Submitted by Oliveira Santos Dilzaná (dilznana@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-03-15T13:46:47Z No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE DE PHILIPE MURILLO SANTANA DE CARVALHO.pdf: 3341202 bytes, checksum: 8e76e67610f1e75ec27b972b53c801c8 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ana Portela (anapoli@ufba.br) on 2016-03-28T19:23:54Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE DE PHILIPE MURILLO SANTANA DE CARVALHO.pdf: 3341202 bytes, checksum: 8e76e67610f1e75ec27b972b53c801c8 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-28T19:23:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE DE PHILIPE MURILLO SANTANA DE CARVALHO.pdf: 3341202 bytes, checksum: 8e76e67610f1e75ec27b972b53c801c8 (MD5) / O principal objetivo desta tese é analisar a relação entre os trabalhadores, o associativismo e a política no sul da Bahia – Ilhéus e Itabuna – entre 1918 e 1934. Desde o final da década de 1910, o contingente de trabalhadores se tornou numeroso e heterogêneo nas duas principais cidades do sul do estado. Preocupados em fugir da pobreza extrema, artistas, operários, estivadores e caixeiros desenvolveram associações de classe, cujos objetivos eram o auxílio mútuo, a beneficência e a assistência. Estas sociedades expressavam os modos pelos quais o operariado enxergava a si próprio e o mundo ao seu redor. Em busca de reconhecimento social e de atenção dos poderes públicos, estas categorias profissionais cunhavam uma identidade baseada na ética positiva do trabalho para demonstrarem-se cidadãos laboriosos e honestos. Desta forma, pretendiam não apenas se distinguir do restante da população pobre e miserável – vista de forma pejorativa pelas autoridades como classes perigosas. Por acréscimo, as associações se tornaram também um palco para a política de convivência e reciprocidade entre trabalhadores e chefes políticos das oligarquias. O envolvimento dos de baixo com deputados, coronéis e partidos a partir destas agremiações nos permite por em os limites da participação política na I República. Em paralelo, os grêmios mutualistas não ficaram restritos apenas à prática do assistencialismo. Nos anos 1920, eles foram também protagonistas de campanhas e de protestos por direitos e contra a exploração de patrões, tocando em questões como jornada de 8 horas, caixa de aposentadoria e pensões, férias e demissão arbitrária. O saldo da cultura associativa de trabalhadores que se desenvolveu na I República se depara com o pós-1930, tempo em que o Estado interfere na questão social. Tornando-se um ator social coletivo emergente, as sociedades operárias vivenciaram de diferentes formas a política de sindicalização das classes e da criação de leis trabalhistas durante o Governo Provisório. Portanto, amparada em pesquisas de jornais, atas, relatórios, correspondências, boletins e fontes judiciais, coletadas em arquivos da Bahia e de outros estados, este trabalho se propõe a investigar como trabalhadores do interior da Bahia formaram suas próprias agremiações, atuaram nas franjas de uma República oligárquica, coronelista e excludente, encamparam a defesa de seus interesses e emergiram como sujeitos históricos em Ilhéus e Itabuna. Palavras – chave: Trabalhadores, associativismo e política. T r a b a l h a d o r e s , a s s o c i a t i v i s m o e p o l í t i c a n o s u l d a B a h i a ( I l h é u s e I t a b u n a , 1 9 1 8 - 1 9 3 4 ) P á g i n a | 4 ABSTRACT The main objective of this thesis is to analyze the relationship between workers, associations and politics in southern Bahia - Ilheus and Itabuna - between 1918 and 1934. Since the late 1910s, the number of workers has become large and heterogeneous in two major cities in the southern state. Anxious to escape from extreme poverty, artists, workers, longshoremen and clerks developed associations, whose objectives were mutual aid, beneficence and assistance. These companies expressed the ways in which the working class could see himself and the world around them. In search of social recognition and attention of the authorities, these professional categories coined an identity based on positive work ethic to show up industrious and honest citizens. Thus, they intended not only to distinguish from the poor and miserable people - view pejoratively by the authorities as dangerous classes. By extension, the associations have also become a stage for the coexistence and reciprocity policy between workers and political leaders of the oligarchies. The involvement with congressman, warlords and parties from these associations allows us to put in the limits of political participation in the 1st Republic. In parallel, mutual unions were not restricted only to the practice of welfare. In the 1920s, they were also protagonists of