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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"oil workers"”.
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The Yanks Are Striking: Kern County, the 1921 Oil Strike and the Discourse on Americanism
<p>In the fall of 1921 oil workers of the San Joaquin Valley faced a post-war economic slump, wage cuts across the board and an increasingly hostile attitude of oil operators towards consultation with the federal government on labor relations. They voted to strike, and the next day eight thousand …
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Gender and the Political Economy of Oil in the Niger Delta: A Feminist Critique
… Despite these findings, studies on the oil political economy have not sufficiently dealt with oil's impact on women's labor. These studies—albeit in different ways—undertheorize the link between oil, women's labor (waged and unwaged), and women's resistance. My dissertation fills this …
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Contesting for power in public performance: hegemonic struggles in the Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival
… by destructive participation of transient oil workers; thus severely altering the perception of civic identity to both established local residents and outsiders as well. Local established residents contested for, and won back, control of the Festival and its symbols in an attempt to restore …
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A theoretical and empirical investigation of the barriers to the adoption of state-of-the-art information systems by Nigerian indigenous oil companies.
Currently, there are 49 indigenous oil companies (INOCs) and 28 marginal fields operators as well as 24 multi-national oil companies (MNOCs) operating in Nigeria. This study on Nigerian INOCs has found them to have inadequate state-of-the-art upstream information systems (IS) for their operations. …
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Perceptions and Grievances: Impact of Resource Governance on Protracted Conflicts in Nigeria's Niger Delta
… the setting of conflicts associated with crude oil production and the distribution of proceeds from petroleum rents, royalties, and taxes. In the mid-1990s, grievances and protests against perceived unfair allocation of oil resources started peacefully among the Ogoni and a handful of …
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Pro-government and Pro-opposition Newspaper Coverage of the Zhanaozen Conflict in Kazakhstan
… and government security services in the oil town of Zhanaozen in western Kazakhstan during the celebrations of the 20<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the country’s independence. The study looks into the coverage of the Zhanaozen conflict by four newspapers published in Kazakhstan – the …