Journal articles: 'Workers' bodies'

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Keller, Julie C., Margaret Gray, and Jill Lindsey Harrison. "Milking Workers, Breaking Bodies." New Labor Forum 26, no. 1 (December 9, 2016): 36–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1095796016681763.

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Leung, Elly, and Donella Caspersz. "Chinese workers’ history: passive minds docile bodies." Journal of Management History 25, no. 3 (October 11, 2019): 304–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jmh-12-2018-0069.

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PurposeThis paper aims to describe an exploratory study that has sought to understand how an institutionalised docility rather than resistance has been created in the minds of Chinese workers by the Chinese State. The study proposes that this docility has been crucial in enabling China to become a world leading economic powerhouse.Design/methodology/approachThe paper draws on Foucault’s concept of governmentality and uses the genealogical method to examine the historical events that have shaped the mentalities of today’s Chinese workers. Original interviews (n = 74) with everyday workers across industries and locations illustrate this.FindingsIt was found that the utilisation of centuries-long Confucian hierarchical rules by successive regimes has created a cumulative effect that has maintained workers docility and their willingness to submit themselves to poor working conditions that – ultimately – benefit the Chinese State and business, though this is at their expense. This finding is in juxtaposition to current research that claim that their working conditions are fostering a rising consciousness and resistance among Chinese workers.Originality/valueThis paper provides a novel explanation for why Chinese workers accept their poor working conditions and thus critiques current perspectives about Chinese worker resistance.

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Abdullah, Noorman. "Foreign Bodies at Work: Good, Docile and Other-ed." Asian Journal of Social Science 33, no. 2 (2005): 223–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568531054930785.

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AbstractThe lived, and oftentimes silenced, experiences of "foreign workers" articulate the negotiation of power relations between "citizen" and "foreigner", and "Us" and "Them". These are translated into discursive practices that, in effect, legitimize and entrench differences — hence, inequalities — that effectively discipline the "foreign worker" as "not one of Us". By taking the example of Bangladeshi construction workers in Singapore as a case study, I argue in this paper that the workspaces of "foreign construction workers" in Singapore typify that of a "total institution", which correspondingly moulds the worker into a discursive ideal — the "good, docile Other". Such impositions and productions of Otherness, however, face rupture as workers (re)negotiate, (re)work, and (re)inscribe their everyday lives through the employment of what James Scott (1985, 1987) terms "everyday 'resistances'" in rising above that which subjugates them. I will present in this paper primary data elicited and collated from direct participant observation, fieldwork, and in-depth interviews conducted in a construction project in Singapore.

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Keesman, Laura D., and Don Weenink. "Bodies and emotions in tense and threatening situations." Journal of Social Work 20, no. 2 (September 5, 2018): 173–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468017318795726.

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Summary This study investigates the experiences of social workers with tense and threatening situations in homeless shelters of the Salvation Army in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Clients intimidated and threatened social workers verbally, damaged property and, in some cases, physically assaulted them. The study is based on qualitative analyses of 18 interviews. Findings Social workers reported that such situations have intense emotional, bodily and mental impact. Their main concern is to manage overwhelming bodily manifestations of fear and tension to maintain work-related comportment. We demonstrate that social workers use emotion/body work in their attempts to control their own and their clients’ emotions. We also found that social workers’ emotion/body work is informed and supported by feeling rules that revolve around their identity as professionals. Being a professional social worker means to be in control of the situation and to regard the aggression and violence of clients from a distanced, sociologized perspective. Finally, social workers note the longer term emotional consequences of their experiences, but also of their emotion/body work, in the sense that some of them become habituated to violence. Applications The study concludes that more systematic attention should be given to the ‘emotion/body' work of social workers who are exposed to tense and threatening situations, in both academic studies and current prevention policies and practices. While the former tend to offer a disembodied view of work place violence, the latter do not give sufficient attention to sharing and reflection on the emotional and bodily experiences among social workers.

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Grisel, Jillian. "Bodies of Hope and Disruption." Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research 3, Summer (June 1, 2017): 78–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.36583/kohl/3-1-12.

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One way neoliberalism and patriarchy maintain power is under racial hierarchies that legitimize the removal of non-white bodies to places of disposability. I aim to illustrate this violence and how it plays out through migrant domestic workers in a Lebanese context, tracing their pathway to incarceration. I also attempt to dispel the myth that suggests migrant domestic workers are victims in their location of disposability through my experience facilitating a mental health intervention in a Lebanese prison. I demonstrate this by reflecting on how Western medicine reinforces the oppression of migrant domestic workers relative to my own subjectivity and how they resist through acts of feeling and care-work.

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Negroni, Matteo Antoine, Maide Nesibe Macit, Marah Stoldt, Barbara Feldmeyer, and Susanne Foitzik. "Molecular regulation of lifespan extension in fertile ant workers." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 376, no. 1823 (March 8, 2021): 20190736. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0736.

