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The Struggle for Rights at Work: Electrical Workers, Shop-Floor Action and Industrial Legality, 1940s-1960s
(2010-06-23)
One of the central elements of post-World War II Canadian labour legislation is the ban on strikes and lockouts during the term of a collective agreement. Unions and employers are expected to settle any disputes over ...
Connecting Learners in Self-Paced Undergraduate Study: Practitioner Cases
(2014-01-16)
Enabling students to take responsibility for and make choices about aspects of their learning is an important affordance of distance education. Distance learners determine the time and place for their studies—those engaged ...
Food Adverts on Children's Programs on TV in South Africa
(2008-06-09)
Research in the U.S.A. since the early 1990s has shown that adverts that appear on children’s programs on TV are the antithesis of the recommended diet. They are mainly for fast foods and for foods rich in sugar and fat. ...
Advertising for food and dietary supplements in the print media in South Africa
(2012-11-15)
Objective:
To survey advertisements for food and beverages, slimming products, and dietary supplements in South African magazines.
Methods:
We examined the 5 most popular magazines over one year. They are in 3 major ...
Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Reusable Learning Objects
(2007-10-05)
Our ongoing work at London Metropolitan University investigates effective ways to design learning environments that add mobile learning into blended higher education modules. Our approach is one of evolutionary, iterative ...
Social Enterprise Partnerships: Tools for Conviviality
(2008-11-14)
Pat Conaty is a UK-based BALTA collaborator with the New Economics Foundation. His presentation to the 2008 BALTA symposium focused on financing and legal frameworks for the social enterprise sector, both generally and ...
Social Enterprise Practices in Britain and Europe
(2008-11-12)
This presentation was given at a workshop in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, co-sponsored by the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) and the Edmonton Community Foundation. It provided an overview of social ...
A Case Study Of Kitsaki Development Corporation
(Centre for Community Enterprise, 1993)
This selection from the book “Regional Development from the Bottom Up” (Centre for Community Enterprise, 1993) details the evolution of one of Canada's foremost community economic development corporations in the 1980s and ...
Complexity, Healthcare Systems and the Aporias of Healthcare Reform
(2014-01-16)
Paradoxically, “complexity” in health care systems has spurred both an application of complexity theory to health care organizations and a greater assertion of health care’s essentially political nature. This “increasingly ...
Limiting facades of conformity and its impact: The role of supportive employment relationships
(2012-11-15)
This research investigated whether perceived organizational support and leader member exchange affect employees’ use of facades of conformity, and how facades of conformity affect employee outcomes such as emotional ...