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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"laborer"”.
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Investigating Michigan’s skilled construction laborer shortage within the Great Lakes Region
… factors of Michigan’s skilled construction laborer shortage? (b) How are Michigan stakeholders in the Great Lakes Region remedying the shortage? (c) What new solutions can be implemented to remedy Michigan’s skilled construction laborer shortage? A literature review was conducted to identify …
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Citizen or Laborer? The Social Purposes of Black Schooling in Reconstruction Mississippi, 1862--1875
… their ability to be both effective citizens and laborers in the state. Comparably, Mississippi whites sought control over Mississippi blacks' schooling opportunities to promote their own self-interest. As such, this study offers a detailed educational history of how this postbellum contention …
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Why do I want to work for you? An Analysis of Job Satisfaction, Laborer Retention, and Recruitment in the Cattle Feeding Industry
… the future of the industry in their hands, the laborers, is crucial. Along with the challenge of a tightened labor force, the concentration of feedyards in this region poses a unique competition between yards to hire and retain valuable employees. A thorough understanding of laborers' …
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Mais Bonito Da Região: the Cacao-Producing Region of Cachoeira Alta, Bahia, and the Transition From Wage Labor to Small Farming
… mobility within the field of agriculture, from a laborer to a self-sufficient, small farmer, requires an agricultural and market-based knowledge to which few wage laborers are privy. Small-scale farmers suffer shortcomings within regional and global markets because of their inability to respond to …
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Perlindungan keselamatan dan kesehatan kerja dalam Undang-Undang no.13 Tahun 2003 tentang ketenagakerjaan perspektif maqashid syariah
… have to implement the protection of OSH to laborer that integrate with company management system. This duty is often ignored by the company so it cause material and moral losses for laborer. In addition, to explain the concept of the protection of OSH by act, the writer also interested to …
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Revisting the Domestic Labor Debate: Toward a Critique of Workerist Feminism
… which represents a portion of the value that the laborer produced, determined what use-values could be produced in order to maintain the laborer. </p>
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Shop Floor Politics Under Socialism: Worker Identity, Rationalization, and Company Culture in (East) Germany, 1920--1996
… communist---shaped both modernization drives and laborer responses. In the last analysis, German companies had been unable to gather worker consent to rationalization because extending managerial control over the shop floor reduced laborer autonomy. Indeed, this dissertation argues that it was the …
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Integrating the Individual and Community: The power of equality and self-chosen labor
… to reconsider the relationship between a laborer and her work, and that a work/life balance is not necessary when all forms of work are valued. Results of a participant observation study performed at Twin Oaks, as well as reliance on theory and sociological studies indicate the ways in …
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Virginia Agribusiness Council members' perceptions of basic skills for high school graduates
… into the following categories: management, laborer, skilled operator, sales, and clerk/office employee. The most frequent entry-level jobs identified were in the laborer and management training classifications. The mean years of work experience for all positions, across all categories, was …
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From Pupusas to Chimichangas: Exploring the Ways in which Food Contributes to the Creation of a Pan-Latino Identity
… examines the transnational narratives of the day laborer population and their <em>deterritorialized</em> food culture in post-Katrina New Orleans. Further, this research explores this flow of people and culture through a globalization lens in order to achieve a more holistic understanding of the …
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A political ecology of the hacienda system: environmental transformation and everyday lives at Guachalá, Ecuador
… lives, practices and economies of hacienda laborer families. To do so, this research integrates archaeological, archival, and ethnographic methods that situate contemporary agrarian struggles in deeper currents of change since the sixteenth century CE. The dramatic growth of the hacienda and …
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The Economics of Gender Relations in London City Comedy
… asserting her invisibility as a productive laborer within the economic sphere. Heightening this tension, women’s appearances outside of the home are increasingly associated with prostitution, as if to form a link between abstinence from economic activity and chastity; yet at the same time, …
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From Corporal to Corporate: Defining the Body Politic in the Twenty-First Century
… consumer and corporate, as well as corporate and laborer. Such relationships shed light on not only the authority of the global corporation but the overall power structure of the late capitalist system. 1</p>
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Korean Soil, Japanese Faces, American Empire: Repatriation and the Korean War Experiences of Japanese Laborers and Japanese American Soldiers
… Military Intelligence Service (MIS) and Japanese laborers – to demonstrate the salience of citizenship in the post-1945 Asia Pacific. In particular, this research addresses the question, “how did the politics of repatriation differentiate the experiences of Japanese Americans from those of …
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University of Montana Forensic Case #12: Comprehensive Case Analysis
… that these remains might belong to a Chinese laborer dating back to the gold rush (Joyce, 1983). An 1884 map of Last Chance Gulch, in which the remains were discovered, indicate that a Chinese cemetery is in the area but the exact coordinates have never been determined (Joyce, 1983). After an …
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University of Montana Forensic Case #12: Comprehensive Case Analysis
… that these remains might belong to a Chinese laborer dating back to the gold rush (Joyce, 1983). An 1884 map of Last Chance Gulch, in which the remains were discovered, indicate that a Chinese cemetery is in the area but the exact coordinates have never been determined (Joyce, 1983). After an …
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In What Way Does the Export Processing Zone Affect the Marketing Logistics Programs of Its Member Firms?: An Exploratory Investigation
… labor (the average wage for a typical female laborer is approximately ten cents (US) per hour), a good location for Asian trade, the best and largest harbor facilities in Taiwan, and "free port" customs privileges. | The KEPZ is a combination of an industrial park and customs clearance area …
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A Working Life
… just as the result of labor may outlive the laborer. Giza's great pyramids are ancient wonders that baffle modern engineers and scientists as to how they may have been built. Though the exact techniques used may not be known there is little doubt that human labor was central to the effort. My …
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Assembly Line Americans: Labor, Language, and Literacy at Ford Motors
… its industrial education program, sought to mold laborers according to the image of The Ford Man, who puts the needs of the company before their own. As a response to the field, I describe the relationship between Henry Ford’s industrial education project and histories of English and Composition. …
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Making a digital working class : Uber drivers in Boston, 2016-2017
… the results of a field study of one new kind of laborer who has been brought into work consequent to the smartphone: Uber drivers. The author conducted ethnographic fieldwork over one year in Boston, Massachusetts, and the surrounding area using ride-along sampling, participant observation, …
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