WSJ: Relative Blames Suicide At China Factory For Mattel Toys On Dispute With Supervisor

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Social network analysis of rural medical school immersion in a rural clinical school

Background: The impact of new medical graduates on the social dimensions of the rural medical workforce is yet to be examined. Social Network Analysis (SNA) is able to visualize and measure these dimensions. We apply this method to examine the workforce characteristics of graduates from a representative Australian Rural Clinical School. Methods: Participants were medical graduates of the Rural Clinical School of Western Australia (RCSWA) from the 2001–2014 cohorts, identified as being in rural work in 2017 by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency. SNA was used to examine the relationships between site of origin and of work destination. Data were entered into UCInet 6 as tied pairs, and visualized using Netdraw. UCINet statistics relating to node centrality were obtained from the node editor. Results: SNA measures showed that the 124 of 709 graduates in rural practice were distributed around Australia, and that their practice was strongly focused on the North, with a clear centre in the remote Western Australian town of Broome. Women were strongly recruited, and were widely distributed. Conclusions: RCSWA appears to be a “weak tie” according to SNA theory: the School attracts graduates to rural nodes where they had only passing prior contact. The multiple activities that comprise the social capital of the most attractive, remote, node demonstrate the clear workforce effects of being a “bridge, broker and boundary spanner” in SNA terms, and add new understanding about recruiting to the rural workforce

Multivariable analysis of the mechanics of penetration of high speed particles

Multivariable analysis of mechanics of penetration of high speed particle

Blonde Roots, Black History: History and the Form of the Slave Narrative in Bernardine Evaristo's Blonde Roots

This article explores the relationship between literary form and the representation of history in Bernardine Evaristo’s Blonde Roots (2008). The text is premised on an ironic racial reversal of the Atlantic slave trade. As such, this single moment in international history is mobilised, brought into different contexts and demonstrated to be inherently malleable. In addition, Evaristo makes a critical engagement with the slave narrative form and highlights its limited and limiting nature. Blonde Roots is self-consciously full of narrators and narratives and contradicts any sense of a fixed historical vision of Atlantic slavery. Evaristo’s novel mindfully disrupts this history in order to demonstrate the myriad ways in which the Atlantic slave trade is relevant to a contemporary context. Although Blonde Roots retains Atlantic slavery as its central moment, it is a radical re-vision of its familiar history, and the texts which narrate it. Through these distortions Evaristo’s novel paradoxically demonstrates both the unreliability of the historical event and the shockwaves that still resound from it, and calls into question easy constructions of black British identities that are based upon the history of Atlantic slavery

Alienation and emotion: social relations and estrangement in contemporary capitalism

YesIn this article I look at the emotional effects of alienation in modern capitalist societies. I begin by considering Marx’s theory of alienation, focusing especially on the alienation between people and between them and the social institutions to which they should be connected. In this way, alienation is understood as a form of estrangement within social relations and I draw out the emotional implications of this, in terms of the relations between people and in the way people feel about their own self. This is enhanced through an understanding of emotions as relational phenomena, a position highly attuned to Marx’s own mode of social analysis. I then illustrate and develop this understanding of alienation and emotion by drawing on the empirical examples of political relations and property relations in the UK, concluding with a discussion of what this tells us about alienation and emotion in contemporary capitalist societies

British Society and the Jews: A Study into the Impact of the Second World War Era and the Establishment of Israel, 1938-1948.

The thesis examines the relationship between Britain’s Jews, both established and refugee, with the host community from 1938 to 1948. The relationship is studied in the light of events in Europe and the Near East from the 1938 Anschluss to the 1948 founding of Israel and the ways they impacted upon Jews in Britain. The work shows a positive reaction towards Jews in Britain, with few, but specific exceptions. Existing academic work has often concentrated on those exceptions, particularly in the East End of London. This study looks at the wider Jewish experience to show a more peaceful and tolerant coexistence than has formally been presented, especially to recently arrived Jews. The focus of the thesis is on the different personal experiences of Jews in Britain, against the more familiar high political context of the period. The thesis does not dispute the existence of anti-Semitism, but shows that it was limited to traditional geographical areas and has been in many cases confused with a more general xenophobia towards any ‘outsider’ or ‘foreigner’. It also deals with what the study refers to as ‘pragmatic’ government decisions regarding Jews and highlights some non-Jewish reactions which have been seen as discriminatory, but in fact were often born out of naive ignorance or having no realistic alternative. Using different approaches to examine a wide and fragmented cross section of Jews, the thesis shows the internal struggle many faced when dealing with the issues of what it meant to be British, a Jew and for some, a desire to have a safe homeland in Palestine. Overall, it is a study in the transformation of Jewish society in Britain from being deferential and submissive to one of assertiveness and self-reliance born out of necessity