Educating the Military Work Force

On the basis of previously unstudied archival documents this article reveals the multifaceted and multidimensional activities which the country’s top leadership as well as the leaders of the Middle Volga (Samara) region and Ulyanovsk district (from 1943 renamed Ulyanovsk region) unfolded for mobilizing work force for the military industry of Ulyanovsk region. In the shortest possible time, just within one year, under conditions of shortage in housing, production areas, raw materials, and skilled personnel, they managed not only to redirect practically all industrial enterprises in the city of Ulyanovsk and the Ulyanovsk district towards the war eff ort, but also to integrate several dozens of evacuated enterprises, to provide them with production areas, and to accommodate thousands of employees as well as their family members. By the summer of 1942, all these enterprises had started to work at full capacity; they considerably increased deliveries of all things needed at the front, thus making a considerable contribution to ensuring a radical change in the course of the war in 1943. The authors conclude that this success resulted from the eff ective work of central and local authorities, as well as of the directorates of the defense enterprises, in the fi eld of training of highly skilled specialists. New vocational schools were set up, in addition to technical schools and production classes at general schools. Moreover, successful measures were taken to motivate the youth for highly productive work. The authors emphasize that the heads of the enterprises organized eff ective training directly at the workplaces. The work with production staff was accompanied by well-organized ideological and educational work at the enterprises which in due time allowed to prevent provocations aimed at disrupting the military production in this critical period of the war. In particular, the article points to the successful management of the textile industry and cloth factories for increasing labor productivity and establishing labor discipline in teams.

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Professional ethics and social responsibility: military work and peacebuilding

AI & Society ◽

10.1007/s00146-021-01238-5 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

M. A. Hersh

Keyword(s):

Social Responsibility ◽

Ethical Issues ◽

Systems Perspective ◽

Ethical Commitment ◽

Values And Beliefs ◽

Ethical Approval ◽

Human Participants ◽

The Military ◽

Military Work

AbstractThis paper investigates four questions related to ethical issues associated with the involvement of engineers and scientists in 'military work', including the influence of ethical values and beliefs, the role of gendered perspectives and moves beyond the purely technical. It fits strongly into a human (and planet)-centred systems perspective and extends my previous AI and Society papers on othering and narrative ethics, and ethics and social responsibility. It has two main contributions. The first involves an analysis of the literature through the application of different ethical theories and the application of gendered analysis to discussion of masculinities in engineering and the military. The second is a survey of scientists and engineers to investigate their opinions and experiences. The conclusions draw together the results of these two contributions to provide preliminary responses to the four questions and include a series of recommendations covering education and training, ethical approval of work not involving human participants or animals, the need for organisational support, approaches covering wider perspectives and the encouragement of individual ethical commitment.

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A Profile of the Labor Force in Early Nineteenth-Century Istanbul

International Labor and Working-Class History ◽

10.1017/s0147547901004483 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 60 ◽

pp. 125-140 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Cengiz K[icy ]rl[icy ]

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Labor Force ◽

Primary Source ◽

Work Force ◽

Early Nineteenth Century ◽

Commercial Activities ◽

Golden Horn ◽

Occupational Patterns ◽

And Migration ◽

The Military

This article attempts to offer a detailed profile of the labor force in early nineteenth-century Istanbul. The primary source upon which this study is based is the register of an original Ottoman survey, conducted in the Istanbul districts of the Bosphorus and the Golden Horn, where some 2,000 shops along with their work force of 6,000 people as well as 1,500 peddlers (working as, among other things, boatmen, fishermen, and water carriers) were listed in a comprehensive fashion. Through an examination of the register, this article seeks to illuminate the general characteristics of employment and shop sizes, the ethno-religious profile of the labor force, occupational patterns in connection with religious allegiances and migration networks, and the degree to which the military corps were involved in commercial activities. It also questions the supposed existence of an “ethnic division of labor” in labor market and commercial activities, and demonstrates the centrality of regional allegiances in occupational specializations.

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Metodologie integrate per la conoscenza, la tutela e la rappresentazione dell’architettura militare storica. Sistemi costruttivi e percorsi voltati lungo i bastioni occidentali di Cagliari (Sardegna, Italia)

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10.4995/fortmed2020.2020.11378 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Andrea Pirinu ◽

Vincenzo Bagnolo ◽

Raffaele Argiolas ◽

Marco Utzeri

Keyword(s):

