Journal articles: 'Field workers'

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Risyadi, Irfan, Dewi Kurniati, and Anita Suharyani. "The Effect of Motivation and Discipline Culture Optimalization on Worker’s Work Performance in Buana Tunas Sejahtera Company (Inc.) Kapuas Hulu Regency." SOCA: Jurnal Sosial, Ekonomi Pertanian 14, no. 2 (May 31, 2020): 302. http://dx.doi.org/10.24843/soca.2020.v14.i02.p10.

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Nowadays, many companies in Indonesia are running in the plantation field. Buana Tunas Sejahtera Company (Inc.) is a palm oil company in West Borneo Province that working under the Kencana Group. This company was organized by leaders, directors, managers, manager assistants, foremen, clerks, permanent workers, and freelance workers. The worker’s work performance in this company was slightly low due to their worker’s low motivation and discipline. This study aimed to know the method to improve the workers’ work performance in Buana Tunas Sejahtera Company (Inc.), Kapuas Hulu Regency. This was a descriptive quantitative study employing an Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) done by software namely Expert Choice 11. There were 100 workers chosen by the purposive sampling technique participated in this study. The result showed that the key point in dealing with the worker's work performance issue was meeting their social need, while improving their salary was a key point in dealing with the motivation issue. Building the worker's responsibility was playing an important role in improving the discipline culture. The company needs to improve the worker’s motivation by conducting training sessions, increasing worker’s salaries during the overtime hours, and giving more motivation to their workers. To improve the discipline culture, the company needs to use clear and firm rules to enforce the proper and accountable behavior among the worker.

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Kodri, Irfa, Heni Fitriani, and Ika Juliantina. "Analisis Pengaruh Pelatihan dan Sertifikasi terhadap Produktivitas Pekerja." MEDIA KOMUNIKASI TEKNIK SIPIL 24, no. 1 (August 24, 2018): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/mkts.v24i1.17331.

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Worker productivity is an important part of the successful development of human resources and infrastructure building. One of the ways to improve workers’ productivity is using training and worker certification. Therefore, there is a need to analyze the effects of training and certification on worker productivity with case study lightweight brick and steel rods workers in some projects in Palembang. This study aims to analyze the productivity value of workers between certified trained workers (TS) and untrained noncertified workers (BTBS) in the field. Furthermore, comparisons were also conducted on productivity based on field survey and Indonesian National Standard (SNI). This paper also analyzed the significant factors that affect workers productivity in the field. This productivity appraisal used field observation methods and questionnaire. From the results of the study, it was concluded that the training and certification of the workforce greatly affected the worker’s productivity; but some of workers’ productivity of trained workers (TS) and untrained noncertified (BTBS) met the standards of SNI, some did not. This was due to the influence of other factors beyond training and certification of the productivity value of handyman. Furthermore, based on t test results, the factors that significantly affect the productivity of workers were the skills of labor (X1), work motivation (X2) and management (X4). Thus the available regression equation was Y =0,024 +0,332 X1 + 0,676X2 - 0,039X4 + e.

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Couclelis, H. "The New Field Workers." Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 25, no. 3 (June 1998): 321–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/b250321.

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Stieglitz, Stefan, Christoph Lattemann, and Tobias Brockmann. "Mobile Applications for Knowledge Workers and Field Workers." Mobile Information Systems 2015 (2015): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/372315.

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In recent years, the diffusion of mobile applications (mobile apps) has risen significantly. Nowadays, mobile business apps are strongly emerging in business, enhancing productivity and employees’ satisfaction, whilst the usage of customized individual enterprise apps is still an exception. Standardized business apps enable basic functionalities, for example, mobile data storage and exchange (e.g., Dropbox), communication (e.g., Skype), and other routine processes, which support mobile workers. In addition, mobile apps can, for example, increase the flexibility of mobile workers by easing the access to firm’s information from outside the enterprise and by enabling ubiquitous collaboration. Hence, mobile apps can generate competitive advantages and can increase work efficiency on a broad scale. But mobile workers form no coherent group. Our research reveals, based on two case studies, that they can be clustered into two groups: knowledge workers and field workers. Knowledge workers and field workers fulfill different tasks and work in different environments. Hence, they have different requirements for mobile support. In this paper we conclude that standardized mobile business apps cannot meet the different requirements of various groups of mobile workers. Task- and firm-specific (individualized) requirements determine the specification, implementation, and application of mobile apps.

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Molyneux, Sassy, Dorcas Kamuya, Philister Adhiambo Madiega, Tracey Chantler, Vibian Angwenyi, and P. Wenzel Geissler. "Field Workers at the Interface." Developing World Bioethics 13, no. 1 (March 22, 2013): ii—iv. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dewb.12027.

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van der Veer, Guus, and Felician Thayalaraj Francis. "Field based training for mental health workers, community workers, psychosocial workers and counsellors." Intervention 9, no. 2 (July 2011): 145–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/wtf.0b013e32834902f1.

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Cherry, Donna, Bruce Dalton, and Angela Dugan. "Self-Efficacy in Newly-Hired Child Welfare Workers." Advances in Social Work 15, no. 2 (February 12, 2014): 318–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.18060/12140.

