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Breton, Rob. "Women and Children First: Appropriated Fiction in the Ten Hours’ Advocate." Victorian Popular Fictions Journal 3, no. 2 (December 17, 2021): 63–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.46911/fsmi1264.

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This article examines interclass strategies to bring about reform in mid-nineteenth century England. It specifically explores the way the Ten Hours’ Advocate, a paper written for the working classes, looked to present itself as a middle-class periodical in order to further the argument for factory reform. In reproducing fiction filched from middle-class periodicals, the Advocate performed its argument for the Factory Bill: that the Bill would ease social tensions, dissipate the Chartist or radical threat, and ensure a “return” to traditional gender roles. The appropriated fiction is mild, rather bland; the non-fictional argument for reform is direct and unapologetic. That the Advocate was opportunistic in the way it made the case for reform is an example of the advantages provided to reformers by the absence of strict copyright laws and by Victorian periodical culture in general. But it also contextualises the debate over the family-wage argument and the working-class role in hardening the Victorian sexual division of labour.
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Kramp, Michael, and Patricia E. Johnson. "Hidden Hands: Working-Class Women and Victorian Social-Problem Fiction." Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 57, no. 1 (2003): 98. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1348042.

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Krueger, Christine L., and Patricia E. Johnson. "Hidden Hands: Working-Class Women and Victorian Social-Problem Fiction." Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies 34, no. 4 (2002): 668. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4054702.

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Han, Kyunghee. "Suspended Woman - ‘Becoming a Woman’ for Working Class Women in Shin Kyung-sook’s Fiction." Study of Humanities 36 (December 31, 2021): 63–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.31323/sh.2021.12.36.03.

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Mays, Kelly J. "Hidden Hands: Working-Class Women and Victorian Social-Problem Fiction (review)." Victorian Studies 45, no. 2 (2003): 363–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/vic.2003.0091.

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Jackson, Elizabeth. "Gender and social class in India: Muslim perspectives in the fiction of Attia Hosain and Shama Futehally." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 53, no. 1 (May 11, 2016): 124–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989416632373.

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This article investigates representations of gender and class inequality in Attia Hosain’s classic novel Sunlight on a Broken Column (1961) and her short story collection Phoenix Fled and Other Stories (1953). It compares her work with that of Shama Futehally, another elite Muslim Indian woman writing in English several decades later. Born 40 years after Attia Hosain, the postcolonial world of Shama Futehally is very different, but the issues she explores in her fiction are remarkably similar: social and economic inequality, exploitation of the poor, and the ambiguous position of women privileged by their social class and disempowered by their gender. Both authors write carefully crafted realist fiction focusing predominantly on the experiences and perspectives of female characters. Shama Futehally’s novel Tara Lane (1993), like Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column, is a coming-of-age novel whose protagonist is a young Muslim woman in an affluent family, coming to terms with the uneasy combination of class privilege, gender disadvantage, and a strong social conscience. Both authors explore the perspectives of working-class Indian women in their short stories, emphasizing their vulnerability to exploitation (including sexual exploitation), as well as the deeply problematic nature of “noblesse oblige”. Aware of the interconnections between gender and class inequality, Attia Hosain and Shama Futehally have written powerful fictional works which effectively dramatize not only the complex relationship between gender and social class hierarchies, but also the ways in which all privilege is predicated on inequality.
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Rađenović, Milica. "Class and Gender – The Representation of Women in Kingsley Amis’s Lucky Jim." Gender Studies 15, no. 1 (December 1, 2016): 183–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/genst-2017-0012.

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Abstract Lucky Jim is one of the novels that mark the beginning of a small subgenre of contemporary fiction called the campus novel. It was written and published in the 1950s, a period when more women and working-class people started attending universities. This paper analyses the representation of women in terms of their gender and class.
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Ronsini, Veneza Mayora, Sandra Depexe, and Lúcia Loner Coutinho. "Working-Class Women and Television Fiction Uses: Can Subaltern Voices Speak of Sexuality?" Iberoamericana – Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 48, no. 1 (2019): 86–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.16993/iberoamericana.449.

