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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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Caxaj, Susana, and Luis Diaz. "Migrant workers’ (non)belonging in rural British Columbia, Canada: storied experiences of Marginal Living." International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care 14, no. 2 (June 11, 2018): 208–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijmhsc-05-2017-0018.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the experiences of belonging and wellbeing among temporary migrant agricultural workers (TMAWs) in a rural setting in the interior of British Columbia, Canada. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative narrative approach informed by participatory action research principles was employed. In total, 12 migrant workers participated in two to four one-on-one interviews and/or focus group conversations. Findings The analysis revealed an over-arching theme of Marginal Living encompassing stories of always on the outside, mechanisms of isolation and exclusion; struggling for the basics, realities of worrying about daily bare necessities; and “nothing but a worker’s,” experiences of being reduced only to one’s labor. These storied experiences each impacted workers’ wellbeing and typically limited their ability to feel a sense of belonging. Yet, workers exerted agency and resilience through storied experiences of “one family and for those who come next.” Their efforts contributed to building a sense of community through mutual support and advocacy. Originality/value Very few studies have focused on the day-to-day experiences of this population and its influence on their sense of belonging and wellbeing. This study is also the first to examine this topic within this particular region (the rural BC interior). These findings can provide a starting point for improved program planning to address challenges faced by TMAWs in rural Western Canada. Further, they expand the understanding of concepts such as partial citizenship and structural exclusion as they apply in the day-to-day realities of migrant workers in rural BC.

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Sinclair, Aimee. "Help yourself to our staff kitchen: a peer worker’s reflections on microaggressions." Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice 13, no. 3 (May 14, 2018): 167–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jmhtep-06-2017-0042.

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide insight into the sanist microaggressions that peer workers face working in mental health and proposes ways in which peer workers and institutions may begin to challenge sanist practices within the sector.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is written as a personal narrative. It explores a “moment” in the life of the author as a peer support worker.FindingsPeer workers are often faced with sanist microaggressions on the job which can significantly affect peer workers’ capacity over time. Sharing our stories, identifying points of resistance and working collectively to challenge microaggressions are important to peer worker survival within the mental health system. Organisations that train or employ peer workers should be aware of sanist microaggressions and learn how to strategically respond to them.Originality/valueThe paper documents the experiences of the author. There is limited academic literature documenting peer worker experience of microaggressions.

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Ha, Tak S. "Learning stories from IT workers – development of professional expertise." Studies in Continuing Education 37, no. 1 (November 19, 2014): 79–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0158037x.2014.967347.

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Tellado, Itxaso, Benedetto Lepori, and Teresa Morla-Folch. "WIEGO: Communicative Daily Life Stories to Assess Social Impact in the Lives of Informal Workers." Qualitative Inquiry 26, no. 8-9 (July 29, 2020): 962–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077800420938680.

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WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing) is a global research-policy network that seeks to improve the status of the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy. The members of this network are individual researchers, individual development practitioners, and organizations of informal workers, which total more than 175 affiliates in 85 countries. Social researchers involved in the network conducted qualitative fieldwork in these communities and monitor the social impact of research. The researchers created spaces for dialogue and collected workers’ impact stories through diverse qualitative tools and in different contexts, especially narratives and focus groups. The aim was to increase the visibility of informal workers, their living and working conditions, and their personal experience with regard to the social impact of urban policies. Through communicative daily life stories to social researchers working at WIEGO, this article analyzes how they are socially impacting the lives of informal workers. Based on this connection, all information related to social impact is interpreted through a communicative approach, connecting the stories of the social researchers and the interpretation of informal workers’ lives to evidence-based actions.

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Rahajeng Mintarsih, Adriana. "Voice of Singapore’s Invisible Hands: Indonesian Migrant Domestic Workers and Poems on Home and Family." Migration, Mobility, & Displacement 4, no. 1 (June 7, 2019): 123–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.18357/mmd41201918975.