campaigns and protests for rights and against the exploitation of bosses, touching on issues such as 8-hour workday, retirement housing and pensions, holidays and arbitrary dismissal. The balance of the associative culture workers that developed in the First Republic faces the post-1930 period in which the state interferes in social issues. Becoming an emerging collective social actor, workers' societies experienced in different ways unionization policy of classes and the creation of labor laws during the Provisional Government. Therefore, based on research papers, minutes, reports, correspondence, newsletters and judicial sources, collected in Bahia’s archives and other states, this study aims to investigate how the interior of Bahia workers formed their own associations, they acted on the fringes of an oligarchic Republic, landowner and exclusionary, have embraced the defense of their interests and emerged as historical subjects in Ilheus and Itabuna. O principal objetivo desta tese é analisar a relação entre os trabalhadores, o associativismo e a política no sul da Bahia – Ilhéus e Itabuna – entre 1918 e 1934. Desde o final da década de 1910, o contingente de trabalhadores se tornou numeroso e heterogêneo nas duas principais cidades do sul do estado. Preocupados em fugir da pobreza extrema, artistas, operários, estivadores e caixeiros desenvolveram associações de classe, cujos objetivos eram o auxílio mútuo, a beneficência e a assistência. Estas sociedades expressavam os modos pelos quais o operariado enxergava a si próprio e o mundo ao seu redor. Em busca de reconhecimento social e de atenção dos poderes públicos, estas categorias profissionais cunhavam uma identidade baseada na ética positiva do trabalho para demonstrarem-se cidadãos laboriosos e honestos. Desta forma, pretendiam não apenas se distinguir do restante da população pobre e miserável – vista de forma pejorativa pelas autoridades como classes perigosas. Por acréscimo, as associações se tornaram também um palco para a política de convivência e reciprocidade entre trabalhadores e chefes políticos das oligarquias. O envolvimento dos de baixo com deputados, coronéis e partidos a partir destas agremiações nos permite por em os limites da participação política na I República. Em paralelo, os grêmios mutualistas não ficaram restritos apenas à prática do assistencialismo. Nos anos 1920, eles foram também protagonistas de campanhas e de protestos por direitos e contra a exploração de patrões, tocando em questões como jornada de 8 horas, caixa de aposentadoria e pensões, férias e demissão arbitrária. O saldo da cultura associativa de trabalhadores que se desenvolveu na I República se depara com o pós-1930, tempo em que o Estado interfere na questão social. Tornando-se um ator social coletivo emergente, as sociedades operárias vivenciaram de diferentes formas a política de sindicalização das classes e da criação de leis trabalhistas durante o Governo Provisório. Portanto, amparada em pesquisas de jornais, atas, relatórios, correspondências, boletins e fontes judiciais, coletadas em arquivos da Bahia e de outros estados, este trabalho se propõe a investigar como trabalhadores do interior da Bahia formaram suas próprias agremiações, atuaram nas franjas de uma República oligárquica, coronelista e excludente, encamparam a defesa de seus interesses e emergiram como sujeitos históricos em Ilhéus e Itabuna. Palavras – chave: Trabalhadores, associativismo e política. T r a b a l h a d o r e s , a s s o c i a t i v i s m o e p o l í t i c a n o s u l d a B a h i a ( I l h é u s e I t a b u n a , 1 9 1 8 - 1 9 3 4 ) P á g i n a | 4 ABSTRACT The main objective of this thesis is to analyze the relationship between workers, associations and politics in southern Bahia - Ilheus and Itabuna - between 1918 and 1934. Since the late 1910s, the number of workers has become large and heterogeneous in two major cities in the southern state. Anxious to escape from extreme poverty, artists, workers, longshoremen and clerks developed associations, whose objectives were mutual aid, beneficence and assistance. These companies expressed the ways in which the working class could see himself and the world around them. In search of social recognition and attention of the authorities, these professional categories coined an identity based on positive work ethic to show up industrious and honest citizens. Thus, they intended not only to distinguish from the poor and miserable people - view pejoratively by the authorities as dangerous classes. By extension, the associations have also become a stage for the coexistence and reciprocity policy between workers and political leaders of the oligarchies. The involvement with congressman, warlords and parties from these associations allows