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DuRose, Lisa. "How to Seduce a Working Girl: Vaudevillian Entertainment in American Working–Class Fiction 1890–1925." Prospects 24 (October 1999): 377–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300000429.

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“The city,” Theodore Dreiser explains at the beginning of Sister Carrie, “has its cunning wiles, no less than the infinitely smaller and more human tempter. There are larger forces which allure with all the soulfulness of expression possible in the most cultured human. The gleam of a thousand lights is often as effective as the pervasive light in a wooing and fascinating eye” (1). Dreiser's description here echoes many early 20th-century writers' anxieties about the rise of the modern city — from social reformers like Jane Addams and Jacob Riis to journalists and novelists as varied as Stephen Crane and Jean Toomer. But it is Dreiser's depiction of the city as a seducer, as an irresistible wooer, which finally arrives at the heart of the controversy. In the age that saw an increase in the most socially diverse wage seekers — newly arrived immigrants, Southern blacks who migrated North, and single, young women from the country — the city promises, only in the heat of passion, economic and social possibilities, a chance to live out the full contract of American democracy. And the city finds no better stage for its wooing of these new generations of Americans than that of the vaudeville theater.
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Fusco, Carla. "Female Factory Workers in Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna’s Quest." Gender Studies 15, no. 1 (December 1, 2016): 13–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/genst-2017-0002.

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Abstract Female workers represent a fundamental component of the workforce to the extent that it is true that the Industrial Revolution owes them a huge debt. However, despite the unfair exploitation of many women in factories in which conditions resembled manslaughter, they have been often neglected and reduced to liminal characters by Victorian novelists. An interesting exception in the early Victorian period is represented by the writer Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, whose fiction works as a medium of social criticism. Her semi-fictional The Wrongs of Woman is a reform novel which sheds a controversial light on female working conditions. On the one hand she indeed deplores the inhuman treatment of female labourers, but on the other hand she also argues that female employment provokes a consequent increase in male unemployment! My paper aims to investigate the role of Tonna’s text and her attempt to alleviate working-class suffering.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Working class women – fiction"

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Rivers, Bronwyn Anne. "Mid-nineteenth-century women novelists and the question of women's work." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365499.

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Balestra, Alisa. "Shift in Work, Shift in Representation: Working-Class Identity and Experience in U.S. Multi-Ethnic and Queer Women's Fiction." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1303080667.

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James, Laura. "Working women : gender, class and place." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.440718.

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Rankin, Cherie L. Breu Christopher. "Working it through women's working-class literature, the working woman's body, and working-class pedagogy /." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1417799101&SrchMode=1&sid=7&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1205258868&clientId=43838.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2007.
Title from title page screen, viewed on March 11, 2008. Dissertation Committee: Christopher D. Breu (chair), Cynthia A. Huff, Amy E. Robillard. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 262-273) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Young, Mai-san. "Women in transition : from working daughters to unemployed mothers /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk:8888/cgi-bin/hkuto%5Ftoc%5Fpdf?B22956384.

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Petty, Sue. "Working-class women and contemporary British literature." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2009. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/5441.

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This thesis involves a class-based literary criticism of working-class women s writing. I particularly focus on a selection of novels by three working-class women writers - Livi Michael, Caeia March and Joan Riley. Their work emerged in the 1980s, the era of Thatcherism, which is a definitive period in British history that spawned a renaissance of working-class literature. In my readings of the novels I look at three specific aspects of identity: gender, sexuality and race with the intersection of social class, to examine how issues of economic positioning impinge further on the experience of respectively being a woman, a lesbian and a black woman in contemporary British society. I also appropriate various feminist theories to argue for the continued relevance of social class in structuring women s lives in late capitalism. Working-class writing in general, and working-class women s writing in particular, has historically been under-represented in academic study, so that by highlighting the work of these three lesser known writers, and by indicating that they are worthy of study, this thesis is also complicit in an act of feminist historiography.
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Fernandez, Jody Ann. "The literacy practices of working class white women." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000235.

