Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Indigenous labour'

This thesis is an ethnographic study of collaborative action and notions of value in San Isidro, an indigenous community of c.90 families in Ecuador’s central highlands. Drawing on Arendt’s theory of action as a mode of human togetherness, it focuses on forms of activity that are both affective (appealing to particular values, principles and practices) and productive (engaging in struggles to reorder social and economic relations). These include communal gatherings, shared work-parties, assemblies, meetings, campaigns and celebrations. Developing work by Lambek and Graeber, the thesis explores how such actions are used to generate different kinds of ethical and material value, the criteria people use to evaluate competing visions of hope and possibility, and the related dynamics of division and cooperation. I argue that such a focus on action and value allows us to build on insights from existing regional literature which tends to interpret indigenous collective action as either predominantly expressive (through cultural revival) or instrumental (in terms of economic and political practice). A core theme that emerges is how localised expressions of what people hold to be vital or desirable interact with coordinated efforts to defend and secure livelihoods. In San Isidro, such efforts contend with a limited land base, ongoing conflicts rooted in histories of dispossession, and widespread patterns of migratory labour (mainly for shift-work in the Amazon-based oil industry). At the same time, many residents participate in collective work to maintain shared infrastructure, protest against land inequalities, and manage areas of the communally-held páramo hills (registering as a ‘comunidad’ as recently as 2009). Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted over fifteen months, I analyse how such collaborative actions are combined with everyday forms of paid and unpaid work, memories of conflict, and a sense of duty toward future generations. Through chapters that focus on shared labour, coordinated campaigns, the legacies of land reform and accounts of labour migration, the thesis also examines how cooperation is fostered within a community that is increasingly diverse in access to resources, income and outlook, and how those involved negotiate the ruptures and tensions that intentional actions entail.

The thesis appraises certain key processes – albeit rather limited in number and scope – widely assumed to be associated with assessing the role of technological capability building in developing country (DC) firms. The latter are affected by their DC status on both the demand side (e.g. by rapid growth of the economy via consumption and trade) and the supply side (of technological catch-up etc.). Such broad considerations set the scene for our specific study. In this thesis, the component of technological capabilities that we highlight by studying local integrated product providers is the capability for systemic product development. We argue that the organisational system of industrial firms in DCs plays a fundamental role in their technological learning performance. Here, the developmental context is stressed because we suggest that the knowledge about how to organise effective learning, termed 'social technology', is at least as scarce as the 'physical technology' in such contexts, compared with those prevailing in the developed countries. Therefore, when DC firms shift into a new domain, the organisational systems that they rely on often have to be created rather than simply selected. This may be because, as first-movers in their circumstances, even when they are informed by external sources, they have very little practical experience of carrying out similar actions successfully within their own contexts. Therefore, studying organisational building in their early phase could prove critical for understanding their capability building processes. Empirical studies of China‘s car-making and telecom-equipment sectors over the past three decades are taken to support theoretical exploration in this thesis. Some scholars (e.g. Bell and Pavitt, 1992) point out that, in DCs, the growth of production capacity does not automatically lead to the building of technological capability. The experiences of China‘s car-making and telecomequipment sectors are exactly in line with this point of view. From the mid 1980s, the Chinese government implemented a 'trading market for technology (TMFT)' policy, encouraging its backbone SOEs (State Owned Enterprises) to establish productive joint ventures (JVs) with MNCs (Multinational Corporations). By doing so, policy-makers expected backbone SOEs to undergo a bottom-up capability building trajectory via learning closely from their JV partners. We term these SOEs and their JVs the 'Group-A firms' in our research. Contrary to the expectations of policy-makers, Group-A firms were locked into the manufacturing segment even after twenty years of TMFT practices, and seldom had new systemic products developed indigenously, prior to 2005 at least. On the contrary, the indigenous advance of technological capability building has actually been led by some new entrants. Their development has been independent of the advocacy of TMFT. They relied on in-house developed products from the very beginning after entering the corresponding industries, and succeeded in building sustainable competitiveness. We term them the 'Group-B firms'. By comparing these Group-A and Group-B firms, we argue that there are distinctive differences in organisational learning systems between them. Four components are developed of the concept of organisational learning systems, i.e. the strategic intent, the authority over strategic resource allocation, the pattern of organisational mobilisation and learning integration, and the facilities and institutions for knowledge accumulation. For the latter three components, we succeed in generating a clear contrast between these two groups of firms. We undertake a thorough comparison of authority over strategic resource allocation by studying the constitution of their top committees. As for the patterns of learning mobilisation and organisational integration, we find distinct differences in the scope of knowledge communication of front-line engineers, and relevant institutional arrangements to mobilise, integrate and direct the content of communication. Regarding the facilities for knowledge accumulation and application, the study of their knowledge database building engenders a clear contrast, as well as the institutional arrangements to regulate and promote relevant activities within their organisations. We also discover significant connections between the organisational systems of Group-B firms and their processes of knowledge search, generation and accumulation. Three important mechanisms of new knowledge creation in Group-B firms are examined, namely learning through recruitment, learning through cooperative projects and learning through interaction with customers. Our empirical study reveals that the authority stressing the investment in new product and technology development, the cross-boundary inter-departmental platform of knowledge conversion, the comprehensive knowledge-accumulating facilities, and the institutions backing these components play fundamental roles in shaping these learning mechanisms. Therefore, the organisational differences of these two groups of firms are connected with the differences of these two subsets of firms‘ technological learning performances. Besides, we discuss the social roots of their organisational systems by historically revisiting China‘s industrial system. By doing so, for the research community that focuses on technological learning in DCs, this thesis advocates a shift of research from stressing assimilative processes of firms to giving more emphasis to organisational changes as a centrepiece of studies.