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Yoga Prasetyo, the son of an Indonesian migrant domestic worker (MDW) in Singapore, founded Voice of Singapore’s Invisible Hands (or The Voice) in late 2016. A nonproft organisation that aims to challenge the negative discourses about MDWs, especially among Singaporeans, The Voice uses Facebook to promote its members’ literary work and achievements, as well as to share stories to inspire migrant workers.

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Schwade, Elisete. "Maid to order in Hong Kong: stories of migrant workers." Horizontes Antropológicos 15, no. 32 (December 2009): 364–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0104-71832009000200017.

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Uchiyamada, Yasushi, and Nicole Constable. "Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Filipina Workers." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 5, no. 4 (December 1999): 642. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2661166.

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Long, Cynthia D. "Campus Workers Speak out: Stories from the Rank and File." Academe 84, no. 6 (1998): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40251684.

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Muskat, Barbara, Andrea Greenblatt, Charles Garvin, William Pelech, Carol Cohen, Mark Macgowan, and Valérie Roy. "Group workers’ experiences of mutual aid: Stories from the field." Social Work with Groups 43, no. 3 (February 12, 2019): 241–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01609513.2019.1571470.

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Park, Heh-Rahn. "Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Filipina Workers." American Ethnologist 25, no. 4 (November 1998): 756–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ae.1998.25.4.756.

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Надія Кабаченко and Оксана Бойко. "NARRATIVE METHOD IN PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS." Social work and social education, no. 5 (December 23, 2020): 150–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.31499/2618-0715.5.2020.220805.

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The article is focused on analysis of existing understanding of narrative method of teaching by modern scholars, as well as the specific ways and goals of its application in their everyday practice. Particular consideration is given to exploration of narratives in social work education in higher education settings. Detailed description and in-depth analysis is provided on the use of narratives in teaching social work Bachelor program courses at the School of Social Work of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. An analysis is provided for the content of topics of studies where such narratives are used like life history, oral narratives etc. The presented specific cases of narrative use cover the following issues: students’ creating and telling the narrative on behalf of the imagined character with the relevant characteristics; using visualization (photos), based on which the narrative is created; creating and delivering the future narrative by participation of the other character; understanding the history narrative; analysis and interpretation of narratives collected by the use of oral narrative or life story. It is claimed that using the narrative promotes students’ activization, empowers them for the project work, enables their gaining new experience and experiential learning. Moreover, developing and telling the narratives enhances students’ intense communication and creativity as well as their engagement into the education process which is of high importance within the distance learning framework. The narrative is of high value for the social work education and training as this approach ensures developing capacity to listen to the clients’ stories, to analyze and to understand their life stories, to assist in changing clients’ lives by using success stories.

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Erazo, B. V. "III. The Stories Our Mothers Tell: Projections-of-Self in the Stories of Puerto Rican Garment Workers." Oral History Review 16, no. 2 (September 1, 1988): 23–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ohr/16.2.23.

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Ticona, Julia. "Red flags, sob stories, and scams: The contested meaning of governance on carework labor platforms." New Media & Society 24, no. 7 (July 2022): 1548–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14614448221099233.

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Labor platform scams are an opportunity to integrate scholarship about governance across social media and labor platforms. Labor platforms have borrowed governance mechanisms from social media to cultivate trust among users and remove problematic content. However, while these platforms may share governance strategies, labor platforms mediate employment relationships between workers and clients with different amounts of power. Based on a multistakeholder ethnography of carework labor platforms, online careworker forums, and interviews, this study describes scams on carework labor platforms. Labor platforms narrate workers into the role of technology consumers, constricting their own obligations to workers. Workers’ explanations of scams vary, with some contesting and others aligning with platform narratives. Some workers seek support in online forums, which remediate the harm of scams for some but also enroll workers in unpaid labor. These scams challenge the assumption of antagonism between the interests of workers and platform companies and highlight the consumerization of work.

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Ylvisaker, Signe, Marianne Rugkåsa, and Ketil Eide. "Silenced stories of social work with minority ethnic families in Norway." Critical and Radical Social Work 3, no. 2 (August 20, 2015): 221–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204986015x14331614908951.