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Child abuse and neglect in the United States resulted in 676,569 reports in 2011 (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, 2012). Workers in this field struggle with low pay, high caseloads, inadequate training and supervision, and risk of violence, all of which contribute to worker burnout and poor worker retention rates. Worker self-efficacy is predictive of worker retention, job performance, and persistence in this difficult field. This paper reports the development of a new measure of self-efficacy from a sample of 395 child welfare workers. Factor analysis revealed two domains of self-efficacy, direct practice and indirect practice, which can be modestly predicted by worker characteristics upon hire and the training program the workers attend. Worker self-efficacy can be used to identify vulnerable workers who may be especially in need of strong supervisory support as well as understand who to target for recruitment. A review of the literature of self-efficacy in child welfare workers is included.

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Goldberg, Harmony. "Domestic Worker Organizing in the United States: Reports from the Field." International Labor and Working-Class History 88 (2015): 150–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0147547915000241.

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AbstractMost efforts of the current domestic workers’ rights movement in the United States have focused on ending the exclusion of domestic workers from employment protections that were institutionalized during the New Deal in the 1930s. These victories have been significant in both policy and culture. They have brought public attention to the invisibilized world of domestic work, and state recognition has validated this often-degraded occupation as “real work.” However, enforcement has been a problem. As domestic worker organizing has matured, it has expanded to include pushing the boundaries of state-ensured minimum standards as well as raising standards in the industry through direct intervention in the relationship between workers and employers. These programs are significant in that they reflect a different strategic approach—often with the goal of base building—than the earlier model of domestic worker advocacy and organizing.

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Pfennig, David W. "Nestmate and nest discrimination among workers from neighboring colonies of social wasps Polistes exclamans." Canadian Journal of Zoology 68, no. 2 (February 1, 1990): 268–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z90-039.

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I examined nestmate and nest recognition among worker paper wasps Polistes exclamans on neighboring colonies in a dense nesting aggregation. In the laboratory, there was a significant positive correlation between the difference in preference toward nestmates and non-nestmates and internest distance (i.e., distance in the field between the nestmates' and non-nestmates' nests). This is the first demonstration of a distance effect in nestmate recognition ability among Polistes. The field significance of the laboratory bioassay of nestmate preference was confirmed by releasing in the field workers whose nests had been removed (i.e., orphaned workers) and finding that they joined colonies near the site of their original nest. Orphaned workers also tended to join smaller colonies, perhaps because these workers had a greater opportunity for reproduction on smaller colonies. This pattern may also reflect a greater tendency on the part of inhabitants of smaller nests to admit joiners, because the addition of a worker may have had a greater impact on colony success on a smaller colony than on a larger nest. Finally, workers prefer fragments of nests located closer in the field to the workers' colony than fragments of more distant nests. This ability may aid workers in choosing which nests to join and which to rob.

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Strom, Kimberly. "Should Field Instructors Be Social Workers?" Journal of Social Work Education 27, no. 2 (April 1991): 187–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10437797.1991.10672188.

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Bracken, T. Dan, Richard F. Rankin, Russell S. Senior, J. Richard Alldredge, and Stanley S. Sussman. "Magnetic field exposure among utility workers." Bioelectromagnetics 16, no. 4 (1995): 216–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bem.2250160403.

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Hoffman, Mitchell, and Stephen V. Burks. "Worker overconfidence: Field evidence and implications for employee turnover and firm profits." Quantitative Economics 11, no. 1 (2020): 315–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.3982/qe834.

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Combining weekly productivity data with weekly productivity beliefs for a large sample of truckers over 2 years, we show that workers tend to systematically and persistently overpredict their productivity. If workers are overconfident about their own productivity at the current firm relative to their outside option, they should be less likely to quit. Empirically, all else equal, having higher productivity beliefs is associated with an employee being less likely to quit. To study the implications of overconfidence for worker welfare and firm profits, we estimate a structural learning model with biased beliefs that accounts for many key features of the data. While worker overconfidence moderately decreases worker welfare, it also substantially increases firm profits.

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Heinz, Matthias, Sabrina Jeworrek, Vanessa Mertins, Heiner Schumacher, and Matthias Sutter. "Measuring the Indirect Effects of Adverse Employer Behaviour on Worker Productivity: a field Experiment." Economic Journal 130, no. 632 (April 1, 2020): 2546–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaa038.

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Abstract We conduct a field experiment to study how worker productivity is affected if employers act adversely towards their co-workers. Our employees work for two shifts in a call centre. In our main treatment, we lay off some workers before the second shift. Compared to two control treatments, we find that the lay-off reduces the productivity of unaffected workers by 12%. We find suggestive evidence that this result is not driven by altered beliefs about the job or the management’s competence, but caused by the workers’ perception of unfair employer behaviour. The latter interpretation is confirmed in a prediction experiment with professional HR managers. Our results suggest that the price for adverse employer behaviour goes well beyond the potential tit for tat of directly affected workers.

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Listyawardani, Dwi, and Iswari Hariastuti. "System Thinking Scales and Learning Environment of Family Planning Field Workers in East Java." International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education (IJERE) 5, no. 1 (March 1, 2016): 46. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijere.v5i1.4521.

