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Journal articles on the topic "Workers' stories"

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Rawson, David John. "The Representation of Indonesian Migrant Workers in Contemporary Indonesian Literature." Digital Press Social Sciences and Humanities 2 (2019): 00004. http://dx.doi.org/10.29037/digitalpress.42255.

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Indonesia has a large number of overseas workers varying from professional workers to the unskilled, legal and illegal who take up work across the globe. In the public consciousness this group is characterized as taking considerable risk but can gain considerable financial reward. This paper will examine the theme of Indonesian migrant workers’ risks and rewards and a sense of belonging as represented in contemporary Indonesian short stories from 1992 to 2015. The paper draws upon the theory of narratology to analyze the representation of Indonesian migrant workers in six Indonesian short stories, three from the New Order Period and three from the Reformation era period. The stories themselves have been published in newspapers, magazines and anthologies. The sample has been chosen to represent a range of migrant worker experiences both in Indonesia and abroad, male and female, and skilled and unskilled. The paper finds that the representations of migrant worker’s sense of belonging is particular marked by gender and class differences. Women are depicted over the two periods as the victims of a patriarchal ideology and unregulated capitalism which leads to exploitation, abuse and alienation of working-class women. While the representation of migrant worker experiences is largely similar there are changes over the two periods in terms of contesting the ideologies of patriarchy and New Order developmentalism.
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Vickers, Margaret H. "Stories, Disability, and “Dirty” Workers." Journal of Management Inquiry 24, no. 1 (September 14, 2014): 82–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1056492614546899.

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Marsih, Linusia, and Christine Saragih. "SEX WORKER STIGMA IN MAUPASSANT’S “BOULE DE SUIF” AND TIRTAWIRYA’S “CATATAN SEORANG PELACUR”." Anaphora: Journal of Language, Literary and Cultural Studies 4, no. 2 (January 31, 2022): 162–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.30996/anaphora.v4i2.6072.

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This study aims to reveal stigma toward sex worker depicted in two literary texts i. e. a short story entitled “Boule de Suif” by Guy de Maupassant, a French writer and a short story entitled “Catatan Seorang Pelacur” by Putu Arya Tirtawirya, an Indonesian writer. The two short stories are chosen for the reason that both works depect the life of a female sex worker. This study is designed as a descriptive qualitative study with sociological approach. The sociological approach is applied because this study looks at society’s views on female sex workers tht is reflected in the short stories. Moreover, theories of stigma are reviewed to support the analysis. The Analysis is focused on the sex worker stigma, the manifestation of stigmatization against sex workers, how the female sex worker in each short story responds to the stigmatization, and whether authors of the short stories affirm or criticize their society.
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Shaw, Jessica. "Thinking with Stories." Canadian Social Work Review 34, no. 2 (January 18, 2018): 207–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1042889ar.

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As a relational epistemology and research methodology, narrative inquiry is one way that people come to know experience through story. Social workers are experienced in working with people’s stories, yet there is a dearth of literature where both social work and narrative inquiry are discussed alongside each other. This paper highlights the particular ways that a researcher commits to living and understanding a narrative view of experience as they engage in research that is relational. It explains some of the language that narrative inquirers use to describe their work, and uses examples from a social work doctoral dissertation to demonstrate the methodological touchstones of a social work narrative inquiry. It concludes with an invitation for social workers to consider narrative inquiry as a process that can guide and advance both clinical practice and social justice work.
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Lee, Sue, and Connie Young Yu. "Stories by Descendants of Chinese Railroad Workers." California History 96, no. 2 (2019): 19–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ch.2019.96.2.19.

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Kidd, Ros. "Position Paper: Profiting from Poverty: State Policies and Aboriginal Deprivation." Queensland Review 4, no. 1 (April 1997): 81–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1321816600001343.

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In December 1995 I spent a week with the Aboriginal community of Palm Island. Here seven elderly men and women shared with me their life stories; stories of families torn apart by police deportations, of confinement in dormitories, of hunger and hardship, of decades of forced unpaid labour, and recent years of struggle on partial wages. These Aboriginal workers have been fighting for ten years to force the Queensland government to abide by the laws of the nation. Citing 1975 Federal anti-discrimination legislation which confirms that no worker should be paid less than the legal entitlement solely on the grounds of race, religious beliefs, or gender, these workers had turned to the Human Rights Commission for justice.
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Cook, Laura L. "Storytelling among child welfare social workers: Constructing professional role and resilience through team talk." Qualitative Social Work 19, no. 5-6 (July 25, 2019): 968–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1473325019865014.

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Child welfare social work is emotive and demanding work, requiring highly skilled and resilient practitioners. In a context of austerity, increased public scrutiny and accountability, defensive practice has been identified as a feature of professional practice. However, little is known about the processes through which social workers develop resilience or come to adopt a defensive stance in managing the demands of their work. This article focuses on professional storytelling among child welfare social workers. It examines how social workers construct their professional role through team talk and the implications of this for our understanding of professional resilience and defensiveness. Drawing on an in-depth narrative analysis of focus groups with social work teams, eight story types are identified in social workers’ talk about their work: emotional container stories, solidarity stories, professional epiphanies, professional affirmation stories, partnership stories, parables of persistence, tales of courageous practice and cautionary tales. Each story type foregrounds a particular aspect of child welfare practice, containing a moral about social work with vulnerable children and families. The article concludes with the implications of these stories for our understanding of both resilience and the pull towards defensiveness in child welfare social work.
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Gijzen, Mandy, Sanne Rasing, Rian van den Boogaart, Wendy Rongen, Twan van der Steen, Daan Creemers, Rutger Engels, and Filip Smit. "Feasibility of a serious game coupled with a contact-based session led by lived experience workers for depression prevention in high-school students." PLOS ONE 16, no. 11 (November 30, 2021): e0260224. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260224.

