scholarly journals Silkscarf: Bringing Black hair Into the Gig Economy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Afriyie
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Black Hair ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Hard Time ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Black Caribbean

This Major Research Project (MRP) explores the viability of and need for a black hair mobile application (app) that would provide a mapping of both hair salons and home-based mobile stylists using location-based data. Black women often have a hard time finding hairstylists due to the specific needs of black hair. This proposed product, tentatively titled SilkScarf, would connect customers to stylists who specialize in black hair, effectively solving the issue of access to black hair salons for black women in various black Caribbean and African communities. Because SilkScarf will serve both users and service providers, this MRP will detail the sense of community and economic agency that could be generated from such a product. This MRP will also explore how such a service would reconcile feelings of displacement, and unease that black women often deal with.

scholarly journals Silkscarf: Bringing Black hair Into the Gig Economy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Afriyie
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Black Hair ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Hard Time ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Black Caribbean

This Major Research Project (MRP) explores the viability of and need for a black hair mobile application (app) that would provide a mapping of both hair salons and home-based mobile stylists using location-based data. Black women often have a hard time finding hairstylists due to the specific needs of black hair. This proposed product, tentatively titled SilkScarf, would connect customers to stylists who specialize in black hair, effectively solving the issue of access to black hair salons for black women in various black Caribbean and African communities. Because SilkScarf will serve both users and service providers, this MRP will detail the sense of community and economic agency that could be generated from such a product. This MRP will also explore how such a service would reconcile feelings of displacement, and unease that black women often deal with.

Why does institutionalised care not appeal to Indian families? Legislative and social answers from urban India

2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 697-717 ◽  
Author(s):  
BIANCA BRIJNATH
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Aged Care ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Urban India ◽  
Aged Care Facilities ◽  
Care Of Elderly ◽  
Home Based Care

ABSTRACTIn India, although notions of ageing and care are changing, there is a continued preference among families for home-based care of elderly relatives. The legislative policies and cultural practices that shape this preference will be examined in this paper with specific reference to aged-care facilities and the 2007 Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act. Using qualitative data from a study on dementia care in urban India it will be shown how the Act and old-age homes are understood and experienced by Indian families and key service providers. In juxtaposing policy and practice it will be argued that while notions of care are being redefined by processes like migration and urbanisation, the preference for home care remains, indicating that existing services need to be re-oriented and expanded to support families in providing this care.

scholarly journals Palate: The App for Finding Restaurant Faster

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Gioseffi
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Application ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Current Process ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Impact

This Major Research Project (MRP) aims to investigate the impact of the on-demand economy, millennials’ digital habits, and the emergence of super apps on the restaurant-finding process. Currently, restaurant-goers are presented with multiple specialty applications to complete different tasks when evaluating restaurants. The current process of deciding on a restaurant is both time-consuming and inefficient. This project aims to propose a solution to this problem in the form of an early-stage super app called Palate. Palate is a mobile application that aims to streamline the process of discovering restaurants from the moment a restaurant-goer begins their search to the moment they confirm a reservation. This paper will discuss design principles, theories of the on-demand economy, restaurant-goers digital habits, super apps and the rationale for designing a restaurant super app interface.

scholarly journals The ‘gig economy’: employee, self-employed or the need for a special employment regulation?

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrián Todolí-Signes
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Business Organisation ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
New Type ◽  
The One ◽  
Individual Service ◽  
Labour Regulation

The digital era has changed employment relationships dramatically, causing a considerable degree of legal uncertainty as to which rules apply in cyberspace. Technology is transforming business organisation in a way that makes employees – as subordinate workers – less necessary. New types of companies, based on the ‘on-demand economy’ or so-called ‘sharing economy’ and dedicated to connecting customers directly with individual service providers, are emerging. These companies conduct their entire core business through workers that they classify as self-employed. In this context, employment law is facing its greatest challenge, as it has to deal with a very different reality to the one existing when it was created. This article analyses the literature available about the classification of this new type of worker as an employee or as self-employed, concluding that there is a need for a new special labour regulation. It also describes and justifies the bases for this new special labour regulation.

scholarly journals Assistive devices: self-reported use by older people in Victoria

2002 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn Smith ◽  
Susan Quine ◽  
Julie Anderson ◽  
Kirsten Black
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Assistive Devices ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Payment Policy ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Home Modifications ◽  
Adequate Education ◽  
Almost All

A qualitative study was conducted in Victoria to explore factors affecting the acceptability and use of assistive devices by older people. Four focus groups and fifteen home-based interviews were conducted with older people (mean age 77 years) who had been issued with 2 or more assistive devices. Analysis of the data indicated that almost all participants were content to be advised by professionals on suitable equipment. Most considered the equipment and home modifications safe and easy to use, and appreciated the benefits for mobility, confidence and independence. Reasons for non-use were commonly related to changes in functional ability. Cost was a major deterrent for a small number who opted to 'make do'. Recommendations are made for improvements to the existing system of equipment provision and use, including: review and development of consistency of provision and payment policy among service providers; flexibility of payment options; adequate education and follow-up support for clients.

