The Dilemma of Vulnerable Groups During Lockdown: Implications for Social Work Education and Practice in Ghana by John Boulard Forkuor, Charles Selorm Deku, Eric Agyemang

“…This reflective essay discusses the paradoxes that the pandemic and the measures used to curb it have created for two vulnerable groups: informal economy workers and women and children in abusive relationships. …”
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“We must dig our trenches, and win or die”: Voltairine de Cleyre’s Transnational Anarchism by Rita Filanti

“…In her practice as a teacher among immigrant workers in Philadelphia and Chicago, as translator from French and Yiddish, and editor of Alexander Berkman’s prison memoir, she rejected the identification of one nation with one language. …”
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Systematization of scientific approaches in the contemporary motivation system and staff incentives by A. J. Bonyani

“…Such factors are digitalisation processes that require the acquisition of new competencies in this area not only for specialists and management personnel, but also for workers involved in the production of tangible products and the provision of services. …”
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Genetic Information to Share with Parents when Newborn Screening Reveals the Presence of Sickle Cell Trait by Narcisse Elenga

“…We received responses from 122 healthcare workers and members of sickle cell disease associations, in France and French overseas departments. …”
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Model and Algorithm for Dependent Activity Schedule Optimization Combining with BIM by Guofeng Ma, Xiaoye Liu

“…We first consider the different maturities of upstream activity before and after the overlapping, the downstream sensitivity which is decided by involving communication strategies, and the learning and error-correcting ability of workers. Then, the overlap and communication strategies are decided by calculating the maximum revenue using Monte Carlo simulation and MATLAB based on overlap cost, communication cost, rework cost, and reward amount. …”
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Social algorithms of the Chinese company Huawei Technologies management model by N. Yu. Paudyal

“…The basis of the ideology of a stable society of workers is the teaching of Confucius, based on the formula: “Let the father be the father, the son be the son, the official be the official, and the sovereign be the sovereign” and the idea of a classless society in the theory of socialism. …”
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Living, Caring, Learning - Thinking outside the box to solve care challenges in a rare blood disorder by Hibner Sandra

“…Alongside educating the parents, Sandra highlights the importance of her role in educating co-workers and other hospital staff likely to come into contact with the girl, to ensure that she always had access to timely and appropriate care. …”
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Anton Nilsson et l’écho d’une bombe. Malmö, 1908-1917 by Lars Berggren, Roger Johansson

“…He was a member of the Young Socialist movement in the working-class city of Malmö, he placed a bomb on the ship Amalthea, which housed 73 English strike breakers, in connection with an extensive dock worker conflict in the Swedish ports. Anton Nilsson was sentenced to death in a subsequent trial, but after extensive protests, also abroad, the death sentence was converted to life imprisonment. …”
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Book review: Residential Child Care: Collaborative Practice. Ian Milligan and Irene Stevens by Charles Sharpe

“…What is exciting about this book is that although it is about residential child care it is not solely directed at residential child care workers. It communicates with all the professional disciplines involved in nurturing and educating troubled children. …”

Dynamic Path Optimization in Sharing Mode to Relieve Urban Traffic Congestion by Hongmei Chen, Yuanhang Zhang

“…In recent years, a new mode of transportation, referred to as “shared commuter buses,” has been introduced, which can considerably reduce the dependence of office workers on private cars and relieve urban traffic congestion, but is not widely used owing to efficiency issues. …”
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As artes de fazer cotidianas de trabalhadoras domésticas inseridas em micro dimensões organizativas da vida social by Juliana Cristina Teixeira, Caroline Rodrigues Silva

“…Introducing the perspective of the organized social life of domestic workers, we refer to the study of organized social life, identifying the subjects studied as authors of micro-practices that directly contribute to critical organizational policies, sometimes ignored, in society and mainstream studies.…”
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Confiner les marges, marginaliser les confins : la souffrance des oubliés du lockdown dans les villes indiennes by Rémi de Bercegol, Anthony Goreau-Ponceaud, Shankare Gowda, Antony Raj

“…Dramatic images of migrant workers desperately fleeing the big cities to return home have circulated around the world. …”
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Methods and Approaches to Optimizing the Number of Staff by T. V. Suvalova

“…The methods for calculating the number of workers and managerial staff on the basis of the complexity of the production program and management functions on jobs and standards of service. …”
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Are Consumers Interested in Ornamental Plants That Benefit Pollinator Insects? by Hayk Khachatryan, Alicia Rihn

“… Population declines among bees, butterflies, and other pollinator insects are very worrying because 70% of the world’s food crop production depends upon these tiny insect workers. Fortunately, ninety million US households have yards, landscapes, or gardens that can enhance pollinator habitat and health. …”
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‘The silent Arachnes that weave unrestingly in our Imagination’: The Industrial Metaphoric Web in Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus by Marie Laniel

“…Carlyle’s modern-day Arachnes epitomize the painful changes experienced by factory workers, and their incessant spinning and weaving in the factory of the mind reflects the contamination of inner life by the rhythms of machinery. …”
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Gênero e raça no trabalho em tecnologia da informação (TI) by Jordão Horta Nunes

“…As regards race, a negative income differential for black workers becomes evident. The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method applied to this differential reveals a residue indicating the existence of discriminatory relations in the IT sector, which range from education, age, tenure and occupational position to wage gaps.…”
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The 'Rush Hour' of Life: Insecurities and Strains in Early Life Phases as a Challenge for a Life Course-Oriented, Sustainable Social Policy by Ute Klammer

“…Empirical data proves that, in Germany, the majority of flexibility risks in the labour market (such as fixed-time contracts, temp work, unemployment etc.) are taken by the young generation and by unskilled workers. If uncertain labour market attachment occurs in the stage of family planning, the resulting insecurity and uncertainty can lead to special challenges where professional and private demands have to be reconciled (the ‘rush hour’ of life). …”
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The Ethnic Hierarchy of the Taxi Industry: Structural Changes and Social Mobility Among Migrant Drivers by Helga Hiim Stålhane

“…Immigrant niches are often structured hierarchically, where workers are positioned in relation to their nationality or ethnicity. …”
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Correctional officers and the ongoing health implications of prison work by William J. Schultz, Rosemary Ricciardeli

“…We conduct a broad overview of the literature on correctional worker health and wellness, identifying key themes and major areas of concern. …”
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Performance Evaluation of China's Basic Pension Insurance Based on a Three-Stage Superefficient SBM-DEA Model by Zexing Xue, Zhengping Ma

“…The results show that the overall performance of the basic endowment insurance system for urban workers in all provinces of China shows a downward trend. …”
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