This thesis presents a narrative of Aboriginal economic responses in the 19th century to the colonisation of the Shoalhaven and Illawarra regions of New South Wales. It explores the competing claims of articulation theory and dependency theory about the intersection of colonial and indigenous economies. Dependency theory claims that settlers destroy the indigenous mode of production to permit the expansion of their own economic system. They exploit indigenous labour which then becomes dependent on capitalist sources of subsistence. Articulation theory, as modified by Layton (2001) to recognise the bi-directional nature of contact, posits that the rate of capitalist penetration into indigenous economies is variable and that the non-capitalist mode of production may be preserved to create a self-supporting source of labour. The contrasting theories are assessed in this thesis by determining the contribution different strategies made to Aboriginal subsistence. Historical evidence is used to assess each strategy. The main source of information is from Alexander Berry's Shoalhaven estate, where Aboriginal people lived from settlement in 1822 until they were moved to a reserve in the early 1900s. The analysis suggests that contrary to previous research, Aboriginal people gained the majority of their subsistence from fishing, hunting and gathering until 1860. Strategies that depended on the colonial economy such as farm work, trading, living with settlers and stealing made only minor contributions to Aboriginal subsistence. After 1860, European land use intensified and Aboriginal people were further alienated from the land. The contribution of hunting and gathering contracted as a result. Dependency on government assistance increased, particularly after the foundation of the Aborigines Protection Board in 1882. Fishing remained an important source of food and cash. Maritime resources were not commercially exploited to a significant extent until the closing years of the 19th century when Aboriginal people were provided with boats and nets to assist their efforts. The historical evidence demonstrates that articulation theory offers a more realistic approach than does dependency theory when analysing the intersection of colonial and indigenous economies. This is because articulation theory can predict variable outcomes. The variable outcome suggested by the Shoalhaven and Illawarra data are that hunting, gathering and fishing economies have the resilience to withstand the colonial encounter if sufficient resources are made available.

This dissertation comprises two essays. While the topics of both essays are different both are interrelated on the base of economic development. The first essay examines ethnic wage gaps on segmented labor markets with evidence from Latin American countries. The second essay revisits the determinants of fiscal decentralization with an emphasis on the role that geography plays in determining fiscal decentralization. The first essay contributes to limited literature on ethnic wage gaps in Latin America. It examines ethnic wage gaps for workers in formal and informal labor markets. Using data from Latin American countries we estimate and examine across-ethnic wage gaps for informal and formal markets, their changes over time, factors that explain their differences, and the wage gap distribution. More specifically, we verify that different ethnic wage gaps do exist across formal and informal markets; they behave differently not only at their means but also along the wage distribution. The results indicate that higher ethnic wage gaps in informal sectors exist not only on average but also throughout the distribution. In addition, we find that wage gaps have declined significantly over the last 10 years. we explain this by examining changes in the prices of institutional factors and changes in human capital endowments. The distributional analysis shows a decrease in the unexplained component, especially in the top part of the distribution. The second essay contributes to the existing literature on the determinants of fiscal decentralization by motivating theoretically and exploiting in depth the empirical relevance that geography has as a determinant of fiscal decentralization. The relationship between decentralization and geography is based on the logic that more geographically diverse countries show greater heterogeneity among their citizens, including their preferences and needs for public goods and services provisions. Communications and physical distance are also a very important issue and play a key role on the effect of geography over time. (Lora et. al., 2003) argue geography plays a key role in economic and social development, as well as in the institutional design of the countries; yet, this effect could be enhanced (or diminished) in the presence of better physical infrastructure or communications. The theoretical model in this paper builds on the work by Arzaghi and Henderson (2002) and Panizza (1999). For the empirical estimation, we use a panel data set for approximately 91 countries for the period 1960-2005. Physical geography is measured along several dimensions, including elevation, land area and climate. We construct a geographical fragmentation index and test its effect on fiscal decentralization. In addition, we interact the geographical fragmentation index with time-variant infrastructure variables in order to test the effect that infrastructure and communications have on the relationship between geography and fiscal decentralization. For robustness, we construct Gini coefficients for in-country elevation and climate. We find a positive and strong correlation between geographical factors and fiscal decentralization. We also find that while the development of infrastructure (in transportation, communications, etc.) tends to reduce the effect of geography on decentralization, this effect is rather small and mostly statistically insignificant, meaning that the impact of geography survives over time. The strategy has additional value because geography may be used as an instrument for decentralization in future econometric estimations where decentralization is used as an explanatory variable, but may be suspected to be endogenous to the economic process being studied (economic growth, political instability, macroeconomic stability, income distribution, etc.).