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The evolution of sociality in insects caused a divergence in lifespan between reproductive and non-reproductive castes. Ant queens can live for decades, while most workers survive only weeks to a few years. In most organisms, longevity is traded-off with reproduction, but in social insects, these two life-history traits are positively linked. Once fertility is induced in workers, e.g. by queen removal, worker lifespan increases. The molecular regulation of this positive link between fecundity and longevity and generally the molecular underpinnings of caste-specific senescence are not well understood. Here, we investigate the transcriptomic regulation of lifespan and reproduction in fat bodies of three worker groups in the ant Temnothorax rugatulus . In a long-term experiment, workers that became fertile in the absence of the queen showed increased survival and upregulation of genes involved in longevity and fecundity pathways. Interestingly, workers that re-joined their queen after months exhibited intermediate ovary development, but retained a high expression of longevity and fecundity genes. Strikingly, the queen's presence causes a general downregulation of genes in worker fat bodies. Our findings point to long-term consequences of fertility induction in workers, even after re-joining their queen. Moreover, we reveal longevity genes and pathways modulated during insect social evolution. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Ageing and sociality: why, when and how does sociality change ageing patterns?’

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Balogun, Oluwakemi M., and Kimberly Kay Hoang. "Political Economy of Embodiment: Capitalizing on Globally Staged Bodies in Nigerian Beauty Pageants and Vietnamese Sex Work." Sociological Perspectives 61, no. 6 (September 6, 2018): 953–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0731121418797292.

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How do various stakeholders capitalize off of display workers’ bodies? This article uses a comparative-case approach to examine two different sites—beauty pageants in Nigeria and high-end sex workers in Vietnam—where women’s bodies are differentially staged with varying degrees of visibility. Theoretically, this article develops the concept of political economy of embodiment to account for a network of people onstage, backstage, and offstage who capitalize off displayed bodies in qualitatively different ways. Beauty pageants in Nigeria take place on highly visible national and global stages. Contestants’ bodies signal African beauty as being fashion-forward, which propels and integrates Nigeria into international arenas of diplomacy and trade. High-end sex workers in Vietnam work on a stage that is hidden from the general public yet open for a select group of Vietnam’s elites. Sex workers’ bodies are on display to project an ideal of Asian ascendancy in Vietnam’s market.

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Lovelock, Kirsten. "O4C.6 ‘Healthy on the outside, sick on the inside’ -forestry workers, embodiment and biosociality." Occupational and Environmental Medicine 76, Suppl 1 (April 2019): A37.2—A37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/oem-2019-epi.101.

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Health outcomes for workers in forestry are shaped by a complex range of exposures, including exposures related to the work environment generated by the industry itself and within a natural environment. We understand how the worker experiences these exposures is shaped by a range of contextual factors including external factors such as market prices and legislation; employer specific factors (e.g. pace of work, provision of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)); to task specific factors (e.g. repetition, worker control). And, health outcomes from these exposures can range from immediate to delayed, and in duration from acute to chronic. This paper draws on a qualitative research project conducted with forestry workers, their contractors and the CEOs of corporate forests in New Zealand and argues that we need to know more if we are to intervene effectively. Face to face interviews and focus groups were conducted with 100 participants at multiple sites throughout New Zealand (Northland, Gisborne, Central North Island, Hawkes Bay, Wanganui and Otago). This paper focuses specifically on the experiential aspects of being a forestry worker and contractor and how the concept of embodiment and bio-sociality is a useful means by which to understand how bodies are produced and reproduced through labour, how labour converts bodies into social entities and that the body is not exclusively in either the biological or social world, rather bodies are made, have social value and the sociality of bodies shapes altered biologies. These concepts allow us to understand why it is that workers self-describe and are described as being ‘healthy on the outside, sick on the inside’ or ‘fit on the outside, sick on the inside’ and to unpack how social groups form around biological identities marked by ill health or illness susceptibility.

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Southall, David, Mamady Cham, and Omar Sey. "Health workers lost to international bodies in poor countries." Lancet 376, no. 9740 (August 2010): 498–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(10)61157-9.

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Le Roux, Thomas. "Hygienists, workers' bodies and machines in nineteenth-century France." European Review of History: Revue europeenne d'histoire 20, no. 2 (April 2013): 255–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13507486.2013.766523.

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Brito, Paula. "From the Right to be Let Alone to the Control of Personal Data (in the Labour Context)." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 6, no. 5 (2020): 25–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.18775/ijmsba.1849-5664-5419.2014.65.1003.

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The theme of this paper is the paradigm shift in the outlook of workers’ privacy protection. The focus of this work is the successive and recent evolution of this theme, defending an active approach to privacy, per which the workers have sufficient control over their data. The theoretical framework of the worker’s right to privacy and its adaptation to the current technological world is the base of the adopted methodology. It includes the study of the legislation, doctrinal and jurisprudential positions, and guidelines from various bodies and entities. The conclusions summarise the current challenges faced by the labour jurist, in an era when NICT (new information and communication technologies) are part of the corporate environment to find ways to raise awareness about the reaffirmation of limits and control of technology, as the only way to guarantee the safeguarding of the workers’ fundamental rights, which are undoubtedly essential for defending the worker in a potentially absorbing context outside his domain, being subject to corporate power. The conciliation between the defence of workers’ privacy, on the one hand, and business interests and rights, on the other hand, is the reference for balance.

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Snowden, Fabienne, Willie Tolliver, and Amanda McPherson. "Kneading, Needing, and Eating Black Bodies." Advances in Social Work 21, no. 2/3 (September 23, 2021): 217–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.18060/24469.

