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Showing 1 to 20 of 91 for “"Working lives"”.
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Working lives in Howick : a case study
… Transformation should positively impact the lives of the oppressed, reversing most of the negative impacts of the Apartheid regime in a way that reshapes the identities both of the previously oppressed and marginalized in South Africa, as well as those privileged by the system of Apartheid …
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Actor-Directors: The Working Lives of Prison Governors
… function. In this thesis I study aspects of the working lives of nine Governing Governors of public sector prisons in England and Wales from a performative, role-playing perspective. In addition to this I utilise two recently developed models to provide frameworks for examining two key areas of …
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Narratives of women’s breast cancer experience and how this impacts on their working lives
… due to employers’ lack of understanding of their working [dis]ability with few or no adjustments in place to accommodate their needs. Breast Cancer patients consider a RTW allows them to move on from their cancer diagnosis but struggle to overcome the barriers in the process of returning. Whilst …
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Increasing Longevity in the Workplace: Exploring the Motivations of Older Adults to Extend Their Working Lives
… of the need for older adults to extend their working lives. As more people reach their 80s and 90s, working into their late 60s and 70s will become more common for social, mental engagement, and economic reasons. However, opportunities and conditions for older adults to continue working today …
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Education Reform in England and the Transformation of School Teachers’ Working Lives: A Labour Process Perspective
… of these education reforms on school teachers’ working lives through a labour process perspective. A critical realist ethnography of an inner-city secondary academy school was conducted over four months. This comprised a six-week shadowing phase, document collection and 26 semi-structured …
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Connecting with Women: The Working Lives of Independent Midwives and Their Perceptions of the Mother-Midwife Relationship
… aimed to explore the lived experience of the working lives of midwives in the UK who practice independently of the NHS. It was designed to understand their motivations for working in this way and to explore their beliefs and values about midwifery care with particular emphasis on their …
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Perceptions and reflections of mothers' working lives: narratives from women on their second, or subsequent, maternity leave.
… what can women's stories tell us about their working lives? Of specific interest was the importance of maternity leave to career which is treated by academics and organisations alike - as a period of absence. Furthermore, all maternity leave periods are considered equivalent. Feminist …
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Social Networks, Social Support and the Working Lives of Self-Employed Young People in Ghana and Nigeria
… transition into self-employment and impact their working lives. While many young people in the West African labour market are self-employed, there has been a lack of research into the social context in which they work. This dissertation maps the social context in which self-employed youth in Ghana …
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Making a difference? Understanding the working lives of learning disability nurses; 30 years of learning disability nursing in England
… approach. Key findings indicated that nurses, working in a diverse range of settings with varying degrees of experience, are motivated by working with people with learning disabilities and narrate their experiences of building relationships with people articulating the meaning of this for them …
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It’s like being on a tight-rope : an ethnography of the working lives of professional stand-up comedians in the UK
… the literature by ethnographically studying the working lives and lived experiences of professional stand-up comedians on the UK live comedy circuit. Ethnographic fieldwork took place over eight months and was specifically concentrated in the busiest part of the week for performers, principally …
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Exploring Hybridity in the 21st Century: The Working Lives of South Asian Ethnic Minorities from a British Born Generation in Bradford.
This thesis explores the working lives of British Born South Asian Ethnic Minorities (BB SAEMs), critiquing the homogenous identities ascribed to them in previous research. Its methodology is life-story interviews analysed using Nvivo. This identified four hybrid categories emerging from two …
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" For the Love of Music - Crossing the technological divide; an examination of the impact of digital disruption on issues of social reproduction, mental health and inequality in the working lives of the music workforce in the UK.”
… mental health and inequality in the working lives of the music workforce in the UK.”
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" For the Love of Music - Crossing the technological divide; an examination of the impact of digital disruption on issues of social reproduction, mental health and inequality in the working lives of the music workforce in the UK.”
… industries, about the relationship between their working conditions and their wellbeing. It revealed that, irrespective of genre, musicians appeared to be suffering from anxiety and depression in large numbers. 71.1% of all respondents admitted to having suffered from panic attacks and/or high …
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Wage workers in a 'homeland township' : their experiences in finding, maintaining and losing employment
… and treats their own perspectives of their working lives as central. Quantitative and qualitative data, collected from two samples drawn from the population in the housing area selected for study, are presented. It is argued that employment instability must be understood as a consequence of …
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Understanding trans-border career trajectories: Post-Soviet women professionals in London
… trajectories to explain how the micro-level of working agency is imbedded into broader social processes. Women migrants’ professional careers are understudied in social sciences which overwhelmingly remain gender-blind and nationally bound. As a starting point this thesis understands working …
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Making Schools 'Staff-friendly' - a phenomenological study of school buildings, organisation and working conditions, and their effect on the wellbeing of school workers
… study of school architecture, organisation and working conditions, and their effect on the wellbeing of school workers. Approaching school life from the twin perspectives of ex-architect and ex-teacher, I ask what is it like – whether as teacher, support worker or administrator - to work in a …
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The prison and the city: A tale of two cultures
This thesis explores the working lives and experiences of uniformed prison staff at HMP Pentonville and HMP Hull – two inner-city Victorian local prisons in England. It examines the meaning and role of place in the narratives of prison staff at work in two (distinct yet similar) prisons within the …
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It's No Bed of Roses: Working in Child Welfare
This study explored the working lives of public agency child welfare workers in an inner city office in Chicago, Illinois. Eight workers at "City Office" gave access to their understanding of child welfare and to their practice to answer the question, "How do child welfare workers understand and …
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Drawn from artists’ lives: An empirical study of the situation and realisation of professional visual art practices in the Western Australian Field of cultural production
… the findings of empirical research on the working lives of visual artists living and working in Western Australia. No detailed studies of this kind have previously been undertaken in a Western Australian context, though a series of national, economically framed studies have surveyed …
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Economic and social changes in the 1980's : a study of the effects of redundancy on a group of South Yorkshire steelworkers and their families.
… the changing nature of redundancy, chequered working lives and unemployment in modern Britain. It focuses in particular on the ways in which a specific group of industrial workers and their families have perceived, mediated and reacted to the upheavals redundancy has caused in their lives.</p> …
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