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Background Stigma and limited mental health literacy impede adolescents getting the help they need for depressive symptoms. A serious game coupled with a classroom session led by lived experience workers (LEWs) might help to overcome these barriers. The school-based Strong Teens and Resilient Minds (STORM) preventive program employed this strategy and offered a serious game, Moving Stories. The current study was carried out to assess inhibiting and promoting factors for scaling up Moving Stories once its effectiveness has been ascertained. Methods Moving Stories was offered in three steps: (1) introductory classroom session, (2) students playing the game for five days, (3) debriefing classroom session led by lived experience worker. Data was collected on the number of participating students, costs of offering Moving Stories, and was further based on the notes of the debriefing sessions to check if mental health first aid (MHFA) strategies were addressed. Results Moving Stories was offered in seven high-schools. Coverage was moderate with 982 participating students out of 1880 (52%). Most participating students (83%) played the Moving Stories app three out of the five days. Qualitative data showed that the MHFAs were discussed in all debriefing sessions. Students showed great interest in lived experience workers’ stories and shared their own experiences with depression. Conclusions Bringing Moving Stories to scale in the high-school setting appears feasible, but will remain logistically somewhat challenging. Future implementation and scale-up of Moving Stories could benefit from improved selection and training of LEWs that played such an important role in grabbing the full attention of students and were able to launch frank discussions about depressive disorder and stigma in classrooms. Trial registration The study is registered in the Dutch Trial Register: Trial NL6444 (NTR6622: https://www.trialregister.nl/trial/6444).
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Martin, Sarah E., and Jacob D. Rawlins. "Stories They Tell." Journal of Business and Technical Communication 32, no. 4 (June 18, 2018): 447–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1050651918780196.

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This study investigates the themes that drive persuasive recruiting appeals, or stories, designed to attract new, entrepreneurial workers in the direct selling industry. It offers a rhetorical perspective informed by fantasy theme analysis on the themes present in the recruiting content on the corporate Web sites of three direct selling companies (Mary Kay, Stella & Dot, and Scentsy). The analysis indicates that rhetorical agency is a core theme in the persuasive recruiting stories for these companies. Offering a means for business and technical communication scholars to explore agency or other persuasive story themes in context, this study addresses how a rhetorical perspective is useful to assess recruiting appeals in shifting, entrepreneurial work contexts.
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Smith, Sara R. "Queers are Workers, Workers are Queer, Workers' Rights are Hot! The Emerging Field of Queer Labor History." International Labor and Working-Class History 89 (2016): 184–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s014754791500040x.

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Gay male stewards performing drag shows on large passenger ships in the 1930s. Male hustlers selling sex to men for money and then going home to their girlfriends in the 1950s. Lesbian bus drivers organizing in the 1970s to include “sexual orientation” in their union contract's antidiscrimination clause. Gay male flight attendants fired from their jobs for being HIV-positive in the 1980s. These are some of the stories told in the four books under review, each about the queer labor history of the United States.
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MacEwan, Leigh. "Compassion fatigue : addiction workers' experiences of listening to stories of violence." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.430369.

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Bohanan, Ronal L. ""This Fundamental Lack": Stories." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc862808/.

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This short story collection includes five original works of fiction, three of which make up a trilogy titled "The World Drops Beneath You," which follows the life of James McClellan from 1969 in Texas until roughly 2009, when he is struggling to care for his wife, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. One of the two remaining stories, "She Loved Him When He Looked Like Elvis," prominently features James McClellan's parents and is set approximately eight years before the start of the trilogy. Each of the stories is concerned with blue-collar families trying to make their way in postindustrial America and the forces that buffet them, including some brought on by the choices they make.
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Shahid, Ayesha. "Silent voices, untold stories : women domestic workers in Pakistan and their struggle for empowerment." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2007. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2430/.

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This is a socio-legal study about law, empowerment and access to justice for women domestic workers in Pakistan. There are no official statistics available on the number of women working in this informal employment sector, neither are there any in-depth research studies carried out on the subject of women in domestic service in Pakistan. Therefore this exploratory study attempts to fill the gap in existing literature by providing information about the profile, nature, working and living conditions of women domestic workers. It provides a starting point towards an understanding of the situation of women in domestic service by listening to their voices and lived experiences. By using feminist legal perspectives, Islamic perspectives on woinen's work and legal pluralism, the present study questions the efficacy of law as a tool for empowering women domestic workers in their struggle against exploitative treatment in the workplace. Grounded theory methodology is followed to collect empirical data about domestic service in Pakistan. Semi-structured group and individual interviews have been carried out at four sites in Karachi and Peshawar, Pakistan. A few case studies have also been included to substantiate some of the major themes arising during fieldwork. Listening to voices of women in domestic service has provided an opportunity to uncover the hidden lives of women domestic workers who work in the privacy of homes. The present study also explores the nature of domestic service, dynamics of employer-employee relations and complexities of class, gender and multiple identities impacting on these relationships. The study finally argues that in the presence of plural legal frameworks formal law alone cannot empower women in domestic service. Therefore for an effective implementation of law it is equally pertinent to look into non-legal strategies so that access to justice can be made possible for these women.
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Blundell, Catherine Jane. "A narrative analysis of the stories told by female foreign care workers in Bologna, Italy." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2016. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/407133/.

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This thesis investigates the lived experience of economic migration of eleven female foreign care workers (FCWs) working in Bologna, Italy. The principal aim of the study is to examine how these women construct their experience of migrating through the stories they tell. The methodology involves semi-structured interviews in which participants reflect on the migration process, their motivations for the move and the difficulties they faced once in Italy. The interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed and then analysed. In the first stage of analysis, similarities and differences in the narratives were identified in order to identify common themes. Subsequently, stories told in the interviews were identified. Positioning theory was employed to explore both what was said and the way in which it was said with close attention paid to the interactive nature of the stories and how they relate to wider societal discourses, especially those regarding care workers in Italy. The findings of this study demonstrate that, even though each migration experience is different, the interviewees share awareness of certain discourses regarding both immigration in Italy and care workers in particular. Through positioning theory I demonstrate how the women resist certain negative discourses in order to alternatively position themselves as making agentive career choices. The findings are discussed with reference to the efficacy of this methodological approach and suggestions for future research.
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Lind, Sara. "Child work: empowerment or violation of rights? : Stories from former Child Workers in Cochabamba, Bolivia." Thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Jönköping University, HLK, Globala studier, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-49272.

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Many international conventions concern child labour and child work and this practice tend to often be viewed as a violation of child rights. However, the discourse has changed and a tension among universalistic and relativistic scholars risen. The former tends to condemn child work under the age of 14 and the latter claims that culture needs to be taken into account arguing that child work, is not necessarily a violation of rights.  This study analyses narratives from former child workers in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It aims to increase the understanding of experiences from child workers and how it relates to Child Rights from a universalistic and relativistic perspective and to identify reasons for child work.  The findings demonstrate that the experiences vary a lot and that there is a complexity in the practice of child work. The respondents have experienced violation of rights at their work, but on the other hand, has the income enabled them to fulfil other rights. The relativistic and universalistic perspective both serve to gain a deeper understanding of child work and its complex relationship of Child Rights. This argue for that one should strive to use both perspectives rather than embrace one and condemn the other. Economic need was identified as the main reason to why children were working.
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Ngconjana, Unati. "Narratives of challenge and motivation : the stories of East London Community Health Care volunteers." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/6325.

