In the past decade, a night shift labor force has gained momentum in the global economy. The hyper-growth of the transnational call center industry in India provides a quintessential example. The night shift requirement of the transnational call industry also intersects with the spatial and temporal construction of gender. Research conducted in 2006 in Mumbai, Bangalore, and Ahmedabad indicates that the nightscape is primarily a male domain (with the exception of prostitutes, bar dancers, and call girls) and women’s entry into this domain generates a range of diverse responses from call centers, their employees, the employees’ families, the media, and the Indian public. This research illustrates that there is no linear outcome to how working the night shift at a call center affects women’s lives. Even though the global nature of the work combined with the relatively high salary is viewed as a liberating force in the lives of workers, in actuality women simultaneously experience opening and constriction for working in the industry. Through the collection of interviews, focus group data, and participant observation gathered during 10 months of fieldwork in India, I examine female night shift workers’ physical, temporal, social, and economic mobility to illustrate how global night shift labor is intersecting with the lives of women in ironic and unsettling ways. Call center employment certainly changes the temporal mobility of some women because it provides them with a legitimate reason to leave the house at night, whereas before this was considered unacceptable. Concerns about promiscuity and “bad character” related to working at night are deflected by linking employment to skill acquisition, high wages, and a contribution to the household. Women’s safety--a code word for their reputation--is preserved by segregating them, via private transport, from the other women of the night. Women consequently become more physically and economically mobile, but through the use of what I term mobility-morality narratives, households continue to maintain regimes of surveillance and control over when and how women come and go. Similarly their social mobility is limited by obligations to support family members and conform to gendered notions of a woman’s place. / text

This study examined the impact that personal transition issues have on the work performance and satisfaction of new professionals in housing and residence life positions. Current first-year professionals in these positions were surveyed and interviewed using materials created for this research.New professionals felt that their personal transition has a significant impact on their overall satisfaction and performance in the work environment. They also expressed a desire for institutions to be more aware of these issues and more intentional in assisting with them. The survey population identified a number of correlations between personal transition issues, work performance, and work satisfaction. They offered examples of ways their institutions helped them in their transition, as well as suggestions for additional steps that can and should be taken. / Department of Educational Leadership

Although conscious consumers flock to sustainability-branded restaurants and grocery stores to "vote with their forks" for environmental sustainability and vibrant local economies, workers in these industries face the same poverty wages, discrimination, and exploitative labor practices that plague the food service and retail industries at large. Despite rapid growth and labor degradation, low-wage workers in these industries have largely been left behind by the mainstream labor movement and the alternative food movement. Whereas in the past, progressive social movements worked to alter power relations between labor and capital through collective action, today's mainstream labor movement focuses on servicing its dwindling membership and winning minimum wage increases through local ballot box measures and legislation. For its part, the alternative food movement focuses narrowly on achieving environmental sustainability through market-based mechanisms and consumption politics that do not adequately attend to the struggles of food chain workers. Through research conducted in partnership with the Burgerville Workers Union (BVWU) and the Industrial Workers of the World, I investigate three empirical research questions: 1) How do sustainability-branded institutions deploy values-based discourse and how does this relate to labor practices?, 2) How do worker-organizers understand and expose the contradictions of sustainability branding?, and 3) How do worker-organizers engage with social reproduction as a terrain of political struggle, and to what ends? I attend to these questions through activist scholarship aimed at informing my broad theoretical question: How might social reproduction "as discourse and practice" be marshaled to generate more inclusive organizing strategies, forge more just conceptions of sustainability, and build worker power? Drawing on over two years of ethnographic research, content analysis, and interviews with 48 worker-organizers involved in four labor organizing campaigns, I examine their efforts to build worker power through mutual aid programs, political education, and coalition politics. My analysis reveals that these strategies embody an inclusionary intersectional politics that prioritizes the needs of women, parents, and people of color, but that worker-organizers also face significant challenges. I demonstrate that organizing against neoliberal policies and practices requires moving beyond consumption politics and single-issue campaigns and deploying what I term (re)production politics which are fundamentally about how work is organized and how we care for society and the planet. Politicizing the labor, locations, and practices of social reproduction as landscapes of struggle, I conclude, offers an opportunity to build a broad class consciousness across interconnected issues and envision more liberatory ways of organizing social reproduction based on solidarity, mutuality, and interdependence.