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Lai, Pui-yim Ada. "Working daughters in the 1990's /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B20716515.

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Wilson, Karen. "Aspects of solidarity between middle-class and working-class women 1880-1903." Thesis, Keele University, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.293991.

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Smeraldo, Kaitlyn N. "(Re)Constructing Gender: White, Working-Class Women and Trauma." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1553336041577677.

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Books on the topic "Working class women – fiction"

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Ann, Schofield, ed. Sealskin and shoddy: Working women in American labor press fiction, 1870-1920. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.

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Flynn, Katie. The girl from Seaforth Sands. London: Arrow, 2001.

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Stein, Gertrude. Three lives. New York, N.Y., U.S.A: Penguin Books, 1990.

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Stein, Gertrude. Three lives: And, Q.E.D., authoritative texts, contexts, criticism. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006.

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Stein, Gertrude. Three Lives. New York: Penguin USA, Inc., 2010.

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Young, Arlene. Culture, class, and gender in the Victorian novel: Gentlemen, gents, and working women. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Press, 1999.

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Stein, Gertrude. Three lives. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000.

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Stein, Gertrude. Three lives. København: Los Angeles, 2004.

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LaPaglia, Nancy. Storytellers: The image of the two-year college in American fiction and in women's journals. DeKalb, Ill: LEPS Press, Northern Illinois University, 1994.

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Brenda, Wineapple, ed. Three lives. New York: Pocket Books, 2003.

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Book chapters on the topic "Working class women – fiction"

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Boos, Florence S. "‘Truth’, ‘Fiction’ and Collaboration in The Autobiography of a Charwoman." In Memoirs of Victorian Working-Class Women, 259–90. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64215-4_9.

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Robinson, Lillian S. "Working/Women/Writing." In Sex, Class and Culture, 223–53. London: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003440642-12.

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Hubble, Nick. "Respectability, Nostalgia and Shame in Contemporary English Working-Class Fiction." In Working-Class Writing, 269–87. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96310-5_14.

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O’Brien, Phil. "The Deindustrial Novel: Twenty-First-Century British Fiction and the Working Class." In Working-Class Writing, 229–46. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96310-5_12.

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Evans, Gillian. "Common Women: Working Class Values." In Educational Failure and Working Class White Children in Britain, 33–51. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230627239_3.

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Laing, Stuart. "Fiction: Communities and Connections." In Representations of Working-Class Life 1957–1964, 59–81. London: Macmillan Education UK, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18459-0_4.

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Schwarzkopf, Jutta. "Working-class Women’s Post-Chartist Activities." In Women in the Chartist Movement, 247–63. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230379619_9.

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Srivastava, Priyanka. "Childbirth, Childcare, and Working-Class Women." In The Well-Being of the Labor Force in Colonial Bombay, 197–240. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66164-3_6.

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Pierse, Michael. "From Rocking the Cradle to Rocking the System: Writing Working-Class Women." In Writing Ireland’s Working Class, 110–42. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230299351_4.

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Paffard, Mark. "‘The Wish House’ and the Working Class." In Conservative Belief and the Imagination in Kipling’s Fiction, 181–90. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40220-3_12.

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Conference papers on the topic "Working class women – fiction"

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Jordon, Sarah. "Gender Versus Class: A Metasynthesis of Working-Class Women Faculty Narratives." In 2020 AERA Annual Meeting. Washington DC: AERA, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/1573598.

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Reen, Jaisheen Kour, and Rita Orji. "Improving Mental Health Among Working-Class Indian Women: Insight From An Interview Study." In CHI '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519781.

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Castillo-Lavergne, Claudia. "Exploring the Psychological Well-Being of Working-Class Latinx Women Attending Four-Year Colleges." In 2019 AERA Annual Meeting. Washington DC: AERA, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/1437683.

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Wing, Michelle. ""I Just Made It Work": Setbacks, Successes, and Support Stories of Working-Class Women and Degree Attainment." In 2020 AERA Annual Meeting. Washington DC: AERA, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/1571379.