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The dissertation in hand addresses the participation of the Kaiowá and Guarani Indians as tea gathers in the Matte Laranjeira Company in former Mato Grosso. The aim has been to investigate how the participation of this population came about in the various stages of tea gathering. For this the study sought to determine the presence of the indigenous population in the diverse work fronts which were established in the region during the process of territorial occupation of the south of Mato Grosso. The study is supported by bibliographical research, including the most relevant works on the theme. It also includes consultation of the microfilmed documentation of the Indian Protection Service (IPS) which refers to the Indigenous Posts in the south of Mato Grosso and also a significatant number of reports given by indigenous and non-indigenous people who lived through or had family members involved in the tea gathering work. These reports speak basically of the life of the Kaiowá and Guarani during the period handled by the study. On investigating the daily routine in the tea growing area it was possible to verify that the indigenous people were a part of the tea gathering undertaking with their specialized labour together with Paraguayans, Argentinians and others. It was verified that this participation did not affect in the same way all the Indian villages. There was also established at the same time a relationship of exploitation and exchange as there were many products that were of direct interest to the Indians. At another time the actual Indian Protection Service took over the management of the work done by the Indians for tea contractors and local farmers. It was also confirmed that the indigenous participation in these events was concealed by the historiographic production on this period .
A presente dissertação trata da participação dos índios Kaiowá e Guarani como trabalhadores nos ervais da Companhia Matte Larangeira, no antigo sul de Mato Grosso. O objetivo é investigar como se deu a participação dessa população nas diversas etapas que o trabalho ervateiro exigia. Para isto, o estudo buscou, no processo de ocupação territorial no sul de Mato Grosso, a presença indígena nas diversas frentes de trabalho que se estabeleciam na região. O trabalho está apoiado em pesquisa bibliográfica, incluindo os trabalhos mais relevantes sobre o tema. Inclui, ainda, a consulta à documentação do SPI, referente aos Postos Indígenas do Sul de Mato Grosso e, também, a um número significativo de relatos feitos por indígenas e não-indígenas, que vivenciaram ou tiveram familiares envolvidos no trabalho com a erva mate. Esses relatos versam, fundamentalmente, sobre a vida dos Kaiowá e Guarani, no período abrangido pelo estudo. Pesquisando o cotidiano nos ervais foi possível constatar que os indígenas fizeram parte do empreendimento ervateiro, com a sua especializada mão-de-obra, juntamente com paraguaios, argentinos e outros.Constatou-se que essa participação não atingiu da mesma forma todas as aldeias indígenas. Estabeleceu-se uma relação ao mesmo tempo de exploração e de troca, pois havia muitos produtos que interessavam diretamente aos índios. Em outro momento, o próprio o SPI passou a agenciar o trabalho dos índios para empreiteiros da erva e fazendeiros locais. O estudo identifica, ainda, que a participação indígena nesses eventos foi desapercebida pela produção historiográfica sobre esse período

The processes by which individuals learn how to perceive, interpret and think about their environment are not completely understood. Sixty years of anthropological studies of indigenous environmental knowledge have largely focused on language-like classification systems. These studies typically revolve around (a) conceptual knowledge such as categories, taxonomies and the functionality of certain flora and fauna and (b) the social mechanisms such as language through which they are transmitted. These approaches have been successful in highlighting variation and continuity between cultures, but more recent studies have shown that environmental knowledge varies within cultures and communities. Research conducted in Bali, Indonesia demonstrates how social labor and symbolic systems may influence several aspects of environmental knowledge, such as perceptual skills, interpretive metaphors and emic models of ecological interactions. The findings in this study address gaps in the literature on how indigenous environmental knowledge emerges, and also supplements the largely theoretical literature on the phenomenology and epistemology of labor.

Este trabalho analisa a política de incorporação dos povos e territórios amazônicos aos domínios portugueses, do início da colonização (1614) à promulgação do Diretório dos Índios (1757). A partir da constatação de que os autóctones estavam na base tanto dos projetos políticos quanto econômicos, verificam-se as variações da legislação indigenista, bem como os princípios fundamentais que a nortearam. Esta análise sugere uma revisão do debate acerca da relação entre domínio imperial e mercado de trabalho na formação do Brasil.
This study analyzes the incorporation of Amazonian indigenous peoples and their territories to the Portuguese imperial dominium, from the beginning of the colonization process (1614) until the promulgation of the Diretório dos Índios (1757). Considering the Native peoples integral role in the Portuguese political and economical policies, this study attempts to evaluate the variations of the legislation to the Amazon region, as well as its guiding principles. This analysis suggests a revision of the discussion about the relation between imperial dominium and labor market in the formation of Brazil.

This research examines the social construction of a Virginia Indian reservation community during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Between 1824 and 1877 the Iroquoian-speaking Nottoway divided their reservation lands into individual partible allotments and developed family farm ventures that mirrored their landholding White neighbors. In Southampton's slave-based society, labor relationships with White landowners and "Free People of Color" impacted Nottoway exogamy and shaped community notions of peoplehood. Through property ownership and a variety of labor practices, Nottoway's kin-based farms produced agricultural crops, orchard goods and hogs for export and sale in an emerging agro-industrial economy. However, shifts in Nottoway subsistence, land tenure and marriage practices undermined their matrilineal social organization, descent reckoning and community solidarity. With the asymmetrical processes of kin-group incorporation into a capitalist economy, questions emerge about the ways in which the Nottoway resituated themselves as a social group during the allotment process and after the devastation of the Civil War. Using an historical approach emphasizing world-systems theory, this dissertation investigates the transformation of the Nottoway community through an exploration and analysis of their nineteenth-century political economy and notions of peoplehood.

