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The main themes of this thesis focus on organisational change and learning in different geo-political contexts, bound together in a common moment of globalisation. These topics are explored through three case-studies from the manufacturing sector, one each from the United Kingdom, the Republic of South Africa and the Russian Federation. The project, on which this thesis is based. had a qualitative and interpretive design and took a comparative, narrative approach. It argues on the basis of this comparison, that organisational learning has to be related to the wider environment in which companies operate; individualistic models of learning are inadequate to explain the complex processes involved in learning in organisations. The thesis demonstrates that learning is most productively viewed as a form of sensemaking, which is particularly important in periods of change. This way of thinking about work-based learning subsumes all previous analytical descriptions of learning at work and all methods of promoting it, as sub-sets of a more generic process: making sense of experience. This approach of conceiving learning draws attention to the fact that learning involves the whole person, their sense of self, their understanding of the past and their grasp of the skills and relationships involved in their jobs. The concept of sense-making is explored at three levels - the macro-level with a focus on globalisation, the meso- or organisational level with an emphasis on strategic change and the micro- or personal level highlighting individual experiences of change and learning at the workplace. Narrative analysis is a powerful tool in organisational research to recover accounts of learning because it is through stories that people construct and make sense of the world. The comparative frame to this study highlights the cultural, historical and situated nature of narratives. This thesis shows that globalisation and strategic change are not impersonal phenomena, but become real and meaningful to everybody in an organisation through stories. Comparisons help to make otherwise tacit issues explicit.

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O presente trabalho estuda alguns aspectos epidemiológicos da tuberculose pulmonar na Casa de Detenção de São Paulo, Brasil, durante o período de 1976 a 1980. São analisados dados relativos à prevalência e incidência da infecção tuberculosa, busca de casos pelo método bacteriológico e taxa de transmissibilidade da infecção. Os resultados mostram elevadas taxas de prevalência e incidência de infecção e de casos de tuberculose naquele Estabelecimento Penal, caracterizando população exposta a um alto risco de infecção e de adoecimento por tuberculose. / This paper presents some epidemiological aspects of pulmonary tuberculosis in a state prision of S.Paulo, Brazi1, from 1976 to 1980. Data concerning both the prevalence and incidence of tuberculosis infection, case finding by the bacteriological method and infectivity rate are analysed. Results show high rates of prevalence and incidence of infection as well as of active cases in that institution, characterizing this population as one being exposed to a high risk of infection and of developing tuberculosis.

Victorian society witnessed a transformation in the understanding and treatment of psychological disorders. The expansion of nosologies or classifications of lunacy was one measure hailed by psychological physicians as indicative of their mastery over madness. Yet between the 1840s and the 1870s the introduction of moral insanity and monomania to established classificatory systems undercut the medical authority of physicians and challenged their desired cultural stature as benevolent and authoritative agents of cure. Far from consolidating medical authority, these `partial' forms of lunacy (which were detected in the emotions rather than the intellect) paradoxically heightened anxiety about the ease with which eccentric or sane individuals could be wrongfully incarcerated in lunatic asylums. This dissertation examines the themes, motifs and defining issues of wrongful incarceration as they were discussed in Parliament, national and regional newspapers, medical and literary journals, and novels and short stories. Discussing in detail several infamous `cases' of wrongful confinement, it traces the ways in which anxieties were formulated, expressed and negotiated. The public outcry over cultural representations of wrongful confinement generated heated reactions from physicians and lunacy law reformers. The most contentious discussions centred on the manner in which notions of humanity and benevolence, and tyranny and liberty, were marshalled to influence public opinion. These debates represented not solely a legal conflict centring the claim to treatment and authority over the alleged lunatic, but more dramatically a battle for the public's good opinion. As important as medico-legal trials and their consequent rulings was the contested appropriateness of sentiment; this was manifested in words and images utilised to exacerbate or contain anxiety. The wrongful confinement controversy constitutes an important (though largely overlooked) episode in the history of English nineteenth-century psychiatry; formatively altering perceptions of the profession of mental science in the Victorian period.

O presente trabalho estuda alguns aspectos epidemiológicos da tuberculose pulmonar na Casa de Detenção de São Paulo, Brasil, durante o período de 1976 a 1980. São analisados dados relativos à prevalência e incidência da infecção tuberculosa, busca de casos pelo método bacteriológico e taxa de transmissibilidade da infecção. Os resultados mostram elevadas taxas de prevalência e incidência de infecção e de casos de tuberculose naquele Estabelecimento Penal, caracterizando população exposta a um alto risco de infecção e de adoecimento por tuberculose. / This paper presents some epidemiological aspects of pulmonary tuberculosis in a state prision of S.Paulo, Brazi1, from 1976 to 1980. Data concerning both the prevalence and incidence of tuberculosis infection, case finding by the bacteriological method and infectivity rate are analysed. Results show high rates of prevalence and incidence of infection as well as of active cases in that institution, characterizing this population as one being exposed to a high risk of infection and of developing tuberculosis.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file viewed on (February 23, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.

Mémoire d'études diplôme de conservateur des bibliothèques : Bibliothéconomie : Villeurbanne, ENSSIB : 2008. / Texte intégral. Bibliogr. p. 78-82.

Reproduction de : Thèse doctorat : Sociologie : Metz : 2002. / Titre provenant de l'écran-titre. Notes bibliographiques.

Thèse de doctorat : Histoire contemporaine : Nancy 2 : 2006. / Bibliographie.