Beyond the School and Working Day: Building Connections Through Play, Leisure, Worship and Other Social Contact

Karl Marx’s comments on silk manufacture in “The Working Day” chapter of Capital, volume 1, demonstrate how “quality”—usually associated with “use value”—has been mobilized by capital to naturalize industrialized labor. Putting his insight into conversation with a recent multimedia poetic project, Jen Bervin’s Silk Poems (2016–17), this essay examines the homology between, on the one hand, poetry’s avowed task of fitting form to content and, on the other, the ideology of labor that fits specific bodies to certain materials and tasks.

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Interracial Social Contact and Middle-Class White Reactions to the Watts Riot

Social Problems ◽

10.1525/sp.1969.16.3.03a00050 ◽

1969 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. 312-324 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Vincent Jeffries ◽

H. Edward Ransford

Keyword(s):

Middle Class ◽

Social Contact

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Assessment of motor activity of knowledge workers (on the example of employees of social service centers)

Russian Journal of Occupational Health and Industrial Ecology ◽

10.31089/1026-9428-2020-60-11-727-729 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 60 (11) ◽

pp. 727-729

Author(s):

Nadezhda S. Belyakova ◽

Artyom K. Sergeev

Keyword(s):

Body Weight ◽

Motor Activity ◽

Social Service ◽

Preventive Measures ◽

Knowledge Workers ◽

Actual Body Weight ◽

Service Center ◽

Work Shift ◽

Working Day ◽

The Ideal

Introduction. The work of many employees in the service sector is associated with a constant stay in a forced working position sitting at the computer for up to 60-80% of the time of the entire work shift, which leads to fatigue. The rate of fatigue depends on the specifics of work: it is much more likely to occur when working with monotony, muscle tension. An important role in the appearance of fatigue is also played by the attitude of a person to the work performed. The aim of study is to study the motor activity of knowledge workers in social service centers for the development of preventive measures aimed at reducing hypokinesia and hypodynamia during the work shift. Materials and methods. The following methods were used in the study: questionnaire and working day timing, calculation methods to determine whether the actual body weight corresponds to the ideal one using the Broka’s index and the Ketle’s index. The study involved employees of the integrated social service center "Raduga" in Bugulma. Results. An assessment of the motor activity of employees of the social service center of the population was made, and it was concluded that the problem of hypokinesia and hypodynamia is relevant and significant for employees of social service centers of the population both in their daily activities and during the work shift. Most of the employees showed an increase in actual body weight compared to the ideal one, which is to some extent due to hypokinesia and hypodynamia both during the working day and at home. Conclusions. Preventive measures aimed at compliance with the principles of rational nutrition and a healthy lifestyle, work and rest regimes, high-quality preliminary and periodic medical examinations are proposed.

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Characteristics of the dynamics of the central nervous system and att ention function in workers of shoe production

Russian Journal of Occupational Health and Industrial Ecology ◽

10.31089/1026-9428-2020-60-1-64-68 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 64-68

Author(s):

F. L. Azizova ◽

U. A. Boltaboev

Keyword(s):

Central Nervous System ◽

Nervous System ◽

Women Workers ◽

Functional State ◽

The Body ◽

Conflict Of Interests ◽

Professional Groups ◽

Universal Device ◽

The Central Nervous System ◽

Working Day

The features of production factors established at the main workplaces of shoe production are considered. The materials on the results of the study of the functional state of the central nervous system of women workers of shoe production in the dynamics of the working day are presented. The level of functional state of the central nervous system was determined by the speed of visual and auditory-motor reactions, installed using the universal device chronoreflexometer. It was revealed that in the body of workers of shoe production there is an early development of inhibitory processes in the central nervous system, which is expressed in an increase in the number of errors when performing tasks on proofreading tables. It was found that the most pronounced shift s in auditory-motor responses were observed in professional groups, where higher levels of noise were registered in the workplace. The correlation analysis showed a close direct relationship between the growth of mistakes made in the market and the decrease in production. An increase in the time spent on the task indicates the occurrence and growth of production fatigue.Funding. The study had no funding.Conflict of interests. The authors declare no conflict of interests.

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Hygienic aspects of working conditions of workers in the Samara region

Russian Journal of Occupational Health and Industrial Ecology ◽

10.31089/1026-9428-2019-59-9-564 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 564-564

Author(s):

N. S. Belyakova ◽

N. M. Tsunina ◽

A. S. Karapetyan

Keyword(s):

Working Conditions ◽

Female Body ◽

Working Environment ◽

Working Day

The factors of working conditions that affect the health of women during the working day are listed. Developed measures to create a favorable working environment for the female body.

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