us to put in the limits of political participation in the 1st Republic. In parallel, mutual unions were not restricted only to the practice of welfare. In the 1920s, they were also protagonists of campaigns and protests for rights and against the exploitation of bosses, touching on issues such as 8-hour workday, retirement housing and pensions, holidays and arbitrary dismissal. The balance of the associative culture workers that developed in the First Republic faces the post-1930 period in which the state interferes in social issues. Becoming an emerging collective social actor, workers' societies experienced in different ways unionization policy of classes and the creation of labor laws during the Provisional Government. Therefore, based on research papers, minutes, reports, correspondence, newsletters and judicial sources, collected in Bahia’s archives and other states, this study aims to investigate how the interior of Bahia workers formed their own associations, they acted on the fringes of an oligarchic Republic, landowner and exclusionary, have embraced the defense of their interests and emerged as historical subjects in Ilheus and Itabuna

The thesis deals with the identity of social work and social workers. It aims to describe a current perception of the identity of social work and social workers in the Czech Republic by social workers and the whole society. The thesis therefore reflects the current state of the identity and also mentions various influences on it, as well as impacts that result from this situation. In connection with this problem the thesis presents basic documents and institutions important for social work and social workers, as well as important figures in Czech contemporary social work or social workers typology. The thesis also includes a research aiming to describe the current perception of the identity of social work and social workers, both by social workers and the society, which in turn enables to compare these two perspectives.

Universidade Federal do Amazonas / A questão central desta Tese diz respeito à emergência de uma singular modalidade de assistência social no campo das políticas públicas e sociais no pós 1930, direcionada aos trabalhadores assalariados da área urbana e suas famílias. A produção discursiva sobre as condições de vida e de trabalho do operariado, no bojo das novas teorias científicas e enunciados médicos-sanitários reivindicava uma organização geral da sociedade. Afirmava-se a urgência de uma intervenção política estatal de cunho preventivo e coercitivo no modo de vida desses indivíduos em sociedade. O que se colocava até então como um caso de polícia ou de caridade passa a ser nomeado como questão social legitimando novas formas de exercício de poder e a conformação do Estado em suas novas atribuições de promotor da justiça social. Nesta pesquisa de doutoramento investiguei o exercício dessas estratégias de poder nas intervenções realizadas pelas visitadoras sociais no cotidiano de um grupo de operários e operárias da Cia (têxtil) Nova América na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, objetivando pela investigação minuciosa dessas práticas relativamente microscópicas iluminar uma rede muito maior de ardis e disputas de poder. As ações de ordenação do dia a dia desse operariado implicava a fiscalização do emprego dos serviços sociais disponibilizados pelo Estado e empresa, o monitoramento do uso do tempo e dos espaços, e finalmente a doutrinação em valores e práticas instituídas em nome da preservação e otimização da vida. Tais intervenções aconteciam em diferentes espaços: no interior da Fábrica, na vila operária Cidade Jardim Nova América e nas dependências da Associação Atlética Nova América e ficaram registradas em textos e imagens no boletim mensal da Fábrica. Esses periódicos constituem o principal corpus documental formado por sessenta e seis periódicos que abrangem o período entre novembro de 1944 e dezembro de 1953: Boletim Nova América - Órgão da Associação Atlética Nova América. Acionei como instrumento teórico-metodológico as reflexões do pensador francês Michel Foucault sobre biopolítica, ou a estatização da vida nos liames do biopoder enquanto gestão da vida em sua plenitude ocupando-se de não apenas garantir o corpo dócil e útil pelas técnicas disciplinares, mas, principalmente, assegurar no investimento sobre o corpo e mente desses indivíduos o saber normalizador para melhor manejá-los. Nesse sentido, no campo das políticas sociais, tanto estatais quanto empresariais, utilizei a noção de poder pastoral, atualizada por Foucault, para identificar o modo como em nome e pelo bem dos assistidos se constituiu um eficiente dispositivo de poder operando em intervenções e controle da vida das pessoas: as visitadoras sociais.

