In the dissertation I explore the dynamics of production, exchange, and power in the town of Wazzan in northern Morocco. I focus on Wazzan's two salient realms of activity, its weaving trade and its religious order. I argue that underlying both domains is a similar generative se…
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This thesis is an ethnographic exploration of the politics and organization of daily work and local identity among Tashelhit (Berber) speaking farmers in the Western High Atlas, Morocco. Based on fourteen months of fieldwork in the village of Tagharghist, I examine local configu…
This research is motivated by the need to examine the constraints facing women in their labor force participation. Studying women's access to income is important because various studies have found women spend a larger proportion of their income on goods and services that benefit…
Children’s work in developing countries is generally depicted as competing with children’s education, harmful to children and societies, and a product of family strategies for confronting poverty. These assumptions remain problematic as they are built on research that focuses on…
La présente recherche vise à appréhender les mécanismes contextuels et familiaux qui régissent l'offre de travail des femmes au Maroc urbain. Les approches macrosociales ont souvent associé ce phénomène au développement économique et au changement qu'il induit dans la structure …
The problem of this study was to construct a valid and reliable scale to measure safety climate and to develop an explicative model of unsafe work behavior that included the following contributory factors to unsafe work behavior: (a) Perceived safety climate, (b) perceived hazar…
This study was prompted by the reflective essays submitted by paramedics in which they recounted traumatic experiences from work which seemed unprocessed. I subsequently became interested in how paramedics maintained their resilience and ‘survived’ their work as measured by for …
This thesis is an ethnography of how places like mountain pastures (jailoos), hydro-electric dams and holy sites (mazars) matter in striving for a good life. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in the Toktogul valley of Kyrgyzstan, this study contributes to theoretical questio…
This thesis investigates the profession of conference interpreting, adopting a comparative analysis of the profession as a social practice in the United Kingdom and Japan. Conference interpreting is a specialised, cognitively challenging oral language translation service, used i…
This thesis examines the relationship between work and identity amongst letterpress printers in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. It probes the sources of work-based identity and considers efforts to maintain, and even manipulate, a distinctive sense of trad…
At the centre of this research is a performance, entitled Recreation. This performance features in this thesis both as a constituent element, where the reader is invited to review video documentation of one of the live iterations halfway through, and as the primary choreographic…
This study examines how working women are represented in the news media, and its main aim is to determine to what extent ‘social class’ figures in the representations of women in news content. Using language, visual and narrative analysis, the thesis comprises four case studies …
In recent years much has been made of active and productive ageing policies, with the attempt to promote a more positive image of ageing. Despite this, negative representations of ageing and conceptualisations of older people as a ‘burden’ persist. This thesis presents an argume…
The thesis is a study of a Guaraní community (comunidad) situated in the Department of Santa Cruz in the southeastern lowlands of Bolivia. The thesis uses the concept of ‘comunidad’ as a focus of investigation. While this concept is one that is familiar and firmly embedded in co…
Like many other countries, Israel has recently reformed its welfare system and introduced its citizens to the requirement to enter the labour market. I refer to this requirement as the 'duty to work'. Israeli citizens are required to become economically independent rather than a…
This study addresses behaviors related to discrimination that individuals who wear religious attire encounter as applicants for employment in the sales and service-related sectors. Building from previous field studies regarding stigmatized groups in job settings (Hebl, Foster, M…
The moderating roles of: (1) individualism-collectivism; and (2) work locus of control on the organizational stress-psychological strain relationship and the relationship between psychological strain and the organizationally valued outcomes of job satisfaction, job involvement, …
This study relies on family systems theory and examines the influence of three dimensions of family life (home, work, and academic competence) on the three different groups of families, dual-career families (e.g., husbands and independent wives) and single-career families (e.g.,…
The acculturation of Arab-American women who work outside the home in gainful employment vs. those who do not was examined. Ninety-four participants in 6 states (TX, CA, MI, OH, KY, & PA) completed a modified version of the Acculturation Rating Scale for Mexican-Americans (Cuell…