Thesis--University of Wisconsin. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 272-291).

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Nevada, Reno, 2008. / "August, 2008." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 133-141). Online version available on the World Wide Web.

by Chan Oi-hung Blanche and Ho Wing-Keung Patrick. / Includes questionnaire in Chinese. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 146-148). / ABSTRACT --- p.ii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iii / LIST OF TABLES --- p.v / ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --- p.vi / Chapter / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Background --- p.1 / Literature Review --- p.4 / Preview --- p.9 / Chapter II. --- METHODOLOGY --- p.11 / Areas of Measurement --- p.11 / Time of Measurement --- p.12 / Measurement Tools and Sample --- p.12 / Interviews --- p.13 / Questionnaires --- p.13 / Sample --- p.14 / Design of Questionnaire --- p.16 / Chapter III. --- FINDINGS / RESULTS --- p.19 / Overall Scores --- p.19 / Perception of an Ideal Job --- p.19 / Ideal Job Vs Actual Job --- p.21 / Motivation --- p.24 / Meaning of Work (MOW) --- p.25 / "The Teller Job - Expectation, Perception and Their Differences" --- p.26 / "Life in Hong Kong - Expectation, Perception and Their Differences" --- p.27 / Categorization By Background Grouping --- p.28 / Motivation --- p.28 / Meaning of Work (MOW) --- p.30 / Chapter IV. --- DISCUSSION --- p.32 / Ideal Job --- p.32 / Ideal Job Vs Actual Job --- p.36 / Motivation --- p.41 / Meaning of Work (MOW) --- p.45 / Differences between Expectation and Perception of the Job in Hong Kong --- p.46 / Differences between Expectation and Perception of Life in Hong Kong --- p.52 / Adaptation in Job and Life --- p.57 / Limitation --- p.58 / Chapter V. --- RECOMMENDATIONS --- p.60 / Recruitment Process --- p.62 / Follow-Up Programme --- p.65 / Chapter VI. --- CONCLUSION --- p.66 / APPENDIX --- p.68 / REFERENCES --- p.146 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.147

by Ho Hon-kit. / Thesis (M. Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 79). / CONTENTS --- p.i / ABSTRACT --- p.ii / TABLES --- p.iv / CHARTS --- p.vi / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION / Chapter 1. --- The Background of the inflow of new immigrants in late 70's and early 80's --- p.1 / Chapter 2. --- Objectives of this study --- p.5 / Chapter 3. --- Data --- p.7 / Chapter 4. --- Methodology --- p.8 / Chapter 5. --- Demographic Characteristics of New Immigrants and Residents in Hong Kong --- p.8 / Chapter II. --- THE EARNINGS OF NEW IMMIGRANTS AND THEIR IMPACT ON INCOME DISTRIBUTION IN HONG KONG / Chapter 1. --- The Apparent Differential in Earnings Between Residents and New Immigrants --- p.20 / Chapter 2. --- The Estimation of Earnings Functions --- p.23 / Chapter III. --- THE LABOUR FORCE PARTICIPATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT OF NEW IMMIGRANTS / Chapter 1. --- The Labour Force Participation Behaviour of Immigrants --- p.44 / Chapter 2. --- The Unemployment of Immigrants --- p.54 / Chapter IV. --- THE PROPENSITY OF AN NEW IMMIGRANT TO START HIS OWN BUSINESS / Chapter 1. --- The Decision To Start One's Own Business --- p.64 / Chapter 2. --- The Basic Outlook --- p.65 / Chapter 3. --- The Logit Model Estimation on The Tendency To Become Employers --- p.68 / Chapter V. --- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION --- p.75 / APPENDIX --- p.78 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.79

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 210-230).

A theoretical framework is developed for incorporating class conflict dynamics into accumulation theories of labor market segmentation by analyzing the transaction costs of conflict under varying conditions of economic structure and power resources. The theory has the "bottom up" perspective developed in the "new social history." Skill is treated as a status for which workers struggle and internal labor market hierarchies are considered products of the conflicting strategies between capital and labor. Split-labor market theory is also discussed as a method for explaining why workers discriminate. This theory is amended to distinguish between market and class interests of workers, and to take into account the self-perpetuating economic effects of racist discourse. My historical analysis of the metal-mining industry emphasizes the formation of ethnically stratified segments of the labor market in which Chinese and Mexican workers were denied access to the craft-internal labor market for skilled workers. Competition over mining claims under the threat of takeover by mining companies created ethnic antagonism between Chinese and white independent petty-commodity miners. Discrimination by the white independent miners crowded the Chinese into the labor market, which reduced Chinese wages, and induced conflict between white and Chinese wage workers in the company-mines. Ethnic antagonism in combination with intense class struggle produced a segregated labor market between Mexican miners and Anglo supervisors during the initial proletarianization of the mines. Mexican miners were later displaced by Cornish miners who developed a segregated craft-internal labor market. Analysis of the labor process shows that mechanization initially facilitated the struggle by Cornish miners for a skilled status, contrary to homogenization expectations. Mexican miners were relegated to unskilled manual positions.

This is a research on Chinese women’s marriage migration to South Korea. I explore this topic by adopting the perspective of politics of intimacy. It aims to find out how the broad political and economic transformations in China and South Korea structure this migration flow and how the operation of transnational matchmaking as a business shapes marriage relationship. In addition, how Chinese women negotiate their intimate life and adapt to Korean society. I highlight the issue of intimacy in Chinese women’s marriage migration. Capitalist development and the change of economic structure in China and South Korea generate potential migrants, and the gendered mobility structure shaped by South Korean immigration policies particularly favors women’s marriage migration. Transnational matchmaking, organized on market principles, provides a means for brides and grooms to know each other. However, it also contributes to generating a marriage relationship without emotional basis, which contradicts with the discourse of love. Economic political forces and the operation of matchmaking as a business shape it is particularly difficult for Chinese women to build up a marriage relationship structured around love and emotion. However, in a situation that love and emotion are considered as the basis of “modern” marriage, a relationship without it has to be dealt with. I thus discuss their negotiation of intimacy in both premarital and marital relationships. In premarital intimacy, the discourse of love is manipulated by marriage brokers on behalf of men in a way that entraps women. After marriage, as both parties only barely know each other, the version of companionship they negotiate is different from that in other marriages and is often manifested in the issues of money and reproduction. However, both money management and reproduction are sites of power struggle between men and women. Men tend to use money to control women, and they press women to bear a child. However, when women are not sure about the relationship, they are usually reluctant to do so. Despite that women possess certain emotional power; in general they are in a weak position. Thus, they use the weapons of the weak, secret, non-confrontational methods to deal with the reproductive pressure. I thus demonstrate that intimacy is not negotiated by women and men of equal standing, but existing gender conventions are played out in the process of negotiation. Overall, I argue that it is important to discuss the issue of intimacy in transnational marriage as this is a perspective to avoid conflating women’s marriage migration with labor migration and reveal the emotional and human aspect of their marriage and experience. / published_or_final_version / Sociology / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

Thesis (M.A.)--Missouri State University, 2008. / "May 2008." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-70). Also available online.

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