifications of "passing" into white society and other problems confronting people of mixed-race in the South and in the North. He pleaded for a quickening of conscience and for moral renewal in the hearts of …
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Circuits Of Containment: Iron Collars, Incarceration And The Infrastructure Of Slavery
… jails, the state penitentiary, and forced labor on municipal and state public works shows how technologies shaped enslaved peoples lives as they were captured, contained, and forced to be productive units of labor. By combining insights from scholarship in the fields of US slavery and …
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Latinas in telecommunications: intersectional experiences in the Bell system
… framework to their everyday socio-techno labor practices. This research contributes to the literature in several significant ways: It is the first in-depth history of Latina information workers in telecommunications; it adds to the cross-disciplinary research of the social construction of …
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