This thesis studies the social history of the poor in Bulawayo, the second largest city in Zimbabwe, between 1960 and 2005. This is accomplished by focusing on the housing and unemployment crises they faced and the manifest reluctance of authorities to either provide enough housing or to accept mushrooming informal housing and economic activities in response to these acute shortages. I attempt to highlight the fragility of the poor’s claim to the right to permanent urban residency emphasizing inadequate state funding and poverty and continuities in some discourses from colonial to the post colonial era as factors responsible for spreading and sustaining the discrimination against low income earners in the city. These included authorities’ perceptions that all Africans belonged to rural areas, have access to land, and that low income Africans were immoral and unclean. While these perceptions tended to be fuelled by the racial divide between whites and blacks during the colonial period, class and gender dynamics among Africans crisscrossed that racial divide. After independence, while these perceptions were still alive, central government policy ambitions and failures were instrumental in influencing the welfare and fate of the urban masses and their relations with the former middle class Africans and nationalist leaders who assumed power in 1980. It becomes clear that there was a misunderstanding by authorities on how most of the rural land was not able to support some families because of infertility or lack of resources to successfully till the land by most some families. The overall conclusion is that poor people’s rights to permanent residency were elusive up to 2005 and their living and survival space has been continuing to shrink in the city.

The sex-role orientation was determined for 352 high school seniors in Plano, Texas. Using maternal employment status as the independent variable, the students were divided according to full-time employed mothers or full-time homemaker mothers. Results indicated that adolescents of employed mothers had a more liberal sex-role orientation and attitude towards the division of household tasks than adolescents of homemaker mothers. When male and female scores were analyzed separately, the order from most liberal to least liberal was females of employed mothers, females of homemaker mothers, males of employed mothers, and males of homemaker mothers. The mean scores indicated a nontraditional attitude. The study also indicated that maternal happiness with employment did not affect male and female sex-role orientation.

This thesis compares certain developmental characteristics and value preferences of emerging adult university students and non-student employed young people at the age between 19-25 years in the Czech republic. According to some authors this life stage seems to be a new developmental period between adolescence and young adulthood. In comparison to the USA there has not been much research done on this topic in the Czech Republic. There are some special characteristics of this phase of life that are described in the theoretical part, and tested on a sample of Czech young people which is showed in the empirical part of this thesis. The differences of how students and non- students experience this time of life are compared. It is assumed that student life style brings different impulses than the life style of employed young people. The aim of this thesis was to test the assumption that university students show the features of emerging adulthood more plentifully than people at the same age who work. According to the results of this study the assumption was confirmed. Another focus of this thesis is the topic of value orientation among this sample of young people. Value orientation is influenced by life style and is formed especially during adolescence and young adulthood. Certain types of value...