by Law Yuk-fung, Cherry. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 118-128). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Acknowledgments --- p.xi / Abstract --- p.xii / Chapter Chapter One: --- Introduction --- p.1-7 / Chapter 1.1 --- An overview / Chapter 1.2 --- Research questions / Chapter 1.3 --- Conceptualization of the research topic / Chapter 1.4 --- Objective and significance / Chapter Chapter Two: --- Literature Review --- p.8-30 / Chapter 2.1 --- Theoretical perspectives / Chapter 2.2 --- Researches on racism and biased representation in media / Chapter 2.3 --- Researches on domestic servants / Chapter 2.4 --- Limitations on past researches / Chapter Chapter Three: --- Methodology --- p.31-38 / Chapter 3.1 --- Textual analysis of cultural representations / Chapter 3.2 --- In-depth interviews / Chapter 3.3 --- Contextualization of the study / Chapter Chapter Four: --- A socio-historical analysis: the Coming of Filipino Maids in Hong Kong --- p.39-48 / Chapter Chapter Five: --- Cultural Representation of Filipino Domestic Helpers in Hong Kong --- p.49-81 / Chapter 5.1 --- Media images of Filipino domestic helpers in Hong Kong / Chapter 5.2 --- Public sentiments of Hong Kong people towards the Filipino domestic helpers (over certain social protests) / Chapter 5.3 --- Social practices of Hong Kong people towards the Filipino domestic helpers at societal level / Chapter Chapter Six: --- The Interplay between Cultural Representations and Social Practices ´ؤ Findings and Discussion --- p.82-112 / Chapter 6.1. --- General findings / Chapter 6.2. --- "Employers' perceptions, values and beliefs behind their social practices" / Chapter 6.3. --- Interplay between cultural representations and social practices / Chapter 6.4. --- Theoretical linkages with the findings / Chapter Chapter Seven: --- Conclusion --- p.113-117 / Bibliography / Appendices: / Chapter I. --- Core questions of the in-depth interviews / Chapter II. --- Interviewees' profile / Chapter III. --- Figures of employment of foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong / Chapter IV. --- "Filipino maid suspected in child abuse, behavior being recorded" / Chapter V. --- Books targeted at Filipino maids' employers / Chapter VI. --- "A visual icon for a news story about ""TeleEye""" / Chapter VII. --- News photographs of Filipino domestic helpers about they are dressing too sexy / Chapter VIII. --- Visual elements in the advertisement of employment agencies for Filipino domestic helpers / Chapter IX. --- """Maria"" ´ؤ a popular comedy with Filipino maid, called ""Maria"", as central figure" / Chapter X. --- "News headlines using the Cantonese term “bun mui"""

Cheng, Kam Lam Canny. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 135-144). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgements --- p.iii / List of Abbreviations --- p.vi / List of Figures --- p.vii / List of Examples --- p.x / List of Tables --- p.x / Maps --- p.xi / Chapter Chapter One: --- Introduction Overview --- p.1 / Filipino Migration / The Filipinos as Diaspora / Theoretical Framework and Literature Review / Methodology / Where is the Field? / Language / Terminology and Stereotypes: Names Used for Filipino/as in Hong Kong / "Social Status, Social Relationships, and Time and Space Constriants" / Overview of the Thesis and Objectives of the Study / Chapter Chapter Two: --- "The Population, Employment and Soundscape of Filipino and Filipina Domestic Helpers in Hong Kong" --- p.31 / Immigration and Employment / Musicality of the Filipinos / The Role of Filipinos in Hong Kong's Musical Scene / "The Soundscape of Hong Kong, a Graphic Illustration" / Chapter Chapter Three: --- Sacred Contexts --- p.42 / "Detailed ""Sacred"" in this Thesis" / The Hong Kong Catholic Diocese and Music of the Chinese Masses / Clerical Support for the Filipino Catholic Community in Hong Kong / Profiles of Five Churches / Detailed Case Study of Two Churches / Selected Examples from Other Hong Kong Church Choirs / "Justification of ""Filipinoness""" / The Impact of Filipino Religious on the Musical Practice of Hong Kong Chinese Parishes / The Impact of Filipino Popular Music on Hong Kong Filipinos' Sacred Music / A Side Trip to the Philippines / Chapter Chapter Four: --- Secular Contexts --- p.83 / Marking Their Piece of Territory / Chater Road: Chater Square and Statue Square / Kantaka (Singing Contests) / Concert in the Park / Culture in Motion / Cultural Initiatives by the Philippine Consulate in Hong Kong / Asia Gathering / Catholic Prayer Gathering / Radio Broadcasts / Buying Recordings / Karaoke / The Hong Kong Musicians Union / Commercial Sponsors for Filipino Musical Activities / The Cordillera Men's Club / Chapter Chapter Five: --- Musical Involvement of the Filipions in Hong Kong during the Anti-World Trade Organization Campaign --- p.115 / Singing of the Filipinos / Chapter Chapter Six: --- Epilogue --- p.127 / Bibliography --- p.135