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The research study was aimed at exploring the narratives of motivations and challenges that home-based health care workers experience in their voluntary service provision. It was conducted in East London in Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality. A total of seven participants who volunteer in home based care programmes were interviewed and their mean age was 30 years; all were females, two married, one a widow, one divorced and two single females. The narrative framework was used to explore the volunteers' interpretation of volunteering experiences, highlighting themes that emerged on what encourages them to volunteer as home based health care workers, and how they deal with challenges that arise during the provision of services. The research was also aimed at exploring the social factors supporting the volunteers' decision to continue volunteering. Narratives from the interviewed community health workers [CHWs] indicate that the motives for participating in CHW programmes are mainly altruistic although people are sometimes motivated by self-interest. Self-interest seems to be particularly relevant in the case of the younger volunteers as they expressed their hope that providing voluntary service may help to enhance their skills so as to facilitate future learning and employment prospects. The recurring themes within the CHWs' narrative indicate that they identify with the helping role and feel it empowers them as they participate in meaningful ways in their communities, and they gain strength to cope with challenges that come with community health work. This study highlighted the complex nature of home based care roles, which inevitably reflect the intervention approach, the mode of working, professional roles and relationships with communities.
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Leung-Heras, Jacqueline Marie. "Stories from the front: health care access in the U.S. and Mexico in Mexican migrant farm workers." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1012.

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Migrant farm workers experience many hardships during their time in the U.S. One major problem faced by migrant farm workers is the lack of access to and utilization of health care services. Migrant farm workers usually do not qualify for services in the U.S., and often do not have any services available to them when in Mexico. This study examined the utilization and satisfaction of health services received by migrant farm workers. A total of seven Latino migrant farm workers were interviewed. Analysis indicated each worker had utilized the health program available to them in Iowa and were satisfied with the service they received. The majority of workers reported that not having health insurance impeded the likelihood of their seeking medical services in Mexico. They were satisfied with any services they received during their time in Iowa. The findings stress the importance of providing additional prevention health services to migrant farm workers to increase access, utilization, and satisfaction with health services.
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Lagman, Marco Stefan Burce. "Property owners, workers, and public women: Stories and geographies of the late nineteenth century Manileña, 1860-1896." Thesis, Lagman, Marco Stefan Burce (2020) Property owners, workers, and public women: Stories and geographies of the late nineteenth century Manileña, 1860-1896. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2020. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/58828/.

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This thesis attempts to problematize and reveal the role women played in the development of late nineteenth century Manila’s social and economic landscape, while also linking their stories to the larger processes and events that influenced their daily lives. By combining methods from social history research with concepts and techniques from human geography, historical geography, and historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS), this study produces a collective portrait of the Manileña; one that is enhanced through a geographic analysis of their occupations and activities set within Manila’s social and physical spaces. The main body of this dissertation is composed of seven chapters categorized into themes that tackle the Manileña’s experiences and the spaces she utilized, negotiated, and contested with respect to State power, her livelihoods, and her place in society. The first three chapters underscore the contrasting experiences of privileged and working-class women in relation to the Law. While their knowledge of the Law allowed privileged women to conduct personal businesses, leave wills, and seek legal redress from abusive spouses, the colonial government enacted policies with respect to particular females that they considered threats to elite households, economic productivity, and public health. The second theme of the thesis demonstrates the significant presence of propertied and entrepreneurial women in Manila Province’s urban real estate and agricultural land market, as well as in selected businesses such as money lending, water and land-based transport, panguingue operations, and small-scale cigar and cigarette manufacturing in the city’s districts. Unlike their more privileged counterparts who held a significant ownership of Manila’s built environment, disadvantaged local and migrant women marked their presence in the city through their work in well-to-do residences, markets, cigar factories, waterways, streets, and brothels. Despite her significant presence in the city’s socioeconomic life, information from newspapers and criminal cases discussed in the last two chapters also reveal how Manila’s women suffered under a pervasive patriarchy. This includes the proliferation of ideas, illustrations, and advertisements that objectified women, determined their proper roles, and relegated them to the domestic sphere. Moreover, similar to other urbanized settlements, Manila was a site where women were commonly victims of violent and sexual crimes.
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Dalikeni, Colletta. "Making sense of each other : lived experiences and told stories of child protection social workers and asylum-seeking families." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.601143.

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Although Ireland has become an increasingly multi-cultural society since the mid- 19905, changing from a country of emigration to one of immigration, as a result of this multiculturalism the Irish Government has embarked on several commendable initiatives. These changes have yet to be fully recognised within the Child Protection and Child Welfare system (CPCWS). The development of national guidelines in recent times has failed to provide adequate guidance for social workers on how to effectively respond to asylum-seeking families who are a relatively new service user group for community care teams. Much of current Irish research sheds limited light on how social workers ought to respond effectively to asylum seeking children (ASC) and their families within a child protection context, where families present with extremely complex needs resulting from forced migration. This study examines the experiences of (PWSW and asylum-seeking families (ASF) in the context of working together. The first of its kind in this field in the Republic of Ireland, the study design is primarily qualitative with an overall action research orientation. Research data was collected by use of a biographical narrative interviewing method (BN IM). The BNIM analysis method was used to analyse the first two interviews, this in-depth analysis formed the basis of the broader analysis using 'Framework Analysis.' The study highlights the need for appropriate and ongoing culturally competent training for social workers in this area. It is recommended that much reflective work is needed in community ca re teams to begin to shape future practice with ASF within the field of CPWSW. The findings from this study illustrate the complexity of social work practice in this area and provide the basis for future research. This recommendation is rooted in the enhanced model of cultural competence developed from the study's findings.
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Nzute, Anastesia. "Utilisation of insecticide treated nets among women in rural Nigeria : themes, stories, and performance." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/620391.

