Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, l936. / "Selected bibliography": p. 206-212.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 1986. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 148-151). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.

In the early decades of British industrialization, the ill-health of textile factory workers attracted considerable public interest and provoked discussion and debate among a growing number of medical men, operatives, manufacturers, and social and political commentators. Guided by previous studies of the “framing” of disease, this dissertation examines how such ill-health was conceived, designated and responded to in the period from 1784 to 1833. The dissertation reveals that workers themselves held a relatively constant view of their condition. In the early part of the nineteenth century, they drew attention to a variety of ailments and throughout the period they saw a clear link between their maladies and the conditions of their labour. By contrast, medical understanding shifted significantly, and as it traced a course more or less at odds with that of popular comprehension, the nature and causes of worker suffering were substantially redefined. In the 1780s and 1790s, doctors identified the illness of factory labourers as “low, nervous fever,” an acute contagious disorder generated by the crowding and confinement of human bodies. A generation later, in the period from 1815 to 1819, the ill-health of mill workers was conceptualized, by a portion of the medical community, as “debility,” a poorly-understood state of constitutional feebleness attributed to aspects of machine work. In the early 1830s, medical authorities regarded factory workers’ sickness primarily as “digestive disease” and located its source in habits and diet. The reconceptualization of worker ill-health yielded an ultimately optimistic assessment of the consequences of industrial growth, failing to offer strong support to demands for legislative restriction of factory operation. It also served to sanction changing social relations through providing evidence of the physical and moral distinctness of the manufacturing population. As medical theory altered, so, too, did practices of relief and assistance. While mill owners, and doctors, became increasingly unwilling to assume responsibility for the well-being of the industrial workforce, operatives engaged ever more extensively in practices of self-help. The expansion of the textile industry, however, ensured the continuation of their affliction and incapacity. / Arts, Faculty of / History, Department of / Graduate

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-01-27T16:41:55Z No. of bitstreams: 1 alessandrabeloassissilva.pdf: 3144507 bytes, checksum: 16bd4647ccb85045c6a4a20fa46ac51c (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-01-28T10:48:33Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 alessandrabeloassissilva.pdf: 3144507 bytes, checksum: 16bd4647ccb85045c6a4a20fa46ac51c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-28T10:48:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 alessandrabeloassissilva.pdf: 3144507 bytes, checksum: 16bd4647ccb85045c6a4a20fa46ac51c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-10-04 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Este estudo busca compreender como os trabalhadores têxteis de Juiz de Fora lutaram por direitos junto à Justiça do Trabalho nos anos 1950, sobretudo quando atingidos pelos efeitos do processo de modernização da estrutura produtiva que se verifica em algumas fábricas têxteis da cidade. Analisa-se, ainda, a postura dos trabalhadores em relação a outros dispositivos utilizados pelo empresariado visando à redução dos custos associados à folha de salários, mesmo que não diretamente ligados à modernização do processo produtivo. Aborda-se, ainda, em certos casos, a posição do judiciário, na tentativa de compreender em que circunstâncias as sentenças são favoráveis a um ou outro lado. / This study seeks to understand how the Juiz de Fora’s textile workers fought for rights by the Labour Court in the 1950s, especially when hit by the effects of the productive structure’s process of modernization that exists in some textile mills in the city. It also analyzes the posture of workers in relation to other devices used by the business in order to reduce the costs associated with payroll, even if not directly linked to the restructuring of the production process. Is approached, although in some cases the position of the judiciary in an attempt to understand the circumstances in which the sentences are favorable to either side.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Boston College, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-229) and index.

D. Tech. Fine and Applied Arts / No documented projects exists that can serve as a guide for the establishment of community economic development projects among women in Southern Africa with the aim to economically empower them through the manufacturing of export quality garments in large volumes. The premise for this study was therefore to investigate opportunities that could potentially result in the economic empowerment of women by equipping them with textile-related skills, in a community economic development context, to make apparel that can be exported to first-world countries. The aim of this research was to devise a community empowerment model that would facilitate a participative process that will induce change - from poverty to economic empowerment - through the medium of garment product manufacture and distribution.

A case control study was performed in 6 cotton mills in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The study used questionnaire and pulmonary function testing results to categorise respiratory symptoms in 52 exposed symptomatic, 30 exposed asymptomatic and 46 unexposed control subjects. These categorisation results were used to explore the relationship between serum IgG subclasses and cotton-specific IgG to byssinosis. No definitive relationships between the serum IgG subclasses and clinical and functional symptoms of byssinosis were found . Whereas, exposed symptomatic (22.72 mg All) subjects had significantly higher (P = 0.01) mean specific IgG concentrations than exposed asymptomatic (15.02 mg All) or unexposed control (13.08 mg All) subjects. A pathoaetiological or marker-aetiological role is indicated for specific IgG in the development of byssinosis. The findings of this research challenged the status quo in terms of the accepted aetiological pathways of byssinosis. In turn the acceptance of a different aetiological pathway provided a possible answer to the varying presentation of the disease and by implication contested the current definition of byssinosis. / Thesis (M.Med.Sc.)-University of Natal, Durban, 2002.

