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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"workers rights"”.
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Narrative Identity Within A Workers' Rights Organization
… by the staff members and worker-members of a workers' rights organization in Northwest Arkansas. I seek to understand how the organization negotiates the broader cultural and institutional narrative identities with the personal narrative identities of the worker-members in a cultural context …
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Unexpected victories : protecting workers' rights in Guatemala's apparel-for-export sector
This thesis examines three surprise victories for workers' rights in the Guatemalan garment sector. In the past three years, three unions have formed at the Choishin, Cimatextiles, and Nobland factories and each has negotiated a collective bargaining agreement. This thesis explores why these …
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A Chronological Study of Discourse on Prostitution Policy, Anti-prostitution Feminist Movements, and Sex Workers' Rights Movements in South Korea
This research examines the history of sex workers' agency and resistance to prostitution policies and anti-prostitution feminist movements in defense of their rights in South Korea based on a transnational feminist approach. I first analyze the violent impacts of government prostitution policies …
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The central american free trade agreement: Effects on labor in the maguila sector
… rapid expansion of free trade has challenged workers rights in Central America. Unions are continuously deprived of customary support and resources to enforce their rights, especially in the maquiladoras. The expansion of maquila production has often been accompanied by an informal agreement …
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Informality, Precarity, and (Mis)classification: Regulating Platform Work in India
… of location-based digital platform workers in India and examine the extent of protections that can be accorded to them within the framework of labour and constitutional rights. It firstly argues that the exclusion of platform workers from the purview of the formalistic labour law in …
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Intermediaries and Migration in the United States
… Through ethnographic studies of a Chicago Workers' Center, the Interfaith Worker Justice, and the Interfaith Workers' Rights Center, the dissertation finds that several key actors in each organization played an important role in building networks in multiple fields. Furthermore, these …
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The Social Organization of the Ontario Minimum Wage Campaign
… practices: union renewal and non-unionized workers-rights organizing in Canada and the US; feminist, anti-racist Marxian approaches to class relations as being racialized, gendered and bureaucratic; and, the institutional ethnographic method of inquiry into social reality. My empirical focus …
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Shattered windows: The story of Genora Johnson Dollinger, Eva Stone, and the women of Michigan
… Michigan to challenge corporate power and defend workers’ rights. Following Dollinger’s example, Eva Stone led protests against rising meat prices, further uniting women in economic activism. This work examines the unique contributions of these women, situating their efforts within a broader labor …
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The Rise Of Public Sector Unionism In Detroit, 1947-1967
… Act banning strikes of state and local workers. The law provided for the termination of striking public sector workers but did not require state and local agencies to bargain with public employees or their representatives. It even allowed for fines and prison sentences for non public …
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From Furnace to Fairness: Atmospheric Sequences in Steel Museum Spaces
… are transported to the 19th-century factory workers' world, experiencing the dim light from above, sweltering heat, dirt on the ground, and the large scale of the production space. This atmosphere contrasts with the post-union era, marked by enhanced natural light, modern steel construction, …
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Student-worker alliances in the making of a social movement: Narratives and debates of outsourcing in #FeesMustFall
This thesis examines the student-workers alliances, in particular the outsourced workers, during the #FeesMustFall (FMF) movement at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). The study reveals how the movement fostered solidarity among students and workers while advocating for transformation within …
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Exploring the Online Farmers’ Market: Neoliberal Venture Capital Meets the Alternative Food Movement
… alternative food movement goals of food equity, workers rights, and long-term ecological sustainability.
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Globalizing teacher labor for the knowledge economy: The case of New York City's Caribbean teachers
… by a group of immigrant international knowledge workers and their children, specifically participants in a 2001 New York City public schools recruitment of teachers from Anglophone Caribbean nations. Their testimonies shed light on at least three aspects of the human costs and benefits of …
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Teisminis kolektyvinių darbo ginčų nagrinėjimas: tarptautinė ir užsienio valstybių patirtis bei perspektyvos Lietuvoje /
… kind of labour disputes. The main request is the workers rights should really be protected and defended. Development of collective labour disputes resolution in Lithuania should follow the western practices and realisation of basic principles such as reconciliation of parties and striving to …
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C.C. Bryant: a Race Man Is What They Called Him
… historical contributions have been made to Civil Rights movement history in Mississippi. Thus far, historian John Dittmer's, Local People: the Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi has provided the most thorough account of lesser known movement activist. There still exists a need for …
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Contested landscapes: An exploration into street-based sex work and its implications for urban design in Christchurch, New Zealand : A Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Landscape Architecture
… sex work is unique. It supports sex worker rights and allows multi-agency co-operation to develop and implement a range of ‘street safety’ initiatives. However, regardless of the prevailing legislation, issues amongst communities in which street-based sex workers operate are common worldwide …
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