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Showing 1 to 20 of 415 for “"precarious"”.
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Precarious luxury
Due to the market collapse prompting more secure investments and increasing government regulation and incentives to integrate low income units into luxury residential developments, this thesis seeks to integrate two allergic constituencies within a single typology type: housing. Among these two …
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Precarious Work and COVID-19: A Mixed Methods Analysis
… economic crisis that acutely highlights both the precariousness of temporary work and the essential nature of some precariously employed workers. No previous studies have longitudinally examined the trajectories of temporary and permanent workers’ weekly wages during the pandemic or leveraged …
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Precarious womanhood: Maternal instinct’s role in gender-related anxiety
<p>The phenomenon of “precarious manhood” suggests that when a man perceives a threat to his masculinity, he will respond with anxiety and will subsequently increase his displays of traditional masculinity. The main purpose of this study is to address a parallel phenomenon in women (i.e., …
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College Contract Faculty in Ontario: Professional Identities and Precarious Employment
… positions as simultaneous professionals and precarious labourers in higher education. None of the literature attends to how part-time college faculty (a cohort that makes up 70%+ of Ontario’s college faculty) who specifically aspire to full-time teaching positions think about their work and …
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Precarious Positions: Toward a Theory and Analysis of Rhetorical Vulnerability
… rhetoric, we are all put into a fundamentally precarious position, an unavoidable state of exposure to material, social, institutional, and rhetorical forces that work to condition us as both agents and audiences. Rhetoric is not simply something we use; it is also something that we respond to, …
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A global regulatory new deal for precarious and informal workers
… or informal workforce. The growing incidence of precarious work is linked with increased inequality and heightened vulnerability. The thesis is concerned with the realm of regulation - hard laws, soft initiatives and other institutions that shape behaviour. Four case studies of informal work are …
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A global regulatory new deal for precarious and informal workers
… or informal workforce. The growing incidence of precarious work is linked with increased inequality and heightened vulnerability. The thesis is concerned with the realm of regulation - hard laws, soft initiatives and other institutions that shape behaviour. Four case studies of informal work are …
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Precarious Employment and Fathering Among Men in Higher Education Institutions
… in literature involving female academic staff on precarious employment contracts and how they balance their work and family lives. However, research involving male academic staff on insecure contracts with children is limited, particularly within the South African context. My thesis addressed this …
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PRECARIOUS WORK EXPERIENCES OF IMMIGRANT TRUCKERS: LABOR PROCESS, NETWORKS, AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
… of labor migrants from Turkey in the context of precarious U.S. labor markets. Labor market transitions and work experiences are two aspects of incorporation. This dissertation analyzes the process by which first-generation Turkish male immigrants arrive in the United States, enter low-wage jobs, …
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Loyalist or Patriot: The Precarious Position of Edmund Randolph, 1774-1786
<p>On May 29, 1787, Governor Edmund Randolph took the floor of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia with a radical plan for a new federal government. Randolph was a key member of the influential Virginia delegation which paved the way for United States' Constitutionalism. An examination of …
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Precarious Empowerments: Sexual Labor in the Coffee Shops of Santiago, Chile
<p><em>Precarious Empowerments</em> analyzes sexual labor in ‘tinted cafes,’ spaces hidden from public view where women dance for their male clients and clandestinely perform sexual services. Drawing from an embodied ethnographic account of the everyday lives of five coffee shops that fit into the …
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Exploring employee well-being among precarious (fixed-term) call center workers
… are enhanced by the experiences of being in a precarious employment relationship. The objective of this study was to investigate the well-being experiences of fixed-term contract call centre employees in a financial services sector institution. This qualitative study was conducted in the …
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Precarious Bodies in Motion: Choreopolitics, Affect, and Flamenco Dissent in Spain
… an alternative mode of intelligibility about precarious and resistant dancing bodies in the context of dissensual flamenco performances. Within the context of flo6x8's protests in Spain (between 2010 and 2019), this study explores how these dance performances affectively destabilized the ways …
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“All Men Are Created Equal?”: Insights and Implications of Intersectional Precarious Manhood
… (Bush & Bush, 2018; Katz, 1995; Staples, 1982). Precarious Manhood Theory (PMT) is a social psychological theory that explores the social category of gender (men/manhood/masculinity) as relates to identity threat. PMT posits that manhood is rooted in the common cultural belief that boys earn …
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Precarious Work and Communities: The Impact of Neoliberalism on Working Class Politics
Precarious work, which refers to work that is poorly paid, lacks benefits, and where workers have relatively little political power, has been on the rise in North America in the last few decades. If precarious workers are isolated and unengaged, they will not be able to represent their political …
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Precarious Theology: A Queer and Crip reading of Augustine's Theology of Finitude
This thesis considers the idea of precariousness as it arises in Christian theology, as a means of navigating a number of difficulties around how we talk well about our finitude, interdependence, and varied experiences of vulnerability. By attending to our precariousness, theologians alight on a …
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The Precarious Man: Measuring masculine discrepancy and its relationships with aggression and misogyny
In the studies of men and masculinity, most of the focus has been on masculine dysfunction strain, or the strain males feel as it relates to the various expectations of masculinity. In contrast, the research on discrepancy strain (or the strain males feel when they fail to meet these expectations) …
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