Dissertations / Theses: 'Labor mobility – Social aspects'

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Klanarong, Nisakorn. "Female international labour migration from Southern Thailand /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 2003. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phk632.pdf.

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Janiak, Alexandre. "Essais sur la mobilité géographique, sectorielle et intra-sectorielle en périodes de changement structurel : le rôle du capital humain, du capital social et de l'ouverture aux échanges." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210600.

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Résumé de la thèse d’Alexandre Janiak intitulée « Essais sur la mobilité géographique, sectorielle et intra-sectorielle en périodes de changement structurel »

Le changement structurel est un processus nécessaire qui améliore considérablement les conditions de vie dans nos sociétés. Il peut découler par exemple de l'introduction de nouvelles avancées technologiques qui permettent d'augmenter à long terme la productivité agrégée dans nos économies. En retour, la hausse de la productivité a un impact sur notre consommation de tous les jours. Elle nous permet notamment de vivre dans un plus grand confort. Les individus peuvent alors s'épanouir dans leur ensemble. Il est évident que le changement structurel peut prendre d'autres formes que celle du changement technologique, mais il est souvent issu d'une transformation des forces qui influencent les marchés et en général aboutit à long terme à une amélioration du bien-être global.

Mais le changement structurel est aussi un processus douloureux. Il peut durer plusieurs décennies et, durant cette période, nous sommes beaucoup à devoir en supporter les coûts. Comme nous allons l'illustrer dans ce chapitre introductif, le changement structurel a pour conséquence une modification du rapport aux facteurs de production, ce qui alors mène à modifier l'ensemble des prix relatifs qui caractérisent une économie. En particulier, la modification des prix est due à une transformation des demandes relatives de facteurs. Ces derniers se révèlent alors inutiles à l'exécution de certaines tâches ou sont fortement demandés dans d'autres points de l'économie.

Souvent, le changement structurel entraîne alors un processus de réallocation. Des pans entiers de travailleurs doivent par conséquent se réallouer à d'autres tâches. Les lois du marché les incitent ainsi à devoir s'adapter à un nouveau contexte, mais elles le font pour un futur meilleur.

Cette thèse s'intéresse à cette problématique. Elle suppose que tout processus de changement structurel implique un mouvement de réallocation des facteurs de production, notamment des travailleurs puisqu'il s'agit d'une thèse en économie du travail, mais qu'un tel processus engendre souvent des coûts non négligeables. Elle se veut surtout positive, mais la nature des questions qu'elle pose mène naturellement à un débat normatif. Par exemple, elle cherche des réponses aux interrogations suivantes: comment s'ajuste une économie au changement structurel? Quelle est la nature des coûts associés au changement? Ces coûts peuvent-ils en excéder les gains? Le processus de réallocation en vaut-il vraiment la peine? Les gains issus d'un tel processus sont-ils distribués de manière égale?

La thèse est composée de quatre chapitres qui chacun considère l’impact d’un changement structurel particulier.

Le premier chapitre s’intéresse à l’impact de l’ouverture internationale aux échanges sur le niveau de l’emploi. Il s’appuie sur des travaux récents en économie internationale qui ont montré que la libéralisation du commerce mène à l’expansion des firmes les plus productives et à la destruction des entreprises dont la productivité est moins élevée. La raison de cette dichotomie est la présence d’un coût à l’entrée sur le marché des exports qui a été documentée par de nombreuses études. Certaines entreprises se développent suite à la libéralisation car elles ont accès à de nouveaux marchés et d’autres meurent car elles ne peuvent pas faire face aux entreprises les plus productives. Puisque le commerce crée à la fois des emplois et en détruit d’autres, ce chapitre a pour but de déterminer l’effet net de ce processus de réallocation sur le niveau agrégé de l’emploi.

Dans cette perspective, il présente un modèle avec firmes hétérogènes où pour exporter une entreprise doit payer un coût fixe, ce qui implique que seules les entreprises les plus productives peuvent entrer sur le marché international. Le modèle génère le processus de réallocation que l’ouverture au commerce international suppose. En effet, comme les entreprises les plus productives veulent exporter, elles vont donc embaucher plus de travailleurs, mais comme elles sont également capables de fixer des prix moins élevés et que les biens sont substituables, les entreprises les moins productives vont donc faire faillite. L’effet net sur l’emploi est négatif car les exportateurs ont à la marge moins d’incitants à embaucher des travailleurs du au comportement de concurrence monopolistique.

Le chapitre analyse également d’un point de vue empirique l’effet d’une ouverture au commerce au niveau sectoriel sur les flux d’emplois. Les résultats empiriques confirment ceux du modèle, c’est-à-dire qu’une hausse de l’ouverture au commerce génère plus de destructions que de créations d’emplois au niveau d’un secteur.

Le second chapitre considère un modèle similaire à celui du premier chapitre, mais se focalise plutôt sur l’effet du commerce en termes de bien-être. Il montre notamment que l’impact dépend en fait de la courbe de demande de travail agrégée. Si la courbe est croissante, l’effet est positif, alors qu’il est négatif si elle est décroissante.

Le troisième chapitre essaie de comprendre quels sont les déterminants de la mobilité géographique. Le but est notamment d’étudier le niveau du chômage en Europe. En effet, la littérature a souvent affirmé que la faible mobilité géographique du travail est un facteur de chômage lorsque les travailleurs sans emploi préfèrent rester dans leur région d’origine plutôt que d’aller prospecter dans les régions les plus dynamiques. Il semble donc rationnel pour ces individus de créer des liens sociaux locaux si ils anticipent qu’ils ne déménageront pas vers une autre région. De même, une fois le capital social local accumulé, les incitants à la mobilité sont réduits.

Le troisième chapitre illustre donc un modèle caractérisé par diverses complémentarités qui mènent à des équilibres multiples (un équilibre avec beaucoup de capital social local, peu de mobilité et un chômage élevé et un autre avec des caractéristiques opposées). Le modèle montre également que le capital social local est systématiquement négatif pour la mobilité et peut être négatif pour l’emploi, mais d’autres types de capital social peuvent en fait faire augmenter le niveau de l’emploi.

Dans ce troisième chapitre, une illustration empirique qui se base sur plusieurs mesures montre que le capital social est un facteur dominant d’immobilité. C’est aussi un facteur de chômage lorsque le capital social est clairement local, alors que d’autres types de capital social s’avèrent avoir un effet positif sur le taux d’emploi. Cette partie empirique illustre également la causalité inverse où des individus qui vivent dans une région qui ne correspond pas à leur région de naissance accumulent moins de capital social local, ce qui donne de la crédibilité à une théorie d’équilibres multiples.

Finalement, en observant que les individus dans le Sud de l’Europe semblent accumuler plus de capital social local, alors que dans le Nord de l’Europe on tend à investir dans des types plus généraux de capital social, nous suggérons qu’une partie du problème de chômage en Europe peut mieux se comprendre grâce au concept de capital social local.

Enfin, le quatrième chapitre s’intéresse à l’effet de la croissance économique sur la qualité des emplois. En particulier, il analyse le fait qu’un individu puisse avoir un emploi qui corresponde ou non à ses qualifications, ce qui, dans le contexte de ce chapitre, détermine s’il s’agit de bons ou mauvais emplois.

Ce chapitre se base sur deux mécanismes qui ont été largement abordés par la littérature. Le premier est le concept de « destruction créatrice » qui dit que la croissance détruit de nouveaux emplois car elle les rend obsolètes. Le second est le processus de « capitalisation » qui nous dit que la croissance va créer de nombreux emplois car les entreprises anticipent des profits plus élevés dans le futur.

Alors que des études récentes, suggèrent que la destruction créatrice ne permet pas d’expliquer le lien entre croissance et chômage, ce chapitre montre qu’un tel concept permet de mieux comprendre la relation entre croissance et qualité des emplois.

Avec des données issues du panel européen, nous illustrons que la corrélation entre croissance et qualité des emplois est positive. Nous présentons une série de trois modèles qui diffèrent de la manière suivante :(i) le fait de pouvoir chercher un emploi ou non alors qu’on en a déjà un, (ii) le fait pour une entreprise de pouvoir acquérir des équipements modernes. Les résultats suggèrent que pour expliquer l’effet de la croissance sur la qualité des emplois, la meilleure stratégie est une combinaison entre les effets dits de destruction créatrice et de capitalisation. Alors que le premier effet influence le taux de destruction des mauvais emplois, le second a un impact sur la mobilité du travail des mauvais vers les bons emplois.

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McEntarfer, Erika L. "Three Essays on Social Networks in Labor Markets." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29531.

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This dissertation consists of three essays examining the important role of job connections, references, and word of mouth information in labor markets. The first essay examines the importance of job connections for internal migrants. In this chapter, I develop a theoretical model where labor market networks provide labor market information with less noise than information obtained in the formal market. This model predicts lower initial wages and greater wage growth after migration for migrants without contacts. I then use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY) to examine whether migrants who used social connections when finding their first job assimilate faster in the new region. Consistent with the theoretical model, I find that migrants who did not use social connections take longer to assimilate in the new region. The second essay models how screening workers through social networks impacts labor mobility in markets with adverse selection. When there is asymmetric information in labor markets, worker mobility is constrained by adverse selection in the market for experienced workers. However, if workers can acquire references through their social networks then they can move more easily between jobs. In this chapter I develop a simple labor market model in which workers can learn the productivity of other workers through social interaction. I show that networks increase wages and mobility of high-productivity experienced workers; however, networks discourage workers from accepting jobs outside their job-contact network, because of adverse selection. The third essay in this dissertation examines the importance of social networks in labor markets when work is produced jointly. Most employers cite poor attitude and poor fit with firm culture as their greatest problems in recruiting employees, rating these factors more important than skill. This is easily explained when the output of the firm requires that workers engage in work together. In this essay, I explain why it might be rational for firms to hire through social networks even when worker skill is observed perfectly, if these workers are better able to do joint work with the firm s existing employees.
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Pope, Naomi Elizabeth. "Beyond Hollywood the social and spatial division of labor in the motion picture industry /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1579190531&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Lam, Wing-yee Winnie, and 林泳怡. "Individual mobility for socially sustainable transport." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47752889.

