scholarly journals Employment Expectations and Gross Flows by Type of Work Contract

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes ◽  
Miguel A. Malo
Keyword(s):  
Gross Flows ◽  
Work Contract

scholarly journals Investor behavior in the mutual fund industry: evidence from gross flows

2012 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 541-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
George D. Cashman ◽  
Federico Nardari ◽  
Daniel N. Deli ◽  
Sriram V. Villupuram
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Investor Behavior ◽  
Fund Industry ◽  
Mutual Fund Industry ◽  
Gross Flows

The Work of Performativity: Staging Social Justice at the University of Southern California

10.1068/d344 ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 401-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna Houston ◽  
Laura Pulido
Keyword(s):  
Southern California ◽  
Food Service ◽  
University Of Southern California ◽  
Social Critique ◽  
Service Workers ◽  
Food Service Workers ◽  
The University ◽  
Work Contract ◽  
Alternative Reading

In this paper we offer an alternative reading of the role of performativity and everyday forms of resistance in current geographic literature. We make a case for thinking about performativity as a form of embodied dialectical praxis via a discussion of the ways in which performativity has been recently understood in geography. Turning to the tradition of Marxist revolutionary theater, we argue for the continued importance of thinking about the power of performativity as a socially transformative, imaginative, and collective political engagement that works simultaneously as a space of social critique and as a space for creating social change. We illustrate our point by examining two different performative strategies employed by food service workers at the University of Southern California in their struggle for a fair work contract and justice on the job.

Skeins, Scales, Discounts, Steam, and other Objects of Crowd Justice in Early French Textile Mills

1979 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
William M. Reddy
Keyword(s):  
Not Given ◽  
Textile Mills ◽  
Arbitration Board ◽  
A Charge ◽  
Work Contract

At 7:00 a.m. on 16 July 1833, M. Minder, owner of a cotton mill at Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, a small textile center in Alsace, announced to his spinners that he would henceforth be charging them 1 franc 20 centimes per week for dévidage, that is for the reeling and unreeling of roving or finished thread—a task accomplished by women in a separate workroom. In response, his spinners walked out of the mill. A local arbitration board (the Conseil des Prudhommes) would later rule that M. Minder had broken the work contract (the contrat du travail) since he had not given proper advanced notice to his laborers of the new charge for dévidage. In other words, the board ruled that the laborers had in fact become legally free to leave work by virtue of Minder's improper announcement. Even though all ninety-five of them walked out en masse, they did not thereby constitute an illegal coalition since their unwritten contract with M. Minder as denned by law had been broken first by Minder's failure to give notice. The laborers' subsequent actions, however, did constitute a coalition; and ten of them were later prosecuted under the anti-coalition statutes. They marched directly to several neighboring mills and tried to induce their fellow spin- ners to join them in the streets. Everyone in town knew that M. Minder had not acted alone, that most local mill owners planned to institute a charge for dévidage.

scholarly journals The Interplay among Age and Employment Status on the Perceptions of Psychosocial Risk Factors at Work

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (10) ◽  
pp. 3611 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerio Ghezzi ◽  
Tahira M. Probst ◽  
Laura Petitta ◽  
Valeria Ciampa ◽  
Matteo Ronchetti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Employment Status ◽  
Psychosocial Risk Factors ◽  
Psychosocial Risk ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Conservation Of Resources ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Contingent Employees ◽  
Work Contract

While the role of individual differences in shaping primary appraisals of psychosocial working conditions has been well investigated, less is known about how objective characteristics of the employee profile (e.g., age) are associated with different perceptions of psychosocial risk factors. Moreover, previous research on the link between employment status (i.e., work contract) and such perceptions has provided mixed results, leading to contradictory conclusions. The present study was conducted on a nationally representative sample of theItalian employed workforce surveyed with computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) methodology. The principal aim of the study is to bridge this gap in the extant literature by investigating the interplay between two key characteristics of the employee profile (i.e., age and work contract) in shaping employees’ perceptions of psychosocial risk factors. Given the disparate literature scenario on the interplay between age and employment status in shaping primary appraisals of psychosocial stressors, we formulated and compared multiple competitive informative hypotheses. Consistent with the principles of the conservation of resources (COR) theory, we found that older contingent employees reported a higher level of psychosocial risk than their permanent peers who, in turn, were more vulnerable than middle-aged and younger workers (regardless of their employment status). These results highlight the importance of simultaneously assessing multipleobjective variables of the employee profile (i.e., age and employment status) which may act to shape subjective perceptions of psychosocial risk factors for work-related stress. Given our findings, employers and policy makers should consider older contingent employees as one of the workforce sub-populationsmost vulnerable to negative work environments.

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