This thesis investigates the emergence of an indigenous middle class between 1975 and 2010 in Bolivia - a country characterized by poor and unstable long-term economic growth, high inequality, and enduring ethnic and class cleavages. The study takes a two-tiered approach. It focuses first on tracing the emergence of the middle class by highlighting the main drivers of socio-economic improvement for individuals. Based on a longitudinal examination of a Socio-Economic Index (SEI) - upon which the middle class is operationally defined in this thesis - I explain the emergence of the middle class as the result of two distinct but interconnected processes: (i) a massive urbanization process that reached a peak in the mid-1980s, which brought individuals closer to areas favoured by state policies; and (ii) an institutional change in the mid-1990s, consisting of a new national framework that allocated resources more efficiently throughout the country. In addition, my analysis uncovers the different occupational trajectories that middle-class individuals followed to gain access to the new structure of opportunities and to prosper and become part of the middle class. Based on inter- and intra-generational analyses of occupational mobility, I find that in a context of an over supply of labour and with limited skills and economic capital, migrants found the means to thrive socially and economically in commerce, transport, and construction activities. Secondly, I explore the extent to which the emergence of the new middle class has opened-up opportunities for indigenous peoples. I conduct a periodic headcount of indigeneity based on spoken languages (indigenous and/or Spanish) and self-ascription to indigenous groups. Two messages emerge from this exercise. First, the new middle class has provided opportunities for individuals who are monolingual in indigenous languages, whether they ascribe themselves or not to an indigenous group. Second, individuals' ethnic identities become fuzzier as they move into the middle class. This is revealed by indigenous language loss and a significant decrease in self-ascription that happened in a markedly stratified manner over just ten years. I tackle the intricacies of middle-class ethnic identity by drawing on a social identity conceptual framework that allows me to integrate synergistically the discussions on class, ethnicity, and modernization. By approaching social identities through the analysis of differentiated lifestyles, I find that new middle-class individuals have hybrid and segmented identities. That is, individuals combine indigenous/traditional and modern forms of living that vary according to their socio-economic level, but do not necessarily move towards cultural assimilation. I contend that the creation of new status symbols and forms of recognition based on indigenous idiosyncrasies in the new middle class constitutes a categorical break with historical, ethnic-based forms of social, economic, and cultural exclusion and discrimination. In summary, this thesis advances the conceptualization and understanding of the middle class, contributing to the burgeoning literature on emerging middle classes in developing countries by offering a more complex picture of its expansion and identity construction.

In recent years I have been working on topics related to Post-colonialism in South America, as well as the conditions of immigrants in Europe. The main interest of my work involves questions about my roots and personal stories of migration. This situation has been the engine of my art for the last ten years. Through my installations, I have tried to express or represent some certain facts, that have marked the post-colonial situation in Latin America and Europe over the last years.  The slavery and exploitation of illegal labor are common working conditions for many people in South America, especially for those located in the jungles and slums. The Indigenous culture -its languages, values and traditions- have begun to disappear and been displaced by Western culture. Here in Europe, on the other hand, I feel 'alien' to the territory of my ancestors, due to the fact that my family comes from European immigrants in Argentina. Illegal labor has been also a part of my life, having experienced the condition of 'otherness' in Europe. Therefore, this project reflects upon my personal experience in relation to the unfair conditions of labor in autochthonous communities, researching the concept of 'otherness' taken from Post-colonial theories. It is for this purpose, that my methodologies include self-reflection, parallelism and metaphor. One of my purposes is toreveal those 'fake stories' used by the European acculturation in South America. I called these fake stories 'strategies', as they were used by the Colony for the reconstruction of a new National Identity in those countries. Therefore, convincing the Indigenous culture to adopt Western culture. The parts of my essay are a metaphor of different stages of narcotic's production, best called 'mobile labs' of the Amazon jungle.I have taken this concept to tell my story and to build up the laboratory as final representation. The first stage of this process is to weigh and measure the ingredients, followed by a mixture of substances and chemicals. Once mixed, it proceeds to three stages of filtering and purification. Then it is subjected to a press for semi-solid consistency and introduced into the oven to reach the compact state. The blocks will finally be packed with plastic film and adhesive tape, protecting them from adverse environmental conditions during transport and storage. Each chapter of this essay is also connected to the 'machines' constructed for my solo exhibition, following the same steps of Purification. Through this essay, I wanted to broaden my concept relating three main aspects: the colonial strategies of domination in South America, my personal work experience in Europe, and finally the unfair working conditions in marginal societies. Each of the 'machines' constructed for my installation is functional, ready to be activated according to the different parts of the cooking process and as a representation of a 'production line' in the system of labor. I also have chosen to wrap my body, as well as carefully chosen representative objects of the popular culture of South America, to finally pack them in cling film. As a result of this process of Purification, I have produced the 'final products' ready to be consumed here in the Western European countries.

