Diss. (sammanfattning) Stockholm : Karol. inst. / Härtill 5 uppsatser.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2006. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 111-119).

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Diss. (sammanfattning) Stockholm : Karolinska institutet, 2006. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.

In 1955 and 1966 Canada opened its doors to a limited number of Caribbean domestic workers and seasonal agricultural workers. Canadian government officials remarked that the programmes were part of Ottawa’s aid package to the Caribbean and that they would enhance trading relationships between Canada and the Caribbean, a view which had been echoed by other writers on the topic. This thesis argues that both programmes were instituted after Canada had exhausted all attempts to recruit adequate European labourers. The thesis also argues that both programmes were deliberately designed and executed to ensure that Canada got maximum benefits at low cost. Canada also attached unprecedented conditions to both schemes in an effort to significantly reduce the number of workers recruited. The thesis provides a thorough examination of the proposals by Caribbean governments, together with interest groups from Canada, to persuade Canada to establish these migrant programmes and the excuses and refusals by Canada to those proposals. The thesis documents the increasing recruitment of Mexican agricultural workers at the expense of Caribbean workers which further dispels the view that the migrant programmes were part of an aid package to the Caribbean. The thesis notes that unlike the domestic programme the agricultural programme was not a route towards landed immigrant status.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 140-149).

This study documented the experiences of agricultural workers with disabilities currently using assistive technologies (ATs) through one state’s AgrAbility Project. Comparisons between work life before and after their use of ATs were made. Moreover, this study explored motivational factors for continuing agricultural work using the Job Characteristics Model as a conceptual framework. The study used a qualitative approach with a purposive sampling method to ensure participants met specific criteria (born with or acquired a disability, diversity of disabilities, and use of AT for at least one year). Seven participants (two females and five males) completed a questionnaire and were interviewed by telephone. Data were analyzed based on thematic analysis using a deductive approach. The results showed that ATs had a mostly positive influence on disabled agricultural workers’ work life and work motivation. The implications of the study for future research and recommendations for practical application were provided.

While agricultural work is hazardous for all workers, migrant workers face additional challenges that make them more vulnerable than domestic workers. The lack of access to permanent immigration status in the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) and the agricultural stream of the Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP) makes workers’ jobs hinge on retaining their employers’ favour and creates a particular type of job insecurity that overshadows their behaviour, decisions, and agency to assert their rights for safe and healthy workplaces and workers’ compensation. While researchers argue that the TFWP competes with the SAWP as employers search for the cheapest and most docile workers, less research has examined whether workers’ health and safety exposures and experiences differ within the two programs. Drawing primarily from interviews with advocates and system stakeholders and participant observation at advocate-organized events, this research will offer preliminary answers to discovering whether the programs pose different obstacles to improving health and safety and access to compensation that affect migrant workers’ experiences in Ontario before and after injury. The research will help gather information about possible avenues to improve the health and safety of migrant workers given how the two programs operate within both federal and provincial frameworks. Advocates’ experience assisting workers in both programs offers important insights about whether differences between the programs create particular vulnerabilities for some migrant workers. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA) / This research identifies opportunities and barriers that migrant agricultural workers and their advocates face in improving occupational health and safety and access to workers' compensation in the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP) and the agricultural stream of the Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP). Through semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and document review, the research will help identify whether interplay between the programs causes additional vulnerabilities for some workers. The research will help gather information about possible avenues to improve the health and safety of migrant workers given how the two programs operate in a federal and provincial framework.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:12:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2007-Evaristo Jose de Lima Neto.pdf: 2355048 bytes, checksum: e176b1228be7a69c346840c302f55470 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-03-22 / This work aims to analyze the process of constitution and development of several associative forms adopted by organizations of agricultural workers in the city of Lago do Junco - MA, particularly those allied to a major organization called Associa??o em ?reas de Assentamento no Estado do Maranh?o - ASSEMA. These associations were created in Lago do Junco within the years of 1989 and 1991, by the end of a period of intense and violent agrarian conflicts involving, from one side, a number of peasant villages and, from another, great land owners. Since the decade of 1970, changes in the preaching methods conducted by religious adepts of the Theology of the Liberation, added to the process of land expropriation that affected hundreds of peasant families, stimulated a collective response by rural workers to the process of land privatization. Most of the agrarian conflicts were solved by the end of the decade of 1980, with the establishment of Agrarian Reform settlements for the peasant population. From then on, in this region, the associative forms became a preferred modality of organization adopted by agricultural worker families, as means of ensuring their permanence on their lands. Through analyzing the consequence of the existence and the influence of associations linked to ASSEMA for the living in the studied towns, we noticed a certain ambivalence by which they are experienced by agricultural workers. Such ambivalence is related to the tensions occurred during certain periods, such as those referred to the procedures that made possible to afford selective advantages to their associates and the ones which triggered a deep degree of socioeconomic differentiation inside the villages. Also, conflicts emerged from the principles of conduct and affiliation demanded by the organizations for those who benefited from them, affiliated or not. / Esta disserta??o objetiva analisar o processo de constitui??o e desenvolvimento das diversas formas associativas assumidas por organiza??es de trabalhadores rurais no munic?pio de Lago do Junco Maranh?o, em particular, aquelas associadas ? entidade de assessoria e representa??o denominada Associa??o em ?reas de Assentamento no Estado do Maranh?o - ASSEMA. Essas organiza??es foram fundadas em Lago do Junco entre os anos de 1989 e 1991, ao final de um per?odo de intensos e violentos conflitos agr?rios envolvendo, de um lado, diversos povoados camponeses e, de outro, grandes propriet?rios de terra. A partir da d?cada de 1970 as modifica??es no trabalho de evangeliza??o realizado por religiosos adeptos da teologia da liberta??o, somadas ao processo de expropria??o de terras que afetava centenas de fam?lias de trabalhadores rurais, fez nascer em parte destas um sentimento de inconformismo com a situa??o em que viviam, levando-as a resistir de forma coletiva ao processo de expropria??o, fazendo eclodir diversos conflitos agr?rios. Os principais conflitos agr?rios foram solucionados no final da d?cada de 1980, com a desapropria??o das terras e cria??o de projetos de assentamento. Nesta regi?o o associativismo passou a ser, a partir de ent?o, uma modalidade de organiza??o e a??o coletiva privilegiada pelas fam?lias de trabalhadores rurais, como forma de garantirem sua perman?ncia nas terras reconquistadas. A partir da an?lise das conseq??ncias advindas da presen?a e da atua??o das organiza??es de trabalhadores rurais vinculadas a ASSEMA na vida dos povoados estudados, percebemos estas organiza??es podem ser caracterizadas principalmente pela ambival?ncia com que s?o vivenciadas pelas fam?lias de trabalhadores rurais. Tal ambival?ncia est? relacionada a tens?es que atravessam a trajet?rias destas organiza??es, como aquelas referentes aos procedimentos que possibilitaram estabelecer vantagens seletivas para seus associados e os procedimentos que puderam gerar um acentuado grau de diferencia??o econ?mico-social no interior dos povoados, e, tens?es provenientes dos princ?pios de filia??o e conduta exigidos por estas organiza??es daqueles que delas usufruem, sejam estes s?cios ou n?o s?cios.

Diss. (sammanfattning) Uppsala : Univ., 2004. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.