Tailoring screening to the local context: The experiences of participants using a tailored questionnaire to develop initiatives to improve working conditions

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karina Nielsen ◽  
Johan Simonsen Abildgaard ◽  
Kevin Daniels
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Improve Working

How to improve working conditions for spinal cord injured? An intervention study at the workplace

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leif Sandsjo ◽  
Lena Grundell ◽  
Kirsi Valtonen ◽  
Ann-Katrin Karlsson ◽  
Eira Viikari-Juntura
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Intervention Study ◽  
Improve Working ◽  
Spinal Cord Injured

Progressive Law, Activism, and Lawyering in an Age of Preemption

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 252-267
Author(s):  
Rashmi Dyal-Chand
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Global Supply Chain ◽  
Environmental Movements ◽  
Improve Working ◽  
Detailed History ◽  
History Of ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Core Questions

Preemption is one of the most important legal doctrines for today’s progressives to understand because of its power to constrain progressive policymaking and social movement lawyering at the state and local level. By examining the detailed history of a decades-long campaign by the labor and environmental movements to improve working conditions in an industry at the heart of the global supply chain, Scott L. Cummings’s Blue and Green: The Drive for Justice at America’s Port (2018) provides a case study about the doctrine and impacts of preemption. The study also inspires lawyers and activists alike to reexamine core questions of factual relevance, representation and voice, and precedent.

scholarly journals Labour Politics in a Naval Dockyard: The Case of Karlskrona, Sweden c. 1880–1925

2001 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Hilson
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Shipbuilding Industry ◽  
Improve Working ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
State Employees ◽  
Military Discipline ◽  
Unique Relationship

Naval dockyards have been largely neglected by labour historians, a surprising omission given their importance as industrial workplaces with a distinct culture of labour and labour relations. This article considers labour politics in Karlskrona dockyard, Sweden, in the light of a growing body of research on work and labour relations in the British and other European dockyards. Evidence from Karlskrona suggests that, rather than being repressed by military discipline or bought off by generous state benefits, the dockyard workforce drew on aspects of its unique relationship with the national state to improve working conditions. Particular attention is given to the role of the dockyard trade union in creating a sense of workforce identity as state employees. This is in contrast to the British dockyards where unionism was founded on the rigid division of labour in the shipbuilding industry.

scholarly journals Precarious and Productive Work in the Digital Economy

2017 ◽  
Vol 240 ◽  
pp. R5-R14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Coyle
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Improve Working ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Digital Business Models ◽  
Consumer Benefits ◽  
Heated Debate ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
Employment Legislation

Digital platforms have the potential to create benefits for their suppliers or workers as well as their customers, yet there is a heated debate about the character of this work and whether the platforms should be more heavily regulated. Beyond the high-profile global platforms, the technology is contributing to changing patterns of work. Yet the existing framework of employment legislation and public policy more broadly – from minimum wages to benefits and pensions – is structured around the concept of ‘the firm’ as the agent of policy delivery. To reshape policies in order to protect the interests of people as workers as well as consumers, it is important to understand why digital innovators make the choices they do, and therefore how labour market policies can improve working conditions without constraining the productivity and consumer benefits enabled by digital business models.

Multi-Function Manipulator

2012 ◽  
Vol 546-547 ◽  
pp. 1602-1607
Author(s):  
Zu Lin Wang ◽  
Jian Fei Ouyang ◽  
Qiang Fang ◽  
Yuan Liu
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Low Temperature ◽  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Industrial Robots ◽  
Labor Intensity ◽  
Model Design ◽  
Improve Working ◽  
Automation Level

This paper is for ordinary lathe supporting and design the capture of manipulator. Practice has proved, industrial robots can replace the hands of heavy labor, significantly reduce the labor intensity, improve working conditions, and improve labor productivity and automation level. In addition, it can be in high temperature, low temperature, deep water,cosmos, radioactive and other toxic, pollution environment conditions operation, more shows its superiority, with broad prospects. In the paper, the structure of the manipulator model design and Cortex-M0 micro controller (hereinafter referred to as M0) as the main controller in this paper. With multiple steering gear as the basis, make manipulator model, through the realization to the output M0 PWM control more than the steering gear, and finally achieve the acquirement manipulator workpiece, and the workpiece in designated spot.

Improving sustainable fashion marketing and advertising: A reflection on framing message and target audience

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-126
Author(s):  
Biatriz Guedes ◽  
Aurore C Paillard-Bardey ◽  
Anke Schat
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Behavior ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Target Audience ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
Improve Working ◽  
The World ◽  
Sustainable Fashion

Fashion, as one of the largest industries in the world, causes serious social and environmental issues. Sustainable fashion aims to reduce pollution and improve working conditions in the industry. This article suggests ideas for improving advertising and better understanding consumer behavior in order to promote sustainable fashion. While there is still a lack of academic studies on consumer behavior and sustainable fashion, there is a need of the fashion industry to become more sustainable. Further work on improving sustainable fashion advertising as well as better understanding the target audience is to date necessary.

The Role Corporate Social Responsibility Has in the Smart City Project in Spain

2019 ◽  
pp. 1562-1582 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mª Asunción López-Arranz
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Improve Working ◽  
The Right ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Conditions Of Work

The object and justification of this chapter is to analyse how Smart Cities will have an impact on workers' social welfare. Another aspect is the opportunity for businesses immersed in Smart Cities to improve working conditions through corporate social responsibility, reverting in this way to the society all that they have to offer. The future of employment in Smart Cities is analysed. Anyway, the realisation of the present work also has allowed to check how finds Spain in the implantation of this model of Cities and as they are involved the Spanish companies. In this sense, the investigation after an unproductive analysis and conceptual of the terms business social responsibility and smart quote analyses the implication of the right of the work in the new cities through the repercussion of these in the conditions of work of the workers taken by the companies so much of the small, of the average as of the big company, to finish with conclusions. It analyses the normative activity that Spain has developed specifically in this regard and his plans in the aim 20/20.

The Role Corporate Social Responsibility Has in the Smart City Project in Spain

2017 ◽  
pp. 439-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mª Asunción López-Arranz
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Improve Working ◽  
The Right ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Conditions Of Work

The object and justification of this chapter is to analyse how Smart Cities will have an impact on workers' social welfare. Another aspect is the opportunity for businesses immersed in Smart Cities to improve working conditions through corporate social responsibility, reverting in this way to the society all that they have to offer. The future of employment in Smart Cities is analysed. Anyway, the realisation of the present work also has allowed to check how finds Spain in the implantation of this model of Cities and as they are involved the spanish companies. In this sense, the investigation after an unproductive analysis and conceptual of the terms business social responsibility and smart quote analyses the implication of the right of the work in the new cities through the repercussion of these in the conditions of work of the workers taken by the companies so much of the small, of the average as of the big company, to finish with conclusions. It analyses the normative activity that Spain has developed specifically in this regard and his plans in the aim 20/20.

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