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Brown, Marlene, and Laurie Stone. "Technical Training for Women in the PV Field." In ASME 2003 International Solar Energy Conference. ASMEDC, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/isec2003-44236.

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Over the past decade, more women have become interested in renewable energy, particularly photovoltaics, but a suitable training environment is difficult to find. Approximately five years ago, Solar Energy International (SEI) started offering classes for women only. The premise is that a women only class provides a friendly atmosphere for women to ask basic questions, take time working with tools and concepts, and practice hands-on activities in a supportive environment. Sandia National Labs has assisted SEI by providing technical content and hands-on instruction. The classes are split between the classroom and the field. This paper will provide an overview of the technical training, safety and the importance of the National Electrical Code® (NEC)®, and accomplishments of the students beyond these classes.
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Zakharova, M. A., A. G. Merkulova, and S. A. Kalinina. "STUDY OF AGE EFFECT TO HEMODYNAMICS AND HEART RATE VARIABILITY OF FEMALE TRAM DRIVERS." In The 17th «OCCUPATION and HEALTH» Russian National Congress with International Participation (OHRNC-2023). FSBSI «IRIOH», 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.31089/978-5-6042929-1-4-2023-1-185-189.

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Continuous labor intensification places high demands on the health of the working population. Alongside with this the existing system of criteria and methods of estimation of functional state and activity reliability of workers of different age groups needs correction and further perfection. Research objective. Evaluation of the age effect on hemodynamics and heart rate variability indices of female tram drivers. Research methods. The working conditions of female streetcar drivers were analyzed according to the Guideline R 2.2.2006‑05 and the special assessment of working conditions data. The comparison of the values of hemodynamic and heart rate variability indices of 330 women of three age groups: young (18‑45 years old), middle (46‑60 years old) and old age (over 61 years old) were compared, as well as their comparison with physiological norms of body strain. Results. At the workplaces of women tram drivers the class of working conditions is 3.2. The values of circulatory system indicators and a sharp decrease in intrasystem coherence of functions in elderly persons characterize an unfavorable functional state of working strain of the 2nd degree, which indicates unsatisfactory autonomic regulation of cardiovascular system functions. Minute blood volume consistently decreases and peripheral vascular resistance increases in middle-aged and elderly people compared to young people. Conclusions. The obtained results can form the basis for the creation of age-related digital profiles of women tram drivers which will allow improving the preventive measures for various pre-donosological conditions of the employees in order to prolong their professional longevity.
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RIAL, Faiza. "The level of anxiety of the working person and its relationship to the psychological and social adjustment of her school children. - From the point of view of mothers working in vocational training in Algeria –." In V. International Congress of Humanities and Educational Research. Rimar Academy, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.47832/ijhercongress5-14.

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As a result of the developments and changes witnessed by most societies, especially Algerian society, educational opportunities have opened up for Algerian women, and thus fields of work in their various fields, unlike what was prevalent before. The entry of women to work has led to many results represented in the widening of the scope of their social roles after being acquainted with their responsibilities that were previously among the responsibilities of men. A woman often finds herself facing very difficult demands and choices in terms of what the house expects of her, which is difficult for her to achieve due to her external work, and in terms of what she desires to achieve for herself and is difficult for her to achieve because of her status as a wife and she has a family that needs her care and her urgent presence, so the mother woman finds herself at a crossroads. Roads between this and that and the concern you make. The job duplication experienced by the working mother leaves the effects of prolonging the children, because this job duplication of the worker can make the external work affect the internal work, and thus the psychological and social compatibility of the children. Psychological and social compatibility is a necessary requirement for the individual to live a healthy life free from mental disorders, because compatibility is the basis of mental health, and it represents the individual's ability to reconcile his self-demands with the demands of his physical and social environment. On this basis, we will try, through this field study, to reveal the level of anxiety of the working woman and its relationship to the psychological and social adjustment of her schooled children - from the point of view of working mothers in vocational training in Algeria - on a sample consisting of (203) working mothers who were deliberately chosen, taking into account the mother Working class children, using the Taylor scale of explicit anxiety, as well as a questionnaire for psychological and social adjustment prepared by the researcher, by adopting both the correlation coefficient and the "T" test as statistical tools. The study concluded: • The existence of a negative inverse correlation, meaning that the greater the level of anxiety of the working mother, the lower the level of psychosocial adjustment of the children, and vice versa. • There are no statistically significant differences between the sexes in the psychological and social adjustment of school children
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Kesler, John K., Monique F. Stewart, Debra M. Chappell, and Lloyd Parker. "Railroad Industry Workforce Assessment—Next Steps: Working Together to Shape the Rail Workforce of the 21st Century." In 2011 Joint Rail Conference. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/jrc2011-56055.