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<p>Systems thinking is needed due to the growing complexity of the problems faced family planning field workers in the external environment that is constantly changing. System thinking ability could not be separated from efforts to develop learning for the workers, both learning at the individual, group, or organization level. The design of the study was quantitative study using cross-sectional study. There is a relationship between the scale of field worker’s system thinking with the learning environment at organization level (p 0.017<α). The characteristic factors; individual, team/group learning environment; are unrelated to the system thinking scales. There are also relationship among learning environments. Individuals learning on systems thinking for field workers are highly needed as a basic capital in the development of human resources. The training/learning done so far needs to be revitalized, that is reconstructing the learning materials or modules taught so as learning can be run more effectively and leads to increase the ability of systems thinking. Organizationrelated to the implementation of field worker tasks lies in the central, provincial and districts/municipalities level, need to facilitate the learning; both at the individual, group/team, and organizational level itself. Learning and guidance need to be developed into a useful integrated mechanism, not only for individuals but also for the organization.</p>

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Danaher, William F., and Marc Dixon. "FRAMING THE FIELD: THE CASE OF THE 1969 CHARLESTON HOSPITAL WORKERS' STRIKE*." Mobilization: An International Quarterly 22, no. 4 (December 1, 2017): 417–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.17813/1086-671x-22-4-417.

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We investigate how union, employer and allied actors engage in framing contests and seek to gain the upper hand in a strike event by analyzing a historically significant labor and civil-rights struggle in the 1969 hospital workers' strike in Charleston, South Carolina against the Medical College of South Carolina (MCSC). Through an analysis of newspapers, interviews, and archival materials, we show how discursive tactics by multiple actors superseded worker messages over the 100-day event. Worker messages, dignity and union recognition, competed with their ally's, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), messages of poverty and civil rights as well as claims from MCSC. The workers' weakened position within this multi-actor field and limited salience of union claims served to gradually silence worker voices, shaping the protest campaign in important ways. Our findings underscore the importance of power and inequality in the framing of social conflict.

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Indrawati, Sri, Atyanti Dyah Prabaswari, and Tasya Pradipta. "The mental workload analysis of safety workers in an Indonesian oil mining industry." MATEC Web of Conferences 154 (2018): 01078. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201815401078.

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The responsibilities of occupational health and safety workers are very hard to ensure other workers is safety. The responsibility make the workers of occupational health and safety has some affecting to their job. Some effect can cause over the mental workload. This research aims to determine the score of mental workload from three professions in occupational health and safety, i.e. safetyman contractor, safetyman field and safetyman officer. Six indicators in the NASA-TLX method, i.e. mental demand (MD), physical demand (PD), temporal demand (TD), performance (OP), effort (EF) and frustration level (FR) are used to determine the worker’s mental workload. The result shows mental demand (MD) is the most dominant indicators affecting the mental workload between safetyman contractor, safetyman field and safety officer. The highest mental workload score among safety workers is on the safetyman field with WWL score at 62,38, because among the three types safety workers, the highest MD is on the safetyman field due to the responsibility.

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Park, Sangyoon. "Socializing at Work: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Manufacturing Workers." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 11, no. 3 (July 1, 2019): 424–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/app.20160650.

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Through a field experiment at a seafood-processing plant, I examine how working alongside friends affects employee productivity and how this effect is heterogeneous with respect to an employee’s personality. This paper presents two main findings. First, worker productivity declines when a friend is close enough to socialize with. Second, workers who are higher on the conscientiousness scale show smaller productivity declines when working alongside a friend. Estimates suggest that a median worker is willing to pay 4.5 percent of her wage to work next to friends. (JEL C93, J24, J28, J31, L66, O15, P23)

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Hewage, Kasun N., Anupama Gannoruwa, and Janaka Y. Ruwanpura. "Current status of factors leading to team performance of on-site construction professionals in Alberta building construction projects." Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering 38, no. 6 (June 2011): 679–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/l11-038.

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A skill-measuring criterion or strategy can be used to optimize the scarce skilled labour force in the Canadian construction industry. The University of Calgary conducted an extensive study to assess the skill levels and team performance of field workers and managers in Alberta’s building construction projects. Over 150 workers and field managers were interviewed, surveyed with questionnaires and observed, to identify team efficiencies, skill levels, team spirit, and team perceptions of supervision. The average construction worker had over 15 years of field experience. Most of the workers were high school educated. More than 70% of the workers wanted to improve their career skills; however, internal and external opportunities were limited and (or) not promoted by the respective construction companies. A very few foremen had certified skills in administration, computer handling, planning, job management and work records. The research clearly noted the urgent need for training programs, for workers and field managers, to improve their present skill levels.

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Chan, Kelsey, Joseph Louis, and Alex Albert. "Incorporating Worker Awareness in the Generation of Hazard Proximity Warnings." Sensors 20, no. 3 (February 2, 2020): 806. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20030806.

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Proximity warning systems for construction sites do not consider whether workers are already aware of the hazard prior to issuing warnings. This can generate redundant and distracting alarms that interfere with worker ability to adopt timely and appropriate avoidance measures; and cause alarm fatigue, which instigates workers to habitually disable the system or ignore the alarms; thereby increasing the risk of injury. Thus, this paper integrates the field-of-view of workers as a proxy for hazard awareness to develop an improved hazard proximity warning system for construction sites. The research first developed a rule-based model for the warning generation, which was followed by a virtual experiment to evaluate the integration of worker field-of-view in alarm generation. Based on these findings, an improved hazard proximity warning system incorporating worker field-of-view was developed for field applications that utilizes wearable inertial measurement units and localization sensors. The system’s effectiveness is illustrated through several case studies. This research provides a fresh perspective to the growing adoption of wearable sensors by incorporating the awareness of workers into the generation of hazard alarms. The proposed system is anticipated to reduce unnecessary and distracting alarms which can potentially lead to superior safety performance in construction.