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Background: The effect of Malaria attack on maternal and child health in Nigeria is high compared with other countries in sub Saharan Africa. This problem has been a persistent issue in Nigeria and many researchers have tried to proffer solutions. Insecticide treated nets (ITN) have been identified as providing approximately 80% protection against malaria attack. However, all the measures put in place to control malaria failed to meet up with the set target of the Roll Back Malaria Initiative, which aimed at reducing malaria deaths in Nigeria by half by 2010 in line with the Millennium Development Goals (Anyaehie et al., 2009). As part of the global initiative to reduce malaria deaths before 2015 (Amoran, Senbanjo and Asagwara, 2011) the Nigerian government introduced intervention programmes to protect pregnant women, and children under-five years of age (Anyaehie et al., 2011). However, although there has been considerable and effective intervention in controlling this preventable disease in the African continent, marked inconsistency in the distribution of the ITN, scarcity and low usage in Nigeria (Amoran, Senbanjo and Asagwara, 2011) are apparent, despite emphasis on community-based strategies for malaria control (Obinna, 2011). For midwives in rural Nigeria the disproportionate vulnerability of pregnant women and young children is of great concern. This particular issue is the focus of a hermeneutic phenomenological inquiry into the experiences of pregnant women and mothers in their efforts to protect their families and themselves from malaria attack. The study contends that the ‘big (pan-African/national) story’ of malaria has found many voices, speaking from a predominantly positivist perspective. While some more interpretivist approaches to exploring experience have been employed elsewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa (Rachel and Frank 2005), there remains a need for more participatory research related to health care issues in Nigeria (Abdullahi et al 2013). Women and children make up the majority of the Nigeria population of over 160 million. An attack of malaria on them affects entire households and the economy of the nation. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to give voice to the ‘small (household) stories’ of Nigerian women (mothers and health workers), living and working in impoverished rural communities, and consider how their viewpoints, perspectives and imaginings might contribute to the fight for a malaria-free Nigeria. Methodological approach: The research draws on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. The participants’ accounts are interpreted in terms of Africana ‘Womanism’ as defined by Hudson-Weems (1993), the socio-narratology approach elaborated by Frank (2010), and Igbo world-view. Research procedure: Individual semi-structured interviews and focus groups were conducted with Igbo women in three rural communities in Enugu State in eastern Nigeria (Nsukka, Ngwo, and Amechi). This was a three-phase process involving an initial orientation visit to engage with local gatekeepers and community health workers. A first round of interviews and discussion took place in three communities in 2014, followed by the first phase of interpretation. A second field trip took place in 2015, during which participants discussed the ongoing interpretation and elaborated further on some of the issues raised. Interpretive phases 2 and 3 followed this visit. Interpretive process: Interpretive shifts in understanding were accomplished in three ways: 1. Seeking thematic connections between participants’ accounts of living with the threat of malaria. 2. Engaging in dialogical narrative analysis to explore the work done by the stories embedded in individual accounts of living under the threat of malaria. 3. Crafting found poetry from within the collective accounts to produce an evocative text that could mediate an emotional response and understanding of the malaria experience. Key outcomes: The research was a response to calls for more participatory research into the detailed experiences of people in Africa facing up to the threat of malaria. It has provided a vehicle for the voices of a group of Nigerian women and health workers to bring attention to the continuing plight of pregnant women and their families with limited access to insecticide-treated bed nets in poor living conditions. They have told how they seek to empower themselves in their own small and particular ways. It has provided insights into their worldview(s) and what others might see from where they stand. As such it has added to their own call expressed during the research to “Keep malaria on the agenda.” The research has used the women’s own testimony to create an oral resource designed https://youtu.be/XelMXLUzTV0 to facilitate education and action among small local groups of women and their families, and for health workers in local rural communities.
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Books on the topic "Workers' stories"

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Cohen, Esther, 1947 Aug. 22-, ed. UnseenAmerica: Photos and stories by workers. New York: ReganBooks, 2005.

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Bergt, Carolyn S. The harvest workers: Jesus sends out workers Luke 10:1-24 for children. St. Louis, MO: Concordia Pub. House, 2005.

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Oakeshott, Robert. Workers as entrepreneurs: Two striking success stories from Italy. London: [Partnership Research Ltd.], 1990.

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Lipinge, Eunice. Telling their stories: Commercial sex workers in Walvis Bay. [Windhoek]: Gender Training and Research Programme, Social Sciences Division/Multidisciplinary and Consultancy Centre, University of Namibia, 2000.

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Behind the Chinese miracle: Migrant workers tell their stories. San Francisco: Long River Press, 2012.

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Constable, Nicole. Maid to order in Hong Kong: Stories of migrant workers. 2nd ed. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007.

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Maid to order in Hong Kong: Stories of Filipina workers. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press, 1997.

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Snyder, Robert W. Transit talk: New York's bus and subway workers tell their stories. Brooklyn, N.Y: New York Transit Museum, 1997.

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Arenivas, Armando. Crude Oilfield Stories: THIS AIN'T NO BULL! New Mexico]: Lea County Museum Press, 2009.

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The call to social work: Life stories. 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks: SAGE, 2012.

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Book chapters on the topic "Workers' stories"

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Figart, Deborah M. "Doing Business Responsibly: ROC United and Restaurant Workers." In Stories of Progressive Institutional Change, 69–79. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59779-9_6.

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Reza-Paul, Sushena, Philip Neil Kumar, Lisa Lazarus, Akram Pasha, Manjula Ramaiah, Manisha Reza Paul, Robert Lorway, and Sundar Sundararaman. "From Vulnerability to Resilience: Sex Workers Fight COVID-19." In Health Dimensions of COVID-19 in India and Beyond, 269–85. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7385-6_15.

