Manual Labor

2021 ◽  
pp. 216-218
Author(s):  
James Gleick
Keyword(s):  
Manual Labor

Masters of Craft

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard E. Ocejo
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Young Men ◽  
New Economy ◽  
Technical Skills ◽  
Manual Labor ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Downward Mobility ◽  
Postindustrial City ◽  
New Form ◽  
Cultural Repertoires

In today's new economy—in which “good” jobs are typically knowledge or technology based—many well-educated and culturally savvy young men are instead choosing to pursue traditionally low-status manual-labor occupations as careers. This book looks at the renaissance of four such trades: bartending, distilling, barbering, and butchering. The book takes readers into the lives and workplaces of these people to examine how they are transforming these once-undesirable jobs into “cool” and highly specialized upscale occupational niches—and in the process complicating our notions about upward and downward mobility through work. It shows how they find meaning in these jobs by enacting a set of “cultural repertoires,” which include technical skills based on a renewed sense of craft and craftsmanship and an ability to understand and communicate that knowledge to others, resulting in a new form of elite taste-making. The book describes the paths people take to these jobs, how they learn their chosen trades, how they imbue their work practices with craftsmanship, and how they teach a sense of taste to their consumers. The book provides new insights into the stratification of taste, gentrification, and the evolving labor market in today's postindustrial city.

Features of development of functional overstrain at workers of physical work

2020 ◽  
pp. 643-643
Author(s):  
A. V. Kapustina ◽  
V. V. Elizarova ◽  
O. V. Bykova
Keyword(s):  
Functional State ◽  
The Body ◽  
Physical Work ◽  
Manual Labor ◽  
Production Studies ◽  
Professional Groups

The results of the production studies of professional groups of manual labor (stone saws, packers, slingers) are presented. It is shown that a change in the functional state of the body of workers leads to the development of fatigue and overstrain of the body systems of workers.

Centralization of pathoanatomical service, standardization of intravital pathoanatomical studies in oncology

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (4) ◽  
pp. 38-42
Author(s):  
Олег Кит ◽  
Oleg Kit ◽  
Алексей Максимов ◽  
Aleksey Maksimov ◽  
Инна Новикова ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Staff ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Material Testing ◽  
Manual Labor ◽  
Biopsy Material ◽  
Rational Use ◽  
Resource Support ◽  
Anatomical Research

Poor resource support of the pathoanatomical service, a lack of training of medical and nursing staff, poor results of pathological and anatomical research, and personnel shortage in some territories and republics of the country have been observed for more than 30 years. The reference centers organized in 2019 will contribute to the centralization of the pathoanatomical service and improve its work in general, which will lead to more efficient use of medical personnel due to the load streamlining, interchangeability, automation of manual labor, and complete and rational use of equipment, as well as will shorten the time for surgical and biopsy material testing.

Understanding Globalized Digital Labor in the Information Age

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 308-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime F. Cárdenas-García ◽  
Bruno Soria De Mesa ◽  
Diego Romero Castro
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Labor Process ◽  
Manual Labor ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Digital Workplace ◽  
Digital Labor ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
Social Polarization ◽  
Good For

Abstract The development of globalized digital labor brings to mind a labor process that seems to have changed dramatically from that of the industrial age. The toil of low-wage manual labor inside extensive buildings with smokestacks prevalent in the industrial age seems to have evolved into well-paid, enjoyable, meaningful labor in elegant buildings in tune with spacious vegetation-filled campuses. At the same time, social polarization is increasing with the threat of minimum-wage service labor and labor-replacing robots seeming to be the order of the day. The bottom line that drives this process seems to be the same as always, i.e. what benefits the capitalist owner is what is good for the digital workplace. This article seeks to identify and demystify the fundamental elements of digital labor in the globalized information age.

scholarly journals Factors Associated With Lateral Epicondylitis of the Elbow

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 232596712110077
Author(s):  
Hyung Bin Park ◽  
Ji-Yong Gwark ◽  
Jin-Hyung Im ◽  
Jae-Boem Na
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Rotator Cuff ◽  
Rotator Cuff Tear ◽  
Lateral Epicondylitis ◽  
Multivariable Logistic Regression Analysis ◽  
Manual Labor ◽  
Metabolic Factors ◽  
Cuff Tear ◽  
Dominant Side