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Matsumoto, Takashi. "Short- and long-term effects of neonicotinoid application in rice fields, on the mortality and colony collapse of honeybees (Apis mellifera)." Journal of Apicultural Science 57, no. 2 (December 1, 2013): 21–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jas-2013-0014.

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Abstract Declines in honeybee (Apis mellifera ) colonies have elicited great concern worldwide. Recently, many Japanese beekeepers have implied that midsummer use of a new insecticide, neonicotinoid, in rice fields, is causing widespread mortality of neighboring honeybees and frequently resulting in colony collapse. Since few field experiments have directly tested the effects of neonicotinoids, I addressed four research questions in the field. The questions are: 1) Does clothianidin application in rice fields cause the collapse of neighboring honeybee colonies? 2) Is colony collapse related to hive distance from the rice field? 3) Is the number of dead honeybee workers after spraying, related to hive distance from the field? 4) What are the long-term effects of neonicotinoid use on honeybee colony growth, especially brood production? In the late summer of 2010, honeybee hives were placed adjacent to two separate rice fields for 1 week. The hives were placed at the distance of 0, 30, 60, and 90 m. After spraying clothianidin, a daily count of dead worker honeybees was done for a week. Hives were weighed, and capped-brood areas were estimated weekly, for 2 months following insecticide application. Although the average number of dead workers ranged from 40 to over 100 within 24 hours after spraying, only a few dead workers were observed in the subsequent days. Distance from the rice field had no significant effect on the number of dead workers. There were no collapsed colonies during the 2-month, post-spray observation period. Hive weight and capped-brood area did not significantly differ among those hives placed at varying distances from the rice field. These results indicated that clothianidin spraying of the rice field increased the mortality of the honeybees, but did not always cause colony collapse.

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Taki, Seiko, Yasuhiro Kajihara, and Arou Yamamoto. "Proposal for Evaluating Workers’ Work Characteristics – Case Study on Business Machinery Production Line –." International Journal of Automation Technology 11, no. 1 (January 5, 2017): 38–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.20965/ijat.2017.p0038.

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The General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) is widely used to evaluate a subject’s cognitive ability for the purpose of selecting appropriate employment. The results of the GATB have been used to place staff in departments ranging from clerical departments to assembly lines. However, at actual manufacturing and assembly sites, workers receive mixed evaluations of “slow work” and “fast work” from the site administrators even though they all have high GATB scores for their jobs. In this study, with the aim of improving job design and employment selection, we do a detailed analysis of the existing GATB method of evaluating work characteristics and worker capacities. We conduct inspection ratings to measure each worker’s ability to adjust their working speeds and analyze the relationship between the GATB score and the worker evaluations. Next, we discover specific motions that explain the evaluation of workers by analyzing worker motions during the GATB. Lastly, we propose a method of determining whether an employee can work quickly in the field.

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Gordon, D. M., and B. Hölldobler. "Worker Longevity in Harvester Ants (Pogonomyrmex)." Psyche: A Journal of Entomology 94, no. 3-4 (January 1, 1987): 341–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1987/63930.

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Most studies of worker longevity in ants have been made in the laboratory (Haskins and Haskins 1980; Porter and Tschinkel 1982). In the field, increased energy expenditures, predation, and environmental fluctuations may all contribute to shorten the life of a worker ant. In the few existing studies of worker longevity conducted in the field, the lifespan of exterior workers was found to be extremely short. For example, Schmid-Hempel and Schmid- Hempel (1984) found that the half-life of Cataglyphis foragers, after they were marked, was only 6 days.In harvester ants of the genus Pogonomyrmex, the only existing field study of worker longevity demonstrated that the average life expectancy of foragers and defenders (ants emerging from the nest in response to a disturbance) of P. owyheei is 14 days (Porter & Jorgensen 1981). Here we show that these results for P. owyheei cannot necessarily be generalized to other species in the genus, and that longevity results for the exterior workers engaged in one activity, such as foraging, may not apply to exterior workers that do other tasks.

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Gindorfer, Annemarie, and Huib Cornielje. "Editorial: Essential Standards for CBR field workers." Disability, CBR & Inclusive Development 31, no. 2 (November 4, 2020): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.47985/dcidj.367.

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Farahat, Fayssal M., Richard A. Fenske, James R. Olson, Kit Galvin, Matthew R. Bonner, Diane S. Rohlman, Taghreed M. Farahat, Pamela J. Lein, and W. Kent Anger. "Chlorpyrifos exposures in Egyptian cotton field workers." NeuroToxicology 31, no. 3 (June 2010): 297–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuro.2010.02.005.

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Knox, J. Marshall, John M. Knox, Scott M. Dinehart, William Holder, Gary Cox, and Edgar B. Smith. "Acquired perforating disease in oil field workers." Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology 14, no. 4 (April 1986): 605–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0190-9622(86)70077-7.

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Greenough, P. Gregg. "Field Evacuation Patterns of Humanitarian Relief Workers." Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 16, S1 (June 2001): S32—S33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x00035561.

