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Sick leave in the United Kingdom Post Office, 1850–1908
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper uses a large individual‐record‐level dataset on sick leave to examine adult morbidity in the United Kingdom between 1850 and 1908. From 1859 onwards postal workers were eligible to receive a pension or gratuity when they retired or were forced to stop working due to ill health.
Harry Smith +8 more
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Beyond Brunhild: reassessing women in the Fredegar Chronicle
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.Scholarly consideration of women in the seventh‐century Fredegar chronicle has long been dominated by the author’s hostility towards Brunhild, queen of Austrasia. Statistical analysis of Latin world chronicles before ad 900, however, shows that Fredegar’s representation of women was unusually high within this tradition.
Emily Quigley
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Aristocratic identification in Felix’s Life of Guthlac
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.Recent scholarship often sees high‐born monastics and clerics in early Christian England as part of the aristocratic class. Modern identity theories, however, suggest that social identity could be dynamic, situational, processual and discursive. In light of this concept, the present article reads Felix’s Life of Guthlac as a text that constructs an ...
Lek Hang Chan
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Bridging the work governance divide: Pluralism and performance
European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article introduces a new direction of studies that looks at the Workplace of the Future through enlarged interdisciplinary lenses. This article bridges the divide between different traditions – human resource management, industrial relations and economic democracy – arguing theoretically and demonstrating empirically their complementarity
Gustavo Magalhães de Oliveira +3 more
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Social Justice as a Catalyst for Ecumenical Engagement
The Ecumenical Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article provides a comprehensive overview of the historical formation of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America (FCC), examining the social and political context in the United States that shaped its adoption of ecumenical practices focused on social justice.
Geneva Blackmer
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History and Theory, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1955, Hisayuki Miyakawa published an article that sought to introduce American and European scholars to the work of the Japanese Sinologist Naitō Konan (1866–1934). Miyakawa drew particular attention to what he called the “Naitō hypothesis”—that is, Naitō’s argument that China became modern during the Song dynasty (960–1279).
CHRISTIAN DE PEE
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MONOLOGUE AND DIALOGUE IN ANTI-CLERICAL CRITICISM AND IN RELIGIOUS PRACTICE
Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2013 The problems of monologue and dialogue as communicative scenarios of religious activity implementation in the modern secular society are investigated in the paper. Dialogue and monologue prospects in religious associations' relations with one another and
E. O. Gavrilov
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Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We investigate the effect of ethnic diversity on occupational choices, particularly in care‐oriented occupations which are scarce in many high‐income countries. We use administrative data of all students in Switzerland to study two diversity dimensions: ethnic fractionalization and ethnic polarization.
Damiano Pregaldini +2 more
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Chronic Conditions: Beckett, Bergson and Samuel Johnson. [PDF]
J Med Humanit, 2016 Maude U.
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Intrastate Truck Driver Pay and Safety: A Longitudinal Analysis
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Truck drivers, their employers, and the public bear the costs of large truck crashes. Prior research finds that truck drivers tend to have fewer crashes when they are paid more, yet much of the U.S. industry operates with low pay and high turnover.
Kevin Conner +2 more
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