Contemporary Forms of Slavery in Uruguay

This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.ASI_2006_OSR_Uruguay_Contemporary_forms.pdf: 72 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Hannah Morison

The history of Hannah Morison, one of the many "disappeared" women writers hitherto lost in the field of cultural amnesia, can only be conjectured from her sole volume of verse, Poems on Various Subjects, published in Newry, County Down, in 1817. In her preface, Morison claims to have been "nurtured in the bosom of retirement," and a brief reference to the rustic setting of her childhood school, near a "clacking mill," may indicate some familial connection with the local linen industry, though representations of indigenous weaving skills and domestic labour, except when defamiliarized through displacement into an exotic setting (see "A Tale"), are otherwise elided from Morison's writing. Whether this is symptomatic of genteel fastidiousness or indicative of a social position so liminal and precarious that to disclose her familiarity with labouring-class life would subject it to jeopardy cannot be determined. But the inclusion of translations "from the French" and allusions to Francis Bacon's Atlantis in the volume suggest that Morison had been educated far beyond the "hedge school" scraps commonly doled to the Irish Catholic underclass. Historically marked events, beginning with the death of Robert Burns in 1796, indicate that Morison's collection of sixty seven poems was written over at least twenty years. This prolonged gestation period and the absence of a subscription list make it unlikely that Morison wrote out of financial necessity. Poetic self-figurings as a witness of poverty and a giver of charity, plus her apparent familiarity with members of the professional classes in the Portadown Hunting Club and friendship with Joseph Nicholson, a prominent linen manufacturer from Bessbrook, a country village three miles north of Newry, also add to the sense of Morison's rural milieu and middle-class, Protestant affiliations

Arrested Development: Discrimination and slavery in the 21st Century

This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.ASI_2008_DBS_Albania_Arrested_Development.pdf: 65 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

The road less travelled: leadership and engagement of learners in a collaborative learning environment

[Abstract]: Historically at USQ we have taught information literacy classes in a very traditional instructional format. The training labs have rows of seating facing forward, and large computer monitors in front of participants. The trainer stands at the front with a whiteboard and projection screen. With innovations in teaching styles and developments in learning spaces, we are this year initiating a change to information literacy classes. Traditional training labs and teaching styles have been replaced by collaborative group learning spaces and a guided teaching style. As part of a refurbishment project, one of our training labs and an office area of the library have been set up to support collaborative learning. Subsequently in Semester 1, 2009 we will begin using the new collaborative learning facilities for all generic information literacy classes, and some faculty classes. In the past our training has focussed on the transmission of information and we have not fully engaged our students in the learning process. We have used PowerPoint’s and the Library website to conduct classes. Whilst the basic information we want to impart to students will be the same, the way we do this and hopefully the learning outcomes will change significantly with the shift to a collaborative teaching style and environment

1807-2007: Over 200 years of campaigning against slavery

This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.ASI_2005_DBS_UK_1807_2007.pdf: 183 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Contemporary Forms of Slavery in Paraguay

This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.ASI_2006_OSR_Paraguay_Contemporary_forms.pdf: 218 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020