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The main purpose of this volume is to demonstrate, through a variety of texts covering a vast historical period and from diverse sources (parliamentary reports, letters, memoirs, excerpts of books, newspaper articles, oral testimonies, and related materials) that Scotland cannot be reduced to the traditional images of kilt and bagpipe. The author has often chosen to let common people speak-those people whose voice is seldom heard in traditional history books. Any book written about the history of the Scottish nation that would leave aside such significant events as the Union of Parliaments in 1707, the Jacobite risings of the first half of the 18th century, the Highland clearances, or the process of devolution would most definitely be described as incomplete. But a book about the history of Scotland in which the voices of the elites would be the only ones to be heard would be just as incomplete. The author hopes that his “wandering among words written by others” in temples to knowledge such as the National Archives of Scotland and the National Library of Scotland will ultimately lend new life to those fragments of the past without which it is impossible to understand the present.
History --- histoire contemporaine --- vie agricole --- vie ouvrière --- histoire moderne --- Écosse --- history --- Scotland --- working conditions
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This open access book offers a multidisciplinary and comprehensive perspective regarding the immediate and long-term effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on coworking spaces in the European Region. The current pandemic has imposed several effects on work and spaces for work. Some are immediate effects and will last for a short time (such as the closing down of the space), some will last longer (namely, the reorganisation of the space to meet the physical distancing), and some will stay for a long time (remote working and hybrid working). Although the literature on coworking spaces and the effects of the pandemic is growing fast, empirical studies are yet limited. Within this context, this book seeks a twofold aim: (i) to contribute to the fast-growing literature on coworking space and their effects at different scales; (ii) to present a multidisciplinary perspective about the effects of the yet-lasting Corona-pandemic effects on the patterns of remote working and consequently on coworking spaces, as the most diffused form of new working spaces.
Work environment. --- Climate, Workplace --- Environment, Work --- Places of work --- Work places --- Working conditions, Physical --- Working environment --- Workplace --- Workplace climate --- Workplace environment --- Worksite environment --- Environmental engineering --- Industrial engineering
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What does it mean to work in the retail sector today? In Switzerland, two giants share almost the whole market. In order to stay competitive, they intensify the work, demand more availability from their employees and deskill certain positions. How do the store managers achieve profitability objectives despite the constraints in this context? How do the cashiers cope with the increasing automation of their jobs? How do the shelf workers reconcile customer contact with ever-increasing time constraints? This book explains how neoliberal working time patterns are taking place in the supermarkets and questions the evolution of the working day in our society. The study is based on 78 interviews with managers, shop floor workers and union officers. Nicola Cianferoni is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Geneva and the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.
Sociology: work & labour --- Automation --- Companies --- Economy --- Labour Process --- Labour market --- Flexibility --- Large retail --- Neoliberalism --- Occupation --- Political economy --- Profitability --- Retail --- Society --- Store --- Switzerland --- Trade --- Wholesale industry --- Work reorganization --- Working conditions --- Working time
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Austerity was presented as the antidote to sluggish economies, but it has had far-reaching effects on jobs and employment conditions. With an international team of editors and authors from Europe, North America and Australia, this illuminating collection goes beyond a sole focus on public sector work and uniquely covers the impact of austerity on work across the private, public and voluntary spheres. Drawing on a range of perspectives, the book engages with the major debates surrounding austerity and neoliberalism, providing grounded analysis of the everyday experience of work and employment.
Work environment. --- Employment (Economic theory) --- Economic policy --- Social aspects. --- Climate, Workplace --- Environment, Work --- Places of work --- Work places --- Working conditions, Physical --- Working environment --- Workplace --- Workplace climate --- Workplace environment --- Worksite environment --- Environmental engineering --- Industrial engineering --- Economics --- Economic nationalism --- Economic planning --- National planning --- State planning --- Planning --- National security --- Social policy --- austerity --- comparative perspectives --- critical perspectives --- real world challenges --- unemployment --- work --- work and employment --- youth unemployment
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This element reviews the evidence for three workplace conditions that matter for improving quality and safety in healthcare: staffing; psychological safety, teamwork, and speaking up; and staff health and well-being at work.