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This article draws on 160 cases of actual practice with minority ethnic families provided by child protection workers in Norway who were enrolled on the postgraduate course 'Child welfare in a minority perspective'. This course is part of a programme launched by the Norwegian government aimed at developing knowledge-based child protection practice. The article discusses the ways in which social workers construct stories about who their clients are and the reasons for their clienthood. Particular attention is given to parenting and the ways in which race, class and gender serve as overt, subtle or muted stories constructed in and through social work theory and practice.

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Hussin, Hanafi, and Abdullah Khoso. "Migrant Workers in the Seaweed Sector in Sabah, Malaysia." SAGE Open 11, no. 3 (July 2021): 215824402110475. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21582440211047586.

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This article uses the content analysis (CA) to examine the secondary data on the migrant workers in the seaweed sector in Sabah, Malaysia, and analyzed the migrant workers’ contributions to the sector and kinds of socio-cultural, economic, and legal challenges they faced. Through online academic publication searching, six academic papers and reports, and three media news stories about the migrant workers in the seaweed sector in Malaysia were found. In these articles and new stories, three major themes were identified: the number of migrant workers, their contribution to the seaweed sector, and the problems and challenges they faced. Under theme three, the subthemes included stereotypes, threats, risks, poverty, wages, and exploitation. The article found that migrant workers produced most of the seaweed in different regions in Sabah, Malaysia. However, the authorities do not directly recognize the contribution of migrant workers, as most workers in the seaweed sector are undocumented. The stateless status of most migrant workers has jeopardized the workers in the sector and provided power to the middlemen to exploit them. Stereotypes concerning migrant workers—low daily wages and low production rates—are significant issues and problems in their lives, which together exacerbate their economic and social misery and vulnerability. Although occupational health and safety are a prime concern in seaweed farming, no details were found concerning the health and safety of the migrant workers in the sector. Cumulatively, these factors (challenges to the migrant workers) may decrease the quantity and inferior quality of seaweed in Malaysia.

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Mensinga, Jo. "‘No Coughing for Me, but I'm Okay!’: A Human Service Worker's Narrative Exploration of Her Own and Other Workers’ Body Stories Told in a Domestic Violence Service." Children Australia 42, no. 2 (June 2017): 87–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cha.2017.16.

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Relational, body-oriented and brain-based approaches to recovery and change are increasingly popular modalities for working with traumatised children and adults. However, although these approaches encourage the awareness, and the harnessing of workers’ visceral experiences, there is little in the literature to describe how practitioners navigate their own somatic maps. In a research project undertaken from 2008–16, I invited nine human service workers to tell and explore stories about their own experiences of the body that emerged during, and/or in relation to, their own professional practice. A narrative methodology was used to help facilitate a depth of understanding of how the participants used their own bodies as a source of knowledge and/or as an intervention strategy with those with whom they worked. In this paper, I explore one of many stories told by Coral in which she describes the processes she uses to navigate her own somatic map as she interacts with clients and workers in a domestic violence service. I conclude that creating spaces for workers to explore embodied experience in the professional conversation is important, but is difficult without an acceptable discourse or narrative template. Nonetheless, given the opportunity, including the ‘body as subject’ encourages better outcomes for clients and provides richer accounts of human service workers’ professional experience.

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O’Reilly, Matt. "The Walls Are Talking: Former Abortion Clinic Workers Tell Their Stories." National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 18, no. 4 (2018): 757–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/ncbq201818479.

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Vickers, Margaret H. "Disability and dirty workers: stories of physical, social and moral taint." Disability & Society 29, no. 9 (August 20, 2014): 1356–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2014.940446.

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Wallin, Anna, Laura Pylväs, and Petri Nokelainen. "Government Workers’ Stories about Professional Development in a Digitalized Working Life." Vocations and Learning 13, no. 3 (April 1, 2020): 439–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12186-020-09248-y.

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Joseph, Ebun. "Composite counterstorytelling as a technique for challenging ambivalence about race and racism in the labour market in Ireland." Irish Journal of Sociology 28, no. 2 (July 8, 2020): 168–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0791603520937274.

