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Showing 1 to 20 of 263 for “"Servants"”.
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Runaway indentured servants in Maryland, 1745-1760
… a different conclusion. A comparison of runaway servants to runaway slaves demonstrates certain similarities and differences between these two groups and their respective labor systems. Much of the data obtained from the runaway servant ads and the above comparison suggest that indentured …
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The over-indebtedness of public servants in South Africa
… paper studies the over-indebtedness of public servants in South Africa. The concept of over-indebtedness is described, as a structural condition of a consumer that experiences financial is unable to repay credit commitments. This paper briefly describes the evolution of consumer credit and …
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Secret Servants: Household Domestics and Courtship in Eliza Haywood’s Fiction
… class often rely on a different group: domestic servants. Sometimes acting as confidants and other times as active players in the scheming, these servants are privy to the inner secrets of the households in which they live. In Haywood's Love in Excess (1719), Lasselia (1723), Fantomina (1725), …
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How do public servants perceive the notion of civic virtue?
… to explore the lived realities of public servants, and seeks to advance the limited knowledge of civic virtue, set against the backdrop of public service citizenship. Using the lens of symbolic interactionism the thesis contributes an incremental advance in research method; specifically …
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Training evaluation for Omani civil servants an assessment of present practices.
An assessment into administrative and other forms of supervisory training evaluation in the Omani Civil Service was the direct object of this thesis. As it were, and in less developing countries characterised with acute, even chronic shortage of qualified indigenous labour force as well as other …
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Embedding Design in Local Government: Role of Designers and Public Servants
… paid towards the role of designers and public servants even though they are the main actors applying and building design capability. To explore this gap, a mix-method approach including preliminary survey and multiple case study was used to maximise data collection. The multiple case study …
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High life below stairs: Servants and masters in eighteenth century fiction
This study examines how servants invert and reverse two symbolically opposed realms, above and below stairs, that order the domestic space of many eighteenth-century fictional houses. Because servants may confuse the normal vertical distance between high and low characters, they have the potential …
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Political Civil Servants and the Practice of Administration under National Socialism
… NSDAP’s message, and b) the readiness of civil servants to serve the Weimar Republic despite their growing hostility towards it. This last point sets the tone for the rest of the dissertation, for it shows that political identification with a particular regime was not a necessary precondition …
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Who serves our public servants? : centering core administration in government 2.0
Currently, most literature sees 'civic technology' and the digital service units that build them as an answer to the challenge of modernizing governance and delivering social services. My hypothesis is that, contrary to existing literature, greater digitization alone of government services does not …
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Peasants, Servants, and Sojourners: Itinerant Asians in Colonial New Spain, 1571-1720
This dissertation charts the social interactions, work experiences, and routes traveled by Asian workers within and between the colonial Philippines and Mexico between 1571 and 1720. Residents of early colonial Mexico called these workers chinos. Most free chinos were Filipinos, but enslaved chinos …
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The implementation of the compulsory induction programme on the socialisation of public servants
… is a significant precondition for public servants to understand their role as enablers of effective and efficient service delivery. Despite governments’ efforts to professionalise the public service through training and development, customer-centric engagement from public servants remains …
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The role of senior public servants in South Africa : lessons for the future
The researcher has attempted to analyse the impact of transformation on the role of the most senior public servant in South Africa, the Director General. This required an analysis of the Director General's administrative and policy roles within the political-administrative interface. The aims of …
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Servants or saviors? : exploring the impact of international volunteerism on host communities and volunteers.
International volunteer service (IVS) has rapidly expanded in the last decade among its volunteer participants and sponsoring agencies. Scholars have diverse opinions on the efficacy and ethics of IVS. Proponents suggest that IVS brings a humanity to development that might otherwise be focused on …
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Reforming the state from within: public servants and knowledge transfer in post-2008 Ecuador
This thesis examines how public servants have experienced rapid state reform in Ecuador since the country’s 2008 Constitution which signalled unprecedented, radical change for the state. It traces how plans for transforming by educating public servants were delivered through the Institute of Higher …
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Public servants' level of satisfaction with EAP clinical services in the North West Provincial Government
… was to provide EAP clinical services to public servants with the view of promottng employee effectiveness. It was meant to render psychological Interventions in a form of reactive services whtch tncluded counselling and trauma support, as well as life skills or empowerment workshops. The overall …
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The role of psychological contract breach in determining Chinese civil servants' behavioural responses to organizational change
… the behavioural responses of Chinese civil servants to organizational change. The conceptual framework is formed by strategic, structural, process-oriented and people-oriented change, in relation to the psychological contracted breaches associated with the transactional, relational and …
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The development and application of Masters and Servants legislation in New South Wales - 1845 to 1930
Masters and Servants legislation was received into New South Wales at settlement in 1788. Subsequently the New South Wales legislature passed its own Masters and Servants Acts in 1828, 1840, 1845, 1847, 1857 and 1902. Though Petty Sessions reports are incomplete, there are 8199 surviving records of …
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The development and application of Masters and Servants legislation in New South Wales - 1845 to 1930
Masters and Servants legislation was received into New South Wales at settlement in 1788. Subsequently the New South Wales legislature passed its own Masters and Servants Acts in 1828, 1840, 1845, 1847, 1857 and 1902. Though Petty Sessions reports are incomplete, there are 8199 surviving records of …
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Domestic Servants on the New York and London Stages: 1880 - 1920 With an Emphasis on Costume
From 1880 to 1920, a social revolution took place in the United States and England, a revolution more costly in terms of human life and property than the French Revolution that preceded it a century earlier. Slow-moving, massive, and comprehensive, this social revolution had the same aim as its …
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"Freedom Wears a Cap": The Law, Liberty, and Opportunity for British Convict Servants in Virginia, 1718-1788
… dangers presented by the introduction of convict servants into the colony. However, the significant demand for labor in Virginia resulted in the colony receiving a substantial share of those convicts transported to North America. Contemporaries argued that the importation of convict servants led …
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