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Showing 1 to 20 of 3326 for “"Labour"”.
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Yeats and labour
This thesis examines how W.B. Yeats’s view of labour developed over his lifetime. It focuses primarily on Yeats’s poetry, though consideration is also made of his letters, essays, plays, and speeches. The five chapters of the thesis are organised chronologically. Chapter 1 argues that Yeats’s early …
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The impact of intra-EU Labour mobility on national labour markets
Labour mobility in a regional bloc has been hailed for bringing about several desirable effects. It makes labour markets more flexible and economies more responsive to technological changes. Growth is enhanced because it enables employers to choose from a wider variety of productive workers, …
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Work Orientations and Labour Market Conditions: Subjective segmentation in local labour markets
… little is known about the influence of external labour market conditions. Given theoretical interest in preference change endogenous to labour market processes and in the ongoing importance for trade unions and managers to respond to the needs of workers, the thesis asks: to what extent are …
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Pools of neglected labour?
Adopting the concept of aesthetic labour (Warhurst et al., 2000)as an analytical framework, this research explores the nature and determinants of the paradoxical co-existence of high unemployment and recruitment 'difficulties' in the local hotel industry. This study responds to Gatta's (2011) plea …
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Inequality in Labour Markets
… a separate dimension of inequality in modern labour markets. Each chapter analyses the individual-level behaviours of workers or firms that underpin regional and aggregate distributional features of labour markets. Together, they address cross-sectional wage inequality policy at the national …
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The Labour of Home
The city of Cape Town's history of designed inequality has continued to maintain and extend barriers to accessing affordable housing for poor and working-class families. This work explores the emergence of occupation as a working-class housing and survival strategy that innovatively addresses these …
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Child labour: an analysis
… in the world attention to the problem of child labour. International bodies have adopted conventions and declarations on the issue while almost all states have laws, services and other activities intended to restrnin the economic exploitation of children and alleviate its effects. Despite these …
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Labour Unions, Political and the Development of the Swazi Labour Movement 1939-2014.
… sets out to examine the development of Swazi labour movement from 1939 to 2014. Through a combination of desktop and qualitative research the study traces the trajectory of the Swazi labour movement from the colonial to the post-colonial period. The Swazi labour movement developed and evolved …
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Labour of love: the impact of emotional labour on domestic abuse support workers
… the gap between Hochschild’s theory of emotional labour and the effect this has on domestic abuse support workers (1983). Emotional labour is a theory which addresses the emotional work of employment and how this affects the individual employee. This requires behaviours surrounding emotions to be …
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The effects of labour policies in the Piedmont Region of Italy on equity in the labour market: reflections on women in Labour
… makes an impact on gender equity in the labour market (Del Boca, 2002; Naldini & Saraceno, 2008). Giddens' theory of structuration is the conceptual framework from which this study approaches these questions. It is thus held that agents (in this instance, women) are constrained by …
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Ideologies, Histories, and Representations of Work and Labour in Contemporary German-Language Literature: Forced Labour, Sex Work, and State Socialist Labour Ideologies
… histories, ideologies, and forms of work and labour that exist outside of the realm of conventional wage labour. My specific areas of focus are literary engagements with the forced labour regimes of mid-twentieth century Europe, the phenomenon of sex work and prostitution, and the ideologies …
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The potential impact of the labour relations act 66 of 1995 on organised labour and labour organisation in the Western Cape agricultural sector
… trade union activity in this sector. The new Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995 (hereinafter referred to as the LRA) affords farmworkers a host of new rights, which are inevitably going to impact upon labour relations on farms. The dissertation looks critically at this legislation, and whether or …
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The Effects of Trade Reform on Labour Mobility Across South African Local Labour Markets
The extent to which labour market are affected by trade liberalization depends crucially on their ease of reallocating labour and factors of production across regions and sectors of the economy. However, previous literature has provided little insight on the role of migration and labour market …
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Globalisation, Location and Labour Markets
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