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Worldviews of Textile Workers in India
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Learning from retrenchment: local textile workers redefine themselves after global restructuring
… in the lives of one group of retrenched workers. In order to conceptualise the relationships between changing conditions and changes in individual lives, the author has drawn from the work of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Of particular importance to the study are his notions of the …
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Immigration policy and Colombian textile workers in New England : a case study in political demography
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1984.
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Union-Type, Labor Market Structure, and Bargaining Outcomes in Indian Manufacturing: An Analysis of the New Unionism in Greater Bombay (India)
… India during the early-1970s and after the 1982 textile strike formed into the Kamgar Aghadi Party. Using both primary and secondary data, the research aims to answer the following questions: (i) what forces led to the emergence of the new unionism; (ii) how successful were the new unions …
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Gendered Justice: Women Workers, Gender, and Master and Servant Law in England, 1700-1850
… rulings. Therefore, although the law applied to workers of both sexes, women were excluded semantically, and to some extent substantively, from its provisions. A quantitative analysis of 5590 cases of employment conflicts, drawn from 64 different sources and entered into two databases, reveals …
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An Elusive Victory - Egyptian Workers Challenge the Regime (2006-2012)
… and the rest of Egypt followed," say Egyptian workers with strong conviction. Egyptian independent workers' continuous claims of contention and repertoires of protest were one of several main factors leading to the January 25, 2011 uprising. After thirty-two years of a Mubarak-led authoritarian …
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"Six Days Thou Shalt Labor": African-Americans in the Southern Textile industry, 1895-1929
… of African Americans to labor in the Southern textile industry. Although textile work was almost exclusively the domain of white laborers, the history of African Americans textile workers represents the resiliency of the African American community as well as white supremacy. This dissertation …
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Women's home-based income generation as a strategy towards poverty survival : dynamics of the 'khannawalli' (mealmaking) activity of Bombay
… meals for thousands of single male migrant textile workers who live in appalling conditions in Bombay. In this way. they have become essential to Bombay's industrial development and daily functioning. However. the activity remains "invisible" and very little notice is taken of the women or …
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The male occupational structure of England and Wales, 1600-1850
… tertiary) and sub-sectors (farmers, miners, textile workers, transport workers, etcetera), at national, regional, and local geographical scales. These estimates raise important questions regarding the validity of conclusions drawn in the highly influential national accounts literature. …
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The Limits of Good Intentions: A Historical Analysis of Pioneering Progressive Educators In Upstate South Carolina (1910-1920)
… of South Carolina found itself in the midst of a textile boom. As families migrated from the mountains and failing farms to find employment in one of the many textile mills, relations re-established roots within the confines of the company-owned mill village. Paternalism, the absence of child …
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The clothing and the textile industry in South Africa, 1945 to 2001: developments, problems and prospects
… in the restructuring of the clothing and textile industry in South Africa
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Relationships Among Selected Demographic Characteristics, Health Indices, and Cholesterol Levels of Factory and Healthcare Workers
… center during screening done for both healthcare workers employed by the hospital and factory workers employed at a local textile manufacturing company.<br> The health promotion screening tool was developed by the Northern Plains Hospital-based wellness center and used for data collection.<br> …
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A social history of illegitimacy in Ireland from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century
… is a comparison of the illegitimacy behaviour of textile workers and domestic servants. The growth in illegitimacy during the decade may well be connected to problems in the linen industry locally and nationally. The life of the unmarried mother in the workhouse is explored by examining the …
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Benevolent vs. Hostile Sexism Impact on Work Performance for Women in Turkey
… vs. hostile sexism on women in four Turkish textile factories. 210 Turkish female textile factory workers were randomly assigned to the benevolent sexism, hostile sexism, or control condition. Performance and level of gender identification were measured. The results of this study indicated …