Guo, Chunlan. / "July 2010." / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 176-186). / Abstracts in English and Chinese; appendix II in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgments --- p.v / Table of contents --- p.vi / List of tables --- p.ix / List of figures --- p.xi / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Research background: Female labor migrants in the PRD --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1.1 --- Restriction on women by Confucianism in China --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1.2 --- Restriction on women by state in China --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1.3 --- The mobility of women in China --- p.3 / Chapter 1.2 --- Research questions and research objectives --- p.5 / Chapter 1.3 --- Research significance --- p.6 / Chapter 1.4 --- Outline of the dissertation --- p.7 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- "Literature Review: Female Migration, Household， , Labor Market and Feminist Geography" --- p.9 / Chapter 2.1 --- Research on female migration --- p.9 / Chapter 2.2 --- Female migration and household --- p.12 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Household model and its critic by feminists --- p.12 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Examples of studying female labor migration at the scale of household --- p.16 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Household response to female labor migration --- p.21 / Chapter 2.2.4 --- Thinking and reflection --- p.26 / Chapter 2.3 --- Female migration and labor market --- p.27 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- The segmentation in urban labor market and the female labor migration --- p.27 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- The disadvantage of migrant women in urban labor market --- p.28 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- The role of agents in female migration --- p.30 / Chapter 2.3.4 --- Female labor migration in China: A product of the economic transformation --- p.30 / Chapter 2.4 --- The research of female labor migration and approach of feminist geography --- p.31 / Chapter 2.4.1 --- The assignments of feminist geography --- p.31 / Chapter 2.4.2 --- The research of feminist geography --- p.33 / Chapter 2.4.3 --- Some weakness of feminist geography --- p.34 / Chapter 2.5 --- Summary --- p.35 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Research Methodology --- p.37 / Chapter 3.1 --- The reason for using the methodology of feminist geography --- p.37 / Chapter 3.2 --- Research framework --- p.38 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Research issues --- p.38 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Research framework and flow chat --- p.40 / Chapter 3.3 --- Data collection --- p.44 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Fieldwork: to collect the firsthand data --- p.45 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Observational survey --- p.47 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- Interview survey --- p.48 / Chapter 3.3.4 --- Questionnaire Survey --- p.52 / Chapter 3.3.5 --- Secondary data --- p.56 / Chapter 3.4 --- Data analysis --- p.57 / Chapter 3.4.1 --- Qualitative methods: interview analysis --- p.58 / Chapter 3.4.2 --- Quantitative methods --- p.59 / Chapter 3.5 --- Summary --- p.62 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Female Migration in the Pearl River Delta: Census Data Analysis --- p.64 / Chapter 4.1 --- The scale of female migration in the PRD --- p.64 / Chapter 4.2 --- The distribution of female interprovincial migrants in the PRD --- p.68 / Chapter 4.3 --- The origins of female interprovincial migrants in the PRD --- p.69 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- The 2000 census data of Guangdong volume --- p.69 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- "The data of 1990 Census, 2000 Census and 2005's 1% survey" --- p.72 / Chapter 4.4 --- The education level and occupation of migrants in the PRD --- p.80 / Chapter 4.5 --- The migration reasons of the female migrants in the PRD --- p.82 / Chapter 4.6 --- Summary --- p.82 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Why Rural Women Want to Migrate Out to Work from the Perspective of Household --- p.84 / Chapter 5.1 --- The filial daughters: migration as a part of the household economic strategy --- p.85 / Chapter 5.2 --- The liberal daughters: migration for individual welfare --- p.91 / Chapter 5.3 --- The dilemma factory mothers: as a sacrifice of the dual economic development system --- p.96 / Chapter 5.4 --- Discussion about the three models of rural women in migration --- p.100 / Chapter 5.5 --- Summary --- p.102 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- How Migration Affects the Lives of Rural Women at the Scale of Household --- p.103 / Chapter 6.1 --- The changing marital form --- p.103 / Chapter 6.2 --- The status of the female labor migrants in household --- p.107 / Chapter 6.3 --- Relation with other family members --- p.111 / Chapter 6.4 --- Rethinking the family member relationship under the split-household strategy --- p.115 / Chapter 6.5 --- Summary --- p.116 / Chapter Chapter 7 --- Female Labor Migrants in Urban Labor Market in the Pearl River Delta --- p.118 / Chapter 7.1 --- The participation of female migrants in the labor market of the PRD --- p.118 / Chapter 7.1.1 --- The time of female migrants' participation in urban labor market --- p.118 / Chapter 7.1.2 --- The channel of urban labor