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In this study, the statement ‘race is no longer an issue’ is used to examine how 32 migrants of Spanish, Polish and Nigerian descent understand the significance of race in labour market mobility in Ireland. Their responses showed that Black and White workers talk about race differently. It also revealed an ambivalence about race among the White workers. This article employs counterstorytelling technique to analyse and present these differences through stories which humanise the lived experiences of migrants navigating the Irish labour market. The article commences with a discussion of how whiteness provides unacknowledged privilege. This is followed by a discussion of critical race theory’s counterstorytelling as an analytical tool for examining social relations. The participants’ narratives and current realities are then synthesised and woven into dialogues to construct composite portraits that invite readers into the world of migrant workers. The two stories constructed in this article portray how stories can open conversation about race and racism. Story A contains stereotypes that are used to explain the lack of racial diversity in the workplace, while story B challenges the complacency about how race and racism impact on the disparity in outcome among different groups. Finally, the article highlights the importance of counterstories in labour market research.

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Mattsson, Per-Olof. "Ett nationellt-proletärt novellepos." Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap 43, no. 2 (January 1, 2013): 61–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.54797/tfl.v43i2.10849.

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A National-Proletarian Epic of Short Stories. Ivar Lo-Johansson’s Statarna This essay explores Ivar Lo-Johansson’s epic collection of short stories Statarna (1936–37). The collection is chronologically ordered and centres on the lives of rural proletarians (statare) in Sweden from the concluding decades of the 19th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Ivar Lo-Johansson is generally regarded as an icon of Swedish working-class literature, and Statarna is one of the real cornerstones of Lo-Johansson’s self-created public myth. This article aims to show that the basic ideological position of the author and his epic is based on national stereotypes (a point that may be further supported with reference to his 1920’s travel books). Statarna contains several stories that touch upon the so-called ”Galizier question”, referring to the transport of rural workers from the south-eastern parts of Poland to Sweden. These workers became known as Galizians, even if they came from other parts of Eastern Europe. These stories articulate a xenophobic attitude to these workers in line with the dominant reaction of the trade unions and the labour movement in general at the time. The ”Galizians” were regarded as intruders, with a lower morale than Swedish workers, and representative of the lowest species of labour power. This was especially true in those cases where the Galizians were used as scabs (strike breakers) during strikes. The narrator doesn’t sympathise with the domestic rural workers when they become used to the presence of the ”intruders”. In one story, ”Galizierna”, in which a young woman is raped, the woman is avenged when the rapist (who is, of course, one of the ”Galizierna”) is killed by a horse. Such stories are also based on national stereotypes. After writing his famous epic, in the early 1940’s, the author wrote a program for what he called the ”social short story”. This program is also based on nationalist arguments. Swedish authors are advised to orient towards the process of social development in Sweden at the time. The process behind the building of the welfare state – the Swedish welfare state, which, according to the author’s preferences for national stereotypes, is described as unique – is the appropriate subject for creating a Swedish short story that can be identified as Swedish, and only as Swedish. The idea was never to create an epic with close ties to working-class literature internationally.

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Simoes, Marcia. "Latina Immigrants' Mobilization for Civic Rights." Practicing Anthropology 35, no. 4 (September 1, 2013): 13–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/praa.35.4.x83716n010856848.

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This article explores the life stories of five low-income Latina immigrant domestic workers who were activists at the time of the study (2002-2010) in Montgomery County, Maryland, to understand the structural factors that influence their civic mobilization for collective rights. All of the stories intersect in the context of a women's program at an NGO tending to the needs of the Latino community in Maryland.

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Setyowati, Rahayu, Lia Natalia, Rina Nuraeni, and Khusnun Zakiyyah. "Relationship between Family Support and the Incidence of Burnout among Healthcare Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic." Risenologi 7, no. 1a (August 19, 2022): 31–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.47028/j.risenologi.2022.71a.329.