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Social workers have been on the frontlines alongside marginalized communities since the profession’s emergence. This stance continues with supporting the Black Lives Matter Movement and centering the structural inequities that the COVID-19 pandemic highlights. A narrative that centers the history of social work’s concern for Black citizenship in the profession’s formation is neglected in the literature. This historical review traces the genesis of the profession’s work to expand access to the entitlements of citizenship among Black communities. Thematic analysis of secondary sources is used to investigate the formation of the profession and its work to ensure access to resources among Blacks communities. Study findings identify that the profession emerged from the bonds between the Abolitionist Movement and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, then moved away from working with Black people during the Settlement Movement and did not return to addressing the needs of these communities until the 1960s during the Civil Rights Movement. Black social workers answered the call to support Black and non-Black communities in the absence of the profession’s national organization’s presence. Social work needs, kneads, and eats Black bodies by being in complicity with systems of oppression. The history of social work and its concern and lack of concern for Black citizenship is a pedagogical innovation that addresses the historical amnesia that White domination fosters. The findings of this analysis call social workers to task to disrupt White dominant epistemologies of ignorance by incorporating this historical context into their social work pedagogy.

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Holden, Janet, and Andrew Churg. "Asbestos bodies and the diagnosis of asbestosis in chrysotile workers." Environmental Research 39, no. 1 (February 1986): 232–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0013-9351(86)80024-x.

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Chan, Anita, Yiu Por Chen, Yuhua Xie, Zhao Wei, and Cathy Walker. "Disposable Bodies and Labor Rights: Workers in China's Automotive Industry." WorkingUSA 17, no. 4 (December 2014): 509–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/wusa.12136.

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Nova. "Vectors of Disease: Sex Workers as Bodies to Be Managed." QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 3, no. 3 (2016): 196. http://dx.doi.org/10.14321/qed.3.3.0196.

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Dodson, R. F., M. O'Sullivan, C. J. Corn, J. G. Garcia, J. M. Stocks, and D. E. Griffith. "Analysis of ferruginous bodies in bronchoalveolar lavage from foundry workers." Occupational and Environmental Medicine 50, no. 11 (November 1, 1993): 1032–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/oem.50.11.1032.

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Arana Landin, Sofia. "The scarcity of worker cooperatives in the USA: enquiring into possible causes." CIRIEC-España, revista de economía pública, social y cooperativa, no. 92 (May 2, 2018): 39. http://dx.doi.org/10.7203/ciriec-e.92.10629.

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Even though the access of workers to capital has been promoted in some countries for over centuries, Governments and public bodies have started to promote it worldwide, as in previous occasions, more particularly as an aftermath of the Great Recession, usually in the form of worker cooperatives.However, workers’ access to capital in the USA in the form of worker cooperatives is still surprisingly rare. We cannot find any recent public policies at a federal level in order to promote them and the old ones that exist remain mostly obsolete and unknown. Only at a state and local level, we find in the latest years a series of actions directed to achieve this goal, as in the case of New York City, where there is an important budget to promote the access of workers to capital more particularly after 2012 and, among others, worker cooperatives are being formed.The purpose of this paper is to enquire about the possible causes of the scarce number of worker cooperatives in the USA as the only way of offering solutions comes from understanding the causes.

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Watterson, Andrew. "COVID-19 in the UK and Occupational Health and Safety: Predictable not Inevitable Failures by Government, and Trade Union and Nongovernmental Organization Responses." NEW SOLUTIONS: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy 30, no. 2 (May 25, 2020): 86–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1048291120929763.

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This commentary examines the occupational health and safety issues faced by the UK workers in the COVID-19 pandemic, against the background of government cuts in health care and in occupational health and safety budgets, and a deregulatory climate. The UK government has been obsessed, blinkered, and distracted by the desire to leave the European Union (Brexit). The state of knowledge about the virus, especially from international agencies that identified pandemic threats and strategies to combat it, is outlined. UK politicians, government bodies, medical and scientific advisors, and employers periodically ignored or abused that knowledge. Regulatory and ministerial inaction and errors on the workplace virus risks emerged. In contrast, several trade unions, health professional bodies, and nongovernmental organizations identified COVID-19 threats from poor personal protection equipment, working practices, and knowledge gaps and offered solutions for health care workers, social care workers, production workers, and service workers in “essential” occupations.

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Finn, Allison. "Slowing It Down: Embodied Complicity and the Challenges of Feminist Solidarity at the 2017 Beirut Workers’ Day March." Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research 4, Summer (June 1, 2018): 60–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.36583/20184103.

