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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Labour studies"”.
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Negotiating the Panoptic Gaze: People, Power and Conservation Surveillance in the Corbett Tiger Reserve
… surveillance on local communities, conservation labour and on conservation governance. By situating my inquiry in the social and political history of the region, I argue that these technologies are used to establish multiple surveillance regimes resulting in the production of disciplined people …
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How people successfully get in and get on in the UK broadcast television industry: implications for skills policymakers
… Film Institute (BFI) study of media workers and labour studies by the Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance. This research presents an area of work that has not been looked at to date and gives a new perspective on working in the media by focusing on a cohort of workers, aged …
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The South Wales Miners 1964-1985
… the most militant sections of the British labour movement, with South Wales very much in the forefront of this. This thesis examines both how and why the south Wales miners held this prominent 'vanguard' role.<br/><br/>My research explores the history of the south Wales miners between 1964 …
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“neither boy nor man”: Transnational Trade Identity in Canada’s Typographical Trade Press, 1860-1900
… of literary, periodical, print historical, and labour studies. Examining the eight printing trade journals produced in central and eastern Canada during the later nineteenth century (Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick), this project contributes a Canadian dimension to extant scholarship on …
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Foraging and Menstruation in the Hadza of Tanzania
… lifestyle characterised by a sexual division of labour. Studies of their foraging and food sharing habits serve as the foundation to numerous hypotheses of human behaviour and evolution. Data from the Hadza have featured heavily in debates on the sexual division of labour. These debates focus …
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LABOURING TO TEACH: ACCOUNTING FOR POLICY TRANSFORMATIONS IN TEACHERS' LABOUR AND INSTITUTIONAL REGIMES IN CHILE BETWEEN 1980-2021
… traditional conceptualisations by including a labour perspective, contributions from relational sociology and historical institutionalism. These additions help to elucidate how teacher accountability policies are sustained through, and redefine, those social relations binding teachers’ work …
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The industrial relations of China’s internet industry: Politics, technology, and labour activism
… themes that go beyond the Marxist tradition of labour studies in sociology. Both macro- and micro-angles are deployed in the investigation of a leading Chinese internet company, Digitech (pseudonym); a separate case study of Alibaba also is included. Drawing on qualitative methodologies – …
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Basotho and the mines : towards a history of labour migrancy, c.1890-1940
… Part I focuses on the context and dynamics of labour migration and recruitment in Lesotho during the late 1880s to the late 1930s. This Part lays the basis for subsequent sections by showing which sections of Basotho opted for labour migrancy; and why it was men and not women who, initially at …
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The Meaning of Being Independent: Precarities of Work and Lifestyles and Alternative-Seeking among Chinese Self-Employed Cultural Workers
… workers are still a minority in the Chinese labour market. Without an official definition and uniform categorisation, self-employed workers in Chinese society face an ambivalent situation in economic, social, and cultural terms. This thesis investigates the independent cultural workers, who …