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Burnout can occur in every healthcare worker who works in hospitals and Comunity Health Centers (CHC), both consciously or unconsciously. Healthcare workers at CHCs are required to make many reports and sometimes there is a possibility to do it at home. Burnout can be experienced by any healthcare worker. There are several factors that may influence the incidence of burnout, namely: ambiguity, multiple role conflicts, work stress, workload and lack of social support. One source of social support comes from family. Family is a place to share stories and issue complaints when individuals experience problems. This study aims to determine the relationship between family support and the incidence of burnout among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. This was a uantitative study with a Cross Sectional approach. The populations involved were all healthcare workers at Jati Tujuh Community Health Center Unit as many as 61 people. The samples were selected using total sampling technique. Data were analyzed through univariate analysis using frequency distribution and bivariate analysis using Chi square test. The study results showed that less than half of healthcare workers experienced burnout. Less than half of healthcare workers did not have family support. Furthermore, there was a significant relationship between family support and the incidence of burnout among healthcare workers. Recommendation is proposed for healthcare workers to increase their knowledge about burnout through seminar activities, consultations with experts and families so as to obtain understanding regarding the importance of family support for healthcare workers who are dealing with COVID-19 patients. Furthermore, CHC Unit should provide training for healthcare workers, especially regarding burnout coping mechanisms to overcome burnout among healthcare workers.

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Adlit, Marlon F., and Irish Mae A. Ida. "Overcoming Depression: Stories of Terminated Employees amidst COVID-19." International Journal of Multidisciplinary: Applied Business and Education Research 3, no. 2 (February 13, 2022): 145–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.11594/ijmaber.03.02.02.

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COVID-19 virus caused drastic changes in people's lives, especially in terms of employment. Employees were greatly impacted by this pandemic, as there were terminated from their jobs. This study investigated how depression affects terminated workers and how they manage it throughout the pandemic. A qualitative design was employed to perform this study. A structured type of interview was conducted on five samples using an online platform. To establish the number of samples required for the investigation, convenience sampling was used. The data was analyzed in-depth using a narrative technique, which resulted in the study's findings and conclusions. Five (5) terminated employees such as professional photographer, construction worker, hairdresser, driver, and varsity coach were among the participants. The participants in this study were found to experience depression due to family financial issues caused by the loss of a job during the pandemic. Participants reported feelings of sadness and loneliness, as well as inability to think, low self-esteem, insomnia and hypersomnia, a lack of ambition to accomplish anything, and suicidal or negative thoughts. Accordingly, through their families' emotional support, the participants have been able to overcome their depression.

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Adlit, Marlon F., and Irish Mae A. Ida. "Overcoming Depression: Stories of Terminated Employees amidst COVID-19." International Journal of Multidisciplinary: Applied Business and Education Research 3, no. 2 (February 13, 2022): 145–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.11594/jmaber.03.02.02.

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COVID-19 virus caused drastic changes in people's lives, especially in terms of employment. Employees were greatly impacted by this pandemic, as there were terminated from their jobs. This study investigated how depression affects terminated workers and how they manage it throughout the pandemic. A qualitative design was employed to perform this study. A structured type of interview was conducted on five samples using an online platform. To establish the number of samples required for the investigation, convenience sampling was used. The data was analyzed in-depth using a narrative technique, which resulted in the study's findings and conclusions. Five (5) terminated employees such as professional photographer, construction worker, hairdresser, driver, and varsity coach were among the participants. The participants in this study were found to experience depression due to family financial issues caused by the loss of a job during the pandemic. Participants reported feelings of sadness and loneliness, as well as inability to think, low self-esteem, insomnia and hypersomnia, a lack of ambition to accomplish anything, and suicidal or negative thoughts. Accordingly, through their families' emotional support, the participants have been able to overcome their depression.

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Bronstein, Jenny. "A transitional approach to the study of the information behavior of domestic migrant workers." Journal of Documentation 75, no. 2 (March 6, 2019): 314–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jd-07-2018-0112.

