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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Production Workers"”.
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Prevalence of musculoskeletal symptoms and ergonomic risk assessment among production workers in manufacturing industries
Production worker’s job in manufacturing industries is one of the occupations that risk to Musculoskeletal Symptoms (MSSs) such as awkward postures, repetition motion, and forceful exertions which as causes to serious musculoskeletal injuries. The aim of this study is to identify the prevalence of …
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Labor Substitution in U.S. Manufacturing
… elasticity of substitution between capital, non-production workers, and production workers using U.S. manufacturing data for the period 1988 to 1997. The elasticity of substitution estimates derived from the translog model suggest that production workers and capital are substitutes, as well as …
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Vocational Preference and Career Development of Students Entering Postsecondary Agriculture Programs in Illinois
… segment of the American workforce. While farm production workers have declined in numbers over the past three decades there has been an expansion of employment in the non-production sectors of agriculture with substantially increased opportunities for females and workers without agricultural …
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Quality Circles and the Communication Satisfaction of Participants
… an established quality circle program, were non-production workers of a local manufacturing plant. The 39-item LIkert-type scale was distributed and collected from 111 employees. The hypothesis was not confirmed. The discussion presents the implications of the results as well as suggestions for …
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Evaluation of Heat Stress in Migrant Farmworkers
<p>The rate of heat-related fatalities in crop production workers is almost 20 times that of other industries. Heat stress was investigated in migrant tomato workers in July, 2012, using measurements of body temperature, heart rates, body weight loss, evaluation of the thermal environment, and …
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Three essays in labor economics
… investigates how establishments adjust their production on various margins when wage rates rise. Exploiting state-by-year variation in minimum wage laws, I analyze U.S. manufacturing plants’ responses over a 23-year period using restricted-access Census Microdata. A one-percent increase in …
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Knowledge Deficits in Manufacturing and Their Effects on New Employees
… supplies alumina to the organization’s global production system. The global production system is the largest network of refineries and smelters in the world. Primary data sources were in-depth interviews with 10 hourly production workers and internal documents. Findings revealed that knowledge …
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Analysis of Factors Involved in the Location of Manufacturing Firms in Rural Nebraska Since 1950
… this increase was in rural areas of the state. Production workers in manufacturing establishments in the state increased by 9,647 or 2.6% from 1947 to 1963. The increase during this period was 4.6% in rural areas and 1.7% in urban areas.
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Essays on international trade and investment
… pattern of international trade with a focus on workers' skill acquisition. I develop an open-economy model in which workers undertake non-contractible activities to acquire firm-specific skills on the job. I show that protective labor laws, by increasing workers' bargaining power, induce workers …
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Mill wives: a study of gender relations, family and work in a single-industry town
… experiences and everyday practices of wives of production workers in a town with one dominant industry that imposes a variety of demands on workers and their spouses is the focus of this thesis. The town is Kawerau, established for the milling and manufacture of timber, pulp and paper, and …
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Transitionary Textiles: a craft-based journey of textile design practice towards new values and roles for a sustainable fashion industry
… and causes significant social impacts to production workers. The move towards a more sustainable industry is a complex challenge and will be based on circular and social systems that prioritise values, collaboration and empathy for the environment and all stakeholders. This research …
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Producing Representation: Re-Visiting Jewish Women in/on the American Sitcom
… through the subjective experiences of television production workers, the representations they produce, and the conceptual audiences they produce them for. It grapples with the contradictions behind Jewishness and gender, and questions why specific representations of identity appear in trends at …
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Essays on employer credit screening, manufacturing skill gaps, and the relationship between skill demands and capital intensity
… U.S. manufacturers face a skill gap in hiring production workers. This study explores the issue by presenting and analyzing results from an original, nationally representative survey of U.S. manufacturing establishments that directly measures concrete employer skill demands and hiring …
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Player valuation in thin markets: the case of European Association football
… wage, and transfer fee data for the most valued production workers (players) and bolstered by the emergence of data analytics firms to crunch large amounts of performance data in real time, it is possible to analyse and better understand the monetary worth of the most talented players, and the …
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Essays on growth and development
… Effect, namely the replacement of labor in the production process when capital is introduced. Based on a unique plant-level longitudinal dataset for Colombian manufacturing establishments for the period 1982-1998, this article exploits the disaggregation of the labor force between non-production …