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A socially sustainable transport system has to make sure that opportunities are accessible to all. The social dimension is important as transport-related barriers can contribute to social injustice. A well-functioning transport system should promote greater equity by linking people and places together. The discussion in this thesis revolves around the main concept of individual mobility. It refers to the ease with which an individual can move from one place to another to access opportunities. The main research objective of the thesis is to investigate the factors affecting individual mobility of three selected transport-disadvantaged groups, namely children, working mothers and the elderly. The thesis presents three in-depth case studies within a framework of time geography. Each study highlights the individual mobility problems confronted by the selected transport-disadvantaged group. The first case study is a detailed investigation of children’s mobility to access educational opportunities. The next chapter examines gendered mobility of working mothers and their counterparts. Finally, a walkability study is carried out to evaluate how the walking environment affects outdoor mobility of the aging population. This research employs a suite of methods in evaluating individual mobility. Children’s access to educational opportunities is examined through the computation of the size of potential path area and the number of weighted opportunities reachable within given space-time constraints. To move on, multilevel analysis is carried out to compare the daily activity spaces of married couples. Finally, a walkability assessment is conducted to evaluate factors affecting older people’s access to health-care facilities. These approaches build up to a comprehensive and holistic view to explore the issue of socially sustainable transport. By providing a more focused picture on the transport problems faced by groups which run the risks of being excluded in the mainstream transport development, this study has the potential to provide a new and comprehensive outlook in the theme of social sustainability in transport research. This thesis brings the social, spatial and temporal dimensions together in planning for a socially sustainable transport system. The results of each case study provide advice and develop initiatives to work towards a more inclusive, equitable and sustainable society. The findings from the chapter on children show that place disadvantage is an important issue to be addressed. For working mothers, the household responsibility hypothesis is evident, despite the compact city environment. The final chapter shows that active transport can benefit elderly citizens in a multitude of ways. More walkability assessments surrounding health-care and other opportunities should be looked into and audited. From the findings, the research concludes that the needs of these groups are not thoroughly addressed in Hong Kong, and related geographical research is also limited in the field. The urge to address the preferences and needs of these groups are of strategic importance. Recommendations for future research include an improved understanding of the needs among an expanded range of stakeholders and depending on the locations in where they live.
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Guerreiro, Augusto Marc. "Social participation for sustainable mobility : The effects of digital transformation on mobility behavior." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Jönköping University, IHH, Informatik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-49241.

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Overall traffic in Germany is constantly increasing. Automobiles account for 57 percent of all trips in the country (BMVI, 2018). Steady population growth, urban agglomeration, and sprawl of cities contribute significantly to this trend. Simultaneously, the rise of digital services is progressively complementing travel by route planning, navigation, and ticketing. Therefore, a redesign and reinterpretation of the traditional understanding of the mobility landscape is required. The purpose of this work is twofold. First, to investigate the effects of digital transformation on people’s mobility behavior in public space, arguing for ecosystems in blended space being a consequence of the digital transformation at large. Second, to explore how social participation can lead to societal change for sustainable travel in the context of digital transformation. Digital technology has blurred the boundaries between physical and digital. Although physical and digital spaces are treated as separate parts, the former relates to the success of the latter. Qualitative interviewing was applied to systematically create an understanding about key actors’ roles and interdependencies as well as their perspective on how digital technologies modify today’s mobility landscape. This work concludes that the digital transformation allows individuals to influence travel demand purposefully. The system’s underlying structure reveals travel as purposive demand, a pattern extending the understanding of travel as a derived demand and valued activity. The Multi-Layered Participatory Process (MLPP), developed on the basis of the study’s findings, provides means to enable large scale social acceptance for sustainable mobility behavior.

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Eberle, Meghan Lea. "Precarity and social mobilization among migrant workers from Myanmar in Thailand." Thesis, Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2010. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B43756372.

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Wu, Shuang. "Workers' everyday lives and the transformation of China's post-reform state-owned enterprises." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2020. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/753.

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The interweaving of China's "reform and opening-up" policy of 1978 with globalisation has shifted the landscape of Chinese economic geographies (CEGs). With influential economic, social, and ideological functions, state-owned enterprises (SOEs) vividly illustrate the multiple political economic, geographic, and socio-cultural dimensions of these changes. Regions with concentrations of SOEs have been particularly impacted. This includes North East (NE) China, which historically held the highest proportion of employment in SOEs and has witnessed the closure of many SOEs and regional decline. Explanations of these changes emphasise the structural and institutional mechanisms of reform under globalisation. I argue this extensive literature regards workers as passive factors of production and limits discussions of space and time. Drawing on scholarship on Global Production Networks (GPNs) and Assemblages, I propose a new conceptual framework that positions the everyday life of each worker at the heart of SOE transformation. My central research question is: "how are workers" everyday lives implicated in SOE transformation?" I explore this by re-reading transformation as the coming together of reform under globalisation with the lived experiences, practices, and affective encounters of workers' everyday lives. The novelty of this framework leads me to sketch three general research propositions rather than setting formal hypotheses. I address the research question and demonstrate my framework by using qualitative research methods and building grounded theory. To explore the differentiated ways in which SOEs are transforming, I studied 13 SOEs from three major cities of NE (Harbin, Changchun, and Shenyang). A three-phase research design was deployed. I completed 62 individual and 8 group interviews. To increase the reliability and replicability of the results, I triangulated data by considering in-depth interviews, public policy documents, internet forums, movies and magazines, and on-site field observation. The empirical findings are presented in three chapters which depict, respectively, the lived experiences, practices, and affective encounters of everyday life. First, I explore workers' lived experiences of social relations in the context of reform and their link to specific spatial arrangements. I characterise interdependent social relations and spatial arrangements constitute the socio-spatial formations. The next chapter further explores workers' mobile and immobile practices and the changing meanings of time and space of SOE socio-spatial formation. Third, I describe how encounters and affects give rise to intensity of feelings which reproduces practice and impacts the SOE socio-spatial formation. In a nutshell, understanding SOEs as socio-spatial formations implies that transformation is not "meted out" by a state or abstract market force but an "always already present"process of mutual constitution of lived experiences, practices, and affective encounters in everyday life. Overall, my thesis expands economic geographic knowledge by highlighting the ongoing and processual nature of space and time and, more specifically, by valorising worker agency. I reflect on implications for CEG to combine with cultural and social geographies. I conclude by calling for an ontological shift of focusing on the emergence and contingency of CEGs.

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She, Powen. "Essays on career mobility in the UK labour market." Thesis, University of Essex, 2017. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/19955/.

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This thesis consists of three substantial chapters on topics related to occupational and industrial mobility. Using quarterly data of the Labour Force Survey (LFS) from 1992 to 2013, Chapter 2 documents the mobility across occupations and industries (referred to as career change). The findings suggest that occupational and industrial mobility are surprisingly high. Both occupational and industrial mobility are procyclical. The majority of instances of career change are associated with wage growth. During an expansion, a career changer's wage grows more than someone who stays in their career. However, this does not apply if the career changer was unemployed and then hired during a recession. The evidence suggests that career mobility during a business cycle is important for understanding the labour market flows and wage growth. The use of interviewing method may affect the accuracy of the data. The dependent interviewing is introduced in the survey, and is helpful in reducing the measurement errors. Chapter 3 uses data from British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and UK Household Longitudinal Survey (UKHLS) to examine the robustness of the results obtained by using LFS. The procyclicality of occupational and industrial mobility are reassured when the change of interviewing method is controlled for. The further detailed occupational and industrial classification is applied, and the pro-cyclicality of occupational and industrial mobility is found in the further detailing of classifications. Given the solid evidence found in Chaper 2 and 3, Chapter 4 develops a theoretical model to understand the mechanism of workers' reallocation. Aggregate productivity shock, sectoral productivity shock and preference shock are included in order to investigate reallocation through business cycle, net mobility and gross mobility respectively. This model shows the procyclicality of gross mobility between sectors, which is consistent with the findings in Chapter 2 and 3. This chapter also explains the higher level of unemployment during recession. This thesis undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the occupational and industrial mobility in the UK using both empirical and theoretical methods. Limitations of this thesis and suggestions for future research are provided.

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Simsek-Caglar, Ayse. "German Turks in Berlin : migration and their quest for social mobility." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=41770.

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This study examines the dynamics of German Turks' practices and life-styles and their relationship with Turkey in the context of the possibilities brought into their lives by their particular type of dislocation. Turkish migrants' "culture" and life-styles are explored in the context of their complex social space, rather than within a framework encapsulated in a reified ethnicity and/or immutable "Turkish culture".
Chapter I discusses concepts of ethnicity, culture and identity and presents a critical account of the literature on German Turks in this respect. Chapter II focuses on the ambiguities and insecurities of German Turks' legal, political and social status in both Turkey and Germany, and traces the consequences of these conditions on Turkish migrants' complex sense of place. The discussion of German Turks' "myths of return" in the context of their liminality and the impact these have on their self-image and their visions about their lives constitute the focus of chapters III and IV respectively. Chapter V explores the changing nature of Turkish migrants' interpersonal relationships. Chapter VI concentrates on the anomalies of the social space occupied by German Turks in German society and discusses their life-styles, practices and emergent cultural forms in the context of social mobility.

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Agbley, Gideon Kofi. "Social mobility and education in Ghana : interactions between capabilities and educational outcomes." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609844.

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Troshchenkov, S. "ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF COMMUTING." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/465740.

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This dissertation studies economic aspects of commuting. It explores, on one hand the mechanism of self-selection into long-distance commuting, return to commuting and, on the other hand, the factors that determine exits from commuting. After investigation of the main bulk of literature about commuting, the research addresses the selectivity of commuters from ex-ante earnings and ability distributions (Chapter 1), monetary return to the commuting distance (Chapter 2) and factors that affects the probability of various exits from commuting spells (Chapter 3) with particular focus on the role of commuting distance and earnings. The analysis uses extensive longitudinal dataset with the precise geocoded information on the individuals’ places of work and residence which is based on the administrative registers of Statistics Sweden. The first research paper, titled “Self-selection into long-distance commuting on earnings and latent characteristics”, focuses on understanding the nature of selectivity, as it is important factor in interpretation the results of empirical research. In our study we consider two potential dimensions of self-selection: the selection based on latent characteristics and the selection based on the measured earnings before starting long distance commuting. Both dimensions are captured using single model allowing identification of testable hypothesis about the simultaneous selection based on the previous earnings and latent characteristics. In order to conduct our analysis, we apply extensive administrative geocoded dataset with precise individual information including the coordinates of the places of residence and work. We demonstrate the negative selection of commuters from the ex-ante earning distribution. In the same time, our results indicate that the individuals with unobserved traits associated with higher earnings are also more likely engage into the long distance commuting. The second research paper, titled “Return to commuting distance in Sweden”, aims to estimate the magnitude of the economic return to commuting and compare the relative returns received by men and women. We apply fixed effect models to deal with individual unobserved heterogeneity that could potentially generate an endogeneity issue. We use a large dataset based on Administrative Registers for Sweden, which gathers detailed information on residential and job location, and indirectly on commuting. Results indicate that individuals receive relatively small compensations for commuting, with higher returns in agglomerations. Moreover, the relative return as a fraction of hourly wage is approximately similar across genders. This last finding provides evidence of similar bargaining powers for both men and women. In our third paper, titles “Hazard from commuting: the role of earnings and distance. The case of Sweden”, we estimate the effect of earnings and commuting distance on the probability of exiting from a duration spell of commuting using a discrete time competing risk model. The data set, used in analysis, is based on the Swedish administrative registers from Statistics Sweden and the Swedish Tax Board and covers the period between 2000 and 2009. The problem of endogeneity of individual earnings and commuting distance in determining the length of work-related commuting spells is addressed using two-stage residual inclusion (2SRI). The estimates reveal that the earnings paid by firms have a positive impact on the probability of migration and a negative impact on the probability of job separation. At the same time, greater distance increases the probabilities of migrating closer to the place of work, re-employment closer to the place of residence and separation to non-employment while decreasing the probabilities of migration further away from the place of work and re-employment further away from the place of residence. The results are revealed to be robust in the samples of married and unmarried individuals.