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the life stories of migrant workers in Israel by analyzing different aspects of the information behavior that emerged from their narratives through a transitional perspective.Design/methodology/approachNarratives are a human way of communication that focuses on the stories people tell about themselves, their inner thoughts, their states of mind and how they perceive their own reality. In total, 20 Spanish-speaking domestic migrant workers were interviewed. The data collected form the narratives were study draws from the transitional theory.FindingsThe holistic phase of the content analysis revealed that participants experienced information poverty based on socioeconomic factors and perceptions of social exclusion, vulnerability and hostile surroundings. The content analysis yielded a theory of transitional information behavior that reflects the three stages of the migration process: ending of a new reality, a period of confusion and a sense of belonging. The theory encompasses four elements: process, disconnectedness, perceptions and patterns of response.Originality/valueThe study proposes an innovative look at information behavior of migrants by integrating a transitional perspective into the life stories of participants.

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Leigh, Jadwiga, Lisa Morriss, and Matthew Morriss. "Making visible an invisible trade: Exploring the everyday experiences of doing social work and being a social worker." Qualitative Social Work 19, no. 2 (January 19, 2019): 267–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1473325018824629.

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This article demonstrates that making art in conjunction with story-telling is a method which can elucidate the everyday working practices of social work practitioners. To date, the relationship between art and social workers has rarely been noted, in part because visual studies have not attended to the lived experiences of social workers. In this paper, we draw on an empirical study undertaken in England which invited social workers to use art to tell their stories of being a social worker and doing social work. Their artefacts produced powerful visual and aural accounts of practice. They were displayed at the People’s History Museum, Manchester, in the first social work exhibition of this kind, making visible to members of the public the hidden, lesser known and understood aspects of practice. In this paper, we demonstrate how particular social work structures can rupture relationships between social workers and the families they work with. In doing so, we build on the sociology of art, work and interaction by showing how visual narratives can challenge, and sometimes alter, previously held assumptions and beliefs.

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Murniati, Tri. "One place two stories: Unravelling Indonesian domestic workers’ migrant journey in Hong Kong." Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture 12, no. 2 (October 1, 2021): 495–511. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/cjmc_00047_1.

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Following the year 2002, Indonesian migrant domestic workers (IDWs) gradually transform the generic perception that they are merely physical workers. They have attracted a different form of attention as they began to publish novels, short stories, poetry anthologies and non-fiction writings. In this paper, two books on IDW ‐ namely, Susanti’s Tentang Sedih di Victoria Park (‘About sadness in Victoria Park’) and Sorrita’s Penari Naga Kecil (‘The little dragon dancer’) ‐ are examined and analysed to further explore the subtext underlying the stories. I argue that IDWs’ narratives offer an alternate narrative that indicates IDWs fighting back on the imposed stereotypes underlining the importance of migrant voice. Both books provide insights into IDWs’ lives in Hong Kong, which illustrate IDWs’ migrant experience.

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Nogueira, Katarzyna. "“Guest Workers” in Mining." (Post-)Industrial Memories. Oral History and Structural Change 31, no. 2-2018 (October 6, 2020): 102–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.3224/bios.v31i2.08.

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Over the past five to six decades, oral history has become a complex and diverse tool, not only for uncovering and analysing individual and collective patterns of memory but also to inscribe them into public historical narratives. In the wake of the decline of the mining industry in the Ruhr region, local history workshops, academic historians, filmmakers, and museum practitioners began to construe miners and mining communities as historical subjects from the bottom up. Throughout this time, personal narrations played an increasingly important role as both a source of research and a tool for public historical representations. Using the case study of the Ruhr area, this article deals with the functions of public oral history narrations about the region’s mining past. It will particularly address the question of how the work and life stories of Turkish immigrant labourers, officially labelled as “guest workers”, have been represented in regional historical culture. To what extent did they become narrative agents in the Ruhr’s historiography, from a democratic and participatory “history from below” to an increasingly institutionalised approach in public history?

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LeFlouria, Talitha L. "Writing Working-Class History from the Bottom Up and Beyond." Labor 16, no. 4 (December 1, 2019): 29–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/15476715-7790225.

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This essay recognizes the important role the Working Class in American History book series has played in shaping our understanding of the historical experiences of African American and women workers in the United States. It outlines the advancements historians have made in the field of working-class labor history and challenges scholars to incorporate the stories of informal, enslaved, and incarcerated workers.

