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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Labor conditions"”.
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Longshore labor conditions in the port of Boston
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, 1932
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The impact of after-school childcare arrangements on the developmental outcomes of low-income children and the labor conditions of their working mothers
… mothers with school-aged children make up 78.6% labor force, finding suitable, available, affordable childcare is still significant challenge. Even though after-school programs (hereafter ASPs) and other types of childcare arrangements have been implemented, childcare for school-aged children …
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Beneth corporate codes of conduct : what drives compliance in two Mexican garment factories
This thesis addresses the question: under what conditions do corporate codes of conduct work? To answer this question, I develop two case studies of subcontracting factories that are subject to a multinational company's (MNC) code of conduct. These two factories have many similarities-both are in …
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Stolen wages, stolen lives: A critical analysis of the fair workweek policy
… work schedules are a well-known aspect of labor conditions in the retail and food service sectors of the US economy (Lambert, Fugiel, & Henly, 2014). This issue is now being addressed by advocates of what is commonly known as the Fair Workweek policy. Despite the variance among the policies …
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"Quality" control in China's reform era : investigating the suzhi discourse in women's work
… Known as an industry for perpetrating unjust labor conditions for women, this site proves to be an appropriate site to explore a discourse that attempts to justify these conditions with claims of women's low 'quality.' It will analyze various manifestations of the suzhi discourse …
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Hollywood Workers vs Tech: In Theory and In the News
… because of their explicit ties to technology and labor’s changing relationships. In particular, disputes around using generative AI in the workplace were widely reported in the news. This thesis examines the Hollywood strikes in two parts. The first part takes a political economy approach to …
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Shoes, sweatshops, and sanctions : comparing the impacts of labor codes of conduct in three footwear contractors in China
… of reports has surfaced about the substandard labor conditions in foreign-owned and operated factories located globally that manufacture goods for multinational brand firms. The response of companies under scrutiny for engaging in "sweatshop" practices has been to formulate corporate codes of …
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Chronotopic Figurations of Coal Mining at Blair Mountain
… West Virginia, site of both the largest labor insurrection since the Civil War and, more recently, contested terrain for mountaintop removal mining, is an exemplar of Appalachia coal mining's uniquely American tropes. In 1921, roughly 8,000 miners were held up at Blair as they marched …
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In the Family of Things: Stories About Simple Choices and Radical Change
… from environmental degradation to unhealthy labor conditions. Similarly, we often do not know what good can come from our choices, from how we choose to spend our money and our days. These essays concentrate on the acts of courage and good faith that inhabit everyday objects. They connect …
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In the Family of Things: Stories About Simple Choices and Radical Change
… from environmental degradation to unhealthy labor conditions. Similarly, we often do not know what good can come from our choices, from how we choose to spend our money and our days. These essays concentrate on the acts of courage and good faith that inhabit everyday objects. They connect …
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Beyond market failures : irrigation, the state, and non-traditional agricultures in Northeast Brazil
… export crops, at the same time that wages and labor standards among rural wage workers increased without compromising the access of producers to export markets, and in spite of all three regions having received similar heavy government investments in large-scale irrigation infrastructure. …
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China's Community Riders: Digital Labor, Delivery Logistics and Spaces
… 30% of China's population. As both capital and labor flowed into this booming e-commerce industry, tech giants fiercely competed to offer the most cost-effective food delivery platforms by implementing algorithmic control of the riders. The majority of riders are young migrant workers, …
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Picturing reform: Ashcan women and the visual culture of the progressive era in New York City
… By visualizing overcrowding and oppressive labor conditions on working-class bodies, these realities could be comprehended and reformed. Each chapter investigates a social movement—the playground movement, the consumer movement, and the birth control movement—in which artists and …
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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 Relationship Between the Industrial Workers of the World and the Communist Party Shortly After World War I
Recognized as one of the most revolutionary labor unions in America during the early twentieth-century by the general public and the federal government, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) separated themselves from the rest of the labor unions because of their success in executing general …
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Leydi’s world : a feminist commodity chain analysis of the cut-flower industry and its women workers in Cayambe, Ecuador
… and agriculture, feminist political economy of labor and feminist political ecology to add to the floriculture literature. The thesis finds that women’s experiences in the cut-flower industry are varied and nuanced, representing both positive, empowering aspects as well as negative, exploitative …
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Delivering Justice: Food Delivery Cyclists in New York City
… worker voices to characterize and name their conditions and experiences.</p> <p>Intermingled systems of transnational migration, restaurant business, and labor conditions coerce competition, isolation, exploitation, and tactics for transnational survival that speed up the bodies of delivery …
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Certification for biofuel: a means to sustainable development?
… demands fueled human rights abuse such as forced labor or economic exploitation. For continued expansion of global biofuels industry, it is critical to address these environmental and social concerns in a timely manner. Biofuel certification is designed as a means to guarantee that fuel crop …
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Wage equations and the regional economics in Guatemala
… the study pretends to explore some economic conditions of the regions of Guatemala that may influence decision making of workers and firms when moving between regions. The theoretical topics in the research involve the utilization of wage equations and the endogenous growth theory. In the …
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