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Zignani, M. "FROM SMALL-WORLDS TO BIG DATA:TEMPORAL AND MULTIDIMENSIONAL ASPECTS OF HUMAN NETWORKS." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/233322.

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In this thesis we address the close interplay among mobility, offline relationships and online interactions and the related human networks at different dimensional scales and temporal granularities. By generally adopting a data-driven approach, we move from small datasets about physical interactions mediated by human-carried devices, describing small social realities, to large-scale graphs that evolve over time, as well as from human mobility trajectories to face-to-face contacts occurring in different geographical contexts. We explore in depth the relation between human mobility and the social structure induced by the overlapping of different people's trajectories on GPS traces collected in urban and metropolitan areas. We define the notions of geo-location and geo-community which are operational in describing in a unique framework both spatial and social aspects of human behavior. Through the concept of geo-community we model the human mobility adopting a bipartite graph. Thanks to this graph representation we can generate a social structure that is plausible w.r.t. the real interactions. In general the modeling approach have the merit for reporting the mobility in a graph-theoretic framework making the study of the interplay mobility/sociality more affordable and intuitive. Our modeling approach also results in a mobility model, Geo-CoMM, which lies on and exploits the idea of geo-community. The model represents a particular instance of a general framework we provide. A framework where the social structure behind the preferred-location based mobility models emerges. We validate Geo-CoMM on spatial, temporal, pairwise connectivity and social features showing that it reproduces the main statistical properties observed in real traces. As concerns the offline/online interplay we provide a complete overview of the close connection between online and offline sociality. To reach our goal we gather data about offline contacts and social interactions on Facebook of a group of students and we propose a multidimensional network analysis which allows us to deeply understand how the characteristics of users in the distinct networks impact each other. Results show how offline and Facebook friends are different. This way we confirm and worsen the general intuition that online social networks have shifted away from their original goal to mirror the offline sociality of individuals. As for the role and the social importance, it becomes apparent that social features such as user popularity or community structure do not transfer along social dimensions, as confirmed by our correlation analysis of the network layers and by the comparison among the communities. In the last chapters we analyze the evolution of the online social network from a physical time perspective, i.e. considering the graph evolution as a graph time-series and not as a function of the network basic properties (number of nodes or links). As for the physical time in a user-centric viewpoint, we investigate the bursty nature of the link creation process in online social network. We prove not only that it is a highly inhomogeneous process, but also identify patterns of burstiness common to all nodes. Then we focus on the dynamic formation of two fundamental network building components: dyads and triads. We propose two new metrics to aid the temporal analysis on physical time: link creation delay and triangle closure delay. These two metrics enable us to study the dynamic creation of dyads and triads, and to highlight network behavior that would otherwise remain hidden. In our analysis, we find that link delays are generally very low in absolute time and are largely independent of the dates people join the network. To highlight the social nature of this metric, we introduce the term \textit{peerness} to quantify how well linked users overlap in lifetimes. As for triadic closure delay we first introduce an algorithm to extract of temporal triangle which enables us to monitor the triangle formation process, and to detect sudden changes in the triangle formation behavior, possibly related to external events. In particular, we show that the introduction of new service functionalities had a disruptive impact on the triangle creation process in the network.

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Gonick, Marnina K. "Working from home : women, work and family." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=63862.

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Lau, Ka-ying, and 劉嘉盈. "Qualities and processes of mobility: a study of managerial elities in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B43703744.

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Alves, Neto Eduardo. "Processos identitários, mobilidade social e migração urbana : estudo sobre a empresa Vale Fertilizantes em Sergipe : um estudo sobre trajetórias profissionais." Pós-Graduação em Sociologia, 2014. https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/6257.

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In contemporary times, the current production model more flexible labor relations and educational opportunities. Having thus shaken the old social and economic structures that once tended to be rigid to a single financial niche that has evolved into the fast dynamics of a globalized space. Thus workers have become migrants as well as the fashion capital and goods flows moving between social spaces and multi-cultural settings redefine the lines of socioeconomic stratification because social mobility and through trajectories. Inequalities of opportunity before the school when on the geographical and social background are part of the formative elements of identity processes. The overall objective of this study is to undertake a sociological analysis of the knowledge of the staff and their relationships with the placement of employees within the functional hierarchies Taquarí-Vassouras (UOTV) of Vale Fertilizers Sergipe Operating Unit from its geographical origin and level schooling.
Na contemporaneidade, o atual modelo produtivo flexibilizou as relações de trabalho e as oportunidades de escolaridade. Tendo assim, abalado as antigas estruturas sociais e econômicas que outrora tendiam a serem rígidas a um único nicho financeiro que evoluiu para a dinamicidade veloz de um espaço globalizado. Dessa maneira os trabalhadores transformaram-se em migrantes que assim como os capitais e as mercadorias forma fluxos que se deslocam entre os espaços sociais e em múltiplas configurações culturais redefinem as linhas das estratificações socioeconômicas em razão da mobilidade social e por meio de trajetórias. As desigualdades de oportunidade perante o ensino quando relativas a origem geográfica e social constituem parte dos elementos formadores dos processos identitários. O objetivo geral desse estudo é empreender uma análise sociológica sobre os saberes dos funcionários e suas relações com o posicionamento de funcionários no interior das hierarquias funcionais Unidade Operacional Taquarí-vassouras (UOTV) da Vale Fertilizantes em Sergipe a partir de sua origem geográfica e do nível de escolaridade.

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Henke, Wiebke Lena. "Shared Mobility As A Socio-Technical System : An investigation of the mobility system in Augsburg." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Jönköping University, IHH, Centre for Information Technology and Information Systems (CenITIS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-49674.

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A major shift in our society is the one from a goods-dominant logic to a service-dominant one. Ownership becomes less important, while services from the area of sharing economy experience a rising demand. Municipalities and private companies are adapting and different shared mobility systems are emerging from their pursuit of new forms of mobility. In 2019, Augsburg created a shared mobility system where public transport, carsharing and bikesharing are all provided via one subscription. As this form of subscription does not have many customers yet, this thesis aims to first identify the system and research which reason and components motivate the people in Augsburg to use the system, as well as collecting different ideas for improvement. An expert interview was conducted with someone from the operator side and then customer interviews were held to get an insight from the customers’ point of view. This data was analyzed using tools from the area of information system as well as information architecture and the system was mapped out and discussed. The system was mapped out around the user and the connections were shown, which indicated that the user wants simplicity and clarity, as too many platforms and ways to book a mobility service was stated negatively.

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Gurses, Mehmet. "Wealth and Regime Formation: Social and Economic Origins of the Change Toward Democracy." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3966/.

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This study explores the relationship between economic development, social mobility, elites, and regime formation. I argue that the genesis of regime formation, in general, and of democratic regimes, in particular, is determined by the type of economic structure a society possesses, on the one hand, and on the degree the to which demands from disfranchised groups do or do not pose a substantial threat to the interests of elites who occupy the upper strata of the social and economic status hierarchy. Second I demonstrate that the dynamics of transition to wider political participation, as the core element of a democratic system of governance, and the survival of such change are different. In what follows I illustrate that some factors that have been found to dampen the chances for wider participation or have been found to be unrelated to onset of a democratic system of governance have considerable impacts on the durability of the democratic regimes. In a nutshell, the analysis points to the positive effects of mineral wealth and income inequality on the prospects of a democratic survival. Using a cross-national time series data set for all countries for the period between 1960 and 1999 I put the hypotheses to the test. I use binary logit, ordered logit, and ordinary least squares (OLS) to delineate the link between socioeconomic changes and the transition to wider participation. Survival analyses are employed to test for what factors account for the durability of a democratic regime.

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Johnston, Robert L. "Collective action and changes in wage labor." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/54452.

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This study attempted to address the relative merits of the Weberian and Structural Marxist perspectives for explaining changes in the distribution of wage labor. The findings of the study suggested that many of the common assumptions held by Weberians and Structural Marxists concerning the effects of technological growth, increasing bureaucratization of production, increasing concentration of capital, and growth in the ranks of white-collar workers are not supported with data on manufacturing industries in the post-war era. Moreover, this study introduced collective action as an important determinant for explaining changes in the labor process and in the distribution of wage labor. The findings indicate that workers collective action enhances our understanding of labor process development and changes in wage labor. And, the findings suggest that the struggle between workers and capitalists is vital to understanding the process of capitalist development since World War II, contrary to the popularly held beliefs of many post-industrial theorists.
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Gomes, Sueli de Castro. "O território de trabalho dos carregadores piauienses no terminal da CEAGESP: modernização, mobilização e a migração." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8136/tde-18102007-144240/.

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O objeto da pesquisa é o estudo da mobilidade do trabalho em suas diferentes formas no processo de modernização, no qual a rede social aparece como um produto e suporte de desencadeamento. Para tal, estudamos a migração de nordestinos para a metrópole de São Paulo e em especial uma grande rede social de piauienses. Esse último grupo de migrantes nordestinos vai se inserir no mundo do trabalho na condição de carregadores no terminal de abastecimento da Grande São Paulo. Assim, esses nordestinos demarcam a sua territorialidade, expressa na relação de trabalho, na sua origem e na sua residência. A Companhia de Entrepostos e Armazéns Gerais do Estado de São Paulo - CEAGESP - possui entre outros equipamentos um entreposto terminal de produtos hortifrutigranjeiros e pescado. Este entreposto está instalado desde 1966 na Vila Leopoldina, localizado na Zona Oeste da cidade de São Paulo. Ele é um grande mercado de trabalho, em que a mobilidade do trabalho está materializada sob diversas formas ocupação tanto na área interna, como no seu entorno. As formas de trabalho desse Mercado estão inseridos nos dois circuitos da economia urbana.
This research aims at studying the labor mobility in its different forms within the modernization process, in which the social network appears as its product and also as a ground for its development. Thus, we exam the migration of Brazilian Northeastern people to the city of São Paulo, more specifically those from the State of Piauí. Members of this group tend to introduce themselves in the labor market in the condition of carriers in the São Paulo metropolitan supplying terminal, known as CEAGESP. By that, these migrants define their territoriality, expressed in the labor relationships they establish in their origin places as well as in their local residences. The State of São Paulo General Mart and Warehouse Company - CEAGESP - has among other equipments a commercialization terminal of vegetables, fruits, and fish and poultry products. This mart has been installed at Vila Leopoldina since 1966, located in the West Zone of the city of São Paulo. Also, it constitutes an immense \"labor market\", where the labor mobility is materialized under various occupation forms, be it in its internal area or in its surroundings. The labor forms of this market are inserted in both the urban economy circuits.

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Wang, Jieying. "Mobilizing resources in networked social movements: cases in Hong Kong and Taiwan." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2015. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/175.

