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Mendes, Philip. "Social Workers and Social Activism in Victoria, Australia." Journal of Progressive Human Services 18, no. 1 (April 5, 2007): 25–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j059v18n01_03.
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Bates, Frank. "Some Impending Legal Problems for Social Workers." Children Australia 10, no. 4 (1986): 4–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0312897000016623.
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AbstractMany areas of the law with which social workers are required to deal are particularly dynamic and, in order to meet the challenges they present, it is necessary to look ahead. Developments in the United States often provide a useful means of predicting developments in Australia. The paper examines three areas, proceedings, social security law, and mental health – where change is becoming, or likely to become, apparent, in the first topic, there has been a marked change in both the issues with which the courts have had to deal and the methodology which they have adopted to attempt to resolve them. In social security law, decisions of the Administrative Tribunal have illustrated anomalies and deficiencies in the legislation, and social workers in their daily practice may notice others. All of that might well lead to a necessary review of the legislation. In the area of mental health legislation, a draft bill in Victoria contains a number of disquieting features which should cause social workers, as well as lawyers, concern. The paper concludes by noting that the legal relationship between social workers and the law has never been more subject to scrutiny in a wide variety of situations, and mutual respect between the two disciplines must continue to increase.
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Packer, Laurence. "The social organisation of Halictus ligatus (Hymenoptera; Halictidae) in southern Ontario." Canadian Journal of Zoology 64, no. 10 (October 1, 1986): 2317–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z86-345.
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The social organisation of Halictus ligatus was studied at Victoria, southern Ontario. At this locality, the one worker brood has a protracted period of emergence; this results in small colony populations throughout the summer activity phase. Workers average 12.7% smaller than their queens, 60% of them have some ovarian development, and 42% of them mate. More males are produced towards the very end of the first brood than earlier in the spring provisioning phase. These late first brood males probably survive to mate with reproductive brood females. In orphaned nests, one worker dominates the others to become a replacement queen. Most replacement queens are mated and orphaned colonies produce reproductives of both sexes. Data from this population are compared with those of other studies of this, and other, halictine species.
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Quartly, Marian. "‘[W]e Find Families for Children, Not Children for Families’: An Incident in the Long and Unhappy History of Relations between Social Workers and Adoptive Parents." Social Policy and Society 11, no. 3 (March 30, 2012): 415–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1474746412000097.
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Relatively little work on adoption focuses on the role of social workers. This article gives an account of the conflict between social workers and prospective adoptive parents which developed in Australia in the 1970s, taking as a case study the conflicting roles of adoptive parent advocates and professional social workers within the Standing Committee on Adoption in the Australian state of Victoria. Its overarching concern lies with the historical attitudes of the social work profession towards adoption, both domestic and intercountry, as these have changed from an embrace of both adoption and adoptive parents to mutual alienation. It concludes that the inclusive practice of radical social work could only briefly contain contesting client groups.
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Richards, Miriam H., and Laurence Packer. "Annual variation in survival and reproduction of the primitively eusocial sweat bee Halictus ligatus (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)." Canadian Journal of Zoology 73, no. 5 (May 1, 1995): 933–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z95-109.
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We studied a nesting aggregation of the primitively eusocial sweat bee Halictus ligatus near Victoria in southern Ontario during the summers of 1984, 1990, and 1991. Differences in local weather patterns from year to year had marked effects on bee demography and behaviour, belying previous conclusions about "typical" social organization in this aggregation. In 1990, comparatively cool, rainy weather resulted in high nest-failure and low brood-survival rates, while in 1984 and 1991, relatively dry, warm weather had the opposite effect. In 1984 and 1990, spring nest initiation was synchronous and the emergence periods of the first (worker) and second (reproductive) broods were temporally distinct. In 1991, exceedingly warm spring weather caused asynchrony in the timing of nest initiation, accelerated brood and colony development, and continuous brood production. In 1984 and 1990, a few males were produced in the first brood but most were produced in the second brood several weeks later. In 1991, continuous brood production meant that production of males represented the transition between production of workers and of gynes (second-brood females). Patterns of demographic and social variation exhibited by H. ligatus at Victoria parallel those observed on a continent-wide geographic scale. This suggests that primitively eusocial sweat bees maintain a variety of reproductive options, adjusting their social behaviour in response to local environmental conditions.