Public health personnel. --- Medical personnel. --- Health care personnel --- Health care professionals --- Health manpower --- Health personnel --- Health professions --- Health sciences personnel --- Health services personnel --- Healthcare professionals --- Medical manpower --- Professional employees --- Medical personnel --- Medical care --- Work environment. --- Quality control. --- Climate, Workplace --- Environment, Work --- Places of work --- Work places --- Working conditions, Physical --- Working environment --- Workplace --- Workplace climate --- Workplace environment --- Worksite environment --- Environmental engineering --- Industrial engineering
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This book provides a critical understanding of contemporary forced labour as a global social problem and argues that it should be located within the broader study of work-based harm.
Forced labor. --- Compulsory labor --- Conscript labor --- Labor, Compulsory --- Labor, Forced --- Employees --- Work environment. --- Unfair labor practices. --- Industrial relations. --- Abuse of. --- Unfair labor practices --- Industrial relations --- Labor laws and legislation --- Capital and labor --- Employee-employer relations --- Employer-employee relations --- Labor and capital --- Labor-management relations --- Labor relations --- Management --- Climate, Workplace --- Environment, Work --- Places of work --- Work places --- Working conditions, Physical --- Working environment --- Workplace --- Workplace climate --- Workplace environment --- Worksite environment --- Environmental engineering --- Industrial engineering --- Law and legislation
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The analysis of power systems under various conditions represents one of the most important and complex tasks in electrical power engineering. Studies in this area are necessary to ensure that the reliability, efficiency, and stability of the power system is not adversely affected. This issue is devoted to reviews and applications of modern methods of signal processing used to analyze the operation of a power system and evaluate the performance of the system in all aspects. Smart grids as an emerging research field of the current decade is the focus of this issue. Monitoring capability with data integration, advanced analysis of support system control, enhanced power security and effective communication to meet the power demand, efficient energy consumption and minimum costs, and intelligent interaction between power-generating and -consuming devices depends on the selection and implementation of advanced signal analysis and processing techniques.
convolutional neural networks --- multi-headed CNN --- CNN-LSTM --- forecasting --- solar output --- sliding window --- renewable energy --- data mining --- cluster analysis --- power quality --- global power quality index --- electrical power network --- distributed generation --- mining industry --- ward algorithm --- different working conditions --- power supply restoration --- power supply outages --- failures --- time intervals --- obtaining information --- information recognition --- connection harmonization --- virtual power plant --- distributed energy resources --- energy storage systems --- grid codes --- power systems --- smart grids --- prosumer --- business model --- economic efficiency --- sensitivity analysis
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Although workplace design and management are gaining more and more attention from modern organizations, workplace research is still very fragmented and spread across multiple disciplines in academia. There are several books on the market related to workplaces, facility management (FM), and corporate real estate management (CREM) disciplines, but few open up a theoretical and practical discussion across multiple theories from different disciplines. Therefore, workplace researchers are not aware of all the angles from which workplace management and effects of workplace design on employees has been or could be studied. A lot of knowledge is lost between disciplines, and sadly, many insights do not reach workplace managers in practice. Therefore, this new book series is started by associate professor Rianne Appel-Meulenbroek (Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands) and postdoc researcher Vitalija Danivska (Aalto University, Finland) as editors, published by Routledge. It is titled ‘Transdisciplinary Workplace Research and Management’ because it bundles important research insights from different disciplinary fields and shows its relevance for both academic workplace research and workplace management in practice. The books will address the complexity of the transdisciplinary angle necessary to solve ongoing workplace-related issues in practice, such as knowledge worker productivity, office use, and more strategic management. In addition, the editors work towards further collaboration and integration of the necessary disciplines for further development of the workplace field in research and in practice. This book series is relevant for workplace experts both in academia and industry. This second book in the series focuses on the role of workplace management in the organization and the tasks that workplace management needs to consider. The 18 theories that are presented in this book and applied to workplace research discuss management aspects from the organization’s perspective or dive deeper into issues related to people and/or building management. They all emphasize that workplace management is a complex matter that requires more strategic attention in order to add value for various stakeholders. The final chapter of the book describes a first step towards integrating the presented theories into an interdisciplinary framework for developing a grand workplace management theory.