market participation of the female migrants: the role of social network --- p.121 / Chapter 7.1.3 --- The high frequency of changing jobs by female labor migrants --- p.124 / Chapter 7.2 --- The status of female migrants in urban labor market --- p.125 / Chapter 7.2.1 --- Job accessibility: easier for girls than boys --- p.125 / Chapter 7.2.2 --- Different wage by gender discrimination in factory? --- p.129 / Chapter 7.2.3 --- The status of the female migrants in the factory --- p.133 / Chapter 7.3 --- The future of female migrants in urban labor market --- p.135 / Chapter 7.3.1 --- The evaluation of working in the PRD --- p.135 / Chapter 7.3.2 --- The departure of female migrants from the urban labor market --- p.136 / Chapter 7.3.3 --- The cycle of a line girl in urban labor market --- p.139 / Chapter 7.4 --- Summary --- p.141 / Chapter Chapter 8 --- Conclusion --- p.144 / Appendix --- p.151 / Appendix I List of interviewees --- p.151 / Appendix IIA sample of questionnaire --- p.153 / "Appendix III The input, output and error of estimating female migration flow with the approach of maximizing entropy- the case of 1990 census data 一" --- p.166 / Bibliography --- p.176

CAPES / Esta dissertação consiste em uma análise das construções discursivas sobre o mundo do trabalho no romance Jorge, um brasileiro, de Oswaldo França Júnior, publicado em 1967. A pesquisa tem como embasamento teórico para o campo da linguagem e da literatura os conceitos de Mikhail Bakhtin e do Círculo, proposta que auxilia a perceber certas peculiaridades artísticas e composicionais da estrutura do romance, a partir da matriz dialógica como princípio constitutivo de todo discurso. Para o mundo do trabalho a pesquisa pauta-se nas reflexões de pensadores que contribuíram para um olhar mais crítico sobre essa temática na obra, como Marx e Engels, Lukács, Gorz, Marcuse e Antunes. Essa fundamentação teórica é um recorte do quadro de pensadores que se estudam no Projeto de Pesquisa “A formalização discursiva do universo do trabalho e da tecnologia em textos literários brasileiros”, do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Tecnologia da UTFPR, a que se vincula esta dissertação. Os discursos sobre o trabalho são investigados a partir da dicotomia entre dois planos enunciativos ambivalentes no romance, o da sociedade capitalista, onde paira a exploração daquele que ganha o pão com o suor do rosto, e o do trabalho coletivo e socializado, que cria um universo simbólico sutil em que é possível o trabalho e as relações sociais carregarem sentidos mais humanos. O primeiro plano aponta para um certo fatalismo quanto à jornada do trabalhador que vende sua mão-de-obra na sociedade de mercado e, por mais que lute e se esforce, não logra romper com a hierarquização social ou ter uma vida mais emancipada. O segundo plano é tido simbolicamente como campo de resistência ao modelo produtivo hodierno, e apresenta uma arquitetônica dotada de certa positividade, pelo trabalho conjunto em interação com a natureza e pelos momentos comuns de lazer e auxílio mútuo entre os nove caminhoneiros, na jornada pelo interior de Minas Gerais. Aqui o trabalho é fator de socialização, o que confere uma forte crítica à sociedade capitalista, em que tudo funciona pela lógica da racionalidade econômica. / This dissertation consists of a discourse analysis of the labor world in the novel Jorge, um brasileiro, by Oswaldo França Junior, published in 1967. This research is theoretically founded - for the field of language and literature – on the concepts of Mikhail Bakhtin and the Circle, which enables the perception of certain artistic and compositional peculiarities in the novel structure from the dialogic matrix as a constitutive principle of all discourse. This research builds on the reflections on the labor world by thinkers who contributed to a more critical look at this issue such as Marx and Engels, Lukacs, Gorz, Marcuse and Antunes. This theoretical foundation is an excerpt of the framework of thinkers who are studied in the research project "The discursive formalization of the labor and technology spheres in Brazilian literary texts", Graduate Technology Program from the UTFPR, which this dissertation isconnected to. The discourses on labor are investigated considering the dichotomy between two ambivalent enunciation plans in the novel: the capitalist society, where the worker exploitation prevails, and the collective and socialized work, which creates a subtle symbolic universe in which labor and social relations can carry more human meanings. The foreground points to a certain fatalism in the journey of the worker who sells his workforce in the market society and, despite his strive, fails to disrupt social hierarchy or attain a more emancipated life. The background is taken symbolically as an area of resistance to today's production model, and presents an architecture endowed with some positivity through joint work in interaction with nature and through common leisure and mutual assistance moments among the nine truck drivers in the journey through inland Minas Gerais. Here, work is a socialization factor, which strongly criticizes the capitalist society where everything works according to the logics of an economic rationality.