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Since 2009, the Obama Administration’s focus on rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure and creating jobs has generated a tremendous amount of investment in transportation related initiatives. Championed by U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) Secretary, Ray LaHood, these initiatives have spanned the transportation industry including a portion being allocated to rail. At the 2010 ASME Joint Rail Conference (JRC), Kevin Kesler, Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) Chief of Equipment and Operating Practices Division shared insight into FRA’s tentative workforce development activity (FRA-WDT). This effort is being conducted as part of the larger USDOT National Transportation Workforce Strategy Initiative, which endeavors to identify and report workforce challenges and commonalities across all modes of transportation and discuss strategies to address those issues. Since that presentation, the FRA Workforce Development Team (FRA-WDT) has identified six railroad industry specific challenges and submitted them for incorporation in the USDOT Framework for a National Transportation Workforce Strategy: 1. Aging railroad workforce – highlighting need for knowledge transfer. 2. Workforce diversity – shortages of women and minorities in the rail workforce. 3. Overall image of the rail industry – declining and stagnant technologically. 4. Need for national training standards for freight rail craft and trade positions. 5. Work-life balance issues – attrition among employees with less than five years of service. 6. Availability of suitable metrics to constantly monitor the collective railroad workforce. These issues were derived from independent research as well as interviews conducted with representatives from across the railroad industry (i.e. Class I railroads, short line and regional railroads, labor unions, associations, academia, and FRA staff). Thus, FRA is interested in continuing the dialog and information exchange with railroad industry stakeholders as a means to strategize about these workforce concerns that impact each facet of the industry. An initial set of approaches to each challenge has been identified, which includes partnering with industry stakeholders. Full details and additional insight into the analysis will be shared in the paper.
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Rafique, Samia, Jecha Suleiman Jecha, and Hui Lyu. "Evaluation of ergonomic needs among female sewing machine operators in garments industry of Bangladesh: a pilot study." In 14th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2023). AHFE International, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1003037.

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The enrichment of the garments industry in Bangladesh has given employment to millions of people, especially women. With cellular manufacturing, enhanced productivity accompanies increased musculoskeletal disorders risk (Shaheen A., Mohammad Z.R, 2014). Sewing operators working posture is a vital factor related to musculoskeletal symptoms (Dianat et al., 2015). However, there is limited research on the ergonomic needs evaluation among Bangladesh female sewing machine operators.Seven female sewing machine operators in a garment manufacturing unit in Dhaka, Bangladesh, were recruited for this pilot study. A combined survey sheet was developed to record demographic information and CMDQ questionnaires. The demographics included age, weight, height, marital status, and education level. CMDQ is a survey sheet to evaluate the rating of symptoms in specific body parts (neck, shoulder, arm, upper back, lower back, leg) by multiplying the frequency, severity, and interference scores. Anthropometric measurement and sewing facilities (table and chair) dimension measurement were conducted. Subjects were interviewed about their subjective opinions on the ergonomic functions of sewing machine facilities.Participants were 31.6±8.8 years old, 56.4±8.4 kg, and 5.27±0.35ft. They are married, and their educational levels range from class 5 to 8. A typical daily work process of a female sewing machine operator in a garment manufacturing unit in Bangladesh is constantly sitting for more than 10 hours with a 1-hour lunch break. They hardly move around, only to pick up their work in the morning and submit their production to their supervisor at the end of the day. After a whole day of work, four people reported lower back pain, while three reported neck pain, 2 with leg pain, and 1 with arm pain. Lower back got the highest discomfort score (26.5), followed by neck (10), arm (7), and leg (3). The mismatch computations between body and facility dimensions showed that the current design of sewing facilities is unsuitable for female workers. The seat height is too low, and the hip width is too narrow for them. According to interviews, subjects complained about their current working chair without elbow rest which was quite uncomfortable for them to work. It could be one of the reasons that a worker is facing severe arm pain. Consistent with anthropometric measurement results, several subjects mentioned that the seat and desk height was inappropriate for them. They had to use a cushion on the seat to make them more comfortable.In conclusion, female sewing operators in Bangladesh's garment industry face a high risk of musculoskeletal disorders with mismatched facility dimensions and little consideration of their ergonomic design. A better understanding of their ergonomic needs involving sewing operations can potentially impact workers' quality of life and national productivity.
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Reports on the topic "Working class women – fiction"