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Friedgut, Theodore H. "Labor Violence and Regime Brutality in Tsarist Russia: The Iuzovka Cholera Riots of 1892." Slavic Review 46, no. 2 (1987): 245–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2498910.
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Recent monographs on Russian social development have raised a number of hypotheses regarding our general understanding of processes of political and social change. In his volume on the early history of Russian workers Reginald Zelnik, for instance, proposes that moderate labor unrest reinforced traditional repressive patterns, while extreme conflicts motivated innovative reform. In the work of Robert E. Johnson and of Victoria Bonnell we find the suggestion that workers in small-scale enterprises and artisan shops were often more radical and organized than those in larger industrial enterprises. The fragmented and antagonistic nature of Russian society, with multiple splits of both an intergroup and intragroup nature, has been noted in the work of both Roberta Manning and Allan Wildman. Diane Koenker, focusing her research on the period of the 1917 revolutions, has brought out the moderating and integrating effect of the urban setting on Russian workers. These are only a few of the many thought-provoking hypotheses that have been raised.
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Lea French, Rebecca, and Kirsty Williamson. "The information practices of welfare workers." Journal of Documentation 72, no. 4 (July 11, 2016): 737–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jdoc-08-2015-0100.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature of information practices of welfare workers and how they fit into daily work of welfare work within a small community sector organisation in Victoria, Australia. Design/methodology/approach – The study was constructivist (interpretivist) in its underpinning philosophy, drawing on both personal constructivist and social constructionist theories. The research methods used, with a sample of 14 welfare workers and two clients, were organisational ethnography and grounded theory. Data collection techniques were interview and participant observation, along with limited document analysis. Data analytic techniques, drawn from grounded theory method, provided a thorough way of coding and analysing data, and also allowed for the development of theory. Findings – Key findings centre on the role of information in welfare work. Welfare workers mostly used resources to hand, “making do” with resources they already had rather than seeking new ones. They also recombined or re-purposed existing resources to make new resources or to suit new circumstances. Their information practices were found to be fluid, consultative and collaborative. The findings of the research have led to a deep exploration of bricolage as a way to describe both the use of resources and the processes inherent in welfare worker information practices. Originality/value – The fact that there is a paucity of research focused on information practices of welfare workers in Australia makes the research significant. The bricolage theoretical framework is an original contribution which has implications for exploring other groups of workers and for the design of information systems and technology.
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Mendes, Philip. "Social workers and the ethical dilemmas of community action campaigns: lessons from the Australian State of Victoria." Community Development Journal 37, no. 2 (April 1, 2002): 157–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cdj/37.2.157.
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Smith, Elizabeth. "Of fish and goddesses: using photo-elicitation with sex workers." Qualitative Research Journal 15, no. 2 (May 5, 2015): 241–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/qrj-01-2015-0006.
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Purpose – Art-based research is about so much more than producing interesting, confronting, or pretty visuals: it is about the stories beneath, attached to, and elicited through the image. It is also about the experience of thinking about, capturing, and producing that visual. The purpose of this paper is to examine the use of participant-driven photo-elicitation interviews with six women working in sex work in Victoria, Australia. Design/methodology/approach – The author does this both through the women’s narratives and through a researcher autoethnography. From her current position, the author (re)writes her experiences of undertaking this research in 2009, in order to highlight the uncertainty and confusion that can accompany visual research methods. Findings – The multiple places that photos can take participants, researchers, and readers is explored including empathy and understandings of how a single phenomenon (such as sex work) intersects with all other aspects of people’s lives and cannot be explained through theory that does not take account of intersectionality. Originality/value – This paper is a unique exploration of two methods, one layered over the other. It contributes to learnings obtained through participant-driven photo-elicitation while also treating the researcher’s experience of using this interview technique as data as well.
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Kaufman, Jessica, Kathleen L. Bagot, Monsurul Hoq, Julie Leask, Holly Seale, Ruby Biezen, Lena Sanci, et al. "Factors Influencing Australian Healthcare Workers’ COVID-19 Vaccine Intentions across Settings: A Cross-Sectional Survey." Vaccines 10, no. 1 (December 21, 2021): 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10010003.
