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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Living and working conditions"”.
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Working for Small Change: Investigating the Livelihoods of Ride-hailing Drivers in Cape Town, South Africa
… (public) transportation sector, labour issues and tax matters. Missing voices in this discourse have notably been the employees of ride-hailing companies, specifically in the Global South. Setting out to inquire about the living and working conditions of ride-hailing drivers, this study …
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Revolution, Reform, and Class Conflict in Rebecca Harding Davis’s Life in the Iron-Mills
… example of American fiction that depicts the living and working conditions in a mill town. Although the novella advocates for workers, it does not accurately depict contemporaneous working-class culture. Davis depicts workers as isolated and helpless in the face of the forces that oppress them …
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Assessment of Local Government Authorities in Maintaining Primary School Teachers Working and Living Conditions : A Case of Local Government Authority in Tanga City Council
… to primary school teachers at places of work and finding the consequences of improper awareness on living and working conditions with specific reference to public primary schools. Tanga City Council was taken as the area of study. In the study, both random and purposive sampling techniques …
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Both Sides of the Tracks: Louisville and Nashville Railroad's African -American Workers in Louisville, Kentucky, 1915--1945
This study investigates the at work and at home experiences of Louisville and Nashville Railroad's (L&NRR) African-American workers who lived in Louisville, Kentucky from the early to the mid-twentieth century. Typically restricted to the least desirable positions, these black railroaders were a …
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Perceptions of Prospective Teachers towards Teaching Profession
… approach was used in this study. Purposive and simple random sampling procedures were used to sample the respondents. The study consisted of 50 respondents among whom ten (10) were experienced teachers, ten (10) people around Korogwe Teachers College and thirty (30) were prospective …
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Turnover of outdoor adventure education field staff
… research exists of this unique worker population and their unconventional living and working conditions warrant further exploration of the variables that best drive this phenomenon. The purpose of this study was to explore the strength and direction of the relationships between turnover predictor …
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The Making of Blindness in Ontario: Incarceration and Class Formation, 1872–1926
… of the Blind (OIB) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Customary assessments of segregated education, which investigate administrators’ campaigns to implement pedagogical or curricular advancements, have characterized institutionalization as educational and emancipatory. …
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Job satisfaction and Labour Turnover in Local Government Authorities in Tanzania
… Stratified sampling procedure with simple random sampling and purposive sampling were used in sample selection. Data was collected using questionnaire. A closed ended questionnaire was used as a tool for data collection. Descriptive statistical analysis, correlation analysis, factor analysis …
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The Quest for Teacher Job Satisfaction –Job Performance Relationship in Tanzania’s Public Primary Schools: The Case of Iringa Region
… Forty two (42) public primary schools were randomly selected for the study from all the districts of the region. Sampling procedure used the principle of purposive, stratified and simple random samplings. Data was collected using observations, individual interviews, documentary review and …
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Resilience on the street: Lived experiences of car guards in Windhoek’s central business district
This study delves into the challenges and aspirations of car guards, a vulnerable community aiming to improve their overall well-being. The research, conducted through semi-structured interviews guided by qualitative methodology, offers profound explanations for the multifaceted struggles faced by …
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A case study of government innovative programmes for increasing access to qualified Health Personnel in selected Rural District of Zambia
Objective: To document the experiences and lessons learnt from implementing innovative programmes that aim at increasing access to qualified health workers in Gwembe and Chibombo districts by Ministry of Health and participation of health workers.Methods: Qualitative analysis of the participation …
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A case study of government innovative programmes for increasing access to qualified Health Personnel in selected Rural District of Zambia
Objective: To document the experiences and lessons learnt from implementing innovative programmes that aim at increasing access to qualified health workers in Gwembe and Chibombo districts by Ministry of Health and participation of health workers.Methods: Qualitative analysis of the participation …
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An Unruly Mélange in a Postcolonial State: The Cultural Politics of Short-Term Global Health Engagements in Dominican Republic Bateyes
In order to understand the implications of short-term global health engagements [STGHE] for ethnic-Haitian im/migrant sugar laborers and their families living in Dominican Republic bateyes, this ethnographic study uses a critical humanities approach to examine the cultural politics of STGHE, …
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Health equities: social determinants of migrant health
… health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”, and further states “the highest standards of health should be within reach of all, without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition” …
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On the periphery of hate crime: disability at the intersections of marginalisation, vulnerability and difference
This research explores the nature and impact of disability hate crime from the perspective of disabled people, victims and key informants from criminal justice and other agencies. The evidence base included two focus groups with disabled people, an online anonymous questionnaire with 83 disabled …
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Crossing Myriad Borders: A Dimensional Analysis of the Migration and Health Experiences of Indigenous Oaxacan Women
… indigenous women, such as Mixtecs, Zapotecs and Triquis from the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, are altering the dynamics and configuration of traditional Mexican migration, making it especially significant for the health professions. Informed by a postcolonial ecofeminist paradigm, this …
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Health communication and social media in multicultural Australia: the experiences of CALD community leaders in using social media to improve health outcomes for their communities
… very little is known about how culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities use and can benefit from social media related health communication. Using a participatory action research approach, this thesis documents the experience of 26 community leaders from diverse migrant and …
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The Poverty of China's Rural-to-Urban Migrants: A Case Study of Shanghai
… showing obvious signs of poverty, such as poor living and working conditions, they have rarely been viewed as subjects for poverty research. A very limited number of studies have blamed rural migrants' poverty on their low incomes. However, the income of rural-to-urban migrants has been steadily …
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The Poverty of China's Rural-to-Urban Migrants: A Case Study of Shanghai
… showing obvious signs of poverty, such as poor living and working conditions, they have rarely been viewed as subjects for poverty research. A very limited number of studies have blamed rural migrants' poverty on their low incomes. However, the income of rural-to-urban migrants has been steadily …
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Health status and health risks of male Nepalese migrants in the Middle East and Malaysia.
This thesis investigates the health status of and health risks to male Nepalese migrant construction and factory workers in the Middle East (West Asia) and Malaysia. After the more seasonal migration to India, the Middle East and Malaysia are the second most popular destinations for Nepalese …
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