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Khemani, Shreya, Jharna Sahu, Maya Yadav, and Triveni Sahu. Interrogating What Reproduces a Teacher: A Study of the Working Lives of Teachers in Birgaon, Raipur. Indian Institute for Human Settlements, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.24943/tesf1307.2023.

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This study, situated in an industrial working-class neighbourhood in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, aims to look at what sustains and reproduces an elementary school teacher in low-fee private schools. Within a highly stratified system of education such as ours (NCERT 2005), both at the level of school and teacher education itself, as well as in the context of a highly stratified society—where the imagination and reality of ‘a teacher’ is informed as much by a historical domination of teaching by specific caste groups as it is by a contemporary reality in which the bulk of the teachers in schools across the country are women (UDISE+ 2019-20)—how do we understand the working lives of teachers and the work of teaching? This study thinks through this question by inquiring into the labouring lives of teachers in our fieldsite—centring tensions between productive and unproductive labour and paid and unpaid work.
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Kothari, Jayna, I. R. Jayalakshmi, Rohit Sharma, and Adhirai S. Intersections of Caste and Gender: Implementation of Devadasi Prohibition Laws. Centre for Law and Policy Research, November 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.54999/hhej4927.

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CLPR’s policy brief on the Devadasi practice in States like Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Maharashtra investigates the prevalence of the Devadasi system and reviews the implementation of legislation prohibiting the practice. The policy brief pays close attention to the intersectional discrimination faced by Devadasi women due to their caste, class, and gender and suggests a range of recommendations from statutory amendments to regular empirical studies and training programs to strengthen the working of the legislation.
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Panwar, Nalin Singh. Decentralized Political Institution in Madhya Pradesh (India). Fribourg (Switzerland): IFF, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.51363/unifr.diff.2017.23.

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The change through grassroots democratic processes in the Indian political system is the result of a growing conviction that the big government cannot achieve growth and development in a society without people's direct participation and initiative. The decentralized political institutions have been more participatory and inclusive ensuring equality of political opportunity. Social exclusion in India is not a new phenomenon. History bears witness to exclusion of social groups on the bases of caste, class, gender and religion. Most notable is the category of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Women who were denied the access and control over economic and social opportunities as a result they were relegated to the categories of excluded groups. It is true that the problems of the excluded classes were addressed by the state through the enactment of anti-discriminatory laws and policies to foster their social inclusion and empowerment. Despite these provisions, exclusion and discrimination of these excluded groups continued. Therefore, there was a need to address issues of ‘inclusion’ in a more direct manner. Madhya Pradesh has made a big headway in the working for the inclusion of these excluded groups. The leadership role played by the under privileged, poor and the marginalized people of the society at the grassroots level is indeed remarkable because two decade earlier these people were excluded from public life and political participation for them was a distant dream. Against this backdrop, the paper attempts to unfold the changes that have taken place in the rural power structure after 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act. To what extent the decentralized political institutions have been successful in the inclusion of the marginalized section of the society in the state of Madhya Pradesh [India].
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