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Hall, Georgia S., Lisette DeSouza, Elizabeth Starr, Kathryn Wheeler, and Kathy Schleyer. "Sustaining Passion: Findings from an Exploratory Study of the OST Program Workforce." Journal of Youth Development 15, no. 1 (March 11, 2020): 9–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jyd.2020.821.

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It has long been understood that high-quality staffing is a major contributor to achieving positive outcomes for children and youth in out-of-school time (OST) programs. Yet, information on the current OST program workforce is outdated and understudied. The purpose of this study was to explore, via a convenience sample of OST program workers, the perceived features of the OST field and the relative importance of these features to workers in the field. The researchers were particularly interested in OST worker perception of features that may typically be associated with longevity in a profession. Improving understanding of the perceptions of the OST workforce may help employers to foster the work environments, staffing structures, compensation approaches, and professional development experiences that influence high-quality workers to stay in the field. The study findings illuminate the significance that workers in the OST field attach to passion for a field of work, and the central importance to them of building relationships with and fostering positive and healthy development for children.

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Smith, Sara R. "Queers are Workers, Workers are Queer, Workers' Rights are Hot! The Emerging Field of Queer Labor History." International Labor and Working-Class History 89 (2016): 184–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s014754791500040x.

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Gay male stewards performing drag shows on large passenger ships in the 1930s. Male hustlers selling sex to men for money and then going home to their girlfriends in the 1950s. Lesbian bus drivers organizing in the 1970s to include “sexual orientation” in their union contract's antidiscrimination clause. Gay male flight attendants fired from their jobs for being HIV-positive in the 1980s. These are some of the stories told in the four books under review, each about the queer labor history of the United States.

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Gallagher, Susan, Asha Roy, Sandra J. Domeracki, Todd Mohrmann, Vicki Missar, Janet Jule, Shreela Sharma, and Ryan DeWitt. "The Low-Wage Essential Worker: Occupational Concerns and Needs in the COVID-19 Pandemic—A Round Table." Workplace Health & Safety 69, no. 4 (March 31, 2021): 154–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2165079920988682.

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Background Planning occupational health and wellness services and support directed toward low-wage, essential workers in the COVID-19 pandemic has posed a number of challenges across work settings. This article explores the concerns and needs of low-wage essential workers as understood by experts in the field. Methods Leading experts in the areas of occupational health and safety, risk management, insurance, and professional education/training were identified and invited to participate in a Round Table discussion. Questions posed to experts were based on literature that addressed COVID-19, essential workers, low-wage workers, infection transmission, education/training, and social justice. Findings Experts agreed that special considerations must be in place to address the concerns and needs of the low-wage essential worker. These special considerations should address not only the worker’s occupational experience but their family and home environment, fears and anxieties, and the economic impact of the COVID-19 restrictions and requirements. Conclusion/Application to practice The occupational health professional is a key resource to employers charged with addressing the concerns and needs of low-wage, essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Smith, Nick L. "Identifying Unique Ethical Challenges of Indigenous Field-Workers." American Journal of Evaluation 29, no. 1 (March 2008): 86–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1098214007313227.

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In contrast with nonindigenous workers, to what extent do unique ethical problems arise when indigenous field-workers participate in field studies? Three aspects of study design and operation are considered: data integrity issues, risk issues, and protection issues. Although many of the data quality issues that arise with the use of indigenous workers appear similar to those found in conventional studies, unique problems may arise in terms of risk and protection of confidentiality, especially when field-workers occupy dual roles of both data collectors and service providers. Much is known about ethical problems in the use of conventional field-workers, but the use of indigenous field-workers has been less well studied. It is important to understand which ethical issues may be unique to their work so that specialized training, study design, and management procedures can be developed.

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Shaw, Angela, Amanda Svoboda, Beatrice Jie, Aura Daraba, and Gail Nonnecke. "Importance of Hand Hygiene during the Harvesting of Strawberries." HortTechnology 25, no. 3 (June 2015): 380–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/horttech.25.3.380.

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Foodborne outbreaks linked to poor hygiene indicate a need for education on the importance of hand hygiene during harvesting of fruit. This study simulated two potential scenarios (laboratory and field) that would lead to the transfer of Escherichia coli O157:H7 from hands to strawberries (Fragaria ×ananassa), harvesters, and field plants. The potential of direct transfer of E. coli O157:H7 from contaminated “pig skin” hands to strawberries was shown in Scenario 1. The potential of E. coli O157:H7 being transferred from contaminated hands to strawberries during harvesting was shown in all treatments up to the 100th strawberry tested with a transfer rate of 71% (1 berry) to 45% (100 berries) of E. coli. Scenario 2 mimicked the “bacteria” transfer from the worker’s contaminated hands to the workers’ clothing and to the field with the use of glowing lotion. It was shown that contaminated hands can transfer “bacteria” to the worker’s clothing, shoes, the picked strawberries, and the strawberry plants, weeds and straw mulch within the field (average spread of 50.25 ft from starting point). The transfer rate varied from worker to worker. Hand hygiene and proper worker training are essential for food-safe harvesting to avoid foodborne outbreak events.

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Lowe, E. C., L. W. Simmons, and B. Baer. "Worker heterozygosity and immune response in feral and managed honeybees (Apis mellifera)." Australian Journal of Zoology 59, no. 2 (2011): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/zo11041.