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Complicity and coloniality are not abstract forces, but deeply personal experiences and questions. Through an ethnographic meditation of the 2017 Beirut Workers’ Day March, this paper explores how feminist activists, researchers, and advocates can openly work through moments in which we are complicit in oppression. Drawing on Sara Ahmed’s concept of encounter as method, the author reflects on the dynamics of solidarity, sponsorship, control, and privilege at the march, an annual event calling for the rights of migrant domestic workers and an end of the kafala (sponsorship) system in Lebanon, co-organized by migrant domestic worker activists, non-governmental organizations, and feminist communities. The paper contextualizes the encounter by defining the kafala system as a patriarchal state structure, proposes a distinction between “complicit feminisms” and moments of feminist complicity, and explores how coloniality infiltrates individual bodies and collective action. Then, the author relays her experience of embodied privilege and systems of control at the march, as a feminist supporter and volunteer member of the security team charged with keeping protestors safe. This paper builds on traditions of feminist self-critique and celebration, in analyzing the struggles and successes of solidarity between migrant domestic worker activists and feminist communities in Beirut. Complicity is inevitable when our bodies are markers of privilege, even when we are engaged in feminist, anti-racist, and anti-capitalist practices. This does not mean that we should uniformly retreat, but that we need to interrogate our good intentions and the way that power is constructed within our bodies, and adapt – tactically, individually, and collectively.

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Mullally, Siobhán. "Migrant Domestic Workers and Continuums of Exploitation: Beyond the Limits of Antitrafficking Laws." AJIL Unbound 111 (2017): 498–503. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/aju.2018.24.

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Recent years have witnessed the expansion of human rights standards relating to migrant domestic workers. This includes, in particular, the adoption of the 2011 International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention on Decent Work for Domestic Workers (no. 189), General Comments from UN human rights treaty bodies, and an expanding body of case law in domestic and regional courts. Migrant domestic workers have played central roles in these cases, engaging in the public sphere to advocate for law reform, and, in doing so, gradually expanding the field of global migration law. This essay describes the emerging recognition evident in the approaches of UN human rights treaty bodies that axes of discrimination intersect and, in particular, that migration status and gender can be significant to the enjoyment of rights. This integrated approach is evident in the case law of international human rights bodies adjudicating the rights claims advanced by migrant domestic workers. The case law on Article 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) shows the potential for such integrated approaches to move beyond the usual fragmentation of human rights, labor, and migration laws, but that potential remains limited.

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Savranchuk, Serhii. "The workers of bodies of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office." Aktual’ni problemi pravoznavstva 1, no. 4 (December 15, 2017): 128–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.35774/app2017.04.128.

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Phan, Linh T., Dagmar Sweeney, Dayana Maita, Donna C. Moritz, Susan C. Bleasdale, and Rachael M. Jones. "Respiratory viruses on personal protective equipment and bodies of healthcare workers." Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology 40, no. 12 (October 31, 2019): 1356–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2019.298.

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AbstractObjective:To characterize the magnitude of virus contamination on personal protective equipment (PPE), skin, and clothing of healthcare workers (HCWs) who cared for patients having acute viral infections.Design:Prospective observational study.Setting:Acute-care academic hospital.Participants:A total of 59 HCWs agreed to have their PPE, clothing, and/or skin swabbed for virus measurement.Methods:The PPE worn by HCW participants, including glove, face mask, gown, and personal stethoscope, were swabbed with Copan swabs. After PPE doffing, bodies and clothing of HCWs were sampled with Copan swabs: hand, face, and scrubs. Preamplification and quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) methods were used to quantify viral RNA copies in the swab samples.Results:Overall, 31% of glove samples, 21% of gown samples, and 12% of face mask samples were positive for virus. Among the body and clothing sites, 21% of bare hand samples, 11% of scrub samples, and 7% of face samples were positive for virus. Virus concentrations on PPE were not statistically significantly different than concentrations on skin and clothing under PPE. Virus concentrations on the personal stethoscopes and on the gowns were positively correlated with the number of torso contacts (P < .05). Virus concentrations on face masks were positively correlated with the number of face mask contacts and patient contacts (P < .05).Conclusions:Healthcare workers are routinely contaminated with respiratory viruses after patient care, indicating the need to ensure that HCWs complete hand hygiene and use other PPE to prevent dissemination of virus to other areas of the hospital. Modifying self-contact behaviors may decrease the presence of virus on HCWs.

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Snow, Tamsin. "Code of practice for support workers is vital, professional bodies agree." Nursing Standard 27, no. 3 (September 19, 2012): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.7748/ns2012.09.27.3.8.p9406.

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Thiel, Darren. "Builders, bodies and bifurcations: How London construction workers ‘learn to labour’." Ethnography 14, no. 4 (October 31, 2012): 412–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1466138112463656.

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Phillips, Catherine R. "The Computer Social Worker: Regulatory practices, regulated bodies and science." Qualitative Social Work 18, no. 3 (August 2, 2017): 443–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1473325017723700.

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Social work assessments, and in turn clinical judgment and intervention practices, are increasingly framed by standardised tools and technologies that are digitised. These tools and technologies mediate social workers’ relationships with services users, while also privileging, and in turn reiterating, particular identities and particular forms of knowledge. In this article, I am interested in how standardised tools and technologies, like computers, operate to mediate the relationship between social workers and services users. I work with an autoethnographic narrative in order to examine standardised social work practice. Methodologically, autoethnography rests within a reflexive frame of qualitative research, allowing us to excavate our experiences in order to understand how our lives are ordered and knowledge is socially constitutive. In mining this narrative, I am interested in the body, and in particular, the corporeal dimension of standardised practices. I historically locate these practices, and use the work of Michel de Certeau and Michel Foucault to examine how tools and technologies function in relation to the body, even when there is no direct physical, bodily contact. Ultimately I argue that there is a scientific discourse underpinning current clinical practice and I use the framings of Donna Haraway to understand the implications of this for social workers.

