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âHands Upâ: Female Call Centre Workersâ Labour, Protest and Health in the Seoul Digital Industrial Complex, Korea
This paper is based on research into the lived experience of female call centre workers in South Korea. A call centre has become a representative field-site to investigate the suffering of female workers in Korea, having been likened to the âsweatshop of the 20th centuryâ because of its panopticon-like supervision, regimentation of time, repetitive work. In reality, the current lives of female call handlers in Seoul Digital Industrial Complex seems not to improve compared to the past lives of the factory girls of the textile industry in the 1970s and 80s at the same industrial area, called Guro Industrial Complex. It can be inferred particularly from the perspectives of âchemical employeeshipâ (i.e. workers depending on chemicals including caffeine and cigarette to work longer and harder for securing oneâs job) and âcultural gravityâ (i.e. workers following the cultural force operating to demand their body be docile and industrious)
In the context of Korean call centre industry, I have sought the workerâs reality of labour, protest and health through focusing on three different types of âhands up.â The first âhands upâ describes that call handlers have to put oneâs hands up to go to the toilet, which is humiliating to them and represents the unfair working condition. Secondly, the use of âhands upâ is a gesture of defiance of the first call centre labour union in Korea. I explored how hard it was physically and mentally to establish the collective resistance, but also observed the call handlersâ shrunken bodies or daunted mind could stretch out through the opportunity created by the labour union. Lastly, I found female call handlersâ âhands upâ gesture as a self-healing exercise, called âmompyeogi undongâ meaning âstretching body exercise.â This exercise helped the participants improve their health physically and mentally as well as elevating self-esteem
An aesthetics of touch: investigating the language of design relating to form
How well can designers communicate qualities of touch?
This paper presents evidence that they have some capability to do so, much of which appears to have been learned, but at present make limited use of such language. Interviews with graduate designer-makers suggest that they are aware of and value the importance of touch and materiality in their work, but lack a vocabulary to fully relate to their detailed explanations of other aspects such as their intent or selection of materials. We believe that more attention should be paid to the verbal dialogue that happens in the design process, particularly as other researchers show that even making-based learning also has a strong verbal element to it. However, verbal language alone does not appear to be adequate for a comprehensive language of touch. Graduate designers-makersâ descriptive practices combined non-verbal manipulation within verbal accounts. We thus argue that haptic vocabularies do not simply describe material qualities, but rather are situated competences that physically demonstrate the presence of haptic qualities. Such competencies are more important than groups of verbal vocabularies in isolation. Design support for developing and extending haptic competences must take this wide range of considerations into account to comprehensively improve designersâ capabilities
IMPACT: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning. Volume 6, Issue 1, Winter 2017ï»ż
IMPACT: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning is a peer-reviewed, biannual
online journal that publishes scholarly and creative non-fiction essays about the theory, practice and
assessment of interdisciplinary education. Impact is produced by the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching &
Learning at the College of General Studies, Boston University (www.bu.edu/cgs/citl)
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Socially Responsible Investing from a Christian Perspective
This paper attempts to determine the criteria that make investing in a particular company ethical according to a Christian economic ethic. Categories examined include product, environmental impact, employee relations, multinational corporations, and corporate governance
Big World, Small Planet â Module 4: Wants Versus Needs: Pushing the Boundaries, Teacher Edition
Big World, Small Planet â Module 4: Wants Versus Needs: Pushing the Boundaries, Teacher Edition
We live in an interconnected world. Movies, music, news, manufactured goods like clothing and electronics, and people travel across the globe. With this much exchange of ideas, culture, and material goods, our actions in one region are sure to affect people living in other regions. Understanding how and where we connect can help us understand how we might impact others. This understanding can also help us find ways to make these new lines of contact work benefit of all
The codetermination bargains: the history of German corporate and labour law
Why does codetermination exist in Germany? Law and economics theories have contended that if there were no legal compulsion, worker participation in corporate governance would be âvirtually nonexistentâ. This positive analysis, which flows from the ânexus of contractsâ conception of the corporation, supports a normative argument that codetermination is inefficient because it is supposed that it will seldom happen voluntarily. After discussing competing conceptions of the corporation, as a âthing in itselfâ, and as an âinstitutionâ, this article explores the development of German codetermination from the mid-19th century to the present. It finds the inefficiency argument sits at odds with the historical evidence. In its very inception, the right of workers to vote for a company board of directors, or in work councils with a voice in dismissals, came from collective agreements. It was not compelled by law, but was collectively bargained between business and labour representatives. These âcodetermination bargainsâ were widespread. Laws then codified these models. This was true at the foundation of the Weimar Republic from 1918 to 1922 and, after abolition in 1933, again from 1945 to 1951. The foundational codetermination bargains were made because of two âGoldilocksâ conditions (conditions that were âjust rightâ) which were not always seen in countries like the UK or US. First, inequality of bargaining power between workers and employers was temporarily less pronounced. Second, the trade union movement became united in the objective of seeking worker voice in corporate governance. As the practice of codetermination has been embraced by a majority of EU countries, and continues to spread, it is important to have an accurate positive narrative of codeterminationâs economic and political foundations
The river and the factory: Momentum and shifting dynamics between the Shenandoah River and Avtex Fibers, 1939-1989
From 1940-1989, a huge rayon factoryâat one time the largest in the worldâoperated on the banks of the South Fork of the Shenandoah River in the Town of Front Royal, Virginia. Three different companies owned the facility: American Viscose Corporation (AVC) built it in 1939 and ran it until 1963 when the Food Machinery Corporation (FMC Corp.) conglomerate purchased AVC. In 1976, an FMC executive bought the rayon plant in Front Royal in a leveraged buyout, renaming the facility Avtex Fibers, Inc. From early on, the plant had serious problems with waste materialsâincluding many toxic substancesâproduced when manufacturing rayon. During nearly 50 years of operation, the plantâs approach to toxic waste was to rely on insufficient and frequently outdated procedures and technologies, keeping a significant portion of the waste on-site. The South Fork of the Shenandoah, a crucial resource for the rayon plant and important ecological entity in its own right, suffered the consequences. Although the plantâs engineers were never able to protect the river, many outside peopleâfrom sport fishermen to state officialsâattempted to do so. Over the plantâs operating life, changes in environmental awareness led to changes in law that ultimately caught up with the plant. In 1989, after years of controversy, Avtex Fibers closed its doors. The operations might have ceased sooner were it not for close connections between the rayon plant and the military, which granted it a strong degree of protection from environmental regulation for most of its operating life. This paper examines the entwined histories of the Shenandoah River and the rayon factory at Front Royal, especially the origins of its problematic waste disposal practices, and focuses on the changing dynamics that ultimately gave the health of the riverâtreated for so many years as a raw material and waste receptacleâpriority over the factory. This history provides a microcosm to examine human interaction with the encompassing natural world, highlighting the limits of human knowledge with regard to predicting environmental consequences, the agency of environmental systems, and the possibilities for checking the momentum of technological systems that harm the environment
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