Unit 2 Assignment 1 Essay 1 Argumentative Essay “College Girl to Call Girl” If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck. If you get paid to have sex, you are a prostitute. A lot has changed within the last one hundred years and not all for the best. It has come to the point where the “oldest” yet most ostracized profession in the world has become more socially acceptable and commonplace than ever in history. College students are choosing it as a means to
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Explain whether Jake's actions are in or out of his scope of employment. Jake’s actions are within the duty of care of his job, he is an auto mechanic technician and he takes pride in doing his job to the fullest degree. Auto mechanics “performs basic care maintenance, such as oil changes and tire rotations, diagnose more complex problems, and plan and execute vehicle repairs.” (Automotive service technicians, n.d., (¶ 1) There was a breach of duty, due to the overtime that Jake worked because
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Crisis on China’s Migrant Workers: A Survey of 2,700 in 2009 Mark Wang1 Abstract: An Australian geographer examines the effects of the global financial crisis on China’s migrant workers, based on a recent survey of over 2,700 such workers conducted during January–February 2009. The author focuses on the number of migrant workers returning to their home villages for the annual New Year holiday period, the types of workers that were laid off, options available to such workers upon losing employment
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biological hazards. Child workers tend to develop muscular, chest and abdominal pain, headaches, dizziness, respiratory infections, diarrhoea and worm infection. Poor working conditions make them more susceptible than their adult colleagues to infectious diseases, injuries and other workplace-related ailments. Many even experience amputations or loss of body parts. Moreover, children in certain occupations experience particular types of abuse. Child domestic workers are often found to be victims
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------------------------------------------------- Child labour From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A succession of laws on child labour, the so-calledFactory Acts, were passed in Britain in the 19th century. Children younger than nine were not allowed to work, those aged 9-16 could work 16 hours per day per Cotton Mills Act. In 1856, the law permitted child labour past age 9, for 60 hours per week, night or day. In 1901, the permissible child labour age was raised to 12.[1][2] Child labour refers
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of men. Women workers are concentrated in low paying dead end jobs. As a result, the average women worker earns only about three-fifths of that a man does, even when both work full time year round (U. S. Department of Labor, “20 Facts on Women Workers,” 1980). How did women inherit this inferior position in the United States work place? Has it always been this way? Has their position improved since the country industrialized at the turn of the century? Do male or female workers have control over
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found that poor countries with high rates of population growth have higher incidence of child work. In this study, the actual child laborers in Bangladesh are 3.2 million (ILO, report/ BBS, 2006) which age is 5-17years. About 421000 are domestic workers. The children are bound to do hazardous toils because of poverty. More than 1.3 million children work in hazardous situation. The Bangladeshi children deprived every winding of social and international aspects such as in trafficking, industrial works
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Principal Statistics of Labour Force, Malaysia, April 2011 Principal Statistics of Labour Force, Malaysia, July 2011 Labour market in Malaysia in July 2011 Indicator July 2011 Labour force (‘000) Employed (‘000) Unemployed (‘000) Outside labour force (‘000) Labour force participation rate, LFPR (%) Unemployment rate (%) … Not applicable r Series 26 Vol.10/2011 September 2011 Previous month June 2011 12,511.3 12,111.2 400.1 7,077.6 63.9 3.2 Change (%) 1.8 2.1 –4.9 –3.1 ... ... Same month
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Federalism, Cameron described social reproduction as two separate outlooks; “The concept includes but goes beyond physical recreation, in the sense of both biological reproduction and the daily maintenance of the current and future generation of workers” (Cameron, 45). The first outlook is the “biological reproduction”, the process of conception to childbirth, encompassing reproductive behavior, the “nonprofit procedure” and the second outlook, the “daily maintenance”—the day-by-day tasks of one’s
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- Case Study 1. Synopsis of the Case study UNISON is Britain and Europe’s biggest trade union that represents the 1.3 million strong workforce. The case study explains in the details, the analysis of the PEST analysis of the Migrant Workers Participation Project that is being run by them in U.K now. As a part of EU, U.K allows immigration of workforce from all E.U countries except Romania and Bulgaria. UNISON intends to enroll these immigrants as a part of their organization, so that they
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