Work environment. --- Work design. --- Design of work systems --- Job design --- Work systems design --- Methods engineering --- Climate, Workplace --- Environment, Work --- Places of work --- Work places --- Working conditions, Physical --- Working environment --- Workplace --- Workplace climate --- Workplace environment --- Worksite environment --- Environmental engineering --- Industrial engineering --- Action regulation theory --- Activity theory --- Alignment --- Asset management --- Attractive quality theory --- Behavioural economics theories --- biophilia hypothesis --- business continuity planning --- Corporate real estate --- Corporate real estate asset management --- CREAM --- CREM --- CREM branding --- CREM Maturity model --- decision making theories --- disaster management --- Ecological Systems theory --- Evolutionary psychology theories --- Facilities management --- Flourish theory --- FM --- Hospitality theory --- Information space --- Knowledge Creation theory --- Lean --- Life-span theory of control --- Management --- Management models --- Management theory --- Managing people and buildings
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Trouble in the workplace - whether it is bullying, harassment or stress - is always in the headlines. Yet, in many discussions, the research and statistics that are cited prove unreliable. This book summarizes the largest specialist research programme on ill-treatment in the workplace so far undertaken. It provides a powerful antidote to half-truths and misinformation and offers a new way of conceptualizing trouble at work, moving the discussion away from individualized explanations - and talk of ''bullies'' and ''victims'' - towards the workplace characteristics that cause trouble at work. T
DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books. --- Jones,Trevor Author. --- Lewis,Duncan Author. --- Robinson,Amanda Author. --- Business & Economics --- Commerce --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Marketing & Sales --- Employee rights. --- Bullying in the workplace. --- Labor laws and legislation. --- Employees --- Employment law --- Industrial relations --- Labor law --- Labor standards (Labor law) --- Work --- Working class --- Mobbing, Workplace --- Workplace bullying --- Workplace mobbing --- Employee rights --- Labor rights --- Rights of employees --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Law and legislation --- Civil rights --- Industrial laws and legislation --- Social legislation --- Work environment --- Labor laws and legislation --- Employee rules --- Bullying in the workplace --- E-books --- Problem employees. --- Employees, Problem --- Work environment. --- Climate, Workplace --- Environment, Work --- Places of work --- Work places --- Working conditions, Physical --- Working environment --- Workplace --- Workplace climate --- Workplace environment --- Worksite environment --- Environmental engineering --- Industrial engineering --- Harassment. --- Business and Management. --- Harassment in the workplace --- Workplace harassment --- Offenses against the person --- Intimidation
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"Precarious Claims tells the human story behind the bureaucratic process of fighting for justice in the U.S. workplace. The global economy has fueled vast concentrations of wealth that have driven a demand for cheap and flexible labor. Workplace violations such as wage theft, unsafe work environments, and discrimination are widespread in low-wage industries such as retail, restaurants, hospitality, and domestic work, where jobs are often held by immigrants and other vulnerable workers. How and why do these workers, despite enormous barriers, come forward to seek justice, and what happens once they do? Based on extensive fieldwork in Northern California, Gleeson investigates the array of gatekeepers with whom workers must negotiate in the labor standards enforcement bureaucracy and, ultimately, the limited reach of formal legal protections. The author also tracks how workplace injustices--and the arduous process of contesting them--carry long-term effects on their everyday lives. Workers sometimes win, but their chances are precarious at best"--Provided by publisher.
Working class --- Work environment --- Industrial safety --- Labor laws and legislation --- Law and legislation --- Climate, Workplace --- Environment, Work --- Places of work --- Work places --- Working conditions, Physical --- Working environment --- Workplace --- Workplace climate --- Workplace environment --- Worksite environment --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Industrial accidents --- Industries --- Job safety --- Occupational hazards, Prevention of --- Occupational health and safety --- Occupational safety and health --- Prevention of industrial accidents --- Prevention of occupational hazards --- Safety, Industrial --- Safety engineering --- Safety measures --- Safety of workers --- Employment --- Prevention --- Environmental engineering --- Industrial engineering --- Social classes --- Labor --- Accidents --- System safety --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology. --- american labor laws. --- equal employment protection. --- immigrant workers. --- inequality and power at work. --- labor and employment in the us. --- labor issues in the us. --- labor organization. --- race and ethnicity in low paying jobs. --- unsafe work environments. --- vulnerable workers in the us. --- wage theft. --- worker organization. --- worker protections. --- working class issues. --- working class rights. --- workplace issues in low wage occupations. --- workplace issues in the us.
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