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Dervişoğlu, Efnan. "Fakir Baykurt’un Almanya öykülerinde Türk göçmen çocukları." Göç Dergisi 3, no. 1 (April 15, 2016): 5–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.33182/gd.v3i1.553.

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Almanya’ya işçi göçü, neden ve sonuçları, sosyal boyutlarıyla ele alınmış; göç ve devamındaki süreçte yaşanan sorunlar, konunun uzmanlarınca dile getirilmiştir. Fakir Baykurt’un Almanya öyküleri, sunduğu gerçekler açısından, sosyal bilimlerin ortaya koyduğu verilerle bağdaşan edebiyat ürünleri arasındadır. Yirmi yılını geçirdiği Almanya’da, göçmen işçilerle ve aileleriyle birlikte olup işçi çocuklarının eğitimine yönelik çalışmalarda bulunan yazarın gözlem ve deneyimlerinin ürünü olan bu öyküler, kaynağını yaşanmışlıktan alır; çalışmanın ilk kısmında, Fakir Baykurt’un yaşamına ve Almanya yıllarına dair bilgi verilmesi, bununla ilişkilidir. Öykülere yansıyan çocuk yaşamı ise çalışmanın asıl konusunu oluşturmaktadır. “Ev ve aile yaşamı”, “Eğitim yaşamı ve sorunları”, “Sosyal çevre, arkadaşlık ilişkileri ve Türk-Alman ayrılığı” ile “İki kültür arasında” alt başlıklarında, Türkiye’den göç eden işçi ailelerinde yetişen çocukların Almanya’daki yaşamları, karşılaştıkları sorunlar, öykülerin sunduğu veriler ışığında değerlendirilmiş; örneklemeye gidilmiştir. Bu öyküler, edebiyatın toplumsal gerçekleri en iyi yansıtan sanat olduğu görüşünü doğrular niteliktedir ve sosyolojik değerlendirmelere açıktır. ENGLISH ABSTRACTMigration and Children in Fakir Baykurt’s stories from GermanyThe migration of workers to Germany has been taken up with its causes, consequences and social dimensions; the migration and the problems encountered in subsequent phases have been stated by experts in the subject. Fakir Baykurt’s stories from Germany, regarding the reality they represent, are among the literary forms that coincide with the facts supplied by social sciences. These stories take their sources from true life experiences as the products of observations and experiences with migrant workers and their families in Germany where the writer has passed twenty years of his life and worked for the education of the worker’s children; therefore information related to Fakir Baykurt’s life and his years in Germany are provided in the first part of the study. The life of children reflected in the stories constitutes the main theme of the study. Under the subtitles of “Family and Home Life”, “Education Life and related issues”, “Social environment, friendships and Turkish-German disparity” and “Amidst two cultures”, the lives in Germany of children who have been raised in working class families and who have immigrated from Turkey are evaluated under the light of facts provided by the stories and examples are given. These stories appear to confirm that literature is an art that reflects the social reality and is open to sociological assessments.KEYWORDS: Fakir Baykurt; Germany; labor migration; child; story

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Lee, Hakyoon. "Telling stories and sharing cultures for constructing identity and solidarity." Narrative Inquiry 30, no. 1 (March 10, 2020): 80–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.18046.lee.

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Abstract This study investigates how immigrant workers construct their identities and social relations by telling stories in multilingual work environments. My main interest lies in naturally occurring and interactionally achieved stories, from the participants’ day-to-day interaction at a workplace. Data were collected from the informal interaction among employees at a nursing home in Honolulu. Positioning itself against studies that focus on linguistic competence of workers and potential problems of miscommunication and exclusion, this study highlights how employees draw upon shared cultural resources for a more inclusive interaction. The analysis of multi-party storytelling shows the dynamic nature of the multilingual interaction, and how the participants achieve their interactional goals in their specific spatial contexts. It shows how the multilingualism varies in the local realization and how the participants put their efforts into finding common ground for belonging, achieving social inclusion, and negotiating mutual understanding with respect to their languages and cultures.