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Staniforth, Barbara, Kelsey L. Deane, and Liz Beddoe. "Comparing public perceptions of social work and social workers’ expectations of the public view." Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work 28, no. 1 (July 8, 2016): 13–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol28iss1id112.

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INTRODUCTION: Previous studies have explored public perception of social work and social workers. There is little written about what social workers think about how they, and the profession of social work, are viewed by the public. This article explores the views of a sample of social workers in Aotearoa New Zealand about their beliefs around the public perception of social work and social workers.AIMS: This article aims to explore social worker views on the public perception of social work, and then compares these findings with a previous study which looked at the public perception of social workers.METHODOLOGY: An online survey was conducted with 403 social workers from the Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Work, which asked them about their perceptions on how social work and social workers are viewed by the public. The results are then compared to a previous telephone survey, which asked 386 members of the public their views on social work and social workers.FINDINGS: Results demonstrate that the social workers generally had a poorer impression of what the public believed in most areas, compared to what the public had indicated in the prior study.CONCLUSION: Social workers, social work professional bodies and social work educators need to be proactive in promoting accurate information about social work and what social workers do.

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Raghuram, Parvati, Joanna Bornat, and Leroi Henry. "The co-marking of aged bodies and migrant bodies: migrant workers’ contribution to geriatric medicine in the UK." Sociology of Health & Illness 33, no. 2 (January 17, 2011): 321–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2010.01290.x.

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Testa, Doris Anne. "Hospitals and cultural diversity: social worker experiences and reflections." Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work 29, no. 2 (July 26, 2017): 96–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol29iss2id280.

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INTRODUCTION: Social work accrediting bodies mandate that workers analyse ways in which cultural values and structural forces shape client experiences and opportunities and that workers deconstruct mechanisms of exclusion and asymmetrical power relationships. This article reports the findings of a small-scale qualitative study of frontline hospital social workers’ experiences and understanding of their mandate for culturally sensitive practice.METHODS: The study involved one-hour, semi-structured interviews with 10 frontline hospital social workers. The interviews sought to understand how frontline workers and their organisations understood sensitive practice. Drawing on their own social cultural biographies, workers described organisational policy and practices that supported (or not) culturally sensitive practice. Narrative analysis was used to extract themes.FINDINGS: Data indicate that frontline hospital social workers demonstrated their professional mandate for culturally sensitive practice. Workers were firm in their view that working with the culturally other requires humility as well as a preparedness to value and engage the multiple cultural meanings that evolve in the patient–worker encounter.CONCLUSION: The findings highlight that mandating cultural sensitivity does not necessarily result in such practice. Cultural sensitivity requires an understanding of how cultural and social location may be implicated in sustaining the dominant cultural narrative and signals the need for workers, systems and organisations to facilitate appropriate learning experiences to explore culturally sensitive practice.

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Azadeh, Bahram, Nina Baghoumian, and Osama T. El-Bakri. "Rhinosporidiosis: immunohistochemical and electron microscopic studies." Journal of Laryngology & Otology 108, no. 12 (December 1994): 1048–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022215100128865.

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AbstractSixteen biopsies of rhinosporidiosis (15 nasal and one conjunctival) from 16 Southern Indian male immigrant workers showed mucosal lymphoplasmacellular infiltrates together with transepithelial elimination of nodular bodies and destruction of some late stage nodular bodies in histiocytic granulomata with central neutrophilic microabscesses. Early nodular bodies were immunohistochemically positive for alpha1-AT, alpha1-ACT, CEA, S100, fibronectin, amyloid-p-component, IgG, IgA, CIq and C3. Electron microscopy showed organizedconcentric lamellated bodies in early nodular bodies and not in end-stage nodular bodies which contained mostly amorphous electron dense materials. Structures formerly regarded as ‘sporangia’ and ‘spores’ are believed to be lysosomal bodies loaded with indigestible residues to be cleared via transepithelial elimination or segregated/destroyed by secondary immune/granulomatous responses.

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Gatrell, Caroline. "Boundary Creatures? Employed, Breastfeeding Mothers and ‘Abjection as Practice’." Organization Studies 40, no. 3 (December 4, 2017): 421–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840617736932.

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This paper contributes to theory on maternity, embodiment and organizations through advancing a contemporary theory of ‘abjection as practice’ in relation to breastfeeding and employment. Drawing upon the work of Margaret Shildrick and Julia Kristeva, it analyses a qualitative study of netnographic (internet) discussions among employed breastfeeding mothers, observing how lactating bodies are treated as abject within organizations. It proposes that hostile behaviour towards breastfeeding women could be seen as a form of ‘abjection as practice’, displaying a purposeful intent to exclude breast milk production from workplace contexts. In exploring the position of breastfeeding workers, the paper observes how breastfeeding women occupy an uncomfortable space on the borders between health ideals of ‘proper’ mothering and organizational notions of ‘good’ worker. The situation of breastfeeding employees is rendered ambiguous and such uncertainties invoke co-worker antipathy. Co-worker hostility towards breastfeeding colleagues appears validated at work because minimal action is taken to address deliberate utilization of ‘abjection as practice’ towards breastfeeding workers.