Sixteenth Century ◽

Geophysical Methods ◽

Limited Area ◽

Integrated Method ◽

Military Engineer ◽

Subsequent Investigation ◽

Construction Techniques ◽

Architectural Survey ◽

The Military ◽

Military Work

Integrated methodologies for the knowledge, representation and protection of historical military architecture. Construction systems and vaulted paths along the western bastions of Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy)The integrated method is been applied in the meet point between the curtain of Santa Chiara and the curtain of de Cardona, in a limited area of the ancient walls of Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy). The sector consists of a bastion called “curtain of Santa Chiara” designed in 1575 and realized in the period 1575-1578 by the military engineer Giorgio Paleari and the “curtain of de Cardona”, a military work commissioned by the Viceroy in the 1930s of the same century and interested by modification until the seventeenth century. The archive documents offer a lot of informations on the presence of gunboats and vaulted passages designed and built in this area during this period. This source –accompanied by an architectural survey of the existing military work and the knowledge of the construction techniques used at the time and indicated in the military treaties– may direct a subsequent investigation with geophysical methods. To this aim, a first graphic representation of the study area in the sixteenth century is proposed.

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Professional mobility of the future officer: to the formulation of the development problem

SHS Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/shsconf/202111300080 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 113 ◽

pp. 00080

Author(s):

T.P. Skripkina ◽

D.Yu. Naumov ◽

I.S. Melentyev

Keyword(s):

Military Service ◽

Legal Regulation ◽

Horizontal Layer ◽

Rapid Adaptation ◽

The Social ◽

Professional Mobility ◽

The Future ◽

Scientific Results ◽

The Military ◽

Military Work

In modern psychological and pedagogical studies, social and professional mobility is rarely correlated with the performance of military service duties. This circumstance is dictated by the ideas about the uniformity and legal «regulation» of military-service relations. The authors substantiate the need for the development of professional mobility, both on the vertical and on the horizontal layer, since the variety of duties performed by officers in the course of military work and the presence of various military positions to which he can be appointed, requires rapid adaptation to changing conditions of the social environment. The novelty of the research is that: the scientific results of the analysis of the structure of professional mobility of future officers are presented; the concept of «professional mobility of the future officer» is concretized based on the features of solving professional tasks by officers in the military; the conditions and means of developing the professional mobility of future officers are established and proposed.

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Emirati Parents’ Attitudes toward the Military and National Service in the United Arab Emirates

Asian Journal of Humanities and Social Studies ◽

10.24203/ajhss.v9i6.6802 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (6) ◽

Author(s):

Hwee Ling Lim ◽

Abdelaziz Khalid Almaeeni ◽

Abdalla Khalid Almaeeni ◽

Ahmed Alzaabi

Keyword(s):

Work Environment ◽

United Arab Emirates ◽

Parental Attitudes ◽

Armed Forces ◽

National Service ◽

Military Career ◽

Workplace Conditions ◽

Group Interviews ◽

The Military ◽

Military Work

Compulsory national service for male citizens presents the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Armed Forces with an opportunity to recruit future military officers. Research showed that parental attitudes towards the military, manifested through their communication with youths, are likely to influence youths’ decision on a military career. Hence this study examined the attitudes of Emirati parents on the UAE military and national service; particularly parental perceptions of the military work environment; support of a military career for their children; and concerns about national service. Surveys, individual and focus group interviews were conducted with 59 Emirati parents. It found that most participants held the positive view that the military work environment helps attainment of professional goals but were uncertain about personal goals and workplace conditions. Also, more participants were supportive of a military career for sons than daughters. It also identified the basis for parental confidence about enlistment as patriotism and development of positive character traits but main concerns were the exposure to harsh training conditions and threat to life during enlistment. Recommendations were provided for better engagement by the UAE military with Emirati parents and the community.

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SPIRITUALITY, ANCIENT TIMES AND PIONEER SKILL: PIONEER AWARENESS CREATION ON A FAMOUS RELIGIOUS SITE IN SRI LANKA

10.37547/iscrc-intconf07-01 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

R.P. Ranjan Madugalle ◽

Keyword(s):

Sri Lanka ◽

Work Force ◽

Ancient Times ◽

Types Of Information ◽

Religious Site ◽

Military Work

The pursuit of this paper1 is coordinated to talk about the "compelling" part of pioneer information in the desultory developments of one of the famous journey locales, Sri Pada in Sri Lanka. What I investigate here is the manner by which distinctive legitimate talks arise about Sri Pada from the diverse pilgrim skill, Portuguese 1505-1687 , Dutch 1687-1896 and British 1896-1948 . As we currently know, legitimate talk on the 'colonized' was to a great extent created through the specialists of the provincial governments, military work force, Christian preachers, philologists and chairmen. In such manner, Sri Pada was not outstanding. I'm mindful that these types of information creation change with changes in the acts of expansionism. In this regard, I examine what gets recognized and checked by pilgrim approved information as 'Adam's Peak'.

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