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AbstractThe authors describe the plight of sex workers, a particularly disadvantaged community that is highly marginalized and vulnerable. Sex workers were hard hit by the pandemic. The authors examine the impact of COVID-19 on sex workers’ lives and livelihoods, their response to the crisis, and the strategies that they employed to battle the pandemic.During the lockdown, female sex workers lost their livelihoods which plunged them and their families into extreme poverty. Even when unlock measures were announced, the business of sex work did not return to normal. Sex work, by its very nature, demands physical proximity—not physical distancing. Consequently, sex workers had to innovate to find work to survive. Loss of livelihoods also brought forth hidden mental health problems. Gripped by anxiety and depression due to the uncertainty about when the pandemic would end, sex workers went into despair. Some even attempted suicide. Violence in the family increased significantly. For sex workers living with HIV, there was the added anxiety about the continuation of anti-retroviral therapy (ART). Community-based organizations (CBOs) took on the responsibility of providing drugs to sex workers by developing a unique supply chain. The CBO members collected the drugs from the health centers and deliver them to sex workers at a mutually convenient place, thereby ensuring confidentiality.The authors draw attention to sex workers who are invisible in most discourses. This vulnerable, marginalized community was seriously affected by the pandemic. Sex workers were victims but were also the first responders to the pandemic. Sex worker collectives formed to fight HIV, were by their very nature, well-equipped to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The government’s announcement to provide rations to the poor was a welcome move, but it was not of much help to sex workers as they did not possess ration cards. The sex worker collectives valiantly fought this battle and won. The Supreme Court of India directed the states to provide sex workers with dry rations without insisting on any proof.The stories of the lives and resilience of sex workers, narrated in this chapter, are inspiring. The authors discuss the plight of female sex workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The community of sex workers was missing from all government policies and welfare schemes. The sudden lockdown robbed them of their livelihoods. Basic necessities like food and shelter became elusive. The authors relate the stories of the struggles of sex workers from different parts of the country.They discuss how despite uncertainty, stigma, and loss of livelihoods, sex workers emerged strong. The resilient spirit of sex workers should be celebrated. The stories of sex workers have a common thread of resilience, resourcefulness, grit, and determination in the face of unsurmountable challenges.
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Psimmenos, Iordanis, and Koula Kassimati. "Albanian and Polish Undocumented Workers’ Life-stories: Migration Paths, Tactics and Identities in Greece." In Illegal Immigration in Europe, 138–67. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230555020_7.

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Abel, Gillian, and Catherine Healy. "Sex Worker-Led Provision of Services in New Zealand: Optimising Health and Safety in a Decriminalised Context." In Sex Work, Health, and Human Rights, 175–87. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64171-9_10.

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AbstractDecriminalisation recognises sex work as work; it provides opportunities for promoting the health of sex workers and therefore goes a long way to addressing health and human rights inequities for this sector of the population. This chapter focuses on three scenarios (among many) where decriminalisation of sex work in New Zealand has been successful in promoting sex workers’ health, safety, and wellbeing and, in so doing, provides a blueprint for best practice in working with sex workers.Although services for sex workers are available in many countries, they tend to focus on street-based sex workers, who are perceived as the most vulnerable and thus most in need. A decriminalised context provides greater access to peer support (Harcourt 2010), which is much better positioned to address the complex needs of all sex workers. It also allows for sex workers to engage with others in the community for more effective policy as well as service provision (O’Neill and Pitcher, Sex work matters: exploring money, power and intimacy in the sex industry, Zed Books, London, 2010). In this chapter, we discuss: How access to police has been improved for sex workers who wish to report sexual assault How decriminalisation has enabled interagency collaboration when working with sex workers who have concerns about practices within certain brothels How new sex workers access information on safe practices in a decriminalised environment We use the research literature from New Zealand and elsewhere to expand on the real-life stories of the engagement between New Zealand Prostitutes Collective and sex workers, agencies, and individuals to illustrate the three scenarios.
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Finer, Donna. "Timely Telling Tweets: Using Social Media Data to Tell the Stories of Window Sex Workers in Amsterdam Facing Major Changes to Their Working Conditions." In Sex Work, Labour and Relations, 97–119. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04605-6_5.

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Fields, Gary S. "Four Workers’ Stories." In Working Hard, Working Poor, 24–41. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199794645.003.0003.

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Karmel, Jonathan D. "Stories." In Dying to Work. Cornell University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501709982.003.0006.

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Chapter Five is comprised of fifteen stories of real life workers who died or were seriously injured at work. The injured workers or their surviving family members tell intimate stories about their lives, aspirations, hopes and dreams that were unalterably changed due to a preventable workplace injury or death. To give context to their injury or death, each story is preceded by a brief overview of their particular industry and its workplace death and injury rates.
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"Introduction to Stories from Workers." In Work with Youth in Divided and Contested Societies, 251. Brill | Sense, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789087903695_027.

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Mustafa, Rozhgar. "At the Red Prison, They Want Workers." In Kurdish Women's Stories, 115–18. Pluto Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1dm8d1g.17.

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Lee, Julia H. "Telling Stories." In The Racial Railroad, 84–109. NYU Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479812752.003.0004.

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Chapter 3 examines how Chinese American authors David Henry Hwang, Frank Chin, and Maxine Hong Kingston construct the train as a form of textual narrative, one that they can read or narrate to make visible the erasure of Chinese American life and experience in the United States. Their works offer the Transcontinental Railroad not only as a key for understanding Chinese American subject formation but also a strategy for narrating Chinese American experiences in the face of marginalization and expunction from the nation’s history. Like the relationship between signifier and signified, the train functions as a vehicle for figuring Chinese railroad workers and conceptualizing an absent Chinese American past.
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Rosa, Helvy Tiana, Ilza Mayuni, and Emzir. "Creative Process in Writing Short Stories by Female Domestic Workers." In International Conference on Education, Language, and Society. SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0008996201810189.

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Rosa, Helvy Tiana, Ilza Mayuni, and Emzir Emzir. "Creative Process in Writing Short Stories of the Indonesian Domestic Workers in Hong Kong." In First International Conference on Technology and Educational Science. EAI, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.21-11-2018.2282141.

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Windasari, Ike Pertiwi, Jojor Kakanda Purba, Dania Eridani, Risma Septiana, and Manik Mahachandra. "Application Development of Inspection of Fire Protection Equipment, First Aid Kit and Incident Reporting Case Study." In The 7th International Conference on Public Health 2020. Masters Program in Public Health, Universitas Sebelas Maret, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.26911/the7thicph.02.25.

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Background: Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) is an important part of the work environment. Both workers and employers are responsible for maintaining a safe environment in the workplace. However, by comparing and mapping the general situation of occupational safety and health legislation in some countries, we found that the current occupational safety and health standards in the retail industry are seriously insufficient or even absent. This study aimed to examine design an application development of inspection of fire protection equipment, first aid kit and incident reporting case study in the Faculty of Engineering, Diponegoro University. Subjects and Method: Use the Scrum method to develop Android-based occupational safety and health inspection applications. The user of this application is the P2K3 team from each department at the Faculty of Engineering, Diponegoro University. The study phases used in this research are as follows: meeting with customers, creating user stories and product backlogs, application development. Results: The result of this research is a mobile application to record the condition of the fire extinguisher and first aid kit. Conclusion: The application made has been able to handle the records of K3 inspection tools, namely fire extinguishers and first aid kits and can be used to report incidents. Keywords: Information Systems, APAR, First Aid Correspondence: Ike Pertiwi Windasari. Universitas Diponegoro, Semarang, Central Java. Email: ike@ce.undip.ac.id. Mobile: 0856400826 52 DOI: https://doi.org/10.26911/the7thicph.02.25
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Kang, Esther Y., and Sarah E. Fox. "Stories from the Frontline: Recuperating Essential Worker Accounts of AI Integration." In DIS '22: Designing Interactive Systems Conference. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3532106.3533564.