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Healthcare workers’ COVID-19 vaccination coverage is important for staff and patient safety, workforce capacity and patient uptake. We aimed to identify COVID-19 vaccine intentions, factors associated with uptake and information needs for healthcare workers in Victoria, Australia. We administered a cross-sectional online survey to healthcare workers in hospitals, primary care and aged or disability care settings (12 February–26 March 2021). The World Health Organization Behavioural and Social Drivers of COVID-19 vaccination framework informed survey design and framing of results. Binary regression results adjusted for demographics provide risk differences between those intending and not intending to accept a COVID-19 vaccine. In total, 3074 healthcare workers completed the survey. Primary care healthcare workers reported the highest intention to accept a COVID-19 vaccine (84%, 755/898), followed by hospital-based (77%, 1396/1811) and aged care workers (67%, 243/365). A higher proportion of aged care workers were concerned about passing COVID-19 to their patients compared to those working in primary care or hospitals. Only 25% felt they had sufficient information across five vaccine topics, but those with sufficient information had higher vaccine intentions. Approximately half thought vaccines should be mandated. Despite current high vaccine rates, our results remain relevant for booster programs and future vaccination rollouts.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Social workers Victoria"
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El-Shazli, Heba Fawzi. "An Elusive Victory - Egyptian Workers Challenge the Regime (2006-2012)." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71883.
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"We started the 2011 revolution and the rest of Egypt followed," say Egyptian workers with strong conviction. Egyptian independent workers' continuous claims of contention and repertoires of protest were one of several main factors leading to the January 25, 2011 uprising. After thirty-two years of a Mubarak-led authoritarian regime, massive protests began in January 2011 and forced President Mubarak to step down from his position. The first question of this research endeavor is: how did Egyptian workers challenge the regime and how they became one of the factors leading to the January 2011 uprising? These workers were organized into loose networks of different independent groups that had been protesting for a decade and longer prior to January 2011. However, their regular protests for over a decade before 2011 challenged the authoritarian regime.
This dissertation examines the combative role of Egyptian independent workers' formal and informal organizations as a contentious social movement to challenge the regime. It will examine the evolving role of workers as socio-economic actors and then as political actors in political transitions. Social Movement Theory (SMT) and its mechanisms and Social Movement Unionism (SMU) will be the lenses through which this research will be presented. The methodology will be the comparative case studies of two different movements where workers who advocated for their rights for a decade prior to January 2011 experienced significantly differing outcomes. One case study showcases the municipal real estate tax collection workers who were able to establish a successful social movement and then create an independent trade union. The second case study examines an influential group of garment and textile workers, who also developed an effective social movement, yet were not able to take it to the next step to establish an independent union. I will explore within this research a second question: why one group of workers was able to establish an independent union while the other arguably more influential group of workers, the garment and textile workers, was not able to do so. This had an impact on the influence they were able to exercise over the regime in addition to their effectiveness as a social movement for change.Ph. D.
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Vrachnas, Barbara. "Remapping Ouida : her works, correspondence and social concerns." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9465.
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This thesis examines the popular and non-canonical Victorian novelist Ouida (Maria Louise de la Ramée) her relationship with her publishers and the reception of her works. In particular, through the study of published and unpublished correspondence, as well as nineteenth century periodicals, certain views concerning the writer and her oeuvre will be revised and amended, especially in the context of social and moral standards, anticipated from the female fictional character and the artist, the writer. The first chapter will concentrate on Ouida’s correspondence and will argue that the author’s reputation and sales were not only damaged by her ostensibly immoral plots but also as a result of her publishers’s differing priorities. In order to delineate the content of these ‘indecent’ novels and later the impact they had on reviewers, critics and readers, as well as Ouida’s writing, four of her three-decker novels have been selected for critical discussion. Strathmore (1865) is discussed in relation to sensation fiction and marriage law and Folle-Farine (1871) as an examination of inequality between classes and genders. Francis Cowley Burnand’s parody Strapmore (1878) is then read as a critical account of and response to Ouida’s ideologies. The thesis will then examine the controversy surrounding Moths (1880), and In Maremma (1882) will be read as a response to this controversy through its relation to mythology and the representation of the artist. The analysis of these novels and Ouida’s correspondence with her agent and publishers will trace the path that led to the gradual decline in her reputation and the posterior obscurity of her works.
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Neophytou, Jenny. "In the name of the father : manliness, control and social salvation in the works of George MacDonald." Thesis, Brunel University, 2014. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/9564.