The reliability of home-based fitness assessments on health mobile application in healthy adults (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
I-I Lin ◽  
You-Lin Chen ◽  
Li-Ling Chuang
Keyword(s):  
Confidence Interval ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Healthy Adults ◽  
Physiological Signals ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Systematic Bias ◽  
Relative Reliability ◽  
Fitness Assessment ◽  
Balance Tests ◽  
Home Based

BACKGROUND Poor physical fitness has negative impact on health conditions. More and more health-related applications (App) have emerged to reduce burden of medicine, and inconvenience of long distance. However, there were insufficient studies about home-based fitness tests on the app. Insufficient monitor of physiological signals during executing fitness assessment was noted. Therefore, we developed the fitness App incorporating all components of fitness assessments under physiological signals monitor. OBJECTIVE The first aim of study was to investigate the reliability of home-based fitness assessments on health mobile app in healthy adults. Secondly, we aimed to examine and compare the results of fitness assessment on the App. METHODS Thirty-one healthy young adults self-executed fitness assessments on the App for 2 trials in 2-3 day interval. The fitness assessments include cardiorespiratory endurance, strength, flexibility, mobility and balance tests. The intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) was computed as relative reliability of fitness assessments and determined consistency between 2 trials. The standard error of measurement (SEM), smallest real difference at 90% confidence interval (SRD90), and Bland-Altman analyses were analyzed and used for agreement, sensitivity to real change, and systematic bias detection. RESULTS The relative reliability of fitness assessments was moderate to good (ICCs for raw scores= 0.8 to 0.99, for converting scores= 0.69 to 0.99). The SEM and SRD90 were 1.44 to 6.91 and 3.36 to 16.11, respectively in all fitness assessments. The 95% confidence interval of mean difference indicated no significant systematic error between 2 trials in strength, and balance tests. The Bland-Altman analyses revealed no significant systematic bias between 2 trials for all fitness assessments and few outliers. The Bland-Altman plots illustrated narrow limits of agreement for UE strength, trunk strength, and right leg stance tests, indicating good agreement between 2 trials. CONCLUSIONS Home-based fitness assessments on the health mobile application were reliable and feasible. The results of fitness assessments can offer comprehensive understanding of health conditions and help to prescribe safe and suitable exercise training. CLINICALTRIAL ChiCTR2000030905

Owning Black Hair

2019 ◽  
pp. 73-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saran Donahoo
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Black Hair ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
White Space

Concentrating on Black women, this chapter examines microaggressions directed at members of this population through and because of their hair. Recognizing higher education as White space, this chapter considers the treatment, instructions, and even backlash that Black women receive as they assert their individual and cultural identities through their hairstyles. This chapter draws upon data collected from 30 Black women affiliated with higher education as students and/or professionals to illustrate how hair microaggressions affect their experiences on campus. The responses provided by these Black women illustrate how their hair attracts attention, has the potential to challenge or conform to White appearance norms, and illuminates higher education continuing to function as White space.

Rethinking the allocation criteria of the labour law rights and protections: A risk-based approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-141
Author(s):  
Federico Fusco
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Production Model ◽  
Labour Law ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Economic Framework ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
Allocation Criteria ◽  
Market Transaction ◽  
The Way

The present paper investigates the ongoing validity of the notion of subordination as selection criteria to allocate the labour protections in the contemporary economic framework. The gig economy is deeply affecting the way of working, transforming the employee in a service provider. This phenomenon is partially due to the progressive shift from a firm-based production model towards a market transaction based one. Although its lawfulness is still unclear, it highlights that the way of working is changing in a way that struggles to fit into the classic legal categories. This is mainly due to the fact that the labour protections are usually bestowed moving from a notion of subordination highly focused on the organisational element. Thus, economic actors suffering from the same economic weakness of the employees, but organisationally independent, struggle to obtain the necessary protections. Moving from those remarks the author suggests rethinking the allocation criteria of the labour protections, adopting economic weakness as the main criterion. This category should encompass all the individuals performing a working activity that are not able to significantly influence its financial outcome. The aim of such reform should be to extend the labour protections to all the subjects needing them. The final part of the paper investigates the possible solutions under the current legal framework. The major finding is that under certain circumstances the gig workers can be qualified as temporary employees not of the platform, but of the contractor. In this scenario, the digital platforms should be deemed as job-placement service providers and, thus, they should comply with the relevant provisions. These include the eventual need of administrative authorisations and the free-of-charge principle, whose violations represent, in several jurisdictions, a criminal offence

“Fearfully and wonderfully made”: Black Caribbean women and the decolonization of thick Black female bodies

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 306-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamille Gentles-Peart
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Black Female ◽  
Body Politics ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
Black Feminists ◽  
Caribbean Women ◽  
Black Caribbean ◽  
Female Bodies

Black feminists promote decolonization as a strategy to recuperate Black women’s dignity and humanity from racist colonialist ideologies. In order to fully explore Black women’s emancipation, Black feminists have to explicitly consider how Black women break away from the ways in which thick Black female bodies have been defined by dominant white colonial cultures, and how Black women of different ethnicities engage in their own recovery of voluptuous Black female bodies. In this paper, I use a Black feminist intersectional lens to explore the ways in which Black Caribbean women recuperate thick Black female bodies from colonialist and racist ideologies. Specifically, using focus groups, I examine how these women participate in what I refer to as emancipatory thick body politics, discourses that challenge and resist the dehumanization of thick Black female bodies. Findings indicate that Black Caribbean women actively participate in decolonizing thick Black female bodies by forming sisterhood communities with other Black Caribbean women, re-defining womanhood, and engaging in transgressive interpretations of Christian doctrine.

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