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Son, I. M., L. I. Menshikova, N. A. Flagler, A. Sh Senenko, and L. V. Rugles. "The role of local governments in solving the problems of providing primary health care personnel." Manager Zdravoochranenia, no. 1 (2021): 54–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.21045/1811-0185-2021-1-54-63.

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The problem of staffing in healthcare remains relevant for a long time. The article considers the possibilities of participation of local self-government bodies in attracting and securing medical workers, primarily primary care. The analysis of normative legal acts of the Federal level is presented. Amendments to Federal laws № 131-FZ and № 323-FZ related to specifying the powers of local self-government bodies in terms of health personnel are proposed. The necessity of a comprehensive assessment of the implemented measures of social support for medical workers to identify the most effective measures and select the best practices is justified.

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Chin, Christine B. N. "Visible Bodies, Invisible Work: State Practices toward Migrant Women Domestic Workers in Malaysia." Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 12, no. 1-2 (March 2003): 49–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/011719680301200103.

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The changing characteristics of labor migration in Asia today elicit an important question regarding the nature and consequences of state involvement in the entry and employment of low wage migrant workers. This paper offers an analysis of the labor-receiving state's practices toward migrant women domestic workers in Malaysia. I ascertain that the exercise of a particular kind of state power as evinced from policies and legislation, consistently make visible migrant womens' presence in society even as their labor in households is rendered invisible. A key consequence of this is the fragmentation of public support for migrant workers, and the contraction of what can be considered legitimate space for Malaysian NGO advocacy on migrant labor rights. To counteract this, some NGOs have adopted alternative strategies and targets that begin to reveal the possibility for constructing alternative forms of governance.

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Raubenheimer, R., B. Spangenberg, G. Van Jaarsveld, A. Koller, C. De Vries, C. P. Herbst, C. A. Willemse, and G. Joubert. "Do dose area product meter measurements reflect radiation doses absorbed by health care workers?" South African Journal of Radiology 8, no. 2 (June 9, 2004): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajr.v8i2.129.

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This study determined the correlation between radiation doses absorbed by health care workers and dose area product meter (DAP) measurements at Universitas Hospital, Bloemfontein. The DAP is an instrument which accurately measures the radiation emitted from the source. The study included the interventional radiologists, radiographers and nurses associated with radiological intervention procedures during the period 1 August 2003 - 31 August 2003. The amount of radiation produced during every procedure was measured by a dose area product meter (DAP) and routinely recorded. The absorbed doses received by health care workers were measured using a thermoluminescent dose meter (TLD). The TLDs were analysed and recorded at the end of each week. Health care workers wore TLDs on the following areas: forehead, thyroid (attached under thyroid guard), and abdomen (worn under lead jacket). A strong positive correlation (r = 0.9, p = 0.0374) was found between the radiographers’ head TLD and DAP meter readings. All other correlations between TLD and DAP readings were not statistically significant. Strong positive correlations were found between the TLD readings of the radiologists’ and nurses’ bodies, the nurses’ and radiographers’ bodies and the radiologists’ and the radiographers’ bodies, all of which were statistically significant.

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Iqbal, Shahid, Riaz Ahmad Muazzmi, and Kiran Khan. "Male Bodies, Women's Souls: Personal Narratives of Beauty Salons Workers in Pakistan." Global Anthropological Studies Review I, no. I (December 30, 2018): 28–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gasr.2018(i-i).04.

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The current study is conducted in Lahore, Pakistan. Through this study, an effort has been made for analyzing the relationship between embodiment, subjectivity, and labour activity involving beauty salons workers. To comprehend the objective of the study, researchers have selected thirteen respondents through purposive and networking sampling technique, and informal interview/ discussion method has been used as a tool for the collection of data. It observed that bodies have a role to play in the power relations and in the various discourses producing the abnormal and normal bodies in the society, leading to establishing the intelligibility of the body by the gender categories. For producing one's subjectivity, the body also has an active role to play. The intelligibility of the binary gender matrix considers transgender people abnormal, making them prone to be discriminated against, socially excluded and stigmatized. Considering the labour opportunities, the observation is that the physical bodies of these people (working in beauty salons) create obstacles for attaining any formal jobs and position in the family and society. Therefore, for their survival, they choose such professions which provide the space for the subjective interpretation of their body.

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Moore, Phoebe, and Andrew Robinson. "The quantified self: What counts in the neoliberal workplace." New Media & Society 18, no. 11 (July 9, 2016): 2774–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444815604328.

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Implementation of quantified self technologies in workplaces relies on the ontological premise of Cartesian dualism with mind dominant over body. Contributing to debates in new materialism, we demonstrate that workers are now being asked to measure our own productivity and health and well-being in art-houses and warehouses alike in both the global north and south. Workers experience intensified precarity, austerity, intense competition for jobs and anxieties about the replacement of labour-power with robots and other machines as well as, ourselves replaceable, other humans. Workers have internalised the imperative to perform, a subjectification process as we become observing entrepreneurial subjects and observed, objectified labouring bodies. Thinking through the implications of the use of wearable technologies in workplaces, this article shows that these technologies introduce a heightened Taylorist influence on precarious working bodies within neoliberal workplaces.