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The study examines social movement resource mobilization in the age of the network society. In the traditional model of Resource Mobilization Theory (RMT), material and human resources, as well as the legitimacy gained for a movement from the mass media, play crucial roles in mobilization. In the contemporary epoch of informationalism and network society, a large variety of instant communication technologies penetrate everyday life, bringing a lifestyle characterized by the intensive integration between technologies and social life. By studying the cases of two recent social movements, which witnessed the networking of different organizations/individuals and their wide use of new technologies, this research tries to identify what sorts of movement resources are employed in the mobilization process, and what the resource mobilization process is like in the paradigm of informationalism and network society. Regarding the traditional RMT, scholars identified the missing link between the movement side and the general public in terms of empathy arousal. Despite that political opportunity process theorists largely added contextual elements, they concentrated on mainstream political institutional change, but still neglecting the role of historical and social culture, and people’s role as active agency. In this study, the author also integrates the cultural aspects as a type of immaterial resource to produce a broader look into movement resources. The two cases investigated are: the anti-moral-and-national-education movement (anti-M&N) in Hong Kong and the anti-media-monopoly movement (anti-monopoly) in Taiwan. This research was conducted using a qualitative approach, employing in-depth interviews and archive study as the major methods. Results show that the traditional resources, such as resource-rich movement organizations, professionals and those possessing fruitful movement experiences are still indispensable. However, it is noteworthy that technologically adept activists have gained an increasingly important position. Their tech-savvy capabilities make them at once information archivist, movement message translator and disseminator. In addition, their heavy use of online platforms has facilitated groups which lack resources to “out-source the provision of resources to a rhizomatic movement network. In this sense, with networking taking place between those who possess resources and the tech-savvy activists, between the core and the rhizomatic participants, a networked alliance has been formed as an important resource to today’s social movements. In traditional resource mobilization theory, the mass media was regarded as an important source to legitimize the movement. In these cases, besides the legitimacy gained from certain types of mass media, the activists also presented the movement’s messages strategically, by bridging the movements with social expectation and embedding in the historical context. By this means, the activists drew wider attention to anxieties about identity. In the light of the fact that Hong Kong and Taiwan are in the eye of the storm against the backdrop of China’s rising power, the issue of identity anxiety in these two societies may provide a direction for further research. Keywords: resource mobilization, network society, Hong Kong, Taiwan

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Coyle, Karen. "Women's perceptions of birth centre care: A qualitative approach." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1998. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1004.

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The purpose of this exploratory study was to describe women's perceptions of the care they received in a birth centre, compared to their previous experiences in a hospital. Australian statistics indicate that five percent of childbearing women now choose to receive care in a birth centre setting. Clinical outcomes of birth centre care are now well documented, but there is limited empirical data about women's experiences of this model of care. Seventeen women, who had recently given birth in a birth centre, and had previously experienced care in a hospital setting, were interviewed about their care experiences. Using content analysis, the primary patterns in the data were coded and categorised into the four key themes of : Beliefs about Pregnancy and Birth, Nature of the Care Relationship, Care Interactions and Care Structures. The underlying clinical issues were those relating to philosophies of care, control over childbirth, and continuity of carer. Women wanted carers who viewed birth as a natural process rather than as an illness, and who engaged in a sharing, rather than a controlling, relationship. Finally women preferred to know, and be known by their carers. These findings are important for midwives, in terms of their education and practice. They also have implications for hospital administrators, health planning agencies, and the medical profession.

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Gao, Chunyuan. "China's new generation migrant workers and anomie social momentum and modes of adoption." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2016. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/264.

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Using anomie theory, in this paper it is argued that the new generation migrant workers (NGMWs) in China are not only receptors under structures, but also a reactive force towards those structures. However, anomie theory has faced theoretical ambiguities, controversies and misunderstandings. It also lacks the power to explain micro-to-macro relationships. For these reasons, anomie theory is first clarified and refined in this study based on its classical roots. It is then further developed by introducing the concept of social momentum to mend its theoretical lacuna. It is argued that anomie naturally reflects structural discoordination at the macro level, and that deviance and normlessness, although typically seen as indicators of anomie, are only its symptomatic presentations. Furthermore, social momentum, determined by the quantity, solidarity and modes of adaption, reveals the capacity of a social category to influence structural relationships. This study demonstrates that China entered a comparatively anomic age after its economic reform. The NGMWs can be considered as a potential antithesis to anomie in China, as implied by certain qualities of their uniqueness indicated in earlier studies. The NGMWs’ social momentum is analysed according to a field study carried out by the author in 2015 in Shanghai and the 2011 Chinese Social Survey (CSS 2011). The data from the survey and study are used to discuss whether the NGMWs will help to remedy anomie. The findings show that (1) the NGMWs’ social momentum is strong but segmental and fragile due to the primary level solidarity of them, i.e., they lack a strong identity, and (2) the directions of their social momentum can be narrowed to two undetermined modes. The NGMWs tend to aggravate the symptoms of anomie, as they are weakly attached to cultural norms. However, they have an uncertain and not yet fully formed effect on the essence of anomie.

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David, Quentin. "Five essays on human and social capital." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210298.

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Chapter 1: The Determinants of the Production of Research by US Universities

Chapter 2: Investment in Vocational and General Human Capital: A Theoretical Approach

Chapter 3: Urban Migrations and the Labor Market

Chapter 4: Local social capital and geographical mobility

Chapter 5: Social Supervision and Electoral Stability on the Geographical Scale in Belgium
Doctorat en Sciences économiques et de gestion
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Paljevic, Miro. "Division of Labor within the Household: The Experience of Bosnian Immigrant Women in Portland, Oregon." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1421.

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This research study examines the impact of international migration of household labor for Bosnian immigrant women living in Portland, Oregon. Bosnia is a society with enduring patriarchal traditions which assume that women are in charge of doing household chores. Men are in charge of providing for the family monetarily. Many Bosnian families migrated to the U.S. in the mid 1990's in order to escape the war in Bosnia. In this study I interview 10 of these Bosnian women, concerning the division of labor in their homes in Bosnia and their homes in U.S. After migrating to the U.S. the amount of work women did within the home lessened as their husbands became more involved in helping with various chores. The changes in the division of household labor did not subvert traditional gender roles. Wives transferred and adapted their views of gender performativity after they migrated to the United States. The results are consistent with research that states that migrant women focus more on advancement of their family rather on their own emancipation.

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Coplen, Amy Katherine Rose. ""Poverty Wages Are Not Fresh, Local, or Sustainable": Building Worker Power by Organizing Around (Re)production in Portland's "Sustainable" Food Industry." PDXScholar, 2019. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5092.

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Although conscious consumers flock to sustainability-branded restaurants and grocery stores to "vote with their forks" for environmental sustainability and vibrant local economies, workers in these industries face the same poverty wages, discrimination, and exploitative labor practices that plague the food service and retail industries at large. Despite rapid growth and labor degradation, low-wage workers in these industries have largely been left behind by the mainstream labor movement and the alternative food movement. Whereas in the past, progressive social movements worked to alter power relations between labor and capital through collective action, today's mainstream labor movement focuses on servicing its dwindling membership and winning minimum wage increases through local ballot box measures and legislation. For its part, the alternative food movement focuses narrowly on achieving environmental sustainability through market-based mechanisms and consumption politics that do not adequately attend to the struggles of food chain workers. Through research conducted in partnership with the Burgerville Workers Union (BVWU) and the Industrial Workers of the World, I investigate three empirical research questions: 1) How do sustainability-branded institutions deploy values-based discourse and how does this relate to labor practices?, 2) How do worker-organizers understand and expose the contradictions of sustainability branding?, and 3) How do worker-organizers engage with social reproduction as a terrain of political struggle, and to what ends? I attend to these questions through activist scholarship aimed at informing my broad theoretical question: How might social reproduction "as discourse and practice" be marshaled to generate more inclusive organizing strategies, forge more just conceptions of sustainability, and build worker power? Drawing on over two years of ethnographic research, content analysis, and interviews with 48 worker-organizers involved in four labor organizing campaigns, I examine their efforts to build worker power through mutual aid programs, political education, and coalition politics. My analysis reveals that these strategies embody an inclusionary intersectional politics that prioritizes the needs of women, parents, and people of color, but that worker-organizers also face significant challenges. I demonstrate that organizing against neoliberal policies and practices requires moving beyond consumption politics and single-issue campaigns and deploying what I term (re)production politics which are fundamentally about how work is organized and how we care for society and the planet. Politicizing the labor, locations, and practices of social reproduction as landscapes of struggle, I conclude, offers an opportunity to build a broad class consciousness across interconnected issues and envision more liberatory ways of organizing social reproduction based on solidarity, mutuality, and interdependence.

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Brandes, Erika. "Det mobila arbetslivet : Beredskapsanalys och planering inför organisatorisk förändring." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Avd för informatik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-5391.

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Få studier har undersökt hur mobila arbetsprocesser kan integreras i verksamheter ur ett verksamhetsorienterat perspektiv, och bland organisationer råder brist på förståelse för, och långsiktiga strategier inom, företagsintern mobilitet. Denna studie undersöker hur en organisation kan förbereda sig inför förändring mot ett mobilare arbetsliv. För att besvara detta utfördes en litteraturstudie och en fallstudie bestående av dokumentstudier och intervjuer hos en organisation med särskilt utformad metodik inom området. Mognadsgraden kan utifrån resultaten anses relativt låg, och arbetet behöver lägga vikt på skapandet av förståelse för mobilitet och dess innebörd, där utmaningarna återfinns i hantering av förhållningssätt, organisationskultur, och ledarskap. Mobilitetsrelaterade behov var av både uppgiftsorienterad och social art, där olika tekniska lösningar föreslogs kunna bevara band mellan individer och organisation. Det finns behov av mer longitudinella studier eftersom de signifikanta förändringarna antyddes ske över längre tid. En viktig del av kunskapsutvecklingen inom området handlar också om att lära från andras exempel, där denna studie utgör ett bidrag.
Few studies have examined how mobile work processes can be integrated into organizations from a business-oriented perspective, and among organizations there’s a lack of long-term strategies, and understanding, for internal business mobility. This study examines how an organization can prepare itself for change towards a mobile work life. In order to do this a literature review and case study involving document studies and interviews at an organization with specifically developed methodologies were conducted. The results showed that the state of maturity is still relatively low, and there is a need to focus on developing a more thorough understanding of mobility, where challenges involve handling attitudes, organizational culture and leadership. Mobility-related needs involve task-oriented and social aspects, where different technological solutions were suggested to maintain the connections between individuals and the organization. There is also a need for more longitudinal studies due to the results showing how the significant changes occur over a longer period of time. An important part of the development of knowledge concerning mobility also involves learning from others’ examples, where this study is a contribution.

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Yum, Minchul. "Essays in Quantitative Macroeconomics." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1429444230.

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Harris, David Evan. "\'Você vai me servir\': desigualdade, proximidade e agência nos dois lados do Equador." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8132/tde-04072008-152652/.

