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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Women workers"”.
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Las Otras Rosas: Mexican American Women Workers and World War II
… one of the most enduring symbols of patriotism, women's empowerment, and gender equality in the United States. Yet this iconic representation has obscured the experiences of many women whose wartime labor remains marginalized in both public memory and historical scholarship, particularly Mexican …
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Cantonese women workers & job change under industrial restructuring in Boston, 1970-1990
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1990.
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A pregnancy test: women workers and the hybrid American welfare state, 1940-1993
… least by WWII. Rarely were the needs of pregnant workers or new mothers at the top of social policy initiatives. However, when European countries were developing their plans, reformers and bureaucrats sought to establish similar plans in the United States and, for a while, seemed like they might. …
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Gendered Justice: Women Workers, Gender, and Master and Servant Law in England, 1700-1850
… demonstrates how an antipathy to the notion of women working was embedded in the law governing their employment relationships. An ideological association of men with productivity and women with domesticity underlay both the statutory language and key high court rulings. Therefore, although the …
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Girl Incorporated. Corporate Empowerment Programmes for Women Workers: What Drives them and Who Benefits?
… between multinational corporations and women’s rights organizations professing to empower women and girls in the Global South. This trend – dubbed ‘Transnational Business Feminism’ (TBF) by feminist political economist Adrienne Roberts (2012) – has generated a lively debate amongst …
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Yellow helmets : work and worth of women workers on construction sites in northern India
The participation of women in the building sector is an exception rather than a rule. Inmost countries of the world the building industry is almost exclusively the domain of men. In India a large number of women are actively involved in the construction process itself. According to 1993-94 …
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"But the half can never be told" : the lives of Cannelton's Cotton Mill women workers
… town of Cannelton, Indiana, mostly employing women and children. The female industrial laborers who worked in this mill during the middle and end of the nineteenth century represent an important and overlooked component of midwestern workers. Women in Cannelton played an essential role in …
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Edward Cadbury – Paternalistic employer or Quaker-inspired pathfinder of British industrial relations pluralism and women workers’ champion?
… role as a progressive employer and champion of women in the workplace. This is further validated by a consideration of the introduction of Works Councils into the company, as well as reference to the first two Quaker Employers Conferences of 1918 and 1928. The thesis concludes by suggesting that …
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Leydi’s world : a feminist commodity chain analysis of the cut-flower industry and its women workers in Cayambe, Ecuador
… gendered, raced, classed and aged experiences of women working in the floriculture industry in Cayambe, Ecuador, questioning how the work affects and shapes female workers’ daily lives and how they navigate and negotiate such work. The thesis relies on the method of multiple working hypotheses to …
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Of nimble fingers and shy smiles: Effects of employment in transnational factories on the status of Filipino women workers
… factories on the status of Filipino women. The research questions focused on the work conditions of women workers in the TNC factories, changes in family dynamics and degree of workers' autonomy and independence as brought about by factory employment. The study was conducted in a …
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Activating Communities, Mobilizing Women: Affective Organizing in Bangladesh's Ready-Made Garment Industry
… the development of class consciousness among women workers, the process of their activation, and their contributions to contemporary labour organizing in Bangladesh. Focused on the country’s ready-made garment (RMG) industry – a notoriously anti-union sector where women comprise approximately …
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A gendered analysis of the ready-made garments (RMG) sector of Bangladesh: a paradox of empowerment and dis-empowerment
… of labor. While the increase in number of poor women workers entering the formal economy of Bangladesh may give the impression of empowerment, I argue that the disadvantages associated with employment in the garments sector creates a paradox of empowerment and dis-empowerment. Does economic …
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Perlindungan hukum pekerja perempuan di SPBU “Bersama Membangun Sahabat Jl.Bendungan Sutami no.1 Malang” tinjauan Undang-undang ketenagakerjaan dan hukum Islam
… in the field of industry have strong appeal for women workers. Along with the progress of time, the companies that mostly are filled by men, now many female workers to fill vacancies are usually filled by men. One of the companies that employ women workers are filling station. Increasing number …
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Women working for their freedom : FCWU and AFCWU and the women question
… participate in the struggle for working women's rights at work and concerning motherhood and childcare, and in the struggle for the realisation of the political aspirations of women workers within a capitalist society. Secondly, the thesis examines the ideological position of the Food and …
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The Structural Violence of Sterilization: Politics of Sterilization In the Plantation Tamil Communities of Sri Lanka
… data show that approximately 19% of married women in Sri Lanka have chosen sterilization. Government data, however, indicates the highest rate of female sterilization exists in the estate sector, which is predominantly inhabited by the ethnic minority Up-country Tamils. My research focuses on …
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The bombshell - more than munitions 1917-1919
… how the culture of the workforce, predominantly women workers, was represented during a period of both war and peace. This will be performed by examining themes, which appear in The Bombshell, of gender and sport, humour and gossip, and literature and poetry. These themes will be scrutinised in …
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Pelaksanaan pemberian hak normatif pekerja perempuan di PT. Gatra Mapan: Studi analisis Undang-Undang nomor 13 tentang ketenagakerjaan dan hukum Islam
… make ends meet, because work is a form of jihad. Women are also allowed to work outside the home as long as he does not forget his nature. Women have different reproductive organs of women, women are entitled to the protection of employment is different from men. This study discusses how the …
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Battle in the skies: Sex discrimination in the United States airline industry, 1930 to 1978
… in the 1930s, created new opportunities for women workers, but defined flight attendants as docile, temporary, and easily exploitable workers. Airlines soon discovered that flight attendants provided a marketable image, based on physical appearance. This thesis traces the development of …
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"By Popular Demand": The Hero in American Art, c. 1929-45
… took the form of political leaders, unionized workers, farmers, folk icons, historical characters, mothers, and women workers. The ideas they manifest are as varied as the styles and motivations of the artists who developed them. This dissertation contextualizes works by such artists as Florine …
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