One hundred and seventy-two male employees working in the pressing and store sections of a metal autoparts factory in eastern Thailand participated in the study. The aim of this study was to survey the health and well-being condition of Thai workers prior to corporation initiatives in applied ergonomics with the workers of the company. A retrospective study of official accident information, and...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the validity and reliability of the Thai version of the job content questionnaire (TJCQ) both 22-item and 45-item versions. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study encompassed 10,450 employees in Songkhla province, Thailand. A 45-item job content questionnaire (JCQ) was translated and back translated complying with the JCQ usage policy. TJCQ covers seven scales as follows: psyc...

Abstract The aim of this systematic review was to summarize and synthesize research results focusing on the work environment employees with an immigrant background in Sweden. We focus main conditions identified working how these may affect their health well-being. concept “minority stress” attachment theory are used understand interpret findings. systematically searched for literature published...

background : occupational stress is a psychosocial dimension of occupational health concept on social determinants of health, especially, job & environmental condition. recently, staff network of different government universities of thailand have called higher education commission, and ministry of education, thailand to resolve the issue of gov-ernment education policy (e.g. wage inequity, poor...

Abstract We analyze how native employees’ union membership rates change in response to foreign employees using Austrian administrative data for the period 2002 2012. Using an instrumental variables approach, our results indicate a negative effect of immigrant on unionization at firm level. The is result greater—mostly voluntary—turnover unionized firms with larger share migrants, but it not cau...

With the aging of the world's population comes the rising need for qualified direct long-term-care (DLTC) workers (i.e., those who provide personal care to frail and disabled older adults). Developed nations are increasingly turning to immigrant women to fill these needs. In this article, we examine the impact of three global trends-population aging, globalization, and women's migration-on the ...

K E Y W O R D S : immigrants, immigration, Latinos, metaphor, metonymy, political discourse, print media, Proposition 187, public discourse, racism Discourse & Society Copyright © 1999 SAGE Publications (London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi) Vol 10(2): 191–224 [0957-9265 (199904) 10:2; 191–224; 006826] ingly by voters in spite of a great deal of pre-election controversy surrounding its provi...