This dissertation deals with the organized commuting of native labour in northern Saskatchewan, it causes, and the economic consequences for the communities involved. A neo-marxist approach is used towards those objectives. The search for explanations is carried out through the analysis of the scenario of implementation of the commuting programs: the role of Capital, the initiator of the programs, is examined in the light of its imperatives (accumulation, legitimation); State action is discussed with respect to its roles of integration, legitimation, support to accumulation, and that of a capitalist; the participation of the native people is seen from a perspective where their culture and social fabric have been altered, in spite of apparently strong idiosyncrasies. The consequences of participation in commuting, and of the revenues thereby brought to the communities, are consistent with already existing trends among northern native population: a decline of reciprocity; an assimilation to capitalist society (consumption and monetization); a local circulation of income which varies in importance from a place to another, but which everywhere favors exclusively the local bourgeoisie; the survival of subsistence economy; and the enhancement of dependence and economic vulnerability.

Esta pesquisa buscou compreender o trabalho indígena no Estado do Grão-Pará e Rio Negro durante a segunda metade do século XVIII, período em que vigorou o Diretório dos Índios. Assim, discorremos sobre a conjuntura e historiografia a respeito do Diretório, bem como elaboramos uma análise das políticas indigenistas e da funcionalidade da Tesouraria do Geral do Comércio dos Índios, instituição fiscal responsável pelos rendimentos da produção das povoações indígenas. Por ser o índio utilizado em diversos trabalhos, o principal objetivo desta investigação histórica foi demonstrar que a mão de obra indígena foi maciçamente explorada pela economia colonial, e não apenas empregados em atividades ligadas à agricultura e ao extrativismo. Nesse sentido, os indígenas foram também utilizados como mão de obra especializada, empregada na construção de navios mercantes e de guerra, embarcações essas as quais faziam parte das ações da Companhia de Comércio do Grão-Pará e Maranhão que visavam entre outras ações reformar e aumentar a frota naval de Portugal.
This research aimed to understand the indigenous labor in the State of Grão-Pará and Rio Negro during the second half of the 18th century, period in which prevailed the Indians Directory. Thus, we discuss the conjuncture and historiography regarding the directory as well as elaborate an analysis of the indigenist policies and the functionality of the Treasury of the Indians Trade, institution that was responsible for financial matters such as spending and tax of the indians labor. As the indians were used in several labors, the main goal of this historical investigation is to demonstrate that the indians were massively exploited by the colonial economy and not only employed in activities related to agriculture and extractivism. Thereby, the indians were also used as specialized labor, employed in the construction of merchant ships and war vessels, which were part of the actions of the General Company of Grão-Pará and Maranhão, which aimed, among other actions, to reform and increase the portuguese naval fleet.

Ingestion of extracts prepared from various medicinal plants to induce or augment labour is common amongst Black South African women during the late stages of pregnancy. This applies particularly to the rural areas where modern health care facilities are often lacking. Many of these plants have not been investigated scientifically and one needs to substantiate claims of quality, safety and efficacy. Furthermore, it is believed that the consumption of these plant extracts can result in foetal meconium staining at delivery. An investigation into the uterotonic properties of three plants viz. Ekebergia capensis Sparrm. Clivia miniata (Lindl.) Regel. and Grewia occidentalis L. were carried out using guinea pig uterine smooth muscle in vitro. Supercritical fluid extraction was performed with water modified supercritical carbon dioxide to extract the uterotonic components. An attempt was also made to couple supercritical fluid extraction directly on-line to the bioassay so that on line screening of crude plant extracts could be performed within short periods of time. The effects of supercritical CO2 decompression on temperature and pH of the muscle bathing solution were considered since these factors affect muscle contractility. The direct effects of excess CO2 on intracellular mechanisms were eliminated by constructing a CO2 reduction interface together with passage of carbogen which aided in the rapid displacement of excess CO2, As samples of these extracts were found to induce muscle contraction, supercritical fluid fractionation (SFF) was performed by sequentially increasing the fluid density. Extracted fractions were obtained by sequentially increasing the pressure at constant temperature and modifier concentration in an attempt to identify the active fractions. Extractions were performed at 200 atm, 300 atm and 400 atm respectively. Subsequent testing of these fractions enabled the detection of active and inactive fractions as well as a fraction that had a spasmolytic effect on uterine muscle. The 400 atm extracts of E. capensis and C. miniata displayed maximum activity while only the 300 atm extract of G. occidentalis induced uterine muscle contraction. Subsequent analysis of the sequentially extracted fractions, by high performance liquid chromatography and micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography revealed that certain compounds present in the fractions that stimulated muscle contraction, were sensitive to the extraction pressure hence making it possible to determine the compounds that were likely to be active. Column chromatography followed by various spectroscopic techniques were performed in an attempt to isolate and elucidate the structures of the compounds that were present in the plant extracts. The extract of Ekebergia capensis yielded five known compounds (B-sitosterol, oleanonic acid, 3-epioleanolic acid, 2,3,22,23-tetrahydroxy-2,6,1 0, 15,19 ,23-hexamethyl-6, 10, 14, 18- tetracosatetrene and 7-hydroxy-6-methoxy coumarin. The extract of Clivia miniata yieded linoleic acid and 5-hydroxymethyl-2-furancarboxaldehyde while the extract of Grewia occidentalis yielded 3-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-2-propenal, a novel compound 2,2' ,6,6'-tetramethoxy-4'-al-4-(w-oxo-E-propenyl)-biphenyl and oleanonic acid. The pure compounds were further evaluated pharmacologically to identify the active components and assess the physiological mode of action by the use of various receptor blockers. Oleanonic acid, 3-epioleanolic acid, linoleic acid and 5- hydroxymethyl-2-furancarboxaldehyde and 3-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-2-propenal were found to induce an agonistic muscle response. All these compounds were observed to mediate their effects through the cholinergic receptors. The results obtained in this study supports the claim of these plants possessing uterotonic properties.
Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1997.