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Huang, Lili, and Wenshuo Chang. "Discourse Construction of "National Stories" in Film and Television Works." In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Art Studies: Science, Experience, Education (ICASSEE 2019). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/icassee-19.2019.91.

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Ahmed, Ashir, Muhammad Asyraf Danial Bin Karim, Rafiqul Islam, Mostafa Taufiq Ahmed, and Naoki Nakashima. "An Affordable and Standard Digital Healthcare management as a Service (HaaS) for Small Clinics in Developing Countries." In 8th International Conference on Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies. AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1002786.

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Millions of clinics in developing countries are using paper-based health records in their daily operations. Health information is archived in papers, patients use these paper records which are hard to manage. These clinics do not have the technical expertise to deploy electronic health record systems neither can they maintain these systems on their own. Some health data management systems are freely available, but they are not used by these small clinics. Standards such as Health Level Seven (HL7), openEHR, Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED) Clinical Terms, International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) etc. are becoming more reliable and usable yet they do not reach these clinics.In this study, we propose, design, and implement a Healthcare management as a Service (HaaS) to support such small clinics. HaaS consists of a standards compliant electronic health record system that follows FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) and openEHR open standards. It provides lightweight, simple, and low-cost front-end applications for small clinics that make the service usable by authorized users without needing technical expertise to store and manage health data. The applications also allow individual patients to store and view their own health data independently. Aside from clinical usage, the platform also supports secondary use of stored health data for medical research purpose. To maintain privacy protection, patients can give different level of health data sharing consent, and only anonymized and consented data are shared to researchers through the platform. To add another layer of privacy protection, clinical data is stored and managed separately by an openEHR compliant server in the platform. Personal and demographic data are stored in a FHIR compliant server.For the implementation, we used open-source software for all components of the platform and deployed the platform using Docker on a local computer. We prepared three applications that can register new patients, record health data, and store them respectively. An application that transforms and stores non-standard compliant health data is also prepared. We prepared an application that displays consented health data. We tested three functions, whether (a) obtained personal and clinical data are separately stored at FHIR and openEHR servers, (b) non-standard compliant data can be fetched and stored to HaaS, and (c) patients’ data privacy are maintained. We manually checked that all data are stored as designed, confirmed the data transfer was made successfully and the privacy was maintained. We transformed and stored 43,835 patient records from Portable Health Clinic system to the platform using the data transformer application. Three dummy patients with a healthcare service provider and 1 independent patient records are also stored to the platform using the three applications. All patient records include personal, demographic, and clinical data. We made a query using the prepared application and checked the result. The result showed that the platform works as designed and is configurable to fit different local needs while maintaining privacy. Future tasks include testing the platform with different small clinics and collect their views to evaluate the effectiveness of the system.
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Jin, Tiantian. "How Should We Use Varied Cover Stories of Worked Examples to Improve Learning Performance?" In 2020 AERA Annual Meeting. Washington DC: AERA, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/1571959.

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Lee, O.-Joun, and Jason J. Jung. "Story Embedding: Learning Distributed Representations of Stories based on Character Networks (Extended Abstract)." In Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Seventeenth Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-PRICAI-20}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2020/709.

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This study aims to represent stories in narrative works (i.e., creative works that contain stories) with a fixed-length vector. We apply subgraph-based graph embedding models to dynamic social networks of characters that appeared in stories (character networks). We suppose that interactions between characters reflect the content of stories. We discretize the interactions by discovering the subgraphs and learn representations of stories by predicting occurrences of the subgraphs in corresponding character networks. We find subgraphs rooted in each character on each scene in multiple scales, using the WL (Weisfeiler-Lehman) relabeling process. To predict occurrences of subgraphs, we apply two approaches: (i) considering changes in subgraphs according to scenes and (ii) focusing on subgraphs on the last scene. We evaluated the proposed models by measuring the similarity between real movies with vector representations that were generated by the models.
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Akinwoya, Stephanie. "Safe Space." In Tenth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning. Commonwealth of Learning, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.56059/pcf10.7259.

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Mental health is a state of an individual’s emotional and psychological wellbeing (Mental health basics,2018). People with mental illness. // Unresolved mental health problems can to a great extent affect the social, emotional, physical and educational development of teens and young adults, which in turn can have an enormous long-term negative effect on their adult life. (Fraser et al 2007). Studies [ show that young people that have positive mental health are much less likely to exhibit risk-taking behaviors such as addiction and even suicide (Reynold et al., 2013). According to the W.H.O. (2019),1 in 5 of the world's children and adolescents have a mental disorder with About 50% of mental health issues beginning before the age of 14. // Studies in Nigeria reveal that there is an existing high level of ignorance about mental illness with people tending to exhibit negative attitudes towards people who identify as having mental health illness. Also, the Rates of mental health workers vary from below 2 per 100,000 populations in low-income countries like Nigeria to 70 per 100,000 in high-income countries. // Presently openly discussing mental health issues is seen as a taboo in a Nigerian setting and people are scared of being stigmatized or labelled as being mad as madness is abhorred as a sign of a cursed bloodline. Research shows that 1/5th of suicide cases in Nigeria are of people aged 13-19, between January- June 2019,30% of suicide committed in Nigeria were students between the ages of 15-29 (Daily Trust,2019). These are worrying figures showing that young people are not able to access the help they need. // This project safe space project is an open-access web-based innovative inclusive system that makes mental health care accessible to teens and young adults in Nigeria who would have been excluded from accessing necessary education /information because they would be unable to afford to see mental health personnel or are so afraid of being stigmatized. In the website is contained age-appropriate carefully curated OER in the form of informative and easy to understand write-up on the different mental disorders, explainer videos, inspirational stories and a provision of a safe online hub connecting people sharing the same diagnosis. Here users can anonymously share their feelings with an understanding and supportive group. This presentation will be centered on the import of this particular project and giving a walkthrough of the project to demonstrate its design features and functionality.
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Maeda, Muhammad Bilal Ibnu, Rizki Amalia, Azizah Musliha Fitri, and Yuri Nurdiantami. "Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) Among Hardware Store Workers in Glodok Retail Area (a Case Study)." In International Conference of Health Development. Covid-19 and the Role of Healthcare Workers in the Industrial Era (ICHD 2020). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.201125.046.