Historically in South Africa, the education and social systems have worked together to deny black people both competencies and opportunities for significant participation.There are over nine million people in South Africa who cannot read or write. (Hutton, 1992) South Africa is not the only country with this problem, newly liberated countries have also had to respond to the problem of illiteracy. In South Africa many progressive organizations have initiated literacy work and have recognized the need for adult basic education. Workplace literacy has become an important national issue. It is of concern to employees, employers, unions, vocational and adult educators. But what does it mean to workers on the shopfloor and how can they benefit from such programmes. In our increasingly technological society, different workplace demands are being placed on workers. Companies try to assist their workers by offering training and retraining programmes. It sounds good, a problem has been recognized and steps are being taken to fix it, but there is something missing. Little mention is being made of the needs and rights of workers themselves. The objective of this study is to identify the literacy skills of workers and the necessity for determining job literacy requirements for employment positions. Research has shown that the level of literacy in the workplace is not determined by a grade equivalent but by the literacy needs of the workplace. In trying to identify the above objective it is important to look at what is meant by workplace literacy as well as significance of workplace literacy and its importance within a social and economic context. / Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1992.

Thesis (MDF)--University of Stellenbosch, 2010. / In 1997, SACTWU established the SACTWU Educational Trust, which includes the SACTWU bursary programme in aid of tertiary education. In honour of the launch of the trust, the union released a statement, which clarifies the intentions of the organisational decision to focus its resources on education. The General Secretary of SACTWU at the time, Jabo Ngcobo, emphasised the union’s acknowledgement of education as the only tool that can arm people with the required knowledge to make independent decisions. In so doing, education empowers ordinary citizens from the lowest economic ranks, to become confident citizens who are prepared to access the opportunities present in the democratic South Africa. SACTWU remains committed to the priority of the organisation, which is to uplift the working class members of the clothing and textile industry. Hence, in their pursuit of this goal, they decided to extend their network of support to the families of their members. An interview with the National Bursary Officer, Ms. Lizzy Chetty, reveals that the focus of the union is primarily on tertiary education as this is the logical route to ensure that the union makes a direct contribution to the national economy in the short term. This is achieved through empowering previously disadvantaged citizens to become active participants in the economy. In addition, individual members of the union can be acknowledged and supported directly in this viable and easy manner. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the outcomes of the SACTWU bursary programme. The detailed analysis of the information outlined in Chapter 4 follows in Chapter 5 in order to reach a conclusion about the overall progress of the union’s programme (based on this study’s limited focus on the relevant years i.e. 2004, 2005 & 2006 and regions which include the Eastern Cape, Gauteng, Kwazulu-Natal and Western Cape).

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-11-12T10:56:13Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Polyana Alves Almeida da Silva.pdf: 1405668 bytes, checksum: c59b9f3a01edd2009a35e096093d6329 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-11-12T10:56:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Polyana Alves Almeida da Silva.pdf: 1405668 bytes, checksum: c59b9f3a01edd2009a35e096093d6329 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-09-21 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / This research proposes to unveil the female protagonism in the world of work from the information gathered in the press about its performance in the strikes of 1917. We have examined four journals such as A Plebe, O Debate, O Graphico and the Gazeta de Notícias to analyze the presence of workers in the striking movements, in the working-class alloys of neighborhoods, as well as their protagonism outside the factory space, that is, in the daily routine of domestic and family organization. For reflection on this aspect of the dissertation we take the concept of "Work" by K. Marx, understood as a process between nature and human being, therefore, an activity inherent to creativity and human action, which allowed the opposition to the perspectives which recognize only paid activities as work. The actions of these women are analyzed in the strikes of 1917 in São Paulo and in Rio de Janeiro, the leadership and actions of the bag seamstresses, who staged a "own" strike against the fraudsters of the patronage and at a fair price for your job. In addition, we investigated the factors that contributed to subsume the presence of the workers in such movements. We also see how the language used by the journals made it difficult to locate these women in these resistances at that historical moment and how, by their visibility, they were gradually referred to by terminations in the feminine (workers). This reflection enabled us to recover the contributions of these women to the achievements of the strikes, as well as to the formation of the working class / Esta pesquisa propõe desvelar o protagonismo feminino no mundo do trabalho a partir das informações colhidas na imprensa sobre sua atuação nas greves de 1917. Foram examinados quatro periódicos, tais como A Plebe, O Debate, O Graphico e o Gazeta de Notícias para analisar a presença das operárias tanto nos movimentos grevistas, nas ligas operárias de bairros, como também o seu protagonismo fora do espaço fabril, isto é, no cotidiano da organização doméstica e familiar. Para reflexão sobre esse aspecto da dissertação tomou-se o conceito de “Trabalho” de K. Marx, entendido como um processo entre a natureza e o ser humano, portanto, uma atividade inerente à criatividade e à ação humana, o que permitiu a contraposição às perspectivas que reconhecem como trabalho apenas atividades remuneradas. Analisaram-se as ações dessas mulheres nas greves de 1917 ocorridas em São Paulo e no Rio de janeiro, a liderança e atuações das costureiras de saco, as quais protagonizaram uma greve “própria” contra as falcatruas do patronato e por um preço justo para o seu trabalho. Ademais, investigaram-se os fatores que contribuíram para subsumir a presença das operárias em tais movimentos. Descortinou-se também como a linguagem utilizada pelos periódicos dificultou a localização dessas mulheres nessas resistências naquele momento histórico e como, por sua visibilidade, passaram a ser, gradativamente, referidas por terminações no feminino (operárias). Tal reflexão permitiu recuperar as contribuições daquelas mulheres para as conquistas que advieram das greves, como também para a formação da classe operária