During the 1970s and early 1980s the historic contradiction between Maori and the colonial state publicly resurfaced, with high-profile Maori demands for the recognition of Maori sovereignty. By 1984 those demands became broader-based. They focused on the Crown's affirmation in the Treaty of Waitangi of continued Maori control over economic resources, independent political authority, and the protection of the Maori way of life. In the face of these pressures, the Labour Party, and later the fourth Labour Government, committed itself to a policy of recognising the Treaty of Waitangi. At the same time, New Zealand's under-developed capitalist economy was in crisis. Advocates of market liberalism within the Fourth Labour Government secured a power base from which they launched the New Zealand version of their paradigm, known as Rogernomics. The two policies were logically irreconcilable, and embodied the deeper, real contradiction of the colonial project itself. Once that logical contradiction became apparent, and the electoral implications became too costly, the Treaty policy gave way. The primary focus of this thesis is the role played by colonial law, legal ideology, and the legal intellectuals in mediating those contradictions during the 1980s. They helped to secure a passive revolution, whereby Maori demands were defused, and Maori resistance was subsumed within the political and judicial forums of the colonial state. This development is analysed within the framework of the dual state, whereby metropolitan and colonial social formations co-exist within the one national boundary, both dominated by the capitalist mode of production. In this thesis, that duality comprises Pakeha within New Zealand, and Maori within Aotearoa. The specifically legal dynamics are situated within the complex interactions of the economic, political, juridical, and ideological levels of that dual state during the 1980s. The thesis concludes that the colonial state did secure a passive revolution over Maori between 1984 and 1990. But this was, at best, a temporary reprieve. By the end of the Fourth Labour Government, in October 1990, many Maori remained committed to the anti-colonial struggle. It appeared that the fundamental contradictions of colonial capitalism, and the crisis of constitutional legitimacy for the colonial state, had not been resolved. They had merely been deferred.

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中國文化大學
社會福利學系
107
This study aims to analyze the influences of participation in indigenous labor cooperative association on urban indigenous women. It proposes two main research questions. First, what are the employment experience and work difficulties of urban indigenous women? Second, what are the impacts and effectiveness of empowerment on urban indigenous women? To achieve these research purposes, the researcher entered an indigenous labor cooperative and conducted in-depth interview with four urban indigenous women staff members. Simultaneously, the author employed participant observation to observe the situation of women workers in the labor cooperative association. The results show that urban indigenous women are treated unfairly in the workplace dominated by Han people. Although they work in the place dominated by Han people, they do not deny their ethnic groups and ethnic identity. In the indigenous labor cooperative association, those urban indigenous women are empowered by different dimensions including health improvement, parent-child relationship improvement, network expansion and interpersonal relationship improvement, and sense of accomplishment and self-confidence. In addition, the results suggest four dimensions of differences between the indigenous labor cooperative association and general workplaces. First of all, these urban indigenous women feel love and secured because most of the people are indigenous people in the association. Second, the working environment of the association is more friendly than that of the Han Chinese. Most of the people in the labor cooperative association are indigenous people, so they can understand each other and are less likely to be stigmatized. In addition, the results show that some of the respondents in this study can work nearby and take care of their families and community members. It is a good way to balance the needs of the work and family. Finally, I find that most of the staff in the labor cooperative association are Christians. Respondents often seek spiritual support or strength through prayer when they run into problems at work or in their life. Therefore, religion is very important to their life and has empowered them greatly.

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中國文化大學
社會福利學系碩士班
97
Labor Market Exclusion of Urban Indigenous Peoples：A Case Study of Indigenous College Students in Taipei Area Abstract Taiwan's indigenous' disadvantaged position in the job market in nation has been the concerned subject to all people, but when we explored the plight of indigenous people in employment in the pass, we lessly use the cultural differences as the core of exploration, and the highly educated indigenous ethnic groups of students, are also a group easy to be ignored. This study uses the viewpoint of social exclusion, goest with the Indigenous students' the ethnic identity and subjective feelings,to analysis the following research questions: 1. In the mainstream society of Taiwan, how do the ethnic differences and ethnic identity caused the Aborigine in the city excluded or included by the labor market ? 2. How do the aborigine students workers think and aware themself on such exclusion or inclusion phenomenon? And what measures do they take to react ? 3. What impact could The phenomenon of the labor market's exclusion or conclusion that caused by Ethnic differences cause to the obtaining employment of the aborigine students? 4.How is the situation about those exclusion and conclusion caused by The Government's employment promotion policies? How do the Policies respond to the employment characteristics of indigenous culture? This study is used the Depth Interviews Method, with purposive and snowball sampling, totally interviews 11 Indigenous students workers and four Indigenous employment promoting attendant . The key findings of this research are: 1. The Aborigine Students' employment are half felt worse than their original expectation. 2. Regardless of work or life, they still do not encounter as being treated by the stereotyped image from the outside . 3. When indigenous students met the exclusion of labor market, the most used ways to reply are non-response, and no resistance. 4. The strong or weakness of the identity of aborigine students' group will affect whether they can integrate into the labor market well. 5. The employment promoting service in public sectors can not timely respond the demand for Indigenous students.