Submitted by Maria Medeiros (maria.dilva1@ufcg.edu.br) on 2018-07-19T13:26:07Z No. of bitstreams: 1 JÉSSICA ALBUQUERQUE FERREIRA - DISSERTAÇÃO (PPGCE) 2017.pdf: 1524962 bytes, checksum: cf8f6605204e8d545de8ce2a9fa383ab (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-19T13:26:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JÉSSICA ALBUQUERQUE FERREIRA - DISSERTAÇÃO (PPGCE) 2017.pdf: 1524962 bytes, checksum: cf8f6605204e8d545de8ce2a9fa383ab (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017 / Este trabalho tem como temática as relações de gênero no mundo do trabalho, focalizando as trajetórias de mulheres que exercem cargos de chefia em empresas do setor comercial da cidade de Campina Grande-PB, verificando como a agregação de características definidas como femininas ao estilo de gerenciar empresas lhes afetou em termos de suas chances de sucesso no mercado, bem como as interpretações que trabalhadores e trabalhadoras fazem da chefia feminina. A perspectiva teórica é inspirada no debate sobre relações de gênero em geral e especificamente no campo do trabalho. Como metodologia de caráter qualitativa teve dois momentos: (1) a realização de entrevistas estruturadas realizadas com doze mulheres que ocupam cargos de chefia em diversos níveis hierárquicos; (2) e a aplicação de questionários a uma amostra intencional de trabalhadoras e trabalhadores chefiados no momento da pesquisa por mulheres nas empresas selecionadas.Com a realização das entrevistas e dos questionários aplicados, foi possível traçar o perfil de todos os pesquisados e analisar as narrativas das chefes, destacando suas experiências em posições de liderança. Como também, entender as percepções que os liderados e lideradas tem em relação ao fato de uma mulher estar um cargo de destaque na empresa, bem como a maneira como elas atuam no exercício da sua função, influenciando na relação chefe/liderado. As chefes que participaram da pesquisa possuem algumas características comuns, entre elas, o alto nível de instrução. Em suas trajetórias profissionais, percorreram por diversas funções até ocupar lugar na gerência. Neste sentido, os desejos de crescer profissionalmente e a busca pela independência financeira despertam o interesse das mulheres para estar em um posto de comando. Contudo, é trabalhando em equipe, de forma determinada e humana que as gerentes se destacam em suas profissões. Portanto, o fato de ser mulher e estar em uma posição de liderança, ainda hoje causa estranheza nas pessoas, por isso, se faz necessário que elas provem constantemente suas competências no ambiente de trabalho. / This work focuses on the gender relations in the world of work, focusing on the trajectories of women who hold positions of leadership in companies in the commercial sector of the city of Campina Grande-PB, verifying how the aggregation of characteristics defined as female in the style of managing companies affected them in terms of their chances of success in the market, as well as the interpretations that workers make of the female leadership. The theoretical perspective is inspired by the debate on gender relations in general and specifically in the field of work. As a qualitative methodology, there were two moments: (1) structured interviews were conducted with twelve women who hold management positions at various hierarchical levels; (2) and the application of questionnaires to an intentional sample of female employees headed at the time of the survey by women in the selected companies. Through the interviews and questionnaires applied, it was possible to trace the profile of all respondents and analyse the narratives of leaders, highlighting their experiences in leadership positions. As well, understand the perceptions that led and led have regarding the fact that a woman is a prominent position in the company, as well as the way they act in the exercise of their role, influencing the boss / led relationship. The heads that participated in the research have some common characteristics, among them, the high level of education. In their professional trajectories, they went through several functions to occupy place in the management. In this sense, the desire to grow professionally and the quest for financial independence arouse women's interest in being in a command post. However, it is teamwork, in a determined and humane way that managers excel in their professions. Therefore, the fact of being a woman and being in a position of leadership, still today causes strangers in people, so it is necessary that they constantly prove their skills in the workplace.

