fair (Post). Legalizing prostitution increase the overall health of sex workers‚ as is evident in Germany’s Red Light District (Reisenwitz‚ “Walking the Red”). It would also directly eliminate the 30% of abuse that comes from police and indirectly eliminate the rest under the threat of imprisonment (Reisenwitz‚ “Why it’s Time”) Laws legalizing prostitution would do more to improve the health and safety conditions of sex workers than laws banning it. Anybody who argues prostitution should be banned
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head so that if an object strikes the shell‚ the impact is less likely to be transmitted directly to the skull. Sometimes the helmet shell has a mid-line reinforcement ridge‚ which strengthens it against impact. Blue-collar workers‚ especially union shop construction workers‚ engaged in occupations that require protective equipment are sometimes metonymically referred to as "hard hats". A bump cap is a lightweight kind of hard hat with simplified suspension or padding in lieu of suspension and having
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5. THE CHALLENGE OF KNOWLEDGE WORKER PRODUCTIVITY Main Idea The most important contribution of management in the 20th Century was to increase manual worker productivity in manufacturing by around fifty-fold. The key management challenge of the 21st Century is to bring about a similar increase in the productivity of knowledge workers. Supporting Ideas All the economic and social gains of the 20th century‚ including the emergence of the "developed" countries‚ were made squarely on the back of increases
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Sexual Abuses of Female Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong “I never think about myself. I don’t have a choice.” said Cherry Narag‚ a Filipino domestic worker in Hong Kong. According to Hong Kong population statistics‚ there are more than 200‚000 foreign domestic workers (235‚ 274 as of December 2012) who live and work in Hong Kong. Majority of them came from Indonesia‚ Philippines and Thailand‚ they are very young (some even falsify their age just to come to work)‚ and often face a language barrier
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Employee benefits encompass a broad range of benefits—other than salary—that companies provide to their employees. Some of these benefits‚ such as workers’ compensation‚ social security‚ and unemployment insurance‚ are required by law. The majority of benefits offered to employees‚ however‚ are bestowed at the discretion of the business owner. Such benefits‚ which are commonly called "fringe" benefits‚ range from such major expenditures as paid holidays‚ health insurance‚ paid vacations‚ employee
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Injustice in the Fields Immigrant workers come to America in search of a better life. However‚ when they arrive they are faced with numerous hardships: inability to speak English‚ discrimination‚ and unfair wages in the worst jobs available. Due to earning low wages‚ immigrants live in unacceptable housing conditions. Because of their illegal status in the United States‚ immigrants are constantly taken advantage of. In spite of the pain and suffering‚ field workers still work very hard to pick the
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Themes Power of language: The migrant workers are given English names that deny their culture and heritage. "Charles Johnson‚ Nick Parker…The names strange in their foreign language were remembered like a number‚ much like the numbering in prison." "if they speak…in any language other than English‚ they will be jailed. A rule of the city." They are forced to be alienated from their own culture and are in turn disempowered. Plight of the worker: The migrants are objectified by likening them to
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Research Essay (Posted 4 March 2013) Deadline 19 April 2013‚ 2400 hours (for both hard and soft copies) Question 1a Question 1b Question 2 Question 3 Question 4 Question 5 Question 6 Question 7 Question 8 Lecture: ‘Marriage: A Precarious Endeavor’ Lecture: ‘Transformations to Marital Patterns in the Global Context’ Lecture: ‘Gender Equality: The Case of Hong Kong’ Lecture: ‘Domestic Violence‚ Past and Present & The Situation in Hong Kong’ Presentation: Gender‚ Violence & Masculinity Seminar:
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skilled labour. Malaysia has yet to conform to ILO’s minimum recognized standard. 1.2 Issue 2: Migrant Workers 233 In March 2010’s issue of Bloomberg Businessweek‚ Zappei (2010) discussed on Malaysia’s migrant workers. Amnesty‚ an organization campaigning for international human rights urged for Malaysia to protect its migrant workers’ rights as they found exploitation of these low skilled workers a common occurrence. Among the mistreatment faced are arbitrary arrests‚ low wages‚
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children as young as twelve feeling like the had a finical responsibility to provide for their families through labor. It is okay for them to fall behind in their education and no one really seem to care or encourage them to be more then a migrant worker. The one teacher in the film reminded them that they can only achieve the bare minimum and they will try to get them through school as quickly as possible so they go back to
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