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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Labour conditions"”.
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Nelvana Animation: Shifting Labour Conditions, Digital Tools and Their Influence on the Design of 2D Children’s Animated Series
… this research as an exercise in animation labour and an expression of the alienation of being a self-entrepreneur. Together, the works argue the value of human creativity within commercial animation production by linking the creative content of children's animated series to animators' …
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The construction of skill in contemporary experimental theatre
… performance about the unequally deskilled labour conditions of global capitalism. A dialectic of deskilling and reskilling operates across the labour conditions that the production explores, the company’s production process, and actor-audience interactions within the performance. This …
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Case study investigation of the revenue implications of the minibus-taxi industry running unscheduled feeder services on a hybrid public transport system in Tshwane
… unsafe driving, violent taxi wars, poor vehicle conditions, and poor working conditions, among others, formalising the MBI has been the government's goal. The White Paper on National Transport Policy of 1996 states 'the minibus-taxi industry (MBI) will have to be formalised and measures …
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Contingent and Collateral Figures in Art Institutions: Laboured Feminist Lineages
… with an expansive understanding of existing conditions. To do so, I take up queer feminist art theory that expands the remit of institutional critique to include daily life and foregrounds unrecognized maintenance labour that supports art institutions. Complementing analyses of marginalized …
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Identity, work, and mobility amongst Bolivian market vendors in El Alto and São Paulo
… In contexts of precarious and flexible labour conditions, market women are aware that being othered as indigenous might compromise their claims to mobility. Resisting these categorisations, they use various strategies adapted to the particular forms of intersecting exclusion in each …
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Medicating the Crisis: Investigating the Links Between Precarious Employment, Mental Health Issues, and the Reliance on Antidepressants as Treatment
… the relationship between precarious employment conditions, declines in mental health, and the way mental health issues are treated with pharmaceutical technologies – namely antidepressant medication. In this dissertation, I aim to contribute to this discussion by a) situating the relationship …
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The social clause: reality or utopia
… with the human side that underlies the issue; • Labour Law, because productivity is increasingly dictating labour conditions for "thousands and thousands of workers; • Trade Law, in the sense that international trade tends towards the elimination of borders and seeks. to maximise profits, to the …
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Comparative or competitive advantage of export processing zones (EPZs): Policy choices and strategies for Namibia
In an attempt to attract and at the same time, to retain direct foreign investments, developing countries including Namibia embarked on aggressive economic strategies. Although these strategies are different in both forms and shapes, export processing zones (EPZs) appeared to be more favourable …
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Region-wise spillover effects from Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in India
… find that the market size, infrastructure and labour conditions are key attributes in the spatial distribution of FDI inflow. Furthermore, we use a textual analysis framework with the news articles from Factiva database on the FDI policy. The Key Research Index conveys periodic changes in …
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The role of nostalgia in reality television’s representation of rural lives
… responds to social change and urban living conditions in the United States by creating a nostalgic and idealistic representation of preindustrial American life. While the text is largely reactionary and calls upon a restorative nostalgia that imagines ideal American life as rural, white and …
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Exploitation at Sea: Examining the Structural Failings of an International Legal Regime
… for the continuation of systemic forms of labour exploitation such as impressment, crimping, and the criminalisation of desertion. At the turn of the twentieth century seafaring labour became the subject of specific regulation under the newly established International Labour Organization …
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Capitalism and private nature reserves: the taming of Mala Mala land claim
… These features include private property, labour and neoliberalism. Whilst capitalism has managed to become a well-established system, occasionally it is confronted with challenges which expose its callous nature. In South Africa, land restitution calls into question capitalism's operation …
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A history of Nakambala Sugar Estates, 1964-84
… Sugar Company has managed to maintain such poor labour conditions at the estate, partly because the National Union of Plantation and Agricultural Workers has bean weak. Evidence has shown that the weakness of the union stems from the fact that most of its leaders, have not been adequately trained …
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A history of Nakambala Sugar Estates, 1964-84
… Sugar Company has managed to maintain such poor labour conditions at the estate, partly because the National Union of Plantation and Agricultural Workers has bean weak. Evidence has shown that the weakness of the union stems from the fact that most of its leaders, have not been adequately trained …
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Economic Impacts of the Free Trade Agreement Between the European Union and Colombia
… example, the impacts on the human development, labour rights, and welfare systems, among others. • Despite the EU and Colombia FTA is a relatively high depth agreement, the legal enforceability of social provisions is quite weak in the agreement affecting the implementation of the labour …
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The impact of perceptions of China’s human rights and sustainable development on its soft power initiatives in South Africa
… poor record of human rights and cheap Chinese labour in African countries. Additionally five dominant frames were found in Chinese media coverage of China’s sustainable development: China’s climate leadership, China-US collaboration, repercussion for environmental violations, China’s green …