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Genetic diversity in workers influences colony immunity in several species of eusocial insects. Much less work has been conducted to test for comparable effects of worker heterozygosity, a measure of genetic diversity within an individual. Here we present a field study using the honeybee (Apis mellifera) and sampled foraging workers throughout Western Australia. Samples were taken from feral and managed colonies, aiming to maximise the variation in worker and colony heterozygosity. We quantified worker heterozygosity using microsatellites, and tested the idea that individual worker heterozygosity predicts immune response, measured as the enzymatic activity of an antimicrobial peptide phenoloxidase (PO) and encapsulation response. We found substantial variation in worker heterozygosity, but no significant effects of heterozygosity on PO activity or encapsulation response, either on the individual or colony level. Heterozygosity was found to be higher in workers of feral colonies compared with managed colonies. Colonies kept in husbandry, as compared with colonies from the field, had significantly higher levels of PO activity and encapsulation response, providing evidence for substantial environmental effects on individual and colony immunity.

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Hasser, Neil. "Lawyers in the Field." Humanity & Society 26, no. 3 (August 2002): 248–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016059760202600306.

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The weather during the harvest season in Virginia can be brutal. During one of the worst heat waves in decades, with temperatures soaring above 100 degrees, we were notified about a farmworker named Juan who had died in the field. We left immediately for the camp to speak with other workers about the circumstances. The day before, the grower had been visited and warned by an official about failing to provide drinking water and cups for the workers, not the first time he had received warnings of field negligence. Even on days when water was available, access could be difficult. When the water truck would drive by, workers in the field had to quickly grab one of the vegetables they were picking, cut it in half to use as a drinking cup, and run after the water truck before it left for the adjoining field. We also learned about the implicit understanding between this man's crewleader and the workers: choosing when to take a rest on your own meant no work the following day. You would also be one step closer to being blacklisted from future employment. When Juan had finally reached his physical limit that day, he asked for some time to rest inside the bus, but it was too late. He later died at the hospital from what appeared to be the effects of heat exhaustion. It remains to be seen whether Juan's family will receive any compensation.

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Hessenauer, Sarah, and Charles Zastrow. "Becoming a Social Worker: BSW Social Workers' Educational Experiences." Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work 18, no. 1 (January 1, 2013): 19–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.18084/basw.18.1.lv0g0h687704211t.

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In this exploratory qualitative study, researchers examined key educational experiences bachelor- level social workers identified as being most helpful in transitioning to current social work careers. Twenty students from CSWE- accredited social work programs, having worked in a social work agency for a minimum of 4 months, voluntarily participated. The researchers conducted one- on- one interviews in which social workers were asked to describe educational experiences and beliefs that supported their transition to careers in social work. The data from these interviews were coded to identify themes to aid educators in examining variables significant in the education of future social workers. These themes include learning occurring in social work courses, self- awareness, learning in the field, and learning from others.

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Ji, Tingting, Hsi-Hsien Wei, and Jiayu Chen. "UNDERSTANDING THE EFFECT OF CO-WORKER SUPPORT ON CONSTRUCTION SAFETY PERFORMANCE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF RISK THEORY: AN AGENT-BASED MODELING APPROACH." JOURNAL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT 25, no. 2 (February 13, 2019): 132–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/jcem.2019.7642.

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Co-worker safety support has been given prominence in manufacturing and transportation field for its positive effect on individual workers’ safety; however, there is little evidence to show if such supporting role of co-workers is significant in improving project-level safety performance in construction workplace. This study adopts agent-based modeling (ABM) to understand the effectiveness of two distinct co-worker-safety-support actions on the safety performance of a construction project. Based on the risk theory, the ABM model simulates a construction site where worker agents reinforce steel bars with the likelihood of suffering crane-related incidents. The results indicate that both co-worker-support actions can significantly reduce the occurrence of nonfatal incidents but shows little influence in fatal incidents, and in reducing high-severity incidents, the action of warning peers to leave the hazardous area has the same effectiveness as reminding peers to wear Personal Protective Equipment. The present study provides a fresh insight into the safety-related role of co-workers: not only reveals how the local-level effects of co-workers’ safety assistance emerge the system-level consequences, but demonstrates the effectiveness of specific peer-support actions on three levels of construction safety performance, and thereby extends our existing body of knowledge on co-worker safety support in the construction field.

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Dawson, Trevor W., Krys Caputa, and Maria A. Stuchly. "Magnetic field exposures for UK live-line workers." Physics in Medicine and Biology 47, no. 7 (March 13, 2002): 995–1012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0031-9155/47/7/301.

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Grasso, Curtis J. "Developing an Incentive Program for Field Service Workers." Journal - American Water Works Association 81, no. 12 (December 1989): 40–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.1551-8833.1989.tb06891.x.

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Wenzl, Thurman B. "Estimating Magnetic Field Exposures of Rail Maintenance Workers." American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal 58, no. 9 (September 1997): 667–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15428119791012478.

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Ahmad, Mokbul Morshed. "The careers of NGO field-workers in Bangladesh." Nonprofit Management and Leadership 17, no. 3 (2007): 349–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nml.154.

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Naji Aboud Al-Haseni, Ansam, and Basil Mohammed Yahya. "Measurement of plasma cholinesterase activity in field workers." Iraqi Journal of Pharmacy 12, no. 1 (December 28, 2012): 41–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.33899/iphr.2012.62342.