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Thesis (MTech (Construction Management))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2005 / Workers in the construction industry are often exposed to ergonomic challenges. Some of the most unfavourable ergonomic practices include bending and twisting of the body, lifting and handling of heavy materials and equipment. Working above shoulder and head and below the knee levels. Despite provisions made in various legislations about compliance with the health and safety of the construction workforce, many employers still do not comply and are not changing the way construction activities are carried out. It was argued that some of the unfavourable ergonomic challenges such as repetitive and awkward work routines might lead to strains, sprains, musculo-skeletal disorders and carpal tunnel syndrome and that these problems could contribute to absenteeism and reduced site productivity. This study sought to establish the pervasiveness of ergonomic challenges and the extent to which the construction workforce are exposed to these challenges. Empirical studies using the philosophically positivistic paradigm and epistemologically objectivist method of on-site observation of construction workforce activity were conducted on purposively chosen samples of bricklayers, plasterers, painters and their helpers. The purpose remained to count and record body movements of the said workers over 30 minute intervals. Alongside the observations, interviews were conducted to establish what views and perceptions the workmen had with regard to the effect their daily work had on their bodies. The results revealed that the extent and effect of unfavourable ergonomic exposures vary from trade to trade. For instance, bricklayers bent their bodies more than any other worker while plasterers did more work below the knee than their counterparts. In the same vein painters stretched their bodies and worked above their shoulders and heads more than their counterparts. Further extrapolation of the data over the working life of the tradesmen and their helpers exposed the magnitude of the ergonomic exposures and the likely effects that these exposures would have on their bodies and health. For instance, the bricklayer and plasterer would have to bend and twist their bodies a record 5 million times in their 20 year working lives. The painter would be exposed to 3 million and 4 million times respectively of bending and twisting his/her body within the same 20-year period. The main conclusion was that currently construction activity exposes the workforce to unprecedented unfavourable ergonomic practices. The recommendations were that management should take the health and safety of their workforce seriously and that the worker cohort should have direct intervention into the design and implementation of favourable ergonomic work practices at their workface.

Thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Technology: Construction Management Department of Construction Management and Quantity Surveying in the Faculty of Engineering at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology 2015 / This study examines factors contributing to the successful mentorship of women in the South African construction industry. Mentorship is used as a tool to advance women in organisations, because they have experienced difficulties progressing in their careers in the past. Even though women are in mentorship programmes, they still receive less mentorship functions than their counterparts. As a result, women have limited advancement in the construction industry due to factors affecting their successful mentorship. This study identifies and examines the factors contributing to the successful mentorship of women. The objectives of this study were to: (1) test the extent of the influence that the psychosocial mentoring function has on the successful mentorship of women; (2) test the extent of the influence of the career mentoring function on the successful mentorship of women; (3) determine whether the age, gender and race of the mentor-mentee have an impact on the successful mentorship of women; (4) examine the perception of the impact of the entrepreneurial ability of women on the mentorship programme; and (5) to determine whether the mentorship of female mentees is affected by the attitudes of mentors. An in-depth pilot study was carried out during the initial stages of the study to gain more insight about the study. Data was collected by means of semi-structured interviews from female mentees in the Western Cape Province. Data was analysed by content analysis. Findings revealed that the gender and the race of mentors did not have an impact on the success of the female mentees’ mentorship. The age of mentors did impact on knowledge gain. Female mentees reported having open and positive relationships with their mentors. A survey study approach was adopted in the main study. A purposive sampling of female mentees and their mentors was selected. Data was gathered in South Africa. Inferential and descriptive statistics were used to analyse the data. Findings revealed that the psychosocial mentoring characteristics and career mentoring characteristics that influence the successful mentorship of women are role modelling, counselling, acceptance-and-confirmation, coaching and providing challenging tasks. It also emerged that the age and race of female mentees did not have an influence on the successful mentorship of women and that the successful mentorship of women is not affected by the attitude of mentors. It was found that mentors have positive attitudes towards the mentorship of women and that this is contributing positively to the successful mentorship of women in the South African construction industry. The study also revealed that female mentees are high performers, whose knowledge and productivity has increased in the work place. The study therefore concludes that the mentorship of female mentees in the construction industry is successful. It is recommended that females in the construction industry should register themselves to mentorship organisations such as SAWIC, especially those who are not mentored.

Thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Master of Technology: Construction Management in the Faculty of Engineering at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology 2014 / The study investigates the predominant factors that adversely affect the efficiency of construction labour in the South African construction industry. There is a significant number of studies on construction labour efficiency and productivity. Nonetheless, construction labour efficiency in developed and developing nations is widely reported to be inadequate, and thus adversely impacts the delivery of construction projects. Adequate utilisation of basic construction resources (construction materials and machinery) is significantly dependent on the efficiency of human assets in the construction industry. Hence, the utilisation of construction resources to achieve project objectives in the construction sector cannot be disconnected from the efficiency of construction employees. As a result, the study identified five objectives directed towards improving the efficiency of employees in the construction industry. The first objective identified construction-related factors affecting construction workers’ efficiency; the second objective highlighted design-related factors reducing the efficiency of construction labour; the third identified the impact of construction resources on construction labour efficiency; and the fourth ascertained the external factors affecting the efficiency of human assets in the construction industry. Finally, the last objective is directed towards developing a framework for improving the efficiency of the South African construction workforce. The research adopted a mixed methodological approach, utilising a quantitative questionnaire completed by construction professionals (architects, quantity surveyors, site engineers, project managers, contract managers and site manager). Due to the high level of awareness of site supervisors on labour performance in construction, the quantitative data obtained from construction professionals was subsequently validated using semi-structured interviews with site supervisors. The research questionnaire was designed to elicit the perceptions of construction professionals on various identified factors affecting construction workers’ efficiency on Gauteng and Western Cape construction sites in South Africa. With the aid of 35 unstructured questionnaire surveys, an exploratory study was undertaken within construction firms in Cape Town to ensure the validity of research instruments, where the inputs and comments of respondents were duly considered in formulating the questionnaire for the main study. In the main study, two hundred and sixty-five (265) questionnaires were administered via hand-delivered and electronic mail to construction professionals in the Western Cape and Gauteng provinces, South Africa. Sixty-two (62) questionnaires (23.39%) were duly completed, returned and analysed with Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22. Cronbach's alpha coefficient reliability test was subsequently conducted on scaled research questions to ensure reliability of the research questionnaire. The findings revealed that the major factors contributing to the shortfall of construction workers’ performance include; missing details in architectural working drawings, the communication ability of site managers, site managers’ coordinating skills, the effect of strikes on construction operations, the planning ability of site managers, slow response of architects to drawing questions, slow response of structural engineers to drawing questions, construction skills of site supervisors and, finally, shortages of construction materials. Improved construction productivity is a product of construction labour efficiency and enables the achievement of construction project objectives. Therefore, an adequate implementation of the framework presented in this study will not only enhance construction labour efficiency and heighten construction productivity during building production process, but will also increase the satisfaction of construction stakeholder on Gauteng and Western Cape construction projects.