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Essa dissertação apresenta uma etnografia de caráter comparativo das relações entre empregadas domésticas e seus empregadores, no Brasil e nos Estados Unidos. Com foco no entendimento das maneiras específicas com que empregadores contratam, interagem, e discutem a respeito de suas empregadas domésticas, a obra almeja alcançar um maior entendimento da reprodução e legitimação da desigualdade e da influência da ideologia econômica neoliberal nos dois países. O estudo apresenta uma tipologia binacional de empregadas domésticas, uma análise histórica das transições históricas no emprego doméstico nos dois países e um estudo dos fatores econômicos influenciando o trabalho doméstico. A conclusão propõe que apenas um continuum recomeço, com relações \"tradicionais\" e afetivas, enraizado em relações sociais desenvolvidas em sociedades pré-capitalistas, e tendendo a relações mais \"racionalistas\" e impessoais pode explicar uma grande parte do desenvolvimento da profissão nos dois países. Porém, não é trabalhando para a evolução da ocupação profissional nesse sentido é que haverá melhorias para a empregada doméstica de forma duradoura. Para que mudanças fundamentais ocorram para melhorar a vida no emprego doméstico, é necessária ação coletiva que enfrente a racionalidade neoliberal hegemônica - uma força cultural e estrutural - que tem reconfigurado as paisagens socioeconômicas dos dois países e, nas últimas décadas, deixado cada vez mais mulheres sem outra opção que entrar para o emprego doméstico. O caso de emprego doméstico entre esses dois países demonstra bem como a racionalidade e as políticas neoliberais facilitam a reprodução continua de formas de desigualdade e servidão antes associadas com ordens sociais obsoletos.
This thesis presents a comparative ethnography of the relations of domestic employment in Brazil and the United States. With a focus on understanding the specific ways in which employers contract, interact with, and discuss their domestic workers, the work aims to develop a greater understanding of the reproduction and legitimation of social inequality and the influence of neoliberal economic ideology in the two countries. The study presents a proposed binational typology of domestic workers, a historical analysis of the transitions in domestic work in the two countries and a study of economic factors influencing domestic work. The conclusion proposes that a continuum beginning with \"traditional\", affective relations, rooted in social relations developed in pre-capitalist societies, and leading increasingly towards more \"rationalistic\" and impersonal relations can explain much of the development of the profession\'s relations in the two countries, but that working to simply push the occupation forward on this path will not in itself help the domestic worker. For fundamental change to occur to improve the lives of the women in domestic employment, collective action towards overall societal change is necessary, challenging the hegemonic neoliberal rationality - in itself both a cultural and structural force - that has reconfigured the socioeconomic landscapes of both countries and shifted increasing numbers of women into domestic employment in recent decades. The case of domestic employment across these two nations is an exceptional demonstration of the ways in which neoliberal rationality and policy make possible the continued reproduction of forms of inequality and servitude once associated with outmoded social orders.

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Snitker, Aundrea Janae. "Beyond the "Stalled Revolution": Stay-at-Home Fathers, Gender Identity and the Division of Household Labor." PDXScholar, 2010. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/222.

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The purpose of this thesis is to explore how stay-at-home fathers view their role as the primary caregiver, and how they encounter opposing masculinity issues. This is explored through discussion about daily life, the decision to stay home, and household labor, a particularly interesting reflection of gender roles and equality. The two research questions used to explore this included: How do stay-at-home fathers understand their masculinity and social role? How does talk about the negotiation of household labor in stay-at-home father/career mother families illustrate masculinity issues? Through an analysis of interviews of eight present or past stay-at-home fathers, I capture the ways that these fathers describe and discuss the stay-at-home parent role. By looking at how these men define and interpret the specific challenges they face while in this role, I help tell the stories of stay-at-home father/career mother families, and understand whether these families, too, experience Hochschild's "stalled revolution."

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Clowes, Lindsay. "Making it work : aspects of marriage, motherhood and money-earning among white South African women 1960-1990." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21733.

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Bibliography: pages 201-215.
This study provides a feminist perspective on aspects of change in white women's lives in South Africa between 1960 and 1990. Changing patterns of women's work, where work encompasses unpaid domestic labour as well as paid employment outside the home, are traced. The different ways in which women have combined their socially defined obligations as wives and mothers, as employees or employers, are considered. The primary sources used include open-ended interviews with women, magazines and the publications of women's organisations. The period 1960-1973 was one in which most white women left the paid labour force after marrying. Towards the end of the period, in the context of a booming economy and a perceived shortage of skilled white labour, more white wives were remaining in employment after marriage. The media, women's organisations, the state, big business and white male workers were addressing, in different ways, the conflict between white wives entering paid employment and the necessity to protect traditional values whereby 'good' wives stayed at home. 1974-1984 saw large and increasing numbers of white wives taking up paid work, both part-time and full-time. The period saw employed wives becoming increasingly commonplace, while the range of occupations open to them expanded. Observing that most remained in the lower levels of corporate hierarchies, women's organisations focused on eliminating the 'glass ceilings' said to block women's entry to higher paid positions. By 1985-1990, women were encouraged to be ambitious, assertive and to strive for self-fulfilment through their careers. The conflict of trying to achieve in the male dominated business world, combined with a sexual division of labour that persisted in defining the home and the family as women's work, saw many women leave the work place to start up home-based businesses.

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Andrade, Ian Prates Cordeiro. "O sistema de profissões no Brasil: formação, expansão e fragmentação. Um estudo de estratificação social." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8132/tde-15022019-124053/.

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A tese analisa a trajetória do Sistema de Profissões e os seus elos com o sistema de estratificação social no Brasil. Focaliza as configurações do estrato profissional e os movimentos de (i) mobilidade social que caracterizam o grupo de posições privilegiadas no topo da hierarquia ocupacional. Argumenta-se que o sistema de profissões deve ser visto como o resultado da interrelação histórica entre três sistemas institucionais autônomos: a divisão do trabalho, o sistema de ensino superior, e a regulamentação profissional. O Estado é tomado como um ator central não apenas porque regula a produção de credenciais e os monopólios, mas também porque o modo como organiza a atividade econômica e os serviços de bem-estar cria novos mercados, ao tempo em que demanda e legitima os serviços profissionais. A pesquisa empírica se valeu de fontes (legislação, documentos, microdados das pesquisas domiciliares do IBGE Censos e Pnads) e técnicas diversas (análise de conteúdo, técnicas de análise quantitativa, pesquisa historiográfica) e, como resultado, foram identificados três grandes períodos na história do sistema de profissões no Brasil. Um primeiro de formação e estabilização (até a década de 1940) quando foram se consolidando gradativamente as regras que associam o exercício profissional, os monopólios de mercado e o diploma de ensino superior; um segundo de expansão e diferenciação, quando o sistema de profissões se expande concomitantemente à extensão de privilégios às novas carreiras que surgiam da diferenciação da divisão do trabalho e do sistema de ensino superior (1950 a 1980); e um terceiro, inaugurado na década de 1990, marcado pela diminuição da associação entre a divisão especializada do trabalho, o sistema de ensino superior e a extensão dos monopólios de mercado, tornando o sistema de profissões mais instável e fragmentado. A configuração do sistema de profissões ao longo do tempo condiciona a mobilidade social na parte de cima do sistema de estratificação, por dois motivos em especial: i) o modo como diferentes tipos de diplomas de ensino superior proporciona a inserção no estrato profissional; ii) e a forma como Estado e mercado recrutam os profissionais. Sendo assim, reconfigura-se associação histórica entre o diploma de ensino superior e a mobilidade social ascendente, alterando o próprio significado da mobilidade social no Brasil.
This dissertation aims at analyzing the trajectory of the Brazilian system of professions and its linkages with the countrys social stratification system. It focuses on the changing configurations of the professional stratum, and the social mobility movements to and from this group of privileged positions at the top of the occupational hierarchy. My main argument is that the system of professions reflects the historical interplay between three autonomous institutional systems: the division of labor, the higher education system and professional regulation. The State is a central actor not just because it regulates the production of credentials and monopolies. But also, because the way it organizes the economic activity and the welfare services create new markets, constrain and legitimate the professional services. The empirical research builds on several sources (legislation, documents, microdata from IBGE\'s Census and household surveys) and different techniques (content analysis, quantitative analysis, historiographic research). As a result, three significant periods have been identified in the history of the system of professions in Brazil. A first one, of formation and stabilization (until the 1940s), when the rules that link professional practice, market monopolies and higher education diploma were consolidated; a second period of expansion and differentiation when the system of professions grew, sharing privileges with the new careers that arose in a moment of increasing division of labor and expansion of the higher education system (from the 1950s to the 1980s). A third period, inaugurated in the 1990s, marked by a decline in the association between the specialized division of labor, the higher education system and the extension of market monopolies, making the system of professions more unstable and fragmented. The configuration of the system of professions over time conditions social mobility at the top of the stratification system, for two particular reasons: i) the way different types of higher education diplomas provide the insertion in the professional stratum; ii) and the way the state and the market recruit professionals. Thus, it reconfigures a historical association between higher education diploma and upward social mobility, changing the very meaning of social mobility in Brazil.

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Venter, Frederika Magdalena. "Die rol van maatskaplike faktore in die werksafwesigheid van vroulike fabriekarbeiders." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52223.

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Thesis (MSocialWork)--Stellenbosch University, 2001.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Workers absenteeism is a problem for many companies in South Africa. The absenteeism of workers affects the productivity of companies. The social worker in the industry plays a key role in the managing of workers absenteeism. One of the goals of social work in the industry is to enhance the productivity of workers. Consequently there is a lack of specifically South African research on the social factors that influence worker absenteeism and the role of the social worker to manage worker absenteeism. A survey of international literature forms the starting point for the research undertaken to fill this gap. The influence of social factors on worker absenteeism is described. Three worker absenteeism approaches, namely economical, psigological and sociological approaches are being used to describe the social factors that influence worker absenteeism. The literature view also offers management strategies to help combat worker absenteeism. In the study there is being focused on the female worker because the empirical study takes place at a company that manufactures clothes. The empirical study describes the social factors that influence the absenteeism of female workers working in the manufacturing company. Proposals are made concerning ways to combat worker absenteeism, taking into account the important role the social worker in the industry plays in managing worker absenteeism.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Werknemerafwesigheid is vir baie fabrieke en firmas in Suid-Afrika 'n ernstige probleem. Die werksafwesigheid van werknemers veroorsaak dat die produktiwiteit van fabrieke en firmas beïnvloed word. Die maatskaplike werker in die bedryf kan 'n belangrike rol speel in die hantering van werknemerafwesigheid, omdat dit 'n doelstelling van maatskaplike werk in die bedryf is om die produktiwiteit van werknemers te verhoog. Derhalwe is daar 'n gebrek aan spesifieke Suid-Afrikaanse navorsing oor die maatskaplike faktore wat werknemerafwesigheid beïnvloed, en wat die maatskaplike werker se rol is om werksafwesigheid te beperk. 'n Literatuurstudie word aangebied as vertrekpunt vir die navorsing wat onderneem is om genoemde leemte aan navorsing te vul. Die invloed van maatskaplike faktore op werknemerafwesigheid word bespreek. Drie benaderings tot werknemerafwesigheid, naamlik ekonomiese, sielkundige en sosiologiese benaderings word geondersoek waaronder die maatskaplike faktore wat werknemerafwesigheid beïnvloed, bespreek word. Die literatuuroorsig bied ook bestuurstrategieë om die werksafwesigheid van werknemers te bekamp. Daar word spesifiek op die vroulike werknemer gefokus omdat die empiriese ondersoek by 'n klerevervaardigingsfabriek plaasvind. Die empiriese ondersoek handel oor die maatskaplike faktore wat die werksafwesigheid van vroulike fabriekarbeiders beïnvloed. Na aanleiding van die bevindinge van die ondersoek word aanbevelings vir die hantering van werknemerafwesigheid gemaak. Dit geskied met inagneming van die belangrike rol wat die maatskaplike werker in die bedryf kan speel in die hantering van werknemerafwesigheid.