碩士
國立臺北教育大學
教育經營與管理學系文教法律碩士班
108
Abstract In this article, we discuss whether the labor rights of indigenous people are labor rights under the Chinese civilization system in Taiwanese society or if another cultural group exists equally with Chinese civilization in Taiwanese society. This article is based on Judicial Yuan Interpretation No. 719 of the grand judge and engages in the traditional law discussion method to ensure that the core of our national labor laws to protect the effects of rights of survival. Both the theories and interpretations of the grand judge consider that minimum living standards should not be used as the only standards, and “living as satisfactory to human dignity” is more appropriate. However, such “living as satisfactory to human dignity” is the rights of survival based on the criteria of Chinese civilization in Taiwanese society, which is demonstrated by the protection of our Constitutional Law to the culture of indigenous people and Judicial Yuan Interpretation No. 719 of the grand judge. Therefore, from the perspective of our Constitutional Law and its amendments, the “United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)” and the “Act to Implement the Two Covenants”, the basic rights of indigenous people are at an equivalent level to Constitutional Law. Compared to Judicial Yuan Interpretation No. 719 of the grand judge, this interpretation has been found to have ideas unsatisfactory to diversified cultural value, resulting in physical damage to human dignity within the structure. Although the working rights of indigenous people are protected through Judicial Yuan Interpretation No. 719 of the grand judge, it must return to its origin “to promote the human rights of indigenous people” as the goals of such systems. This article will trace the legislation process of applying the quota employment policy in our legal system, as well as whether this system is actually adopted by different regulations and legal goods, as confirmed through the discussion process. Furthermore, regarding legislation differences, we examined whether the independent cultural system and rights of indigenous people are totally denied without the purpose of promoting a diversified culture. Finally, this article discusses how indigenous people are centered on labor works in their cultural tradition and further develop their festivals, faith, traditional culture, and thoughts. Consider their labor living conditions would not be possible if the aforementioned content were omitted. In this article, we study the annual ceremonies of the indigenous and discuss whether the systematic protection and promotional planning achieve human rights protection standards under the “United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples”. Based on the preceding basis, the article will discuss, analyze, and introduce conclusions aimed at the current Labor Standard Act and the types of leaves and principles of providing leave in relation to indigenous people. Keywords: rights of indigenous people, annual ceremonies of the indigenous, labor rights of indigenous people, Judicial Yuan Interpretation No. 719 of the grand judge, quota employment policy

The construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) was not a conquest of man over nature as some historians have suggested and the driving of the last spike did not cement that victory. By studying the CPR from an environmental perspective, it becomes obvious that the relationship between the people and the environment in the mountains was two-fold: workers had an effect on the environment through fires, deforestation, excavation, and blasting, and the environment likewise had an effect on workers through the hardships of weather, challenging terrain, avalanches, and floods. Shortcuts, such as steep grades and wooden bridges, taken by the CPR throughout construction to save money and time, as well as the poor route choice, had unintended consequences for the operation of the railway. Massive deforestation and fires had repercussions for the watershed of the eastern Rocky Mountains and the choice of Rogers Pass meant that the CPR had to deal with numerous avalanches and deep snow. Steep grades and lines that were easily flooded or open to avalanches resulted in the deaths of numerous workers and expensive repairs to engines and the track. The construction of the CPR also had a notable impact on western Canada as it opened up the land to tourism, settlement, agriculture, and the lumber and mining industries. In building and operating the line, the CPR had to learn to adapt to the environment in order to carry out repairs quickly and get trains through.

The cedar dugout canoe is iconically associated with First Nations peoples of the Pacific Northwest coast, but the vital contribution it made to the economic and social development of British Columbia is historically unrecognized. This beautifully designed and crafted oceangoing vessel, besides being a prized necessity to the maritime First Nations peoples, was an essential transportation link for European colonists. In speed, maneuverability, and carrying capacity it vied with any other seagoing technology of the time. The dugout canoe became an important site of engagement between First Nations peoples and settlers. European produced textual and visual records of the colonial period are examined to analyze the dugout canoe as a site of intercultural interaction with a focus upon the European representation. This research asks: Was the First Nations' dugout canoe essential to colonial development in British Columbia and, if so, were the First Nations acknowledged for this vital contribution? Analysis of primary archival resources (letters and journals), images (photographs, sketches and paintings) and colonial publications, such as the colonial dispatches, memoirs and newspaper accounts, demonstrate that indeed the dugout canoe and First Nations canoeists were essential to the development of the colony of British Columbia. However, these contributions were differentially acknowledged as the colony shifted from a fur trade-oriented operation to a settler-centric development that emphasized the alienation of First Nations’ land for settler use. By focusing research on the dugout canoe and its use and depiction by Europeans, connections between European colonists and First Nations canoeists, navigators and manufacturers are foregrounded. This focus brings together these two key historical players demonstrating their “entangled” nature (Thomas 1991:139) and breaking down “silences” and “trivializations” in history (Trouillot 1995:96), working to build an inclusive and connected history of colonial British Columbia.
Graduate

碩士
國立彰化師範大學
人力資源管理研究所
100
The current study quantitatively reviewed both published and unpublished empirical studies concerning the causes of emotional labor. Primary studies conducted in Taiwan from 2000 to 2010 were collected and submitted to a number of meta-analyses to investigate the effects of (a) work-related factors (job characteristics-skill variety, task identity, autonomy, feedback, and task significance; perceived display rules, organizational commitment, and difficult customers)； (b) individual differences (Big-5, and emotional intelligence) on employees' uses of surface and/or deep acting. Results showed that most of these antecedents significantly related to deep acting. However, their effect sizes generally fell between low (ρ = .1) to moderate (ρ = .3). In addition, the effects of several predictors on emotional labor may be moderated by variables such as industry type and the type of primary studies (dissertation vs. journal article). We offered discussions to provide directions for future emotional labor research.

