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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"labor organization"”.
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Dynamic alliances : political economy of labor organization in post-revolution Egypt
… innovations in the structure of social organizations spurred by the fraying of central government legitimacy. Within this dense network of new social actors independent labor unions have emerged as some of the more innovative groups, commanding material assurances and institutional …
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Integrating the Individual and Community: The power of equality and self-chosen labor
… the tension between industrial/post-industrial labor and some kind of natural state of existence in which an individual can pursue her own destiny is both deeply rooted in the flowering of modernity and seems to be accepted as unavoidable. In this thesis, I present a case study where this …
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Better Work and Global Governance
… Better Work, a program run by the International Labor Organization and the International Finance Corporation. It aims to improve working conditions and productivity in the apparel industry. The purpose of this case study is to examine the role that international organizations can play in global …
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The Development of IAM District Lodge 776 in Fort Worth, Texas, 1942-1946: A Case Study in the Growth of Organized Labor During World War II
… Worth Machinists clearly fit into the national labor movement during the war years. Second, it argues that the existence, survival, and strength of the union depended greatly on outside forcesan expanding national economy, a powerful national union, and a generally labor-friendly government. …
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Green Roof Exposure and Office Workers' Mental Health: Work-related Distress, Mental Fatigue, and Perceived Restoration
… of their weekdays at workplaces (International Labor Organization, 2022). Mental disorders are one of the health problems that have emerged among working populations (World Health Organization, 2022). Previous empirical research and theories demonstrated that nature exposure positively impacts …
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Capitalist Entrepreneurs and Industrial Slavery in the Rural Antebellum South
… research regarding the extent of production and labor organization, along with the social and cultural milieu, reveal an early example of rural antebellum industrialization enabled and made successful through the use of enslaved labor. Archaeological investigations within the domestic loci at the …
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Taking an occupational lens to worker voice and preference for labor representation
… a potential infection point for unions and the labor movement. Yet, there are reasons to doubt whether existing labor forms and labor law can accommodate the interests of workers in these occupations with little experience in unions and collective bargaining. I use data from two nationally …
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Re-collective Revolution: A Reclamation of Black Self-Subsistent Economic Tradition
… This paper uncovers a history of collective, collaborative, and communal economic traditions of pre-colonial societies in West Africa, with an anti-revisionist lens, in active repudiation of a capitalist, imperialist, and westernized erasure of Black self-subsistent, or self-reliant, economic …
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"Teamsters are Beautiful" in the Twenty-first Century: The 'Sisterly' Organizing Rhetoric of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters
In line with Tim Kuhn's work on organizational communication genres, this project seeks a generic understanding of Teamsters organizing rhetoric through analysis of the unique rhetorical situation at hand: the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) organizing female members by using rhetoric …
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Latino encounters: Mexicans, Tejanos, and Puerto Ricans in postwar Michigan, 1929-1971
… through postwar migration and agricultural labor. I argue that Latina/o/x migrants melded distinct claims to U.S. citizenship through interethnic and international conflicts over access to intermediary power, expressions of popular culture, and the politics of foodways. As this dissertation …
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The Association Between Exposure to Childhood Adversities and Later-Life Mental Health Symptoms of Survivors of Human Trafficking in Ghana: the Moderating Role of Perceived Social Support
… 49.6 million people worldwide (International Labor Organization, 2021). The adverse consequences of trafficking extend to individuals, their families, and communities, impacting victims' and survivors' physical and mental health (Zimmerman et al., 2008). This study focuses on understanding the …
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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. While many scholars of labor radicalism have focused on the larger metropolitan areas such as Chicago, New York City, and Detroit, this study departs from that approach by examining how labor radicalism took root and developed outside of the metropolitan centers. The …
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New strategies to improve the management capacity of contractors for labor-based methods in road rehabilitation in Ghana
… genocide. Despite the abundance of an unemployed labor force, Ghana continues to depend on imported equipment, costing $174 million annually for its earthmoving and construction activities. In 1986, the Government of Ghana, the World Bank, the International Labor Organization and the United …
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Peasants, Servants, and Sojourners: Itinerant Asians in Colonial New Spain, 1571-1720
… of colonial Mexico by employing Southeast Asian labor organization and technology. Thirdly, this dissertation refines studies of ethnicity by considering the ways that chinos, especially free laborers, represented themselves as members of a new corporate group in colonial Mexico, and appropriated …
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Dietitians' attitudes toward collective bargaining and unionization: an empirical investigation
… responding belonged to a professional union or labor organization. The overall mean Collective Bargaining Attitude Score for all respondents was 2.63, indicating slightly unfavorable attitudes toward collective bargaining. Significant differences in the attitudes expressed by dietitians were …
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The Rathole Archipelago : industrial pioneers in a hammershop of hell, reflections of the I.W.W. in fiction.
… the influence of an early twentieth-century labor union in the United States, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), on the lives of two fictional heroes: Janet Bumpus in Winston Churchill's The Dwelling Place of Light (1917) and Waclaw Krasinski in W. E. Trautmann and Peter Hagboldt's …
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Who Governs the Sea? An Analysis of the Regime Complex in International Shipping
<p>In many respects, international shipping represents the physical embodiment of globalization. It ties states together via the exchange of raw materials and finished goods in ways that inspire important questions about power distributions, trade, growth, global governance, jurisdiction, policy …
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Spain on the Table: Cookbooks, Women, and Modernization, 1905-1933
… the social order through political and labor organization, as well as with violence and unrest. By teasing out the contradictions in their cookbook prologues, I show how these intellectuals use Spanish cuisine to promote a vision of Spain's modernization that corrects for the …
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The central american free trade agreement: Effects on labor in the maguila sector
… to sexual harassment. In order to help address labor violations, trade agreements like the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) includes workers’ rights provisions in the body of the agreement. Therefore, this thesis asks: will signing CAFTA lead to the protection of labor rights in …