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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"labor exploitation"”.
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Surplus Value Extraction in Mental Labor in the Teaching Profession
This research examines the labor of a public education school teacher and the value that is extracted from their labor. Teachers' working conditions and mental labor are assessed through qualitative research methods to help in explaining the various impacts and perceptions that teachers have within …
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"We Know Where We Stand": Contesting and Constructing Knowledge in Nicaragua's Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemic
… abnormality, because it is closely linked to labor exploitation, poverty, human rights violations, and historical context. Grounded in literature from medical anthropology and medical sociology and based on two months of ethnographic field research in northwestern Nicaragua, it analyzes how …
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"Suffering in the shadows: ""undocumented"" Latin American immigrants, inequality, embodiment and health"
… and inequality through various pathways (e.g. labor exploitation, detention and deportation, gender based violence, racialized nativism, discrimination and othering, fragmentation of social ties, and internalized suffering), which results in differential exposure and susceptibility to poor …
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Moral purpose, economic incentive and global trade : why new business models are needed
… creates opportunities for significant labor exploitation and why it is necessary, in the absence of government regulation and enforcement, to set social codes for companies sourcing products in developing countries in order to prevent this mistreatment. The thesis examines whether these …
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Vulnerability, Victimization and VIVA: A Cluster Analysis of Cross-National Human Trafficking Victims
… Using the 2017 Counter Trafficking Data Collaborative, I demonstrate the applicability of Cohen and Felson's 1979 Routine Activity Theory (RAT) to explain the vulnerabilities to victimization further. More specifically, I use VIVA to assess the methods of control and types of exploitation …
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LA MAFIA 'OLTRE' LA MAFIA: L'ART.416-BIS IN UNA PROSPETTIVA 'DE JURE CONDENDO'
… (the terrorist phenomenon and the phenomenon of labor exploitation), to highlight how the legislator has intervened normatively in order to go along with their profound sociological evolution. In conclusion, the third chapter deals with the “de jure condendo” perspective, verifying the …
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"""What I Did Is Who I Am"": African American Women and Resistance to Slavery in Colonial and Revolutionary New England"
… racial prejudice, gender inequality, sexual and labor exploitation, and economic and political disempowerment. Other histories have defined resistance as the opposite of accommodation. I examine the lives of New England's enslaved women and discuss their varied strategies of survival. Some of …
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The Educational Dimensions of Filipina Migrant Workers’ Activist Identities
… 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 migrants are vulnerable to mental and physical abuses from their employers in addition to labor …
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A structural approach to reimagining community: biomimicry, biophilia and living labs
… of climate change, resource extraction, labor exploitation and wealth concentration. Our way of life needs to be reimagined to align with principles that are in accordance with the ecological worldview. Aspects of an effective strategy rooted in the ecological worldview - especially …
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Os usos do território pelos agentes dos circuitos da economia urbana para a entrega de alimentos demandados por aplicativos na cidade do Natal-RN
… the context of the uberization of work, in which labor exploitation is intensified, labor rights are neglected or made more flexible, as working hours do not have a defined maximum limit, there is no remuneration guarantee and the risks and fixed costs of the work are transferred to the …
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"My People is a People on its Knees": Mexican Labor Migration from the Montana Region and the Formation of a Working Class in New York City
… was transformed since the 1980s into a migrant labor supplier and how its inhabitants became proletarians, and a major pool of labor supplying the North American transnational migrant labor market.</p> <p>Far from being homogenous, the people of the Montaña region are ethnically and class …
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Planning the "Multiracial City" : architecture, decolonization and the design of stability in British Africa (1945-1957)
… I argue that British architects and planners collaborated with labor experts, sociologists, and social welfare workers to prevent anticolonial protests, labor strikes, and mass demonstrations, and to create a "stable" black working class. Building on archival research and fieldwork in Ghana, …
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Understanding and Combating Online Social Deception
… fraud, privacy violations, and sexual or labor exploitation. Thus, it is imperative to gain an understanding of these activities and develop effective countermeasures to build SNSs that can be trusted. The existing approaches have focused on discussing detection mechanisms for a particular …
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Gender and the Political Economy of Oil in the Niger Delta: A Feminist Critique
<p>The exploitation of women's labor is central to the international political economy. Since the 1980s, the trend has been towards a 'feminization of labor' in which women are confined to low-skilled, low-paying, and mostly part-time work. The exploitation of women's labor is not just confined to …
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Narrative der Kämpfe migrantischer Landarbeiter:innen in Italien
Diese Masterarbeit untersucht Narrative migrantischer Landarbeiterinnen und Landarbeiter in Italien im Kontext von Arbeitsausbeutung, Migration und postkolonialer Erinnerungspolitik. Im Zentrum steht das informelle Rekrutierungssystem des sogenannten caporalato, das insbesondere migrantische …