A major source of oppression in industrial and post-industrial society is the restrictive and highly authoritarian nature of the workplace. One response is to democratize the workplace by increasing the participation of workers in making decisions and in choosing and evaluating managers as well as sharing in the ownership of the firm. These are not new ideas, and there are many examples of orga...

Health promotion interventions with marginalised groups are increasingly expected to demonstrate genuine community participation in their design and delivery. However, ideals of egalitarian democratic participation are far removed from the starting point of the hierarchical and exploitative social relations that typically characterise marginalised communities. What scope is there for health pro...

Despite the surge of interest in platform cooperatives, we have a limited understanding dynamics worker-member participation these cooperatives. Drawing on interviews with 21 senior leaders and founders worker investigate participation, finding that cooperatives experience some successes many challenges. We then build theory about how four distinct features cooperatives—the facilitation multiho...

Proposals to amend the old-age and survivors insurance program and the widespread adoption of industrial pension plans have renewed interest in the eflect of retirement on the individual worker. In the following pages, data from three Government programs, including old-age and survivors insurance, and from several private pension plans are examined to determine what retirement means in terms of...

background :work ability assessment and its affecting factors are important in the field of occupational health. one of the factors affecting work ability is sleep disorder, which is very common among workers. therefore, the present study aimed to assess work ability and its relationship with sleep disorder in workers of a manufacturing plant.   methods : this cross- sectional study was conduct...

Given the increasing broadcasting data and the ever decreasing spare time that we can spend on consuming this data, systems are required that assist us in identifying important content. Following a use case of a fictional social worker, we introduce a video retrieval system that is designed to assist special interest groups in their information gathering task.

introduction dna damage is among the main consequences of radiation. of many different classes of dna damage, double-strand breaks are the most deleterious. development of a sensitive biodosimetry method, which utilizes a detection material with a similar construction to the body, seems essential for monitoring radiation workers. in this study, histone h2ax protein was examined as a potential  ...

chainsaw is an important machine for tree felling limbing and bucking in hyrcanian forest and the major problems related to using forest machines was sound intensity. the aim of this study was to measure the sound level in occupational exposure of workers, determine the exposure time of workers and comparison of the variables among the workers. this study was carried out in namkhaneh district i...

Four experiments demonstrated implicit self-esteem compensation (ISEC) in response to threats involving gender identity (Experiment 1), implicit racism (Experiment 2), and social rejection (Experiments 3-4). Under conditions in which people might be expected to suffer a blow to self-worth, they instead showed high scores on 2 implicit self-esteem measures. There was no comparable effect on expl...