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This thesis considers the representation of manly identity in the works of George MacDonald, and the way in which that identity is formed in relation to shifting power networks and contemporary social discourses. I argue that the environment of technological and societal change experienced in the mid-Victorian era (in the wake of industrialisation, urbanisation, changes in suffrage and war) led to a cultural need to re-align social, political, physical and economic power within a framework of male moral strength. Taking his lead from Thomas Carlyle and German transcendentalism, MacDonald promoted a paternalist ‗ideal‘ of manliness that articulated a synthesis of moral and physical power, yet which also served to promote a paradigm of domestic authority within diverse areas of male interaction. The dual purposes of this ideal were the defence of national identity (the purview of what I term the ‗Soldier body‘), and the enforcement of a paternalist authority hierarchy that is swiftly subsumed within a hierarchy of social status. As a result, we see the growth of close inter-relationships between the representation of manly identity and the language of class, heavily influenced by Christian socialist narratives of individual development through social education and quiescence. Moreover, we begin to witness disturbing scenes of violence and control, as aspects of MacDonald‘s culture defy confinement within his model of patriarchal domestic authority.
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Phillips, Rachel E. "Health and the sex trade : an examination of the social determinants of health status and health care access among sex workers." 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/424.
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Harrison, Lorraine Jessie. "Feeling the heat : workers' experiences of job stress in the Victorian community services sector." Thesis, 2013. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/21792/.
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This thesis examines work stress in the Community Services Sector (CSS) in Victoria. Psychological injuries are extremely high in the CSS (WorkSafe Victoria), and yet there has been no research specifically addressing this issue in the sector. Further, there has been little research that examines workers’ perspectives of work stress. The thesis thus focuses on the ‘missing voices’ of workers by outlining what workers have to say about work stress, its causes and its effects. In order to place this research into both its historical and socio-political contexts, the genealogical roots of work in the CSS are examined and the impact of neo-liberalism on the sector critically assessed.
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Bristow, Glenys Julie. "What are the characteristics (types of knowledge) residential youth workers with high-risk young people bring to the field of residential work? “Identifying artistry in youth residential workers: fact or fiction?”." Thesis, 2018. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/38631/.
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This study investigates the characteristics of therapeutic residential care workers with high-risk young people. It takes as its focus the types of knowledge that those who are considered as exceptional residential workers bring with them to the field, and explores the notions of ‘artistry, knowing, intuition, essence and gut feelings’ in relation to the construction of the professional residential care role.
Fourteen residential youth workers with 10-plus years’ experience were interviewed to investigate notions of exceptional practice in relation to:
• their characteristics, ethics, values
• if the multiplicities of theories and artistry they demonstrated were largely due to life development and learning, experience, gut feelings, and/or intuition
• if formal education / training is the most effective way of informing conscious residential work practice.
Drawing on a bricolage of knowledge, theories and theorists across disciplines to scaffold and frame the reconstruction of ways of knowing, this multi-genre methodology creatively utilised narrative research. The metaphor of quilting was drawn upon to contextualise the rhizomatic nature of the research process through which a crystallised understanding of my critical ontological values, ethics and morals afforded emergence of the interconnected history of people’s lives within a developmental bioecological model.
Four knowledge categories emerged, resulting in a ‘percentages model’:
[i] historical/developmental life stages and impacts
[ii] educational and training and bioecological contexts of lived experience
[iii] social learning
[iv] confirming the existence and essential roles of ‘artistry’, spirituality, gut feelings and intuition.
These four stages are analysed to inform workforce promotion, recruitment/retention, training, mentoring, reduction of WorkCover and sickness costs and the possible subsequent loss of valued residential workers.
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De, Harde Laura. "Who is the beast?: navigating representational and social complexities through the use of animal forms in selected works by Diane Victor." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/18334.
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Diane Victor has been a prominent figure in the South African artworld since
she won the Atelier Award in the 1980s. Since then she has self-inflicted
violence into her work; stretched it and stripped it whilst she wrestles with the
beast within others and how she portrays that in her work. This research
report is concerned with answering the question Who is the ‘Beast’ in the
work of Diane Victor? It begins by defining the term ‘Beast’ and situating
Victor’s artistic practice in an identified trajectory in Western art history. The
report traces the presence of the Beasts in Victor’s work, and follows the
metamorphosis of the human form as its internal corruption is explored and
revealed through the use of non-human animal parts. Furthermore it
investigates the artist’s use of her practice to position herself in relation to the
values and conventions inherited from the culture in which she lives. Finally, it
provides invaluable insight into who the Beast may have been all along and
moreover what it means to be human.