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Hartoto, Annisa Sabrina, and Ken M. P. Setiawan. Membuka Jalan untuk Pembangunan Inklusif Gender di Daerah Perdesaan Indonesia: Bunga Rampai Kajian Aksi Kolektif Perempuan dan Pengaruhnya pada Pelaksanaan Undang-Undang Desa [Forging Pathways for Gender-inclusive Development in Rural Indonesia: Case Studies of Women’s Collective Action and Influence on Village Law Implementation]. Edited by Amalinda Savirani and Rachael Diprose. University of Melbourne with Universitas Gadjah Mada and MAMPU, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.46580/124328.

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An edited volume (180K) of 12 analysis case studies (what we call stories of change - SOCs but these are village/region stories not individual stories). The case studies draw on multiple sources of data. These were originally written in Bahasa Indonesia, with abstracts in both English and Bahasa Indonesia. The volume also has an introductory analysis article that has its own analysis and illustrates core points from the case studies – separate and citable (see below). Case studies are organised by the five sectoral themes of the work covered by CSOs (e.g. supporting migrant workers, targeting reproductive health and nutrition, targeting social protection, targeting reductions in domestic and other gender-based violence, and support for informal sector workers who work at home).
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Hartoto, Annisa Sabrina, and Ken M. P. Setiawan. Membuka Jalan untuk Pembangunan Inklusif Gender di Daerah Perdesaan Indonesia: Bunga Rampai Kajian Aksi Kolektif Perempuan dan Pengaruhnya pada Pelaksanaan Undang-Undang Desa [Forging Pathways for Gender-inclusive Development in Rural Indonesia: Case Studies of Women’s Collective Action and Influence on Village Law Implementation]. Edited by Amalinda Savirani and Rachael Diprose. University of Melbourne with Universitas Gadjah Mada and MAMPU, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.46580/124328.

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An edited volume (180K) of 12 analysis case studies (what we call stories of change - SOCs but these are village/region stories not individual stories). The case studies draw on multiple sources of data. These were originally written in Bahasa Indonesia, with abstracts in both English and Bahasa Indonesia. The volume also has an introductory analysis article that has its own analysis and illustrates core points from the case studies – separate and citable (see below). Case studies are organised by the five sectoral themes of the work covered by CSOs (e.g. supporting migrant workers, targeting reproductive health and nutrition, targeting social protection, targeting reductions in domestic and other gender-based violence, and support for informal sector workers who work at home).
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Sajjanhar, Anuradha, and Denzil Mohammed. Immigrant Essential Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Immigrant Learning Center Inc., December 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.54843/dpe8f2.

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The COVID-19 pandemic affected everyone in the United States, and essential workers across industries like health care, agriculture, retail, transportation and food supply were key to our survival. Immigrants, overrepresented in essential industries but largely invisible in the public eye, were critical to our ability to weather the pandemic and recover from it. But who are they? How did they do the riskiest of jobs in the riskiest of times? And how were both U.S.-born and foreign-born residents affected? This report explores the crucial contributions of immigrant essential workers, their impact on the lives of those around them, and how they were affected by the pandemic, public sentiment and policies. It further explores the contradiction of immigrants being essential to all of our well-being yet denied benefits, protections and rights given to most others. The pandemic revealed the significant value of immigrant essential workers to the health of all Americans. This report places renewed emphasis on their importance to national well-being. The report first provides a demographic picture of foreign-born workers in key industries during the pandemic using U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) data. Part I then gives a detailed narrative of immigrants’ experiences and contributions to the country’s perseverance during the pandemic based on interviews with immigrant essential workers in California, Minnesota and Texas, as well as with policy experts and community organizers from across the country. Interviewees include: ■ A food packing worker from Mexico who saw posters thanking doctors and grocery workers but not those like her working in the fields. ■ A retail worker from Argentina who refused the vaccine due to mistrust of the government. ■ A worker in a check cashing store from Eritrea who felt a “responsibility to be able to take care of people” lining up to pay their bills. Part II examines how federal and state policies, as well as increased public recognition of the value of essential workers, failed to address the needs and concerns of immigrants and their families. Both foreign-born and U.S.-born people felt the consequences. Policies kept foreign-trained health care workers out of hospitals when intensive care units were full. They created food and household supply shortages resulting in empty grocery shelves. They denied workplace protections to those doing the riskiest jobs during a crisis. While legislation and programs made some COVID-19 relief money available, much of it failed to reach the immigrant essential workers most in need. Part II also offers several examples of local and state initiatives that stepped in to remedy this. By looking more deeply at the crucial role of immigrant essential workers and the policies that affect them, this report offers insight into how the nation can better respond to the next public health crisis.
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Carpenter, Chris. Building stories: modernity, socialization and failure in works of Franz Kafka and Hannah Arendt. Portland State University Library, January 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/honors.8.

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Hunt, Will, and Jacqueline O'Reilly. Rapid Recruitment in Retail: Leveraging AI in the hiring of hourly paid frontline associates during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Digital Futures at Work Research Centre, March 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.20919/alnb9606.

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Increased demand due to the Coronavirus pandemic created the need for Walmart to onboard tens of thousands of workers in a short period. This acted as a catalyst for Walmart to bring forward existing plans to update the hiring system for store-level hourly paid associates in its US stores. The Rapid Recruitment project sought to make hiring safer, faster, fairer and more effective by removing in-person interviews and leveraging machine learning and predictive analytics. This working paper reports on a case study of the Rapid Recruitment project involving semi-structured qualitative interviews with members of the project team and hiring staff at five US stores. The research finds that while implementation of the changes had been successful and the changes were largely valued by hiring staff, lack of awareness and confidence in some changes threatened to undermine some of the objectives of the changes. Reservations about the pre-employment assessment and the algorithm’s ability to predict quality hires led someusers reviewing more applications than perhaps necessary and potentially undermining prediction of 90-day turnover. Concerns about the ability to assess candidates over the phone meant that some users had reverted to in-person interviews, raising the riskof Covid transmission and potentially undermining the objective of removing the influence of human bias linked to appearance and other factors unrelated to performance. The impact of awareness and confidence in the changes to the hiring system are discussed in relation to the project objectives
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Thompson, Stephen, Shadrach Chuba-Uzo, Brigitte Rohwerder, Jackie Shaw, and Mary Wickenden. “This Pandemic Brought a Lot of Sadness”: People with Disabilities’ Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Nigeria. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), June 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/if.2021.008.