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Mizumoto, Ademar Iwao [UNESP]. "Outono em uma organização: convivendo com as crises." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/97692.

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O objetivo desta pesquisa consistiu em investigar o sofrimento psíquico do indivíduo em uma empresa em situação de crise, buscando a compreensão das questões subjetivas na construção da relação de trabalho. Foram levados em consideração o trajeto profissional dos sujeitos, gerentes e encarregados, as vivências na situação de crise, a ação desses profissionais no processo de gestão, e finalmente, a questão do sofrimento humano na relação com o trabalho. O referencial teórico fundamentou-se na Psicossociologia, com autores como Dejours (1986, 1992, 1999), Enriquez (2000, 2001), Págés (1987) e Gaulejac (2001). Em termos metodológicos, foram coletados os dados, por meio de entrevistas semi-dirigidas, com gerentes e encarregados de uma empresa de agronegócios do interior do Estado de São Paulo que passava por uma situação de crise. Os resultados apontaram três reações diferenciadas, mas ligadas entre si: uma, em que os gerentes e encarregados continuavam acreditando na possibilidade de sair da crise; a outra, que se acomodaram na situação; e ainda uma terceira, no qual os gerentes e encarregados negavam a situação e buscavam explicações para o fato. A crise provocou um enfraquecimento de todos os funcionários e pôde ser notada na forma como era conduzida a organização. No entanto, no âmbito familiar, os gerentes e encarregados conseguiram encontrar alternativas para as suas questões, abrindo novos espaços para os filhos.
The aim of this research is in investigating the psychic suffering of the individual in an enterprise in an crisis situation, looking for the comprehension of the subjective questions in the construction of the labor relationship. It was considered the professional path of the people managers and incharged employees, the experiences in the crisis situation, the action of these professionals in the management process, and finally, the question suffering in the relation with the labor. The theoretical reference was based in the psychosociology, with the authors like Dejours (1986, 1992, 1999), Enriquez (2000, 2001), Pagés (1987) and Gaulejac (2001). In methodological terms, were collected the datas, through the semi-directed interviews, with managers and incharged employees of an enterprise of agribusiness of interior of São Paulo State, that was experiencing a crisis situation. The results showed three different reactions, but connected to each other: in one, where the managers and incharged employees kept believing in the possibility of overcoming the crisis; and the other that accommodated in the situation; and still a third one in which the manager and incharged employees denied the situation and looked for explanations for the fact. The crisis provoked a weakening of all the employees and it could be noted in the form as it was run the organization. However in familiar basis the managers and incharged employees were able to find alternatives to their problems, opening new spaces to their children.

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Caria, Antonio Stefano. "Efficiency and other-regarding preferences in information and job-referral networks." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4c243348-af82-4cdc-b402-e75997e4a599.

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In this thesis I study how networks are formed and I analyse the strategies that well-connected individuals adopt in public good games on a network. In chapter one I study an artefactual field experiment in rural India which tests whether farmers can create efficient networks in a repeated link formation game, and whether group categorisation increases the frequency of in-group links and reduces network efficiency. I find that the efficiency of the networks formed in the experiment is significantly lower than the efficiency which could be achieved under selfish, rational play. When information about group membership is disclosed, in-group links are chosen more frequently, while the efficiency of network structure is not significantly affected. Using a job-referral network experiment in an urban area of Ethiopia, I investigate in chapter two whether individuals create new links with the least connected players in the network. In a first treatment, competition for job-referrals makes it in the player's interest to link with the least connected partners. In this treatment, links to the least connected players are significantly more likely than links to better connected individuals. In a second treatment, connections only affect the welfare of the new partner. Choosing the least connected player minimises inequality and maximises aggregate efficiency. This may motivate other-regarding players. In this treatment, however, links to least connected partners are not significantly more likely than links to other players. In chapter three I explore the characteristics that individuals value in the people they approach for advice. Using cross-sectional data on cocoa farmers in Ghanaian villages and a matched lottery experiment, I find an association between the difference in the aversion to risk of two farmers and the probability that one farmer is interested in the advice of the other farmer. In chapter four I study a one-shot public good game in rural India between farmers connected by a star network. Contributions by the centre of the star have a larger impact on aggregate payoffs than contributions by the spoke players. I use the strategy method to study whether the centre of the star contributes more than the average of the spokes. In selected sessions, I disclose participants' expectations about the choices of the centre of star. I find that the centre player contributes just as much as the average of the spokes, and that he is influenced by the expectations that other players hold about his decisions.

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Gomes, Carlos Antônio 1958. "Produção flexivel e degradação da força de trabalho no Brasil." [s.n.], 2006. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/252707.

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Orientador: Marcia de Paula Leite
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Resumo: O presente trabalho analisa como os movimentos de precarização das relações de trabalho e de uso desgastante da força de trabalho ¿ implementados a partir da reestruturação produtiva e da adoção da agenda de políticas econômicas restritivas ¿ também se manifestam através da inflexão da qualidade geral da força de trabalho brasileira. Em princípio e a título do estabelecimento de comparações entre modelos de relações de trabalho, é feita uma revisita histórica à formação do padrão norte-americano de desenvolvimento - caracterizado pela comunhão entre a organização taylor-fordista do trabalho e a relação salarial fordista - edificado a partir de Bretton Woods. Na seqüência, analisa os sistemas produtivos dos países de capitalismo avançado, reestruturados a partir da Terceira Revolução Industrial e Tecnológica e dos novos métodos de produção flexível, comparando-os com o sistema brasileiro. Conclui que a tentativa de implementação do modelo japonês no Brasil tem esbarrado no conservadorismo empresarial, ao mesmo temo em que produzido um modelo industrial particular, idiossincrásico e, acima de tudo, predatório e desagregador das relações de trabalho. Sem se prender aos aspectos produtivistas, a análise envereda pelos aspectos políticos e sociais, chamando atenção para a degradação do mercado brasileiro de trabalho, que vem ocorrendo em função da adoção das políticas de adequação da produção à demanda, cujos principais sintomas são a brutal elevação do desemprego e o uso crescente das modalidades não-capitalistas de contratação de mão-de-obra. Conclui estabelecendo um indicativo de que a tais políticas estariam impactando negativamente na qualificação profissional dos trabalhadores, inflexionando a capacidade produtiva da força de trabalho no que diz respeito ao manuseio de sistemas avançados de agregação de valor, ao passo em que contribuindo ainda mais para o desvio da economia brasileira dos trilhos do desenvolvimento sustentado
Abstract: The present work analyzes as the movements of precarization of the work relations and of absorbing use of the work force of implemented from the productive reorganization and of the adoption of the agenda of restrictive economics politics also they are disclosed through the precarization of the general quality of the Brazilian force of work. In principle and the heading of the establishment of comparisons between models of work relations, is made one revisits historical to the formation of the North American standard of development - characterized for the communion it enters the taylor-fordista organization of the work and the fordista wage relation - built from Bretton Woods. In the sequence, it analyzes the productive systems of the countries of advanced capitalism, reorganized from the third industrial and technological revolution and of the new methods of flexible production, comparing them with the Brazilian system. It concludes that the attempt of implementation of the models Japanese in Brazil has collide in the conservative empresariable and produced particular a model industrial, idiosyncratic and above of everything, predatory and desaggregator of the work relations. Without if arresting to the aspects produtivists, the analysis guide for social the politics aspects and, calling for the degradation the Brazilian market of work, that comes occurring in function of the adoption of the politics of adequacy of the production to the demand, whose main symptoms are the brutal rise of unemployment and the increasing use of the modalities not-capitalists of man power act of contract. It concludes establishing an indicative of that to such politics they would be shocking negative in the professional qualification of the workers, inflectioning the productive capacity of the force of work in whom it says respect to the manuscript of advanced systems of value aggregation, to the step where contributing still more for the shunting line of the Brazilian economy of the tracks of the supported development
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Bezuidenhout, Samantha Catherine. "The effects of age on the worker capacity and mechanisation on the task demands in a South African manufacturing industry." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013167.

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The focus of the study was two-fold, firstly to determine the effect of age on the capacity of manual materials handling workers and secondly to determine the effect of increasing task mechanisation on the workers’ responses to task demands. The first component of this study, namely Part I, 101 male and 12 female ‘unskilled’ manual workers – of various ages – from a brick manufacturing industry were assessed. Anthropometric, health and strength factors were measured to improve the understanding of the South African manual worker capacity and more specifically, the effect of age on this capacity. Data collection was done between 7.30am and 9.30am in a laboratory-type setting on-site. Anthropometric characteristics (including body mass index, waist to hip ratio, waist circumference and body fat percentage) provided information on the state of obesity and the impact of age in the South African context. Linked to this, the health factors (including blood pressure, resting heart rate and a self-reported questionnaire) provide an extra snapshot of the disease profile in South Africa, and could potentially influence other capacity factors. Isometric strength capacities (of eight different areas, namely: back, leg, bicep, shoulder, pinch, pinch and pull) demonstrated whether South African manual workers show the same decline in strength with aging as seen in industrially advanced countries. The second component of the study, Part II, was performed in situ and measured the workers’ responses to task demands of three brick palletising tasks, one manual (n=21) and two with increasing mechanisation (n=12 each). Spinal kinematics, joint forces and working heart rate were assessed on normal work days during a 30-lift duration and body discomfort measures were taken at the start, middle and end of the work-shift. Spinal kinematics were measured dynamically using a lumbar motion monitor, whereas the spinal forces were estimated using the three dimensional static strength prediction program. The worker capacity results showed that waist to hip ratio, waist circumference and body fat percentage increased significantly with aging, whereas body mass index was not affected by age. All body morphology values were within ‘normal’ ranges. Although diastolic blood pressure increased significantly with age, systolic was not affected significantly by age. Both groups, however, showed an increasing prevalence of hypertension with aging. There were no significant changes in resting heart rate with aging, with a range of 66 bt.min⁻¹ to 74.86 bt.min⁻¹, therefore within normal ranges. Of the strength factors, age only affected shoulder and push strength significantly: Showing a decrease in shoulder strength from 49.89 kgF to 39.91 kgF in the men aged 20-29 to the 50-59 respectively and an increase in push strength from men aged 30-39 and 40-49 to those aged 50-59. Part II results revealed highly frequent lift rates and large degrees of sagittal flexion and lateral bending in all three tasks. These postures adopted for long durations are likely to lead to the development of musculoskeletal disorders. Heart rates of workers from the three tasks were significantly different and heart rates for two tasks were above the recommended 110 bt.min⁻¹. Similarly the body discomfort ratings of the three tasks differed, although a common trend was seen in that lower back pain was the most commonly reported area of discomfort in all tasks. South African manual materials handling males did not show the same responses to aging as men from industrially advanced countries, calling for further research into these differences. Due to the high risks of the three tasks assessed, future research and interventions are required to reduce the risk of injury in the assessed tasks.

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Barbosa, Carla Maria Palmeira Soares. "Impacto do capital cultural na mobilidade social: o caso das escolas profissionais de música." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/667417.