This thesis examines internal union and external factors affecting union relations with Aboriginal workers in the wool and cattle sectors of the South Australian and Northern Territory pastoral industries, from union formation in the nineteenth century to the cold war period in the 1950s.
PhD Doctorate

Indigenous resistance made Caribbean colonization a slow and violent process in the period of 1580-1690. The Caribbean Indians who rejected colonization became targets for enslavement. Slavers captured indigenous people in raids or through trade within indigenous-dominated territories. I conceptualize this space as "Caribana." Geographically, it stretched from Guiana northward throughout islands of the Lesser Antilles. I focus on the Indigenous captives from Caribana who were enslaved in English and Dutch colonies, namely Barbados, Curaçao, and Suriname. I show how colonists justified enslaving indigenous people in the same manner as they justified the trans-Atlantic African slave trade, despite widespread taboos against the former practice and not the latter. These taboos did not prevent Indian slavery, but they influenced the creation of seventeenth-century histories, government reports, and other material for public and European consumption. Indian slavery has thus been written about, then and now, as a limited phenomenon wherein Indians had limited and specific labor roles (i.e. as fishermen or domestic servants). However, sources such as deeds and tax-rolls show that more Indian slaves than assumed contributed a broad range of skills to plantations economies. English Barbados was exceptionally successful because it was geographically separated from the conflicts that created captives in Caribana, but nevertheless extracted Indian slaves from the region. Meanwhile, colonies abutting Caribana, such as Suriname, faced trade sanctions from neighboring Indians and rebellions if they abused the Indian slave trade. From the 1670s-1690s, Colonial governments limited the means of accessing Indian slaves, but once enslaved, they faced the same restrictive "black codes" that allowed the brutal treatment of them as inheritable chattel.

Introduction: In 2007, the Ministry of Health in Malawi issued a directive banning traditional birth attendants (TBAs) from delivering mothers and ordered all mothers to access skilled birth attendants in health facilities (MoH, 2007b). Anecdotal reports showed that the influx of pregnant mothers to the health facilities resulted in mothers delivering on make shift beds on the floor and sometimes without the assistance of the skilled provider. The badly stretched health care system continues to force mothers to deliver with the assistance of TBAs who have gone underground for fear of being fined. Purpose of the study: The purpose of this study was to explore stakeholders’ perceptions of the changing role of TBAs in order to obtain a greater breadth of understanding of the reasons why home births persist in the rural areas of Central West Zone (CWZ), Malawi. Methods: The study employed a mixed method concurrent triangulation design in which 24 health facilities in the districts of Ntcheu, Dedza, Lilongwe and Mchinji, in CWZ, Malawi were included. A non-probability purposive sampling method was used to select 24 health facilities that provide Basic Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care (BEmONC) services in rural areas of CWZ. A randomly selected sample was used to collect quantitative data from mothers, using an interview schedule. These were mothers (n=144) who had come to access maternal and neonatal health care but had previously sought the help of a TBA to deliver. A total of 55 nurse midwives who worked in the 24 health facilities and who were available and willing to participate responded to a structured interview schedule. Quantitative data were analyzed using SPSS version 19. Qualitative data were collected using focus group discussions (FGDs) with TBAs (n=4 FGDs, with 6-7 respondents in each discussion group) who lived in the catchment areas of the selected BEmONC sites. Single in- depth interviews were conducted with TBA trainers (n=10) in the districts and health professionals (n=12) from the Ministry of Health and Nurses and Midwives Council of Malawi. Data were analyzed manually. Findings: The findings showed that the moratorium on TBAs was implemented without consultation with the relevant stakeholders and as a result, many mothers in rural areas continued to seek the services of TBAs. Untrained TBAs took advantage of the opportunity and together with some trained TBAs who were afraid of punishment went underground to practice. Maternal and neonatal health care in BEmONC facilities were deficient as the health care system struggled with challenges such as the lack of adequate and humane accommodation for waiting mothers, critical shortages of staff, drugs and supplies and negative health care worker attitudes. In addition, long distances and the lack of empowerment of rural women prevented mothers from seeking skilled birth attendants. The study concluded that even though the government had issued a moratorium on TBAs, the health care system is not coping. Recommendations: It is recommended that having moved away from the TBAs, there is no need to revert to using them since that would mean perpetuating harmful and substandard care for mothers. In addition, TBA services would undermine the government’s efforts to improve skilled birth attendance. However, the system needs to urgently deal with the challenges that rural mothers encounter in trying to access skilled birth attendance.

Mak, Ka Kui.
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2013.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 41-48).
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Abstracts also in Chinese.