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Henson, Kevin D., and Robert E. Parker. "Flesh Peddlers and Warm Bodies: The Temporary Help Industry and Its Workers." Social Forces 75, no. 3 (March 1997): 1135. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2580541.

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Bronfenbrenner, Kate, and Robert E. Parker. "Flesh Peddlers and Warm Bodies: The Temporary Help Industry and Its Workers." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 50, no. 2 (January 1997): 353. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2525099.

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Gottfried, Heidi, and Robert E. Parker. "Flesh Peddlers and Warm Bodies: The Temporary Help Industry and Their Workers." Contemporary Sociology 24, no. 4 (July 1995): 390. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2077681.

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Paris, C., F. Galateau-Salle, C. Creveuil, R. Morello, C. Raffaelli, J. C. Gillon, M. A. Billon-Galland, J. C. Pairon, L. Chevreau, and M. Letourneux. "Asbestos bodies in the sputum of asbestos workers: correlation with occupational exposure." European Respiratory Journal 20, no. 5 (November 1, 2002): 1167–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1183/09031936.02.00262102.

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Slavishak, E. "Artificial Limbs and Industrial Workers' Bodies in Turn-of-the-Century Pittsburgh." Journal of Social History 37, no. 2 (December 1, 2003): 365–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2003.0195.

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Straughan, Elizabeth R., David Bissell, and Andrew Gorman-Murray. "Exhausting rhythms: the intimate geopolitics of resource extraction." cultural geographies 27, no. 2 (September 30, 2019): 201–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474474019879108.

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This article develops cultural geographical understandings of exhaustion through an exploration of the bodily pressures induced by mobile working practices. Through analysis of semi-structured interviews with resource sector workers in Australia who work away from home for periods of time as well as ‘left behind’ partners, we argue that exhaustion is a collective ‘structure of feeling’, but one that is differently experienced by mobile workers and partners. Tracing the diverse rhythms of compression and decompression that are experienced by workers and partners both at home and away, our focus on temporality connects the exhaustions experienced at resource extraction sites with exhaustions experienced in the home. By providing an important temporal focus to debates on intimacy-geopolitics, we explain how rhythms instigated by resource work are complicit in generating structures of feeling that compromise wellbeing within the home. We conclude that the exhausted bodies of mobile worker households are an obscured casualty of our current resource-intensive lives.

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Baksheev, A. I. "RELATIONS BETWEEN STATE BODIES AND TRADE UNIONS OF SIBERIA (1918—1929)." Federalism, no. 3 (September 16, 2019): 88–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.21686/2073-1051-2019-3-88-97.

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The problems of the trade union movement are multidimensional and each state has its own characteristics related to the cultural and historical past of nations, traditions, ethnic composition of the population, level of economic development of the state, its territorial communities, etc. Along with the specific features of trade union organizations, theory and practice defined relatively well-established principles of forming trade unions and their tasks, which can be used in the further development of the state, including in today’s Russia. In this regard, the development of relations between trade unions and state structures of Siberia in the 1920s is of great importance. Twentieth century. It was at this time that new areas of work of trade union bodies associated with the development of the Soviet state system are growing and gaining strength. This includes the nomination by the trade unions of candidates for leadership, above all economic, positions and uncritical support by the trade unions of any proposals from managers of enterprises and the abandonment of the struggle for workers’ rights in state enterprises, etc. Thus, Russia began the process of merging trade union organizations with the Soviet state. The reluctance of the trade unions to draw a clear distinction between their duties and the role of the appendages of economic bodies in production had a painful effect on relations with the workers. Such a position of the trade unions separated them from the real needs and demands of the workers, caused frustration and apathy of the population towards the trade union movement.

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Groh, Claudia, Christina Kelber, Kornelia Grübel, and Wolfgang Rössler. "Density of mushroom body synaptic complexes limits intraspecies brain miniaturization in highly polymorphic leaf-cutting ant workers." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281, no. 1785 (June 22, 2014): 20140432. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0432.

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Hymenoptera possess voluminous mushroom bodies (MBs), brain centres associated with sensory integration, learning and memory. The mushroom body input region (calyx) is organized in distinct synaptic complexes (microglomeruli, MG) that can be quantified to analyse body size-related phenotypic plasticity of synaptic microcircuits in these small brains. Leaf-cutting ant workers ( Atta vollenweideri ) exhibit an enormous size polymorphism, which makes them outstanding to investigate neuronal adaptations underlying division of labour and brain miniaturization. We particularly asked how size-related division of labour in polymorphic workers is reflected in volume and total numbers of MG in olfactory calyx subregions. Whole brains of mini, media and large workers were immunolabelled with anti-synapsin antibodies, and mushroom body volumes as well as densities and absolute numbers of MG were determined by confocal imaging and three-dimensional analyses. The total brain volume and absolute volumes of olfactory mushroom body subdivisions were positively correlated with head widths, but mini workers had significantly larger MB to total brain ratios. Interestingly, the density of olfactory MG was remarkably independent from worker size. Consequently, absolute numbers of olfactory MG still were approximately three times higher in large compared with mini workers. The results show that the maximum packing density of synaptic microcircuits may represent a species-specific limit to brain miniaturization.