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Gonzalez, Carlos M. "Augmenting Your Field of Vision." Mechanical Engineering 141, no. 08 (October 1, 2019): 32–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.2019-oct2.

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Abstract Where virtual reality isolates users from the world around them, augmented reality offers the best of both natural vision and digital information. It can provide real-time assistance to workers in remote locations, help workers learn new skills, or walk technicians through a repair. It provides a mobile and intuitive way for engineers to interact with sensor data, digital twins, and their physical counterparts. This article delves deeper into how automation, manufacturing, and design companies are exploring the value of this disruptive technology.

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Alamgir, Alena K. "From the Field to the Factory Floor." Journal of Vietnamese Studies 12, no. 1 (2017): 10–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jvs.2017.12.1.10.

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This essay discusses Vietnamese labor migration to Czechoslovakia before 1990. Specifically, it focuses on the contentious issue of assigning Vietnamese workers to jobs in agriculture, forestry, and construction, which both Vietnamese workers and the state found objectionable because they required outdoor work, did not allow workers to acquire factory job skills, and paid poorly. I show that (a) Vietnamese officials exerted sustained pressure on their Czechoslovak counterparts in order to reverse Czechoslovak decisions on job assignments, and that (b) their efforts were to a significant extent successful. Thus, I conclude, that the Vietnamese state shaped the labor exchange program to a significant degree.

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Sahin, Hande. "Labour control regimes and resistance of workers: A field study on Denizli textile workers." New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences 4, no. 10 (January 13, 2018): 345–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/prosoc.v4i10.3100.

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Parallel to the capitalist development processes, the nature and varieties of control regimes have been changed. The control has been sometimes conducted directly, sometimes indirectly. But the common point of each control mechanism is the complexity of different practices of management and what workers do with these practices. In the first years of capitalism, labour control regimes are generally simple and direct. Together with Taylorism, it has gained technical importance and now become more hegemonic. The aim of this study is to examine the labour control regimes and resistances of workers to these regimes through a case study. For this purpose, in-depth interviews were conducted with a total of 45 workers, one factory owner, one general manager, two department managers, two chiefs, one foreman, three subcontractor workshop owners in Denizli textile. The results show that workers develop very limited resistance, and the working conditions determine the resistance strategies of workers. Keywords: Labour control regimes, resistance of workers, Turkey.

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Callcott, Anne-Marie A., and Homer L. Collins. "Temporal Changes in a Red Imported Fire Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Colony Classification System Following an Insecticidal Treatment." Journal of Entomological Science 27, no. 4 (October 1, 1992): 345–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.18474/0749-8004-27.4.345.

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The decline of the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren (RIFA) following an application of fenoxycarb bait and the subsequent reinfestation from small, incipient colonies to large, mature colonies was studied in south Mississippi. Field colonies were rated using the numerical colony classification system of Lofgren and Williams (1982). The study site was considered RIFA free (98.9% decrease in pretreat population index) 3 months after a fenoxycarb bait treatment. Small incipient colonies categorized in class 7 (100–1,000 workers and worker brood present) appeared in the test site about 4 months after bait application. Mature colonies in classes 9 and 10 (10,000–50,000 workers present with worker brood and more than 50,000 workers with worker brood present, respectively) were detected after 12–15 months of development.

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Esechie, Jovita O. "Pesticide Exposure: The Case of Open-field and Greenhouse Workers." Journal of Environment and Ecology 11, no. 2 (July 31, 2020): 49. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jee.v11i2.16721.

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A study was conducted among greenhouse and open field pesticide workers at the Batinah Coast of Oman in 2008 - 2009 to compare their level of pesticide exposure. A total of 74 greenhouse and 79 open field pesticide workers using pesticide mixtures consisting mostly of organophosphates were interviewed. Eighteen self-reported toxicity symptoms were recorded, with 9 and 3 of them being more prevalent among the greenhouse and open field workers, respectively. Although toxicity symptoms were generally higher among the greenhouse workers, it was observed that many of them indulged in smoking and gum chewing during pesticide application and these habits may have contributed to increased exposure. Most of the workers complained of discomfort when using protective devices, therefore it is recommended that protective materials adapted to the climate and socio-economic conditions of the pesticide workers be developed, and that they be encouraged to use them through appropriate educational efforts and incentives.

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Ramadhan, Hendy. "PAJAK PENGHASILAN TERHADAP TENAGA KERJA ASING SEBAGAI SUBYEK HUKUM PAJAK." Media Iuris 1, no. 2 (July 4, 2018): 266. http://dx.doi.org/10.20473/mi.v1i2.8830.

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Foreign workers who work in Indonesia, have rights and obligations that are governed by the laws and regulations applicable in Indonesia, including rules relating to taxation. The foreign workers residing in Indonesia may be subject to tax laws in Indonesia. For the implementatio of legal order in the field of taxation, there is a need to apply the law of income tax on foreign workers who work in Indonesia. This paper discusses the legal basis for the imposition of foreign workers income tax in Indonesia as well as the form of liability for violations of income tax regulation on foreign workers in Indonesia. Based on this paper, foreign worker is one of the subject of income tax in Indonesia and can be subject to domestic tax or foreign tax subject depending on how long they have worked in Indonesia. Whereas in the event of any fraud related to the income tax on foreign worker, in the case the tax deduction is done by the company where the foreign worker is working, then the sanction given to the party who withholds the income tax.

