scholarly journals Metal Workers and Plastic Workers

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Metal Workers

International forum of Metal Workers

Metallurgist ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-75
Author(s):  
Yu. V. Khitsenko
Keyword(s):  
International Forum ◽  
Metal Workers

Is Retirement a Crisis for Men? Class and Adjustment to Retirement

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 306-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilkka Pietilä ◽  
Toni Calasanti ◽  
Hanna Ojala ◽  
Neal King
Keyword(s):  
Paid Work ◽  
Class Groups ◽  
Popular Discourse ◽  
Metal Workers ◽  
Retirement Expectations ◽  
Crisis Discourse ◽  
Crisis Of Masculinity ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Retirement Crisis

Because paid work is taken to be central to manhood, scholarly and popular discourse have characterized retirement as presenting a “crisis of masculinity.” However, such a crisis is not borne out by research, perhaps because scholars have not considered how class might shape masculinities and thus expectations and experiences of retirement. Using data obtained from interviews with Finnish metal workers and engineers who are either approaching retirement or recently retired, we ask whether (1) this crisis discourse is reflected in their retirement expectations, (2) it matches their actual experiences of retirement, and (3) retirement disrupts the masculinities of some class groups more than others. We find evidence of this retirement crisis discourse in our respondents’ views of retirement, but not in their actual experiences, belying the homogeneity of masculinity implied by it. Class shapes both the perceived content of crises and the actual retirement experiences.

Change in prevalence of asbestos‐related disease among sheet metal workers 1986 to 2016

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (7) ◽  
pp. 609-615 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin H. West ◽  
Rosemary K. Sokas ◽  
Laura S. Welch
Keyword(s):  
Sheet Metal ◽  
Metal Workers ◽  
Related Disease ◽  
Asbestos Related Disease

Industry, Family, and Class: The Working-Class Community in Barreiro

1994 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-212
Author(s):  
Ana Nunes de Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Class Groups ◽  
Promotion Strategy ◽  
Scientific Debate ◽  
Metal Workers ◽  
Industrial Town ◽  
No Man's Land ◽  
Family Strategies

Frequently placed on the edges of scientific debate and analyzed in relation to problems or theoretical constructs specific to other social groups, the portrait of the “working-class family” is too often the product of logical deductions and a sort of no-man's land. The research project described by the present article concerns factories, working-class groups, and family strategies in Barreiro, a Portuguese industrial town near Lisbon, the Portuguese capital. Special attention is given to reconstructing the industrial experience at a regional level and to the study of workers in the cork and heavy metallurgical industries of Barreiro. The results suggest the internal diversity of the working-class world and two different kinds of linkeage between family and workplace life—the survival strategy of cork workers in the 1920s, and the promotion strategy of the metal workers in the 1950s.

Determinants of restrictive lung function in asbestos-induced pleural fibrosis

1990 ◽  
Vol 68 (5) ◽  
pp. 1932-1937 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. A. Schwartz ◽  
J. R. Galvin ◽  
C. S. Dayton ◽  
W. Stanford ◽  
J. A. Merchant ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Lung Function ◽  
Sheet Metal ◽  
Forced Vital Capacity ◽  
Vital Capacity ◽  
Pleural Thickening ◽  
Metal Workers ◽  
Pleural Fibrosis ◽  
Diffuse Pleural Thickening ◽  
Parenchymal Injury ◽  
Restrictive Lung Function

We evaluated whether restrictive lung function among asbestos-exposed individuals with pleural fibrosis was caused by radiographically inapparent parenchymal inflammation and/or parenchymal fibrosis. All 24 study participants were sheet metal workers who were nonsmokers with normal parenchyma on posteroanterior chest radiograph. These subjects had either normal pleura (n = 7), circumscribed plaques (n = 9), or diffuse pleural thickening (n = 8). After controlling for age, years in the trade, and pack-years of smoking, we found that sheet metal workers with diffuse pleural thickening had a lower forced vital capacity (P less than 0.001), total lung capacity (P less than 0.01), and CO-diffusing capacity of the lung (P less than 0.05) than those with normal pleura. Similarly, sheet metal workers with circumscribed plaques were found to have a reduced forced vital capacity; however, because of the small number of study subjects, this difference (regression coefficient = -11.0) was only marginally significant (P = 0.06). Although circumscribed plaque and diffuse pleural thickening were both associated with a lymphocytic alveolitis and a higher prevalence of parenchymal fibrosis on high-resolution computerized tomography (HRCT) scan, neither a lymphocytic alveolitis nor the finding of parenchymal fibrosis on HRCT scan influenced the relationship between pleural fibrosis and restrictive lung function. We conclude that pleural fibrosis is associated with restrictive lung function and abnormally low diffusion that appears to be independent of our measures of parenchymal injury (chest X-ray, bronchoalveolar lavage, and HRCT scan).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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