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McDonald, Kathryn. "Perspectives on effectiveness: what works in a juvenile fire awareness and intervention program?" Thesis, 2010. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/16037/.
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Deliberate lighting of fires by juveniles is both a public health concern and a community issue. This collaborative multiagency project aimed to establish best practice guidelines for child and youth firesetter programs in Australia.
The study proceeded in two parts. Firstly, the practices and perceived effectiveness of the Victorian Juvenile Fire Awareness and Intervention Program (JFAIP) were investigated and contrasted with other Australian and
overseas programs (US, Canada and NZ). Reviewing the literature, extensive interviewing, comparative analysis of approaches and site visits enabled the development of criteria associated with juvenile firesetter programs that were well designed, well implemented, and appeared to provide effective interventions.
Secondly, pre and post fire-specific and psychosocial risk factors were investigated with a sample of 29 firesetter boys (7-13 years)referred to the JFAIP using the firesetting risk interview (FRI) and children’s firesetting interview (CFI). Children’s recidivism was also prospectively followed-up for 12 months. Pre and post findings on the FRI suggested that all JFAIP clients benefited from the intervention. From the parent’s perspective, lower fire-specific risk factors were reported after the intervention, but as expected psychosocial risks remained unchanged. From the child’s perspective on the CFI, some fire-specific risk variables had improved. Of the 29 children in the sample, nine participants were dentified as recidivists. Thus a third of the sample, although receiving an intervention, continued to light fires. Recidivist and nonrecidivist children were also compared on FRI and CFI and significant differences were found in both fire-specific and psychosocial risk factors.
The study highlighted that high risk and low risk clients participate in fire safety education programs in Australia. Low risk clients benefited from a fire safety intervention emphasising education. Thus, fire safety education programs may be appropriate as a sole intervention with some firesetters under certain conditions. However, about a third of the JFAIP clients were recidivists and would benefit from additional interventions. It is recommended that juvenile firesetting programs follow best practice guidelines.
Books on the topic "Social workers Victoria"
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The respectability of late Victorian workers: A case study of York, 1867-1914. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010.
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Women and social action in Victorian and Edwardian England. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1991.
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Julia, Parker. Women and welfare: Ten Victorian women in public social service. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989.
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Women and welfare: Ten Victorian women in public social service. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Press, 1989.
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Opie, Robert. The Victorian scrapbook. London: New Cavendish Books, 1999.
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Marion, Rinhart, ed. Victorian Florida: America's last frontier. Atlanta, Ga: Peachtree Publishers, 1986.
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Victorian panorama: Paintings of Victorian life. London: Faber and Faber, 1990.
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Adolphe, Smith, ed. Victorian London street life in historic photographs. New York: Dover Publications, 1994.
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The way we were: Victorian and Edwardian Scotland in colour. Dunbeath, Caithness, Scotland: Whittles Publishing, 2012.
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The Thames embankment: Environment, technology, and society in Victorian London. Akron, OH: University of Akon Press, 1998.
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Carson, Matter. "“It Was Like the Salvation”." In A Matter of Moral Justice, 107–26. University of Illinois Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043901.003.0008.
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In 1937 thousands of laundry workers gathered at the Rand School of Social Science, where they voted unanimously to abandon the AFL and join the newly organized CIO. After a few months of organizing under the banner of the CIO, the workers agreed to affiliate with the powerful men’s clothing union: the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. The garment union provided the resources for the workers to conduct a citywide campaign that harnessed the workers’ growing solidarities and the expertise of worker leaders such as Charlotte Adelmond and Jessie Smith. It was under the ACWA that New York’s laundry workers founded the Laundry Workers Joint Board, which by 1940 had secured contracts covering all of the branches of the industry. This chapter argues that this dramatic union victory, more than thirty years in the making, was the result of numerous factors, including the Wagner Act, the support of allies such as the WTUL, the Negro Labor Committee and the League of Women Shoppers, communist organizing, and, most significantly, the militant industrial and interracial unionism of the workers themselves. Drawing on the scholarship of resource mobilization theorists and collective identity theorists, this chapter argues that the simultaneous presence of adequate union resources and internal activist solidarities enabled the workers to overcome their long-standing occupational and social divisions and build a movement powerful enough to bring the city’s antiunion employers to the bargaining table.