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Okrutniak, Mateusz, Bartosz Rom, Filip Turza, and Irena M. Grześ. "Body Size Differences between Foraging and Intranidal Workers of the Monomorphic Ant Lasius niger." Insects 11, no. 7 (July 10, 2020): 433. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects11070433.

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The association between the division of labour and worker body size of ants is typical for species that maintain physical castes. Some studies showed that this phenomenon can be also observed in the absence of distinct morphological subcastes among workers. However, the general and consistent patterns in the size-based division of labour in monomorphic ants are largely unidentified. In this study, we performed a field experiment to investigate the link between worker body size and the division of labour of the ant Lasius niger (Linnaeus, 1758), which displays limited worker size variation. We demonstrated that the body size of workers exploring tuna baits is slightly but significantly smaller than the size of workers located in the upper parts of the nest. Comparing the present results with existing studies, large workers do not seem to be dedicated to work outside the nest. We suggest that monomorphic workers of certain body sizes are flexible in the choice of task they perform, and food type may be the important determinant of this choice.

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Noh, Ji Yun, Joon Young Song, Joon Yong Bae, Man-Seong Park, Jin Gu Yoon, Hee Jin Cheong, and Woo Joo Kim. "Seroepidemiologic survey of emerging vector-borne infections in South Korean forest/field workers." PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 15, no. 8 (August 18, 2021): e0009687. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009687.

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With global warming and lush forest change, vector-borne infections are expected to increase in the number and diversity of agents. Since the first report of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) in 2013, the number of reported cases has increased annually in South Korea. However, although tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) was detected from ticks and wild rodents, there is no human TBE case report in South Korea. This study aimed to determine the seroprevalence of TBEV and SFTS virus (SFTSV) among forest and field workers in South Korea. From January 2017 to August 2018, a total 583 sera were obtained from the forest and field workers in South Korea. IgG enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and neutralization assay were conducted for TBEV, and indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA) and neutralization assay were performed for SFTSV. Seroprevalence of TBEV was 0.9% (5/583) by IgG ELISA, and 0.3% (2/583) by neutralization assay. Neutralizing antibody against TBEV was detected in a forest worker in Jeju (1:113) and Hongcheon (1:10). Only 1 (0.2%) forest worker in Yeongju was seropositive for SFTSV by IFA (1:2,048) and neutralizing antibody was detected also. In conclusion, this study shows that it is necessary to raise the awareness of physicians about TBEV infection and to make efforts to survey and diagnose vector-borne diseases in South Korea.

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Vincent, Steve, and Victoria Pagan. "Entrepreneurial agency and field relations: A Realist Bourdieusian Analysis." Human Relations 72, no. 2 (May 28, 2018): 188–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0018726718767952.

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This article addresses the problem of understanding and assessing how entrepreneurial and self-employed workers engage with economic fields as they pursue their interests. It considers the differing experiences of entrepreneurial workers by developing a transferable approach to studying the relations between their environments, practices and values. The approach developed combines Bourdieusian and critical realist scholarship to explore qualitative data about the networking practices of 25 self-employed and entrepreneurial human resource consultants who competed in a conurbation in the North of England. We argue that the form of analysis that develops, which we call Realist Bourdieusian Analysis, reveals more about the causal properties of the social formations entrepreneurial workers navigate than analyses that are limited within each lexicon. Arguably, combining Bourdieusian analysis and critical realism enriches our understanding of the constituent parts of economic fields, the resources entrepreneurial workers access through them, and agents’ relations, experiences and reflexive struggles. This novel approach, we argue, facilitates deeper appreciation of these workers’ experiences and more insightful critique of existing supports to entrepreneurship, as well as the possibility of prescribing policy supports that might enable workers within the field studied. The analysis concludes by highlighting the practical, theoretical and methodological contributions of this research.

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Chicas, Roxana, Nezahualcoyotl Xiuhtecutli, Nathan Eric Dickman, Joan Flocks, Madeleine K. Scammell, Kyle Steenland, Vicki Hertzberg, and Linda McCauley. "Cooling Interventions Among Agricultural Workers: Qualitative Field-Based Study." Hispanic Health Care International 19, no. 3 (February 19, 2021): 174–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1540415321993429.

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Introduction: Agricultural workers perform intense labor outside in direct sunlight and in humid environmental conditions exposing them to a high risk of heat-related illness (HRI). To implement effective cooling interventions in occupational settings, it is important to consider workers’ perceptions. To date, an analysis of agricultural workers’ experience and perception of cooling devices used in the field while working has not been published. Methods: Qualitatively data from 61 agricultural workers provided details of their perceptions and experiences with cooling interventions. Results: The participants in the bandana group reported the bandana was practical to use at work and did not interfere with their work routine. Cooling vest group participants agreed that the vest was effective at cooling them, but the practicality of using the vest at work was met with mixed reviews. Conclusion: The findings of this qualitative study support and extend existing research regarding personal cooling and heat prevention research interventions with vulnerable occupational groups. Personal cooling gear was well received and utilized by the agricultural workers. Sustainable heat prevention studies and governmental protection strategies for occupational heat stress are urgently needed to reduce the risk of heat-related morbidity, mortality, and projected climate change health impacts on outdoor workers.

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