Background: Metabolic factors have been linked to tendinopathies, yet few studies have investigated the association between metabolic factors and lateral epicondylitis. Purpose: To evaluate risk factors for lateral epicondylitis, including several metabolic factors. Study Design: Case-control study; Level of evidence, 3. Methods: We evaluated 1 elbow in each of 937 volunteers from a rural region that employs many agricultural laborers. Each participant received a questionnaire, physical examinations, blood tests, simple radiographic evaluations of both elbows, magnetic resonance imaging of bilateral shoulders, and an electrophysiological study of bilateral upper extremities. Lateral epicondylitis was diagnosed using 3 criteria: (1) pain at the lateral aspect of the elbow, (2) point tenderness over the lateral epicondyle, and (3) pain during resistive wrist dorsiflexion with the elbow in full extension. Multivariable logistic regression analysis was used to calculate the odds ratios (ORs) and 95% CIs for various demographic, physical, and social factors, including age, sex, waist circumference, dominant-side involvement, smoking habit, alcohol intake, and participation in manual labor; the comorbidities of diabetes, hypertension, thyroid dysfunction, metabolic syndrome, ipsilateral biceps tendon injury, ipsilateral rotator cuff tear, and ipsilateral carpal tunnel syndrome; and the serologic parameters of serum lipid profile, glycosylated hemoglobin A1c, level of thyroid hormone, and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein. Results: The prevalence of lateral epicondylitis was 26.1% (245/937 participants). According to the multivariable logistic regression analysis, female sex (OR, 2.47; 95% CI, 1.78-3.43), dominant-side involvement (OR, 3.21; 95% CI, 2.24-4.60), manual labor (OR, 2.25; 95% CI, 1.48-3.43), and ipsilateral rotator cuff tear (OR, 2.77; 95% CI, 1.96-3.91) were significantly associated with lateral epicondylitis ( P < .001 for all). No metabolic factors were significantly associated with lateral epicondylitis. Conclusion: Female sex, dominant-side involvement, manual labor, and ipsilateral rotator cuff tear were found to be risk factors for lateral epicondylitis. The study results suggest that overuse activity is more strongly associated with lateral epicondylitis than are metabolic factors.

Quantitative automated human chorionic gonadotropin measurement in urine using the Modular Analytics E170 module (Roche)

2005 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nasser E. Ajubi ◽  
Nine Nijholt ◽  
Albert Wolthuis
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Woman ◽  
Detection Limit ◽  
Chorionic Gonadotropin ◽  
Human Chorionic Gonadotropin ◽  
Storage Period ◽  
Manual Labor ◽  
Pregnancy Test ◽  
Automated Methods ◽  
Inter Assay Variation ◽  
Analytical Detection

AbstractOngoing demands on laboratory performance require optimization of processes. An obvious way to achieve this is to reduce manual labor in favor of automated methods. We describe the validation of an automated quantitative urine human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) analysis on the Roche Modular E170 analyzer to replace the manual qualitative pregnancy test in urine. At urine hCG concentrations of 476, 45 and 11U/L, we found inter-assay variation of 4.3%, 4.3% and 6.8% and average intra-assay variation of 3.0%, 2.6% and 3.0%, respectively. The analytical detection limit was 0.7U/L. We did not detect any loss (due to degradation or adsorption) during a storage period of 5days at 4°C or at −20°C. Recoveries of hCG in urine of a pregnant woman diluted with urine of a pre-menopausal non-pregnant woman (concentration range between 6 and 800mU/L) were between 93% and 112% (y=0.997x−3.843, r

Digitalisasi Proses Pendaftaran, Bimbingan, dan Sidang Kerja Praktek

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-96
Author(s):  
Sulaeman Santoso ◽  
Erico Darmawan Handoyo ◽  
Christian Chastro
Keyword(s):  
Manual Labor ◽  
Actual Process ◽  
Automated Process

The Recent Covid Pandemic has brought to realization that more than ever digitalization of manual labor is of the utmost importance. Changes from manual processes to an automated process through software medium however often times resulted in several drawbacks. One of which is when the actual process being digitalized undergoes major changes then the software would have to be revised. This is the case for the website for registering internship. This research digitalizes a lot of previously still manual processes and applies changes in the process for registering, working, and grading internship program.

Lifeblood of the Parish

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Neighborhood Change ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
The Body ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Manual Labor ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Material Religion

Each year the Shrine Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, celebrates its annual Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and San Paolino di Nola. The crowning event is the Dance of the Giglio, a devotional spectacle of strength and struggle in which men lift a four-ton, seventy-foot tower through the streets. This ethnographic study delves into this masculine world of devotion and the religious lives of lay Catholic men. It explores contemporary men’s devotion to the saints and the Catholic parish as an enduring venue for the pursuit of manhood and masculinity amid gentrification and neighborhood change in New York City. It explores the way laymen imagine themselves and their labor as high stakes, the very work of keeping their parish alive. In this Brooklyn church men, money, and devotion are intertwined. In the backstage spaces of the parish men enact their devotion through craft, manual labor, and fundraising. A rich exploration of embodiment and material religion, this book examines how men come to be part of religious community through material culture: costumes, clothing, objects, and tattoos. It argues that devotion is as much about skills, the body, and relationships between men as it is about belief.

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