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Hawkins, Angus. "The Victorians without Modernity." In Modernity and the Victorians, 59—C4.P50. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192845474.003.0005.
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Abstract This chapter proposes an alternative conception of the dynamics of Victorian political and social history, which does away with the assumptions and distortions imposed by ‘modernisation theory’. It argues instead that historians need to pay much closer attention to notions of the past, morality, and community if they want to understand how nineteenth-century Britain worked. Each element of the social-scientific conception of ‘modernity’ is dismantled in turn, to be replaced by an alternative version of events in which tradition, reaction, and contingency mattered just as much as ‘progressive’ change. The chapter argues that the impact of urbanisation and industrialisation was strictly limited; that there was no such thing as a rigid ‘two-party’ binary; that parliamentary reform did not point in one direction; that ‘class consciousness’ was of restricted significance; and that the political and cultural power of religious conviction and of visions of the (English) past remained largely unchallenged. This amounts to a comprehensive vision of ‘the Victorians without modernity’.
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Anderson, Peter. "Franco’s Victory." In The Age of Mass Child Removal in Spain, 178–98. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192844576.003.0009.
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Social Catholic groups took firm control of the juvenile courts after General Franco occupied Madrid. They swiftly exercised their moral judgements on families which suffered executions, imprisonment, employment purges, dire living conditions, and the high cost of living. Court staff particularly loathed secular ‘Red’ worker groups and endeavoured to capture the children of these foes of the faith. Mothers forced into prostitution or petty crime, living in overcrowded and poor housing whose lives were marked by hunger and disease, proved especially vulnerable to child removal. They could also fall victim to their husbands serving jail terms for political offences who, from prison, could battle to deprive them of custody. In other cases, families managed to keep bonds alive by visiting children and youngsters petitioned the authorities to be allowed home to help look after their parents.
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Ó Donghaile, Deaglán. "Fairy Tales for Revolutionaries." In Oscar Wilde and the Radical Politics of the Fin de Siécle, 120–49. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474459433.003.0005.
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Aestheticism, with its emphasis on the right to pleasure, countered late Victorian capitalism and its denial of rights to the working class. This problem is explored in Wilde’s short stories, “The Happy Prince” and “The Selfish Giant”, both of. While these tales have been interpreted as Christian allegories, they offer profound criticisms of the ideologies of capital and property. Proposing the mutualist alternative of shared, collective sacrifice in the face of poverty and the social injustices that provided the structural bases for the operation of capital, these socially-committed political fantasies articulated radical ideas that subverted the late Victorian bourgeois sphere. In these works Wilde also criticised socially conservative art for exhibiting “style without sincerity”, and proposed Peter Kropotkin’s anarchist ideal of mutualism as a serious model for social cooperation.
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Compton, Michael T., and Beth Broussard. "Finding Specialized Programs for Early Psychosis." In The First Episode of Psychosis. Oxford University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195372496.003.0024.
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Most of the time, people of all different ages and with all sorts of mental illnesses go to the same place to see a doctor, get medicines, or participate in counseling. That is, they go to mental health clinics or the office of a mental health professional that provides treatments for a number of different illnesses. Most young people who have psychosis get their medical care and treatment in a hospital, clinic, or doctor’s office. In these places, the doctors and other mental health professionals may have taken special classes about how to help young people with psychosis, but that may not be their only focus. They may see people with other illnesses too. However, in some places around the world, there are special clinics that are for people in the early stages of psychosis. These types of specialized programs have been developed recently, since the 1990s. These programs have a number of different types of mental health professionals, including psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers, counselors, and others. In some programs, mental health professionals and doctors in training may rotate through the clinic spending several months at a time training in the clinic. Some programs, like the Early Psychosis Prevention and Intervention Centre (EPPIC) in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, operate within the framework of a youth health service. Such youth services treat all sorts of mental health issues in young people. Other programs are located primarily in adult mental health facilities. Such programs may offer classes or group meetings just for people who recently developed psychosis and other classes or group meetings especially for the families of these young people. Typically, these programs provide someone with 2–3 years of treatment. They usually do a full evaluation of the patient every few months and keep track of how he or she is doing. If the patient needs more care afterwards, they help him or her find another program for longer-term care. In this chapter, we list some of these clinics located in various parts of the world and describe what these specialized early psychosis programs provide.
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Wagner, Tamara S. "Introduction." In The Victorian Baby in Print, 1–47. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198858010.003.0001.
