Authorities, factory owners and workers: from social conflicts to revolution

efl teachers job satisfaction and social capital in relation to students’ motivation

abstract this mixed method study examines whether there is any relationship among the variables of the study (job satisfaction, social capital and motivation). the researcher considered job satisfaction and social capital as independent variables; motivation is the dependent variable of the study. the researcher applied a questionnaire to assess each variable. to measure efl teachers’ job sati...

Intensive Groundwater Use: Silent Revolution and Potential Source of Social Conflicts

Many papers, including a recent editorial of this journal Stakhiv 2003 , have advocated the need for a paradigm shift toward adaptive, integrated water resources management as a means to attain a rationalization in water use. There is, however, one significant element of water policy that has received less attention by most experts and water decision-makers: intensive groundwater use for irriga...

Hansae Vietnam's garment factory: Latest example of how corporate social responsibility has failed to protect workers.

willingness to communicate in the iranian context: language learning orientation and social support

why some learners are willing to communicate in english, concurrently others are not, has been an intensive investigation in l2 education. willingness to communicate (wtc) proposed as initiating to communicate while given a choice has recently played a crucial role in l2 learning. it was hypothesized that wtc would be associated with language learning orientations (llos) as well as social suppo...

Mortality from all cancers of asbestos factory workers in east

Objective—To give the observed and expected deaths due to cancer at all separate sites in asbestos workers in east London, and to analyse these for overall eVect and exposure-response trend. Methods—The mortality experience of a cohort of over 5000 men and women followed up for over 30 years since first exposure to asbestos has been extracted. Results—There was a large excess of deaths due to c...