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Esta investigação analisa o impacto da formação escolar profissionalizante em música na criação de capital cultural e na mobilidade social ascendente dos seus diplomados. Assume-se como caso de estudo os diplomados e as suas famílias, das quatros escolas profissionais de música no Norte de Portugal. De acordo com as teorias da reprodução e da distinção de Bourdieu, o capital cultural é um importante instrumento na reprodução de desigualdades sociais, pelo que as condições socioculturais familiares de origem são determinantes na diferenciação dos resultados escolares dos descendentes, no desenvolvimento das suas carreiras profissionais, na construção de preferências e nos comportamentos de consumo cultural. As mesmas teorias associam a estratificação social à criação de um gosto popular ou erudito, em função da existência, ou não, de capital cultural, condição necessária à compreensão de códigos e apreciação de bens simbólicos. Por seu lado, a investigação educativa produzida, a partir da década de setenta do século XX, tem vindo a reconhecer à escola e ao efeito-escola um importante papel no sucesso escolar e na definição de trajetórias de vida, invertendo o caráter fatalista da reprodução social familiar de origem. Num paradigma de mobilidade cultural, o atual debate sobre o omnivorismo cultural reconhece, nas sociedades atual, a existência de um novo perfil de participação cultural omnívora, que se traduz num leque alargado de preferências e de consumos, desde a arte erudita a manifestações próprias de subculturas populares. A análise sociológica do consumo acrescenta as trajetórias escolares, ocupações profissionais e estilos de vida como importantes fatores de estruturação do gosto em dialética com os fenómenos do consumo e das hierarquias culturais. Na investigação empírica realizada aplicam-se indicadores que permitem analisar o processo de criação de capital musical, através da socialização escolar, e os comportamentos de consumo cultural, desde a infância à idade adulta. Utilizam-se o questionário aplicado aos diplomados das EPM, complementado com entrevistas aos diretores e quadros pedagógicos intermédios das escolas como instrumentos. Constata-se que a ocupação profissional dos diplomados, o nível máximo de escolaridade atingido e os consumos musicais eruditos estão associados à trajetória escolar na EPM e são independentes das condições sociais familiares de origem, num modelo de mobilidade social ascendente intergeracional. Concluiu-se que a ampliação de capital musical construído na socialização escolar aumentou o processo de mobilidade social dos alunos, viabilizando o posterior acesso a ocupações profissionais de maior prestígio. Simultaneamente, assistiu-se a uma mudança dos padrões de consumo musical popular, através da incorporação de preferências pelo reportório musical de tradição europeia ocidental, num modelo de translação cultural independente da estratificação social de classe de origem familiar. No entanto, concluiu-se que o capital musical construído e refletido no gosto e nos comportamentos de consumo em adulto não conduziu os diplomados a um padrão de participação cultural omnívoro, comportamento que atualmente a sociologia de consumo reconhece como atributo das sociedades contemporâneas desenvolvidas.
This dissertation presents an analysis of the impact of musical education in a professional context on the creation of cultural capital and the upward social mobility of its graduates. The case studies here presented include the graduates and their families from four “Professional Schools” located in the North of Portugal. According to Bourdieu’s theories of “reproduction” and “distinction”, cultural capital is an important instrument in the reproduction of social inequality, and the specificities of family sociocultural origins are considered essential to the differentiation of the children school results, their access to professional careers, the construction of their cultural “choices” and their behavior as cultural consumers. The same theories associate social stratification with the creation of “popular” versus high culture taste, as a result of the existence or absence of cultural capital, and as a condition for the understanding and fruition of symbolic codes and goods. Moreover, the educational research produced after the 70s in the XX century, has been recognizing an important role to schooling and to the “schooling-effect” in the success of education and the positive definition of individual life trajectories, as well as it inverts the fatalist character of the reproduction of family sociocultural conditions. Within a paradigm of cultural mobility, the contemporary debate on cultural omnivorism recognizes in today’s society the existence of a new profile of omnivorous cultural participation, which is translated in a wide range of consume preferences, from high art to specific demonstrations of popular subcultures. The sociological analysis of consumption reinforces schooling trajectories, professional occupations and life styles as fundamental factors in the structuring of “taste” within a dialectic process with consumption issues and cultural hierarchies. In the empirical research carried out throughout this work were used indicators which allowed us to analyze the process of the creation of musical capital through the process of schooling socialization and the behaviors of cultural consumption, from childhood to adult age. The graduates from EPM were asked to answer questionnaires, which were complemented with interviews to the directors and intermediate pedagogic management of the schools, as empirical instruments. One realizes that the professional occupation of graduates, the maximum level of schooling reached and their high art musical choices are distinctively associated with the individual schooling trajectory in EPM and, independently of the family social origins, they are inscribed within a model of intergenerational upward social mobility. The conclusion of our analysis is that the widening of the musical capital built within the schooling socializing has increased the process of the students social mobility, enabling the ulterior access to a more prestigious professional occupation. In tandem with this, one recognizes the change and transformation of the patterns of popular musical consumption, via the incorporation of a “preference” for a musical repertoire within the Western European tradition, as a model of cultural translation which is independent from the social stratification of family origin. Notwithstanding, our conclusion is that the acquired musical capital reflected in the “taste” and the consume behavior of the adult individual has not led the graduates to a pattern of cultural omnivorous consumption, which today’s sociology of culture recognizes as an attribute of contemporary developed societies.

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Stewart, Jill Louise. "Evidence based strategies to enable health promoting housing and communities in the private sector." Thesis, University of Greenwich, 2006. http://gala.gre.ac.uk/6310/.

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This work contains 18 publications exploring evidence based strategies to enable health promoting housing and communities in the private sector. It examines housing’s contribution to health in the public health agenda; policy priorities and arrangements to deliver healthier housing; partnership working and health outcomes in housing; and measuring evidence of health gain in housing from practitioner interventions and has required a multi-method research programme of theory and practice including case studies, focus groups, comparative studies, telephone and face-to-face interviews/semi-structured discussion in a variety of settings. The work consolidates housing and public health policies, exploring their wider ideological shaping. It particularly focuses on New Labour policies since the launch of the current public health agenda in delivering new evidence-based interventions. These rely on a new relationship between government (as governance) and communities to deliver health improvement and to address health inequalities through partnership working, although barriers remain. Simultaneously, policy developments in private sector housing renewal have emphasised personal responsibility in the sector, and focus more closely on meeting individual and community need. The current situation can present something of a dilemma between seeing housing as a health determinant or as a commercial asset for both owner-occupiers and private sector landlords. The work brings together different sets of literature and fields of research which link housing and health in the private sector, and also different elements of policy as part of the government’s emphasis on joined up government, finding that although the strategic public health frameworks are in place, there remains pressure for organisations to revert to core activities.

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Celliers, Mariana. "An academic development model for university and technikon students meeting the demands of the 21st century /." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2000. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-01222007-090523.

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Rezende, Marcos Antonio. "Influência do transporte sobre o nível de estresse dos trabalhadores: trajeto entre residência e local de trabalho." Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, 2012. http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/1463.

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Ao distribuir-se por diferentes sistemas regionais de estrutura espacial, a necessidade de deslocamento da população molda as cidades, com vias de circulação, para unir núcleos residenciais, comerciais e industriais. O objetivo deste trabalho foi descrever a influência do transporte sobre o nível de estresse do trabalhador, percebido no trajeto entre a residência e o local de trabalho, em domínios distintos com estressores físicos, psicológicos e um domínio que relaciona estresse e transporte, denominado de domínio ambiente. A metodologia adotada pontua-se por uma pesquisa aplicada, exploratória e predominantemente quantitativa que pode revelar relações de dependência entre um instrumento estruturado para suveys e variáveis demográficas. Considerando o grande número de informações geradas pelo instrumento de coleta de dados, recorreu-se à Inteligência Artificial (IA) para realizar a análise, com técnicas de Data Mining. O problema que se apresentou nesta pesquisa está assim caracterizado: qual é a influência do transporte no trajeto entre a residência e o local de trabalho, em relação ao nível de estresse percebido pelo trabalhador? Para alcançar os objetivos propostos nesta pesquisa desenvolveu-se o Inventário de Sintomatologia de Estresse no Transporte (ISET), instrumento utilizado na coleta de dados, em que foram encaminhados questionários para cada uma das 27 unidades da Federação e no Distrito Federal. Para a análise dos dados coletados por meio do instrumento, fez-se transcrição para uma planilha eletrônica, para efetivar a etapa de tabulação, reunindo e organizando os itens pesquisados. Os dados gerados nesta pesquisa apontam a população amostral constituída por 929 trabalhadores, com predominância de 74,49% do sexo masculino em relação a 25,51% do sexo feminino. A faixa etária desta população compreende-se entre 18 e 39 anos, em que a concentração de trabalhadores situada na faixa etária entre 18 e 29 anos é de 32,49% e na faixa entre 30 e 39 o percentual atinge 31,09%. Portanto, a partir da análise feita, observa-se que existe relação de dependência entre as classes das variáveis analisadas (classificação dos municípios conforme tamanho da população, de acordo com o Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística) e o indicador geral (baixo, médio e alto), além de apontarem indicadores da influência do transporte sob o nível de estresse do trabalhador.
In order to distribute in different regional systems of spatial structure, the need of displacement of the population shapes to cities, with areas of circulation for binding residential, commercial and industrial nucleus. The objective of this paper was to describe the influence of transport on the stress level of worker, which is perceived in the path between the residential and the workplace, in distinct domains with physical and psychological stressors and a domain which lists stress and transport, called of environment domain. The methodology adopted is punctuated as an applied, exploratory and predominantly quantitative research which can reveal relations of dependency between a structured instrument for surveys and demographic variables. Considering the great number of information which was created through the instrument of data collection, thus, it was appealed to Artificial Intelligence (AI) in order to perform the analysis, with techniques of Data Mining. The problem which was presented in the research is featured as: What is the influence of the transport in the path between the residential and the workplace, in relation to the stress level perceived by the worker? In this sense, in order to achieve the proposed objectives in this research was developed the Symptomatology Inventory of Stress in the Transport (SIST), instrument used in the data collection where questionnaires were routed for each one of the twenty-seven (27) Federation Units and in Federal District. For the analysis of data collected through the instrument was done the transcription of these to an electronic sheet in order to actualize the tabulation step gathering and organizing the items surveyed. The data created in this research point the population sample which is constituted for 929 workers, with predominance of 74,49% of the male gender in relation the 25,51% of the female gender. The age range of this population is between 18 and 39 years old, where the concentration of the workers situated in the age ranges between 18 and 29 years old is 32,49% and in the age range between 30 and 39 the percentage reaches 31,09% of those which use the transport system existent for the displacement in the path of residential and work. Therefore, from the result is observed that there is relation of dependency among the classes of the analyzed variables (classification of the municipalities according to the size of population BIGS1), the general indicator (low, medium and high) and that the result point indicators of the transport influence on the stress level of worker.

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Sartori, Elisiane. "Todos sob o mesmo teto : familia e Sistema de Proteção Social em Campinas." [s.n.], 2008. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/280664.

