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Lieberman, Abbie; Loewenberg, Aaron; Love, Ivy; Robertson, Cassandra; Tesfai, Lul – New America, 2021
From February to April, New America conducted over 30 interviews with experts, care providers, and union representatives, focusing on three states. This report outlines key considerations for improving care worker job quality through organizing. We also include case studies on care worker organizing in California, Illinois, Washington, and the…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Care Occupations, Home Health Aides, Caregiver Attitudes
Canadian Association of University Teachers, 2018
The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) represents 72,000 academic staff at universities and colleges across the country. CAUT strives for fair working conditions, compensation and benefits to foster quality teaching and innovative research while advancing equity and human rights within our profession. Many of the institutions where…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Work Environment, Postsecondary Education, Unions
Prentice, Rebecca – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2012
This article examines the relationship between skill acquisition and the constitution of economic selfhood in Trinidad. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among garment workers in a context of industrial decline, I show how their formal, informal, and illicit means of acquiring sewing skills are inextricably linked to the fragmented and unstable…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Clothing, Industry, Sewing Instruction
Zhou, Yan; Wen, Jian-xin – Online Submission, 2007
Teachers' burnout is common and harmful, especially high school teachers who work at county. From the perspective of education management, the paper provides descriptions and explanations of teachers and school administrators' behaviors and concepts of value. It found out that conflicts between them probably lead to teachers' burnout. It include…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Secondary School Teachers, Conflict, Burnout
Brown, Kara, Comp. – 2002
This paper examines labor issues that affect school employees. It is divided into four sections: school reform; teacher compensation; scope of bargaining; and collaborative (nonadversarial) bargaining. The longest section, which focuses on various reform movements in the schools, examines accountability, school choice, and the questions…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Compensation (Remuneration), Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education
Senser, Robert A. – American Educator, 2002
Notes that about half of U.S. toys are made in China, mainly by young women who work extremely long shifts, 7 days a week, "amid sickening vapors and under draconian rules." Describes corporate codes of conduct, the role consumers can play in changing extremely poor working conditions, and the impact of international trade reforms.…
Descriptors: Assembly (Manufacturing), Corporations, Females, Foreign Countries
Herzig, Rebecca – Liberal Education, 2007
The author had a conversation one late afternoon with an untenured colleague from another department regarding chili pepper ratings. Her colleague explained that the popular RateMyProfessor.com Web site allows students to rate faculty members not only according to standards of "clarity," "helpfulness," and something called "easiness," but also in…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Feedback, College Faculty, Student Attitudes
Dongfang, Han – American Educator, 2002
Presents comments spoken at a human rights conference by Han Dongfang, a Chinese activist who was jailed after an attempt to organize China's first independent union from a tent in Tiananmen Square during the democracy movement. Today, he is barred from the mainland but works from Hong Kong through Radio Free Asia. Comments focus on foreign…
Descriptors: Activism, Civil Disobedience, Communism, Foreign Countries
Schlosser, Eric – Atlantic Monthly, 1995
California's strawberry industry offers a case study of both California agriculture's dependence on the exploitation of an imported peasantry, and the destructive consequences of the "free market" and a deliberate low-wage economy. Describes a new form of sharecropping, tantamount to debt peonage; lax federal enforcement of existing…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Braceros, Farm Labor, Field Crops
Business and Professional Women's Foundation, Washington, DC. – 1992
This paper focuses on the problem of sexual harassment in the workplace. The legal definition of sexual harassment as drawn up by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is: "unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature that are explicitly or implicitly a term or condition…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Labor Conditions, Law Related Education, Organizational Climate
Taylor, George R.; And Others – 1994
This study on integrating women in the navy analyzed approximately 400 surveys collected by the U.S. Navy Steering Group relevant to Women in Non-Traditional Work Roles, results of a focus group, and a review of the literature. Surveys were sent to various U.S. Navy facilities where female employee responses were solicited and documented. The…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Females, Higher Education, Interpersonal Competence
Cook, Alice H. – 1989
The numbers of women entering the workforce have steadily risen since the mid 1950s. The nature of the family unit has correspondingly changed; the family in which the man was the husband and breadwinner and the woman was wife and mother devoted full time to home and family is a rarity. The attempt on the part of working family members to…
Descriptors: Community Services, Day Care, Employed Women, Employment
Fornaciari, Charles J.; Dean, Kathy Lund – Journal of Management Education, 2005
Standard organizational behavior survey courses usually introduce students to the "nuts and bolts" of organizational work design and models that mechanize work. This article develops an experiential exercise that simulates working conditions that can foster greater student understanding of the affective, ethical, and human aspects of work design.…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Industrial Psychology, Experiential Learning, Simulation
Foght, H. W. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1919
Until a few years ago the Southern States were considered in the main an agricultural section. More recently the advantageous location in respect to raw materials, minerals, water, and electric power of the South Atlantic States has occasioned an almost unprecedented growth in manufacturing industries. Particularly has the cotton manufacturing…
Descriptors: Manufacturing Industry, Child Labor, Labor Conditions, Finishing
1980
This inventory of research and evaluation projects completed during calendar years 1970-1979 for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Education, and Research (ASPER) of the Department of Labor contains summaries of projects on economic, social, and policy background; the labor market; the nature and impact of Department of Labor…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Affirmative Action, Age Discrimination, Economic Factors
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