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The Introduction surveys the divergent representations of babyhood in the nineteenth century. It situates the present study at the intersection of new work on the modern family and changing parenting realities, as well as historical childhood and child care. After a detailed discussion of the most influential or mainstream portrayals of infancy in Victorian popular culture, such as the sentimentalized baby, the baby as victim in social reform writing, and the commodified baby, the Introduction addresses the importance of unusual, yet culturally significant depictions, including comical or sensationalized babies in fiction. How did these portrayals transform cultural fantasies and genre developments? How did iconic depictions of babyhood reflect, distort, or endeavour to change the lived realities of young children in Victorian Britain? The texts selected for close reading in the subsequent chapters include material that reveals unexpected sides to Victorian infancy, as well as works that have had a catalysing function for changing representational strategies. Critical attention to the diverse and at times ambiguous depiction of infancy in Victorian culture thus also produces new readings of canonical works that have hitherto not been considered from this angle.
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Samalin, Zachary. "Realism and Repulsion." In The Masses are Revolting, 86–118. Cornell University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501756467.003.0003.
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This chapter presents how literary production in the period responded to the new centrality of disgust to Victorian social life. It addresses the complex relationship of realism and repulsion that is hinted at by Charles Dickens's evocative image. Attending to literary works such as Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit, the chapter offers a clearest view of the Victorian structure of unwanted feeling and allows us to observe the new roles and functions that were being ascribed to disgust over the second half of the century. The chapter then displays a critical genealogy of the role of disgust in seminal theories of the realist novel, from György Lukács and Eric Auerbach to Fredric Jameson and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. It offers a complex and nuanced view of the aesthetic conception of disgust, with its presumptions about how the emotion worked, what rules and rationalities it followed, what its articulation meant, and crucially, when it should and shouldn't be provoked. Taken together, it shows how this discourse of disgust came to function beyond the confines of the specifically aesthetic domain.
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Shears, Jonathon. "Moral Sensitivity and the Mind: Tired and Emotional Victorians." In The Hangover, 139–70. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789621198.003.0006.
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The Victorian period is often remembered as a morally severe one, associated with rectitude, propriety, temperance and self-help. This chapter argues that hangover literature provides an important means to understand the social and cultural values that drinkers were perceived to have transgressed. Nevertheless, the tendency in Victorian literature was to humanise the figure of the drunkard and hangovers were a part of this. Through analysis of depictions of hangovers in works by Charles Dickens, Anne Brontë, George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, the chapter argues that Victorian novelists demonstrated many reasons why drinkers felt shame but also – drawing on better medical understanding of the nerves and the mind – their emotional complexity. It shows that they reversed some of the more straightforward condemnation of inebriates commonly found in temperance literature.
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Brown, Thomas J. "Visions of Victory." In Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America, 186–231. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653747.003.0005.
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This chapter situates northern and southern monuments to Civil War victory within longstanding traditions in art history. The triumphal arch came to the United States after the war. Proposals for arches framed debates about the future of antebellum landscapes like town commons and parade grounds, and arches also figured prominently in the shaping of public parks, largely a key feature of post-war urban planning. Increasingly sexualized statues of Nike, or Winged Victory, imagined Union triumph as a more comprehensive consummation than the most renowned successes of antiquity. Early attempts to represent peace incorporated a foundation in social or political change, but peace gradually converged with martial victory. The shift in Union memorials from regeneration to self-congratulation paralleled the rise of Confederate victory memorials. These works partly celebrated the overthrow of Reconstruction and consolidation of white supremacism but also illustrated a deepening national reluctance to engage in critical introspection.
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Kneale, James. "The Battle of Torquay: The Late Victorian Resort as Social Experiment." In Coastal Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century, 79–97. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474435734.003.0005.
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This chapter considers drink and temperance in Victorian ports and resorts. Where there was drink there would invariably be temperance; the visibility of drunkenness in the major British ports made them the focus of temperance reform. Temperance also figured in smaller towns, becoming one aspect of polite society in fashionable resorts and even financing public works. But was there anything specific about drink and temperance on the coast? Rob Shields once suggested that such ‘places on the margin’ might allow heterotopic reworkings of social order. The ‘Battle of Torquay’ between well-heeled Torquay society and working-class Salvation Army members suggests the coast as a site of transformation, but also that social control could be turned on abstainers as well as drinkers, producing less progressive places on the coast as well as more liberal ones.