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Orientador: Maria Lygia Quartim de Moraes
Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas
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Resumo: A presente tese traçou um quadro amplo do Sistema de Proteção Social implantado no Brasil a partir dos anos 30, assim como o papel da família dentro deste contexto de intervenção estatal. A rigor, o objetivo foi deslindar, não apenas sob ponto de vista econômico, mas principalmente a partir da perspectiva sociológica, a inter-relação existente entre família e sistema de proteção social. A partir de uma ampla pesquisa de campo, junto à famílias pertencentes ao Programa de Erradicação do Trabalho Infantil, buscou-se compreender como vivem e a influência do programa em suas vidas. Para tanto, a argumentação movimentou-se em torno de três eixos analíticos a partir dos quais demonstramos as seguintes teses: a primeira mostrou que programas de transferência direta de renda às famílias mais pobres que possuem como contrapartida a inserção e a permanência da criança e do adolescente na escola, conseguem realmente garantir um maior e melhor nível no desempenho escolar. Na segunda, mostrou que somente por meio de uma complementação de renda que garanta um mínimo de sobrevivência, é que podemos alcançar (conseguir, conquistar) o combate ao trabalho infantojuvenil. Caso contrário, as crianças e os adolescentes irão continuar trabalhando, apesar do recebimento da bolsa. Por fim, mostrou-se que programas sociais com viés mais compensatórios do que emancipatórios, não propiciam a autonomia das famílias, o que as deixam numa situação crítica de dependência contínua (perene, incessante), podendo até afetar as suas próximas gerações
Abstract: The present thesis has outlined a wide range view of the Social Protection System implemented in Brazil back in the 30¿s, as well as the family role within this context of state intervention. In reality, the goal was to clarify, not only under the economical point of view, but mainly aiming at the sociological perspective, the interrelation existing between family and social protection system. Starting with a far-reaching field research, along with families belonging to the Eradication Program of Children Work, the job was intended to understand how they live and the influence of the program in their lives. To do so, the argumentation was carried out around three analytical axes, from which the following theses could be demonstrated: the first has shown that programs of direct transfer of income to poorer families that have as a counterpart the insertion and permanence of the child and the teenager in the school, can really guarantee a higher and better level of school performance. In the second, it was shown that just by means of an income complement that may guarantee a minimum for survival, the combat to the infant-juvenile work may be reached (attained, conquered). Otherwise, children and teenagers will keep on working, despite the receiving of school allowance. In the long run, it has been shown that social programs with more compensatory than emancipator bias do not provide autonomy to the families, what leaves them in a critical situation of continuous (lasting, ceaseless) dependence, what may even affect their next generations
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Barros, Judith Jeine França. "Democracia participativa e direito à cidade: uma análise do direito fundamental à mobilidade urbana e ao transporte a partir da experiência recifense." Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, 2016. http://www.unicap.br/tede//tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=1309.

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Este estudo versou sobre a mobilidade urbana como direito fundamental, com foco no caso do Recife. No entendimento de que a cidade é um objeto de direito para os sujeitos que nela vivem e circulam, estudaram-se as implicações do direito à mobilidade urbana como Direito Fundamental tendo em vista a inclusão dos transportes no rol dos direitos fundamentais (Emenda Constitucional n. 90) e a imperativa necessidade de realização do Plano de Mobilidade urbana com efetiva participação popular. Partiu-se da premissa de que o direito à cidade ultrapassa a questão da gestão pública. Trata-se do exercício político revolucionário de uma nova democracia na qual a relação dos indivíduos com o espaço tem forte impacto no exercício da cidadania. Em busca de compreender essa relação uma questão fazia presente: É possível por meio da efetiva participação da sociedade civil, atrelada a políticas públicas consistentes assegurar eficácia jurídica ao direito fundamental aos transportes e consequentemente, ao direito à mobilidade urbana e assim superar o sistema de (i)mobilidade urbana atual? Para atender ou não à indagação construiu-se o seguinte objetivo: analisar a efetividade da mobilidade urbana prevista nos instrumentos jurídicos como um direito fundamental. A partir da reflexão sobre a relação existente entre a compreensão do modelo de democracia participativa e a gestão das cidades, como espaço público fragmentado e tecnológico, conferiu-se atenção ao modo como a sociedade aproveita os espaços urbanos de forma acessível e inclusiva. Compreendeu-se, por fim, que a efetiva participação popular como paradigma de democracia participativa, em um universo tecnológico, é uma tarefa que exige o esforço da sociedade civil atrelada ao Estado, nas suas múltiplas formas de organização. A análise semântica da inclusão do direito ao transporte no rol dos direitos fundamentais sociais, à luz dos instrumentos jurídicos previstos para a sua efetivação, apontou como resultado a possibilidade de desaguar na velha encruzilhada de uma constituição simbólica. Este estudo científico se presta ao interesse de estudantes e pesquisadores na área de mobilidade urbana, bem como de todos os cidadãos cujo direito de ir e vir devem ser assegurados.
It starts with the premise that the right to the city goes beyond the issue of public administration, but is, in itself, the revolutionary political exercise like new democracy. In these terms, the relationship between individuals and space has a strong impact on citizenship. The city is an object of law for the subjects who live and circulate. This dissertation studies the implications of the right to the city and, more specifically, urban mobility as a fundamental right explicit in the Constitution of 1988, especially after the Constitutional Amendment No. 90 which included in the list of fundamental social rights transportation, linked to the legal instruments of penetration in local legislation. Faced with the challenge of thinking urban mobility projects, this dissertation aims to analyze the semantics of the inclusion of the right to transport in the list of fundamental social rights, as well as the legal instruments provided for their realization.

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Павлів-Самоїл, Н. П., and N. P. Pavliv-Samoyil. "Філософсько-правовий вимір феномена трудової міграції: дисертація." Thesis, ЛьвДУВС, 2010. http://dspace.lvduvs.edu.ua/handle/1234567890/215.

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Павлів-Самоїл Н.П. Філософсько-правовий вимір феномена трудової міграції: дисертація на здобуття наукового ступеня кандидата юридичних наук за спеціальністю 12.00.12 – філософія права / Павлів-Самоїл Надія Петрівна. – Львів: ЛьвДУВС, 2010. - 216 с.
У дисертації проведено комплексний філософсько-правовий аналіз феномена трудових міграцій. Розкрито онтологічні та гносеологічні підходи щодо визначення трудової міграції. Проведено концептуально-правовий аналіз становлення та розвитку феномена трудової міграції. Досліджено філософську та соціально-економічну сутність категорії «людський потенціал». Доведено, що трудову міграцію з позиції філософії права необхідно розглядати як суперечливу єдність інтеріогенеративної та екстеріогенеративної сутнісних форм. Обґрунтовано соціально-філософські та правові механізми регулювання сучасними процесами трудової міграції. Здійснено філософсько-правовий аналіз трудової міграції як соціально-трудової мобільності населення. Розкрито вплив міграційних процесів на поведінкові прояви трудових мігрантів та їх акультурацію в іноетнічні середовища. The dissertation deals with the philosophical-legal analysis of the phenomenon of labor migrations. Ontological and gnoseological approaches are exposed to determine labor migration. The conceptual and legal analysis of the formation and development of the phenomenon of labor migration is carried out. The philosophical and socio-economic essence of the category “human potential» is investigated. It has proved that it is necessary to consider labor migration from the position of the philosophy of law as a contradictory unity of interiogenerative and esteriogenerative essential forms. Social-philosophical and legal mechanisms of regulation of labor migration by modern processes are established. The philosophical-legal analysis of labor migration as a social-labor mobility of the population is fulfilled. The influence of the migratory processes on the behavior displays of labor migrants and their acculturation in different ethnic environments is examined.

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Notarangelo, Joseph. "The California dream denied: Narrative strategy and the California labor dilemma." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2007.

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This thesis explores the relationship between differing interpretation of the California Dream and the narrative strategies through while [sic] they are expressed in three California labor novels during three different decades of California literature.

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Espinoza, Revollo Patricia. "The emergence of indigenous middle classes in highly stratified societies : the case of Bolivia." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3b89c28e-2f6f-4648-b360-03e5d8209c70.

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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.

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Mizumoto, Ademar Iwao. "Outono em uma organização : convivendo com as crises /." Assis : [s.n.], 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/97692.

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Orientador: Francisco Hashimoto
Banca: Maria Alves de Toledo Bruns
Banca: Maria Luisa Louro de Castro Valente
Resumo: O objetivo desta pesquisa consistiu em investigar o sofrimento psíquico do indivíduo em uma empresa em situação de crise, buscando a compreensão das questões subjetivas na construção da relação de trabalho. Foram levados em consideração o trajeto profissional dos sujeitos, gerentes e encarregados, as vivências na situação de crise, a ação desses profissionais no processo de gestão, e finalmente, a questão do sofrimento humano na relação com o trabalho. O referencial teórico fundamentou-se na Psicossociologia, com autores como Dejours (1986, 1992, 1999), Enriquez (2000, 2001), Págés (1987) e Gaulejac (2001). Em termos metodológicos, foram coletados os dados, por meio de entrevistas semi-dirigidas, com gerentes e encarregados de uma empresa de agronegócios do interior do Estado de São Paulo que passava por uma situação de crise. Os resultados apontaram três reações diferenciadas, mas ligadas entre si: uma, em que os gerentes e encarregados continuavam acreditando na possibilidade de sair da crise; a outra, que se acomodaram na situação; e ainda uma terceira, no qual os gerentes e encarregados negavam a situação e buscavam explicações para o fato. A crise provocou um enfraquecimento de todos os funcionários e pôde ser notada na forma como era conduzida a organização. No entanto, no âmbito familiar, os gerentes e encarregados conseguiram encontrar alternativas para as suas questões, abrindo novos espaços para os filhos.
Abstract: The aim of this research is in investigating the psychic suffering of the individual in an enterprise in an crisis situation, looking for the comprehension of the subjective questions in the construction of the labor relationship. It was considered the professional path of the people managers and incharged employees, the experiences in the crisis situation, the action of these professionals in the management process, and finally, the question suffering in the relation with the labor. The theoretical reference was based in the psychosociology, with the authors like Dejours (1986, 1992, 1999), Enriquez (2000, 2001), Pagés (1987) and Gaulejac (2001). In methodological terms, were collected the datas, through the semi-directed interviews, with managers and incharged employees of an enterprise of agribusiness of interior of São Paulo State, that was experiencing a crisis situation. The results showed three different reactions, but connected to each other: in one, where the managers and incharged employees kept believing in the possibility of overcoming the crisis; and the other that accommodated in the situation; and still a third one in which the manager and incharged employees denied the situation and looked for explanations for the fact. The crisis provoked a weakening of all the employees and it could be noted in the form as it was run the organization. However in familiar basis the managers and incharged employees were able to find alternatives to their problems, opening new spaces to their children.
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高小蘭 and Siu-lan Ko. "Mainland migrant sex workers in Hong Kong: a sociological study." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31227405.

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Bax, Trent Malcolm. "Sex and work in the city: Shanghai's service industry and the Chinese Modern Project: an ethnography of Chinesehairdressers and Australian blokes." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B39558149.

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Gagnon, Jean 1953 Oct 27. "Le navettage de travailleurs autochtones et sa portée économique pour les communautés du nord de la Saskatchewan /." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=75689.

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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.

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