CAPES / Esta dissertação consiste em uma análise das construções discursivas sobre o mundo do trabalho no romance Jorge, um brasileiro, de Oswaldo França Júnior, publicado em 1967. A pesquisa tem como embasamento teórico para o campo da linguagem e da literatura os conceitos de Mikhail Bakhtin e do Círculo, proposta que auxilia a perceber certas peculiaridades artísticas e composicionais da estrutura do romance, a partir da matriz dialógica como princípio constitutivo de todo discurso. Para o mundo do trabalho a pesquisa pauta-se nas reflexões de pensadores que contribuíram para um olhar mais crítico sobre essa temática na obra, como Marx e Engels, Lukács, Gorz, Marcuse e Antunes. Essa fundamentação teórica é um recorte do quadro de pensadores que se estudam no Projeto de Pesquisa “A formalização discursiva do universo do trabalho e da tecnologia em textos literários brasileiros”, do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Tecnologia da UTFPR, a que se vincula esta dissertação. Os discursos sobre o trabalho são investigados a partir da dicotomia entre dois planos enunciativos ambivalentes no romance, o da sociedade capitalista, onde paira a exploração daquele que ganha o pão com o suor do rosto, e o do trabalho coletivo e socializado, que cria um universo simbólico sutil em que é possível o trabalho e as relações sociais carregarem sentidos mais humanos. O primeiro plano aponta para um certo fatalismo quanto à jornada do trabalhador que vende sua mão-de-obra na sociedade de mercado e, por mais que lute e se esforce, não logra romper com a hierarquização social ou ter uma vida mais emancipada. O segundo plano é tido simbolicamente como campo de resistência ao modelo produtivo hodierno, e apresenta uma arquitetônica dotada de certa positividade, pelo trabalho conjunto em interação com a natureza e pelos momentos comuns de lazer e auxílio mútuo entre os nove caminhoneiros, na jornada pelo interior de Minas Gerais. Aqui o trabalho é fator de socialização, o que confere uma forte crítica à sociedade capitalista, em que tudo funciona pela lógica da racionalidade econômica. / This dissertation consists of a discourse analysis of the labor world in the novel Jorge, um brasileiro, by Oswaldo França Junior, published in 1967. This research is theoretically founded - for the field of language and literature – on the concepts of Mikhail Bakhtin and the Circle, which enables the perception of certain artistic and compositional peculiarities in the novel structure from the dialogic matrix as a constitutive principle of all discourse. This research builds on the reflections on the labor world by thinkers who contributed to a more critical look at this issue such as Marx and Engels, Lukacs, Gorz, Marcuse and Antunes. This theoretical foundation is an excerpt of the framework of thinkers who are studied in the research project "The discursive formalization of the labor and technology spheres in Brazilian literary texts", Graduate Technology Program from the UTFPR, which this dissertation isconnected to. The discourses on labor are investigated considering the dichotomy between two ambivalent enunciation plans in the novel: the capitalist society, where the worker exploitation prevails, and the collective and socialized work, which creates a subtle symbolic universe in which labor and social relations can carry more human meanings. The foreground points to a certain fatalism in the journey of the worker who sells his workforce in the market society and, despite his strive, fails to disrupt social hierarchy or attain a more emancipated life. The background is taken symbolically as an area of resistance to today's production model, and presents an architecture endowed with some positivity through joint work in interaction with nature and through common leisure and mutual assistance moments among the nine truck drivers in the journey through inland Minas Gerais. Here, work is a socialization factor, which strongly criticizes the capitalist society where everything works according to the logics of an economic rationality.

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