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Frader, Laura Levine. "From Muscles to Nerves: Gender, “Race” and the Body at Work in France 1919–1939." International Review of Social History 44, S7 (December 1999): 123–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020859000115226.

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In the years before and immediately after World War I, gendered and racialized bodies at work became the focus of debate and discussion in France amongst an informal alliance of engineers, doctors, scientists, employers, workers, and the state. Seduced by the promise of “modernity”, and the seemingly endless possibilities of science and mechanization, the state attempted to modernize public services and employers sought new ways to discipline labor for greater productivity. Both mobilized rationalization – Taylorism and work science – in the service of greater efficiency and in an effort to identify the allegedly “natural” qualities that made gendered and racialized workers suitable for certain kinds of jobs and would exclude them from others. A not insignificant dimension of this project lay in how French work scientists began to envision the potential uses of gendered French and colonial labor. The development of the French North-African and Indochinese colonial empires around the turn of the century heightened attention to racialized difference. World War I had opened the opportunity to use racialized colonial bodies, both on the military front and in the factory. Thinking about race and gender characteristics continued to influence work science and its applications in the 1920s and 1930s. Work scientists' experiments to ascertain the physical endurance of colonial male workers and white workers underscored the durability of gender meanings i n dealing with white French workers and the instability of those meanings in assessing the abilities of workers of color.

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Shushtarian, SMasoud, MS Mirdehghan, and P. Valiollahi. "Retinal damages in turner workers of a factory exposed to intraocular foreign bodies." Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 12, no. 3 (2008): 136. http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5278.44696.

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Levine-Clark, Marjorie. "“The Entombment of Thomas Shaw”: Mining Accidents and the Politics of Workers’ Bodies." Victorian Review 40, no. 2 (2014): 22–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2014.0027.

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Dumortier, P., P. De Vuyst, P. Strauss, and J. C. Yernault. "Asbestos bodies in bronchoalveolar lavage fluids of brake lining and asbestos cement workers." Occupational and Environmental Medicine 47, no. 2 (February 1, 1990): 91–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/oem.47.2.91.

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Гаврилин and Sergey Gavrilin. "Some aspects of studying public opinion of the population of the Orel region of activities of the Department of Internal Affairs." Central Russian Journal of Social Sciences 11, no. 4 (August 29, 2016): 46–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/21317.

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The article presents the results of sociological research reflecting opinion of the citizens of the Orel region on the activities of the law-enforcement bodies. It is shown that the lack of professional competence, immoral behavior of workers, the violation of laws by them, indifference to people, poor culture of communication reduce the credibility of law-enforcement bodies. It is determined that the inclusion of public opinion in the system of adjustments of the administrative practices of the law-enforcement bodies is aimed at increasing the credibility of the data structures among the population. Some recommendations to increase the level of population confidence of the region to the law-enforcement bodies are suggested.

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Tetuev, Alim. "HISTORICAL MEMORY OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR IN NARRATIVE SOURCES." History, Archeology and Ethnography of the Caucasus 16, no. 3 (November 1, 2020): 620–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.32653/ch163620-638.

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The article examines the memory of the Great Patriotic War in letters, memoirs and literary sources of front-line soldiers and workers of the rear of Kabardino-Balkaria. The state of historiography and sources of the studied problem is analyzed, its relevance is substantiated. The experience of party political and propaganda work of the Main Political Administration of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army and local party and Soviet bodies for educating the Red Army and home front workers in the spirit of Soviet patriotism, national unity, hatred of the German occupiers and belief in victory will be summarized. The letters and addresses of front-line soldiers to relatives and friends, home front workers, and local party and Soviet authorities were identified and investigated. The letters and appeals of relatives and friends, home front workers, and local party and Soviet government bodies to front-line soldiers are examined. The reflection of war in the literary sources of the front-line soldiers, which are dedicated to the people of the front and rear, is considered. The analysis of the problem under study showed that the tasks of rallying and mobilizing all forces to achieve victory were characteristic of the consciousness of front-line soldiers and rear in an extreme situation.

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Ahsan, Nilufar, David Yong Gun Fie, Yeap Peik Foong, and Syed Shah Alam. "RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RETENTION FACTORS AND AFFECTIVE ORGANISATIONAL COMMITMENT AMONG KNOWLEDGE WORKERS IN MALAYSIA." Journal of Business Economics and Management 14, no. 5 (November 6, 2013): 903–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/16111699.2012.701226.

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This research explores the issues that influence affective commitment among knowledge workers in Malaysia. The determinants of affective commitment among knowledge workers that have been examined from the Malaysian knowledge workers’ perspective under this study including compensation, career opportunity, training and development, supervisor support, job autonomy, work life policies and skill varieties. A conceptual framework is constructed based on the retention factors and research hypothesis are then developed in order to focus attention on sets of factors that influences affective commitment among knowledge workers in Malaysia. Results of regression analyses revealed that all but supervisor support and skill variety were significant predictors of affective commitment among knowledge workers in Malaysia. Recommendations for future research are presented for industry bodies involved in supporting retention of knowledge workers in Malaysia.

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