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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"industrial workers"”.
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INDUSTRIAL WORKERS IN MODERN SINGAPORE
This is a study of ideology applied to a study of workers in Singapore. The thesis covers three main areas: the first examines the historical and institutional conditions of labour subordination. The second investigates the everyday experiences of workers; with a case study of workers in a …
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Hobo orator union: the free speech fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909-1916.
From 1909 to 1916 thousands of hobos joined the Industrial Workers of the World and participated in major fights for free speech in several dozen cities in the American west. During this period, the union organized over two dozen confrontations with municipal authorities to challenge repressive …
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The Relationship Between the Industrial Workers of the World and the Communist Party Shortly After World War I
… general public and the federal government, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) separated themselves from the rest of the labor unions because of their success in executing general strikes and their brash appeal. The group advocated tactics which, the organization believed, would strengthen …
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The federal government and the Industrial Workers of the World, 1917-1918: An attempt to crush a labor union
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Fanning the Flames of Discontent: The Free Speech Fight of the Kansas City Industrial Workers of the World and the Making of Midwestern Radicalism
… in Kansas City and was organized and led by the Industrial Workers of the World. The free speech fight serves as a case study in localized Midwestern radicalism, specifically its unique manifestation in Kansas City. While many scholars of labor radicalism have focused on the larger metropolitan …
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Producing Good Citizens: Literacy and Citizenship Training in Anxious Times
… a way to measure the potential productivity of industrial workers, many of them immigrants, during a period that established many of the legal and cultural requirements of U.S. citizenship in parallel with the proliferation of mass manufacturing. Additionally, this study reveals how workers and …
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Taking a Deep Breadth: The Rhetorical Construction of Solidarity in the American Labor Movement
… Labor Movement. Rhetorical fragments of the Industrial Workers of the World, the United Farm Workers, and contingent faculty unionization efforts are explored.</p> <p>I argue Burke's ideas of substance and identification provide a powerful lens through which we can examine the solidary …
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Women and trade unions in Ireland, c. 1860-1937: class, gender and society
… in paid work and efforts to organise female industrial workers in late nineteenth-century Ireland. Women’s involvement in the following sample of trade unions is also explored and analysed: the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation, the Irish Union of Distributive Workers and Clerks, the …
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Contemporary occupational health and safety efforts: Effects of specific occupational injuries on subsequent accident involvement
… was explored in this research by examining industrial workers' reactions to accidents they had on the job. An observational study was conducted using longitudinal data to investigate relationships between hypothesized antecedent conditions and the occurrence of accidents at a large …
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The demand for African technicians : a case study
Technological advance and industrialization lead to changes in the structure of the demand for labour. A relative decline in the demand for agricultural and 1mskilled workers occurs together with a relative increase in demand for workers in the skilled categories (professional, technical, …
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A survey of worker participation in Bophuthatswana
… explores the multi-dimensional nature of workers' attitudes towards worker participation in an international company operating in the Republic of Bophuthatswana. A questionnaire using the hypothetical conversation technique and a dichotomous scale was developed and administered to a sample …
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Attitudes toward work of employed and unemployed adults
… as either currently employed (full-time hourly industrial workers), temporarily unemployed (unemployed for 6 months or less), or chronically unemployed (unemployed for more than 6 months). The Employment Readiness Scale (ERS) and the Personal Data Sheet (PUS) were the two instruments used to …
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An investigation of team lifting using psychophysical methods
… causes of back injury in the workplace. Often, workers are told to ask for the help of another worker when the load is too great to be lifted alone, yet the effects of these team lifts have not been researched until recently. This experiment investigated some of the variables which may affect …
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Indispensable Outcasts: Seasonal Laborers and Community in the Upper Midwest, 1880--1930
… laborers, and frequently lived undercover as ""workers."" Reformers discussed include Nels Anderson, Carleton Parker, Whiting Williams, Josiah Flynt, Walter Wyckoff, and Peter Speek of the United States Commission on Industrial Relations. Their reports and diaries not only describe living …
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The longer-term labour market and community impacts of deindustrialisation: a comparison of the Northumberland coalfield and the Monongahela Valley mill towns
… on the longer-term impacts of past regional deindustrialisation and, more specifically, the ways in which individual and household decisions have interacted with the local public welfare and cultural context to produce profound long-term community changes, critically affecting future …
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Comparison of Augmented Reality Rearview and Radar Head-Up Displays for Increasing Spatial Awareness During Exoskeleton Operation
Full-body powered exoskeletons for industrial workers have the potential to reduce the incidence of work-related musculoskeletal disorders while increasing strength beyond human capabilities. However, operating current full-body powered exoskeletons imposes different loading, motion, and balance …
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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.
… 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> <p>Section I deals with the history of the research; the problems associated with qualitative work and argues the …
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