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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Work-care"”.
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Role of Social Media and Computing in Organizations aiding Asylum Seekers and Undocumented Migrants in the United States
… border to request asylum. Several groups are working to help migrants by providing them with essential items and services, housing, and legal advice. Drawing on ethnographic findings, this work presents a situated perspective of how citizen responders utilize technological systems to provide …
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Exploring the Identities of North American Yoga Teachers From Different Perspectives on the Self
This qualitative study explores the work and identities of a sample of twenty-seven North American yoga teachers from two different ontological, epistemological and methodological perspectives. This study illustrates how the self can be understood and constructed in different ways using different …
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Working 9 to 5? Complex patterns of time allocation among managers and professionals in dual career households
… among managers and professionals in dual career households. Focus centres on three key elements of time allocation, namely work, care and commuting. Specifically, this thesis addresses three research questions: (1) Which theoretical approach(es) — mainstream, institutional or feminist — …
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The Educational Dimensions of Filipina Migrant Workers’ Activist Identities
… are 10.4 million Filipino/a migrant workers worldwide, with the large majority of Filipina migrants working in traditional gendered labor such as domestic work, care giving, nursing, teaching, and factory work (Ruiz, 2013). Because of the private nature of household work, Filipina …
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Caring biographies : qualitative explorations of South African informal sector workers' gendered subjectivities of care
… shape the experiences of informal sector workers, particularly street traders, as they balance work and caregiving responsibilities. Focusing on 20 street traders (10 women and 10 men) in rural Venda, South Africa, the research aims to understand the historical, cultural, and structural …
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THE GENDERED IMPACT OF THE PANDEMIC: EMPLOYMENT, INCOME AND UNPAID DOMESTIC WORK DURING COVID - 19 PANDEMIC IN EUROPE.
… life across the globe, reshaping how people work, care, and live. Compared to recent global crisis where the initial impact on employment was more severe for men, the COVID-19 pandemic crisis had a significant initial impact on sectors with higher share of women. The abrupt pandemic driven …
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Specialiserad biståndshandläggning inom den kommunala äldreomsorgen : Genomförandet av en organisationsreform och dess praktik
… for reform in the Swedish municipalities. The care manager reform, i.e. the initiation of a position within the administration - the care manager - whose work tasks are concentrated around needs-assessment practices only, was one of many reform proposals. Within a fairly short time span a great …