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This qualitative study was undertaken as part of the work of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) funded Inclusion Works programme which aims to improve inclusive employment for people with disabilities in four countries: Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria, Bangladesh. When the COVID-19 pandemic emerged early in 2020 the work of this consortium programme was adapted to focus on pandemic relief and research activities, while some other planned work was not possible. The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) led a piece of qualitative research to explore the experiences and perceptions of the pandemic and related lockdowns in each country, using a narrative interview approach, which asks people to tell their stories, following up with some further questions once they have identified their priorities to talk about. 10 people with disabilities who were involved in Inclusion Works in each country were purposively selected to take part, each being invited to have two interviews with an interval of one or two months in between, in order to capture changes in their situation over time. The 10 interviewees had a range of impairments, were gender balanced and were various ages, as well as having differing living and working situations.
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BALYSH, A. HOUSING CONSTRUCTION IN THE USSR IN THE 20T-30TH OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND THE INFLUENCE OF THIS FACTOR ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF HEAVY AND DEFENSE INDUSTRY. Science and Innovation Center Publishing House, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2077-1770-2021-13-4-2-14-23.

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The aim of the article. How state-of-the-art in the field of home building influenced onto capital constructing in defense industry, putting into exploitation and operation of the new military plants during the industrialization period is examined. Methodology. General principles of historism and objectivity are the theoretical-methodological base of this work. Author also uses special historical methods: logic, systematic, chronological, actualisation and periodizing. Results. This article is based on documents storing in the Russian State Archive and Russian State Economical Archive. Collections of historical documents related to the Soviet period of Russian history are also used. On the base of these documents it is shown that poor situation in the field of home building was the reason of persistent deficits of building and exploitation workers. Due to this fact it was impossible to apply the funds given by the Government for building some plants (especially at the periphery), building works were delayed and proper operation of already built ones was spoiled. These problems were not completely solved till the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. All this effected negatively to the Red Army combat readiness before and during the war, especially at the beginning period. Practical application. The field of results application. Practical significance of this work is as follows: the archive data, which are for the first time used for scientific investigation and also the conclusions formulated in this article can be used for further scientific research on the USSR military industry in the industrialization period and also for scientific research on the USSR period in general.
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Gallagher, Alex, Sandra LeGrand, Taylor Hodgdon, and Theodore Letcher. Simulating environmental conditions for Southwest United States convective dust storms using the Weather Research and Forecasting Model v4.1. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), August 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/44963.

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Dust aerosols can pose a significant detriment to public health, transportation, and tactical operations through reductions in air quality and visibility. Thus, accurate model forecasts of dust emission and transport are essential to decision makers. While a large number of studies have advanced the understanding and predictability of dust storms, the majority of existing literature considers dust production and forcing conditions of the underlying meteorology independently of each other. Our study works to-wards filling this research gap by inventorying dust-event case studies forced by convective activity in the Desert Southwest United States, simulating select representative case studies using several configurations of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, testing the sensitivity of forecasts to essential model parameters, and assessing overall forecast skill using variables essential to dust production and transport. We found our control configuration captured the initiation, evolution, and storm structure of a variety of convective features admirably well. Peak wind speeds were well represented, but we found that simulated events arrived up to 2 hours earlier or later than observed. Our results show that convective storms are highly sensitive to initialization time and initial conditions that can preemptively dry the atmosphere and suppress the growth of convective storms.
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Beoku-Betts, Iman, and Tom Kaye. EdTech Horizon Scan: Blockchain technology in education. EdTech Hub, July 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.53832/edtechhub.0101.

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EdTech Hub horizon scans are publications designed to provoke thinking on a range of topics related to the design, implementation, oversight, and monitoring and evaluation of educational technology (EdTech) tools, products, services, and related ideas. This EdTech Horizon Scan examines the use of blockchain technology in education. Beginning with an overview of blockchain technology, the scan explains what blockchain technology is and how it works. The next section focusses on how blockchain technology can be used in education. In particular, it looks at the benefits of using blockchain technology for micro-credentialing and ownership of learning credentials, the transfer of credits and smart contracts, storing student credentials, identity verification and intellectual property protection. Section 4 gives a summary of the use of blockchain technology, noting the different challenges that may be associated with adopting blockchain technology into education systems. Section 5, gives real examples of the use of blockchain technology in education and different education institutions. Key words: blockchain; cryptography; data; decentralised database; digitalisation; education; micro-credentialing; smart contracting; student credentials; verification An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
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Vallerani, Sara, Elizabeth Storer, and Costanza Torre. Key Considerations: Equitable Engagement to Promote COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake among Undocumented Urban Migrants. SSHAP, May 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/sshap.2022.013.

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This brief sets out key considerations linked to the promotion of COVID-19 vaccine uptake among undocumented migrants residing in Rome, Italy. We focus on strategies to equitably distribute COVID-19 vaccines. Evidence from Italy is applicable to other contexts where vaccine administration is tied to “vaccine passports” or “immunity passes”. Undocumented migrants have been considered as some of the “hardest to reach” groups to engage in COVID-19 vaccination outreach. This brief uses the term undocumented migrant or migrant for brevity, but we refer to people living without formal Italian citizenship, refugee status or right to remain in Italy. This brief explores the everyday context of undocumented migrants lives, and how experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic have exacerbated difficult conditions. It links emerging vulnerabilities to perceptions of vaccines, and we suggest that migrants orientate themselves towards the vaccines within frameworks which prioritise economic survival. In many cases, migrants have accepted a COVID-19 vaccine to access paid employment, yet this has often generated mistrust in the state and healthcare system. Accordingly, this brief considers how vaccines can be distributed equitably to boost trust and inclusion in the post-pandemic world. This brief draws primarily on the ethnographic evidence collected through interviews and observations with undocumented migrants in Rome, along with civil society representatives and health workers between December 2021 and January 2022. This brief was developed for SSHAP by Sara Vallerani (Rome Tre University), Elizabeth Storer (LSE) and Costanza Torre (LSE). It was reviewed by Santiago Ripoll (IDS, University of Sussex), with further reviews by Paolo Ruspini (Roma Tre University) and Eloisa Franchi (Université Paris Saclay, Pavia University). The research was funded through the British Academy COVID-19 Recovery: G7 Fund (COVG7210058). Research was based at the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa, London School of Economics. The brief is the responsibility of SSHAP.
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