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Creating compliance value through informal work procedures

Cogent Social Sciences, 2018
Informal work procedures are often untapped in organisations because they remain compartmentalised and unavailable for organisational learning. Trends from Auditor General Reports show the metastasising culture of non-compliance in local government and ...
Ogochukwu Nzewi, Modeni Sibanda, Nqobile Sikhosana, Maxwell Sentiwe   +3 more
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Decent work environment for informal workers: an emerging need

Journal of the College of Community Physicians, 2023
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Kumudu Weerakoon
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Drivers Vs Uber – The limits of the Judicialization: Critical review of London’s employment tribunal verdict in the case of Aaslam Y. & Farrar J. against Uber

Revue Interventions Économiques, 2017
This commentary provides a critical review of the verdict, issued in October 2016 by the London employment tribunals, that classified Uber drivers as ‘workers’ entitled of the minimum wage.
Rabih Jamil
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Making informal water distribution work: collective agency and self-organization in informal areas of Xochimilco, Mexico City

International Journal of the Commons, 2023
Global environmental change can disproportionately impact vulnerable populations in informal settlements already struggling with diminished access to resources, conditions of poverty, and other inequalities.
Bertha Hernandez, David Manuel-Navarrete, Amy M. Lerner, Jesus Mario Siqueiros   +3 more
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Informal employment of rural residents

Вестник университета
The theoretical foundations of the analysis of informal employment that have developed in modern sociological science have been considered, the modern society phenomenon characteristic patterns have been highlighted, and various interpretations of the ...
V. V. Levchenko, Ya. O. Bayandina
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Neither Free nor Forced: Survival Entrepreneurship, Household Governance, and Constrained Labor Among Displaced Syrian Women

Social Sciences
Entrepreneurship is widely promoted as a pathway to refugee self-reliance, yet the conditions under which entrepreneurial livelihoods unfold, and the forms of labor they generate, remain underexamined.
Rola ElAli, Gloria Haddad, Severine Le Loarne Lemaire, Farid Abdallah   +3 more
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Shift work, work time control, and informal caregiving as risk factors for sleep disturbances in an ageing municipal workforce

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2021
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to examine the contribution of shift work, work time control (WTC) and informal caregiving, separately and in combination, to sleep disturbances in ageing employees.
Marianna Virtanen, Saana Myllyntausta, Jenni Ervasti, Tuula Oksanen, Paula Salo, Jaana Pentti, Mika Kivimäki, Annina Ropponen, Jaana I Halonen, Jussi Vahtera, Sari Stenholm   +10 more
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Information work in information science research and practice

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2016
ABSTRACT Information science and technology researchers and practitioners discuss information activities a broad range of terms. A concept that often appears in colloquial discussions of information activities but that has received less systematic attention is that of information work. This panel gathers a group of information science
Huvila, Isto, Budd, John M., Lloyd, Annemaree, Palmer, Carole, Toms, Elaine   +4 more
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Informal workplaces and their comparative effects on the health of street vendors and home-based garment workers in Yangon, Myanmar: a qualitative study

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background Globally, two billion workers are employed informally but there is limited research on the relationship between informal work and health. Existing studies have focused on informality as an employment condition, with little emphasis on the ...
Thant Ko Ko, Julia Dickson-Gomez, Gisèle Yasmeen, Wai Wai Han, Katherine Quinn, Kirsten Beyer, Laura Glasman   +6 more
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Mental Health in Information Work [PDF]

European Work and Organizational Psychologist, 1993
Abstract The attention paid to problems related to mental health of employees in organizations is growing. Although the stress literature is huge and varied, most of the empirical studies are done in traditional work environments in which information technology and computers are of little importance.
Schalk, M.J.D., van den Berg, P.T.
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