Problem: A changing economy bears many implications; precarity within employment, the restructuring of concepts, management of activities and the employment of tools reinforcing security. As a measure to procure and preserve employment in the modern market self- branding has been proposed. The value a brand has today is multifaceted and has proven to aid not only businesses and corporations but individuals as well. However, as self-branding is contingent on the precariousness of the changing economy, previous literature has focused on strategies and implications for the self-employed and failed to mention ramifications for the ‘traditionally employed.’ Furthermore, previous literature is lacking with regard to the Swedish employment market and the incorporation of potential cultural influences. Purpose: The scope of this research is two-fold, of both an explanatory and exploratory nature. This research seeks to explain, understand and investigate the Swedish employment market with regard to self-branding and identify possible influences. As well as, uncover new insights and explore the significance of self-branding for Sweden's ‘traditionally employed.’ Method: This research adopted a qualitative approach, conducted 10 semi-structured interviews and implemented a thematic analysis to interpret the empirical findings and answer the research questions. The findings were later analysed in accordance with previous literature. Results: The results identify to major concepts of significance with regards to the strategy of self-branding. Swedes must consider their purpose and authenticity as two major determinants of the value of their brand. Moreover, the results indicate offline branding activities, the Law of Jante and self-branding for the ‘traditionally employed’ of high relevance for the Swedish employment market.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-21T14:43:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Elisabeth Monica Masse.pdf: 1503855 bytes, checksum: 6a24f0d4aaf3439e338d0a14ab6a94b1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-06-03 / The object of this work focuses on verifying how the working conditions in industries that manufacture plywood, located in the city of Imbituva, Parana State, reflect the health of women employed. We focused on qualitative research, linking, however, the quantitative aspects. We used the research bibliographical, documentary and field, whose instruments were semi-structured interviews, questionnaires and filling in forms, in order to profile both business and the employees, know the process of production of plywood, collect data on the work environment and health of employed women. The development of work addresses issues relevant to the theme of women's work, the protection of worker health, the specific protection to female workers, ending by showing the results based on systematic theoretical framework built. / O objeto deste trabalho centra-se em verificar como as condições de trabalho nas indústrias que fabricam compensado, no Município de Imbituva – PR refletem na saúde das mulheres empregadas. Privilegiou-se a pesquisa qualitativa, articulando, contudo, os aspectos quantitativos. Utilizou-se a pesquisa bibliográfica, documental e de campo, cujos instrumentos foram entrevistas semi-estruturadas, questionários e preenchimento de formulários, com vistas a traçar o perfil tanto das empresas quanto das empregadas, conhecer o processo de produção do compensado, colher dados sobre o ambiente de trabalho e sobre a saúde das mulheres empregadas. O desenvolvimento do trabalho aborda questões relevantes para o tema trabalho da mulher, a proteção à saúde do trabalhador, a proteção específica ao trabalho feminino, findando por demonstrar os resultados sistematizados com base no referencial teórico construído.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-21T14:43:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DANIEL SCHELIGA.pdf: 1141991 bytes, checksum: 0328c822bbfa3b0fa2297dd66aa7140d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-02-29 / The researched theme is the possibility of the truck drivers‟ workday control as employees, who work in the field of cargo transportation, using a device named tachograph, which is a device that registers the vehicle‟s data in which it was installed, also required in all trucks destined to this field. The methodology was a bibliographic review and a documental research. The bibliographic review grounded the aspects related to the workday and the importance of its limitation. Also, it showed the historic class struggle by better work conditions, as well as, the struggle between the studied classes in this work. The documental research, by means of Law Projects and Jurisprudences, aimed to conceptualize the category to be studied, as well as, to analyze the expectations in terms of regulation of the profession and what the courts have decided about the issue.The research was conducted in the following way: Fist, the category it was studied was delimited, performing a wider study about the development of the work in the history, highlighting the classes‟ fight that has always existed in our society. It was tried to demonstrate that this fight is also happening in the classes involved in this work. Second, a report about the development of the highway transportation in Brazil and the past and current governmental policies destined to the development of such a transportation model chosen by the country was made. Also, the workday performed by the employed truck drivers and the fight of the class for better work conditions was highlighted. Finally, a study about the tachograph and which are the information mandatorily registered by it was performed, followed by a jurisprudential research in order to reveal if the courts recognize the usage of such device as a way able to control the truck drivers‟ workday using the information registered by it. / O tema pesquisado é a possibilidade de controle da jornada dos motoristas de caminhão na condição de empregados, que atuam no ramo do transporte de cargas, através do instrumento denominado de tacógrafo, aparelho que registra dados do veículo no qual foi instalado, obrigatório em todos os caminhões destinados a esse setor. A metodologia utilizada foi a revisão bibliográfica e a pesquisa documental. A revisão bibliográfica fundamentou os aspectos relacionados a jornada e a importância de sua limitação. Também demonstrou a histórica luta de classes por melhores condições de trabalho, assim como a luta entre as classes estudadas no presente trabalho. A pesquisa documental, através de Projetos de Lei e decisões judiciais dos Tribunais, visou conceituar a categoria a ser estudada, assim como analisar os anseios no sentido de regulamentação da profissão e o que os Tribunais tem decidido acerca do assunto. A pesquisa foi realizada da seguinte maneira: Primeiro delimitou-se a categoria a ser estudada, fazendo-se um estudo mais amplo sobre o desenvolvimento do trabalho na história, destacando-se a luta de classes que sempre existiu em nossa sociedade. Buscou-se demonstrar que essa luta também está presente nas classes envolvidas neste trabalho. Seguindo, fez-se um relato sobre o desenvolvimento do transporte rodoviário no Brasil e as políticas governamentais passadas e presentes destinadas ao desenvolvimento de tal modelo de transporte adotado pelo País. Também, destacou-se a jornada executada pelos motoristas de caminhão empregados e a luta da classe por melhores condições de trabalho. Por fim, realizou-se um estudo sobre o tacógrafo e quais são as informações obrigatoriamente por ele registradas, seguindo-se a uma pesquisa em decisões judiciais com o intuito de revelar se os Tribunais reconhecem a utilização de tal instrumento como meio capaz de controlar a jornada dos motoristas de caminhão através das informações por ele registradas.

This study explored the relationship between mentoring and social workers’ job satisfaction and social workers’ intention to remain employed in child welfare. This study was conducted in Children Family Services (CFS), San Bernardino. Ninety six child welfare workers completed the survey using the JSS‑CW and the IRE‑CW instruments. A quantitative research design was utilized to analyze the data. Specifically, an Independent Sample T‑Test was used to analyze differences between the social workers who had a mentor and those who did not. Additionally, a Pearson R Correlation Test was conducted to analyze the relationship between mentoring and the different factors influencing the dependent variables. The present study revealed no correlation between informal mentoring and social workers’ levels of job satisfaction and their intentions to remain employed in child welfare in San Bernardino County. The study also revealed that although child welfare workers are highly satisfied at their jobs they still intend to leave child welfare if they are presented with a better job opportunity. These findings cannot be generalized because this study was designed specifically for San Bernardino County and the validity and reliability of the JSS‑CW is unknown. Further research on mentorship, more specifically formalized mentoring programs, is recommended.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 2006. / Supervisor: Thomas F. Crossley. Includes bibliographical references.

Mini-dissertation (M.Com. (Industrial Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2007.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Clinical Nursing, 2003. / "March 2003." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 340-350). Available in print format and electronically. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phw746.pdf Title page, contents and abstract only.