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Cameron, Paul, and Kirk Cameron. "What Proportion of Newspaper Stories about Child Molestation Involves Homosexuality?" Psychological Reports 82, no. 3 (June 1998): 863–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1998.82.3.863.

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Do homosexuals disproportionately molest children? A survey of 8 of the nation's newspaper news stories of child molestation during the first 9 months of 1995 showed that about 40% of child molestation stories in the major cities involve homosexuality. An Internet survey of FirstSearch for 1989 through 1995 indicated 46%, and of Newsbank for 1990 through 1995 60% of molestations were homosexual. About half of teachers, day care workers and other professionals caught molesting children assaulted them homosexually. It is argued that large unbiased sets of newspaper news stories appear to approximate the figures for incidence of child molestation by those occupying a newsworthy status but overreport homosexual molestation in general.

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Khan, Aisha. "Untold stories of unfree labor: Asians in the Americas." New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 70, no. 1-2 (January 1, 1996): 91–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002630.

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[First paragraph]The Cuba Commission Report: A Hidden History of the Chinese in Cuba. The Original English-Language Text of 1876 (Introduction by Denise Helly). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. viii + 160 pp. (Paper US$21.95)Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar: Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838-1918. WALTON LOOK LAI. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. xxviii + 370 pp. (Cloth US$ 39.95)The world system formed by European mercantile and industrial capitalism and the history of transcontinental labor migrations from Africa to the Americas have been amply documented. The genesis, evolution, and demise of New World slavery are subjects much scrutinized and debated, particularly since the 1960s. Enjoying a less extensive tradition of historiography are the variously devised alternative labor schemes that came on the heels of emancipation: the colonially-orchestrated efforts to contract free and voluntary workers to take the place of slaves in a system of production theoretically the moral antithesis of that earlier "peculiar institution." Yet scholarship on indentured labor systems has consistently revealed that the "freedom" of immigrant workers was merely nominal, the "voluntary" nature of their commitments arguable, and the indenture projects often only ideally a kinder, gentier form of labor extraction.

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Cass, Alan, Anne Lowell, Michael Christie, Paul L. Snelling, Melinda Flack, Betty Marrnganyin, and Isaac Brown. "Sharing the true stories: improving communication between Aboriginal patients and healthcare workers." Medical Journal of Australia 176, no. 10 (May 2002): 466–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.2002.tb04517.x.

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Zhang, Rong, and Dennis McCornac. "The Plight of Foreign Workers in Japan: Their Stories Speak for Themselves." Border Crossing 12, no. 1 (February 23, 2022): 17–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.33182/bc.v12i1.2114.

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Japan’s demographic changes over the past decades have prompted a sea change in immigration policy. Once such effect has been the influx of foreign labor to address labor shortages in various sectors of the economy. The purpose of this paper is to examine the recent situation of foreign workers in Japan who have been impacted by these immigration policies, particularly considering the coronavirus pandemic. We present the results of in-depth interviews with such individuals to provide insight into their working and living conditions. We conclude that to date, the new immigration system has failed to live up to expectations, and if Japan wants to accept more foreign workers to boost its economy and realize faster progress in globalization, more efforts need to be made at both the national and local levels.

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Sinfield, David. "Social Commentary from the Graphic Designer: Workers Stories Expressed through Serigraphic Translations." International Journal of Visual Design 6, no. 1 (2013): 53–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/2325-1581/cgp/v06i01/38753.

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Scott, Janet Lee. "Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Filipino Workers. Nicole Constable." China Journal 39 (January 1998): 176–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2667739.

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Constable, Nicole, and Hsiao-Hung Pai. "Maid to order in Hong Kong: stories of migrant workers (second edition)." Feminist Review 91, no. 1 (February 2009): 199–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/fr.2008.33.

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Apostolidis, Paul. "Feminist Theory, Immigrant Workers’ Stories, and Counterhegemony in the United States Today." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 33, no. 3 (March 2008): 545–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/523706.

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