never recovered from the accident scene. In an obvious attempt to avoid application of the workers ’ compensation law‚ the complaint stated that all exposures originated in Silkwood ’s apartment. A pretrial motion for the exclusive application of the workers ’ compensation law was properly denied because accurate issues had not been resolved as to how the exposure occurred. The Kerr-McGee assertion that workers ’ compensation applied to the personal injuries was reasserted at the conclusion of the case
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committed by industries or their employers. Structural violence can be when a worker is prevented their basic needs often due to their identity or class status. Structural violence includes the health problems frequently faced by agricultural workers. Nearly all migrant workers are under rated for the field work they perform‚ and the work takes a toll on their body‚ and overall health. Migrant Farmworkers are mostly seasonal workers‚ where they can travel with the seasons‚ in order to acquire money to survive
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They are in fact earning more money in Hong Kong as a domestic worker than they would in the Philippines doing a middle-class occupation (Oishi‚ 2005). The ‘nannie-chain’ is the growing need for quality child care‚ which female migrant labour has become the answer. Asia is now both a major destination for female migrant labour and a source of labour to the world (Oishi‚ 2005). Filipina domestic workers usually can’t afford the higher costs of maintaining a family in the industrialised
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Foreign Maids A domestic worker (maid) is a person who works within the employer’s household. Domestic workers perform a variety of household services for an individual or a family‚ from providing care for children and elderly dependents to cleaning and household maintenance‚ known as housekeeping. Responsibilities may also include cooking‚ doing laundry and ironing‚ food shopping and other household errands. Some domestic workers live within the household where they work. The
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Migration United Nations Educational‚ Scientific‚ and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) What is a migrant worker? Migrant workers are people working outside of their home country. Migrant workers bring labor to nearly every industry. Some migrant workers can also be known as skilled migrants. Skilled migration has occurred throughout the world. Skilled migration includes migrant worker who have left their homelands in order to pursue a more efficient way of life. All around the world people continue
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novel through the migrant workers. Ondaatje expresses this through harsh sensory imagery when describing them‚ by saying‚ “The smell of tar seeps up through the porous body of their clothes. The black of it permanent under their finger nail” This sensory imagery and hyperbole‚ “permanent under their finger nails‚” allows the reader to empathise with the workers and therefore relate to the harsh conditions in the workplace. In this quote Ondaatje describes the workers through use of impersonal pronouns
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law enforcement has a system setup to entrapment sex workers. The undercover cop may act as a john‚ pulling up to the sex worker as if he or she is interested in purchasing sex‚ however‚ they end up raping the worker or arresting them; this system is set up to abuse and arrest these workers. This action creates distrust in the system and leaves the worker nowhere to turn if she is abused because the system is busy abusing her. Female sex workers are being criminalized for selling their time‚ and their
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Each year‚ there are thousands of injuries and triple-digit numbers of fatal accidents related to machine and equipment operation. A lot of these accidents involve the operator‚ but over half involve people on the ground - spotters‚ co-workers‚ laborers‚ shovel hands‚ passers-by and sidewalk superintendents who get too close. And because of the forces and physics involved‚ these are usually not first-aid injuries; there is often an ambulance and sometimes a coroner called to the jobsite. Road Construction
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Throughout the world legalizing prostitution has created many controversial debates on how this act can affect the society globally and locally. Prostitution is the act of exchanging sexual acts for some form of payment and income. Prostitution does not only effect the women and men participating in these sexual acts. It also effects the friends and family of each partner. It is legal in some countries‚ such as Columbia and Chile‚ but it is illegal in every state in the United States‚ except some
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Inrtoduction: Domestic workers are called a friendly term in Manila "Kasambahay": to emphasize they are part of the household. The bill is yet to be signed in Congress to provide legal recognition for the domestic workers and recognize the important role that Kasambahay plays in the building of the family and of society. Filipinos oftentimes depend on the services of domestic house helpers for the orderly management of their households. Unfortunately‚ even if they perform vital day-to-day functions
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