A Foucaultian analysis of power relations in child protection case work with youth and families

This thesis takes some steps in examining the child protection system from a position that is rarely discussed. Specifically, I explore how Foucault's concept of disciplinary power can be used to demonstrate how power operates within the client/worker relationship. This relationship is shown to be quite complex with power flowing bidirectionally, rather than hierarchically. Instead of viewing power imbalances as a function of state control, I show how the client/worker relationship is constituted by the worker, the client, the organization and the social body. A postmodern auto ethnography is used to document my journey as I expose the disciplinary practices and instruments that I was subject to and used with my clients. 2 Given that the child protection system is constantly shifting and changing in order to improve its ability to safeguard children a greater emphasis is required to examine how workers operate within this complex, overwhelming and multi-dimensional world. This thesis has shown that by engaging in a reflexive examination of my position of power different approaches to making intervention beneficial to all involved become available. This is important if child protection work aims to work with clients rather than on clients.

Institutional legacies and capabilities: work practices and employment relations in Portugal and Mozambique

This is a study of institutional change and continuity, comparing the trajectories followed by Mozambique and its formal colonial power Portugal in HRM, based on two surveys of firm level practices. The colonial power sought to extend the institutions of the metropole in the closing years of its rule, and despite all the adjustments and shocks that have accompanied Mozambique’s post-independence years, the country continues to retain institutional features and associated practices from the past. This suggests that there is a post-colonial impact on human resource management. The implications for HRM theory are that ambitious attempts at institutional substitution may have less dramatic effects than is commonly assumed. Indeed, we encountered remarkable similarities between the two countries in HRM practices, implying that features of supposedly fluid or less mature institutional frameworks (whether in Africa or the Mediterranean world) may be sustained for protracted periods of time, pressures to reform notwithstanding. This highlights the complexities of continuities which transcend formal rules; as post-colonial theories alert us, informal conventions and embedded discourse may result in the persistence of informal power and subordination, despite political and legal changes.

The National Labor Relations Board and its work /

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Political dictionary; forming a work of universal reference, both constitutional and legal; and embracing the terms of civil administration, of political economy and social relations, and of all the more important statistical departments of finance and commerce.

Mode of access: Internet.

The history of man, or, The wonders of human nature : in relation to the virtues, vices, and defects of both sexes : with examples, ancient and modern, alphabetically digested under their proper heads : the whole work being intermixed with variety of useful and divertive relations.

Abridged and rearranged from N. Wanley's Wonders of the little world--BM.

On irritation and insanity : A work wherein the relations of the physical with the moral conditions of man, are established on the basis of physiological medicine /

The two tracts by Cooper have special title-pages. They were published anonymously, Philadelphia, 1823.

Management relations with disadvantaged work groups : supervisory expectations of the underprivileged worker /

Photocopy. [Washington] : Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, l970. Each page of the photocopy (most in double columns) represents approximately 2 pages of the original. [167] p. ; 22 x 28 cm.

Labor relations work kit,

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Industrial relations work of certain universities.

Mode of access: Internet.

The case against 'right to work' laws; why recent state legislation is a threat to sound industrial relations and economic progress.

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