Catalyst Creations

  A bunch of the personal stories show that even though people wanted the abuse to stop, they were cool with the abuser and didn't want them to get in trouble. They couldn't have worked any other way, fam. It's like, maybe they didn't report the abuse 'cause they didn't wanna deal with drama or spill the tea 'cause they ain't feelin' safe or scared of what might go down with their job. Or maybe they thought speakin' up about their bad experiences wouldn't be taken seriously. The effects of such abuse can be hella devastating, like it seriously wrecks their skills and self-esteem, ya know? This totally shows how crucial it is for employers and farmers to get that equality thing and follow the law, ya know? Havin' a solid grasp on this issue is hella important, ya know? There were like, defo examples of abuses by some farmers that show how complicated the vibes are between the employer and farm migrants. If there are instances of abuses a...

  An "Industrial Revolution" has happened in Brazil over the past thirty years, bringing about a lot of social and economic change. It's not always easy to put a number on big historical events, but if finding the beginning of the Industrial Revolution would help us understand it better, 1930 is probably the best year to do it. In the field of economics, yes, World War I was a first step. In the field of culture, the Week of Modern Art in Sao Paulo in 1922 was the first major display of a truly Brazilian culture. What are the most important events in history? The most important events in history are the Revolution of 1930 (when Getulio Vargas became president) and the Great Depression that started in 1929. A lot of sociologists, economists, and historians call this time period the National Revolution or the Industrial Revolution. W. W. Rostow, on the other hand, likes to call it the "take-off period." It began in Brazil at that time. The take-off stage is ver...

Though the Equality Act provides some limited protections to characteristics that were not previously covered by the Race Relations Act 1976 or the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, the theory that clearly underpins this Act has yet to be well established in terms of recognizing the equality claim based on cultural capital. There's no cap on any recognized principle that determines whether or not we recognize migrants' cultural capital, you know? Posi action provisions in the Equality Act do not really provide a test to strengthen specific aspects of equality law, such as the right to equality based on cultural capital. The provision can completely dampen the vibes, flex, or skillz of migrants by subtly reinforcing beliefs that minorities are less qualified, you know? Such accommodations are given in the spirit of recognizing the needs of the underprivileged class, you know? However, there is no application of this rule for Celina and others, despite the fact that the bosses ...

  As a result of big growth in the last ten years, a surprising large part of the sales and profits of the biggest U.S. companies now come from markets outside of the U.S. David Bianco, head of U.S. stock strategy at Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Research, says that earnings in 2010 will be affected by the world economy more than the U.S. He thinks that 40% of the direct profits of the 500 companies in the Standard & Poor's index come from countries other than the United States. This is twice as much as it was 10 years ago. The trend is expected to keep going, which will help Corporate America do better. Look at what happened last year: The foreign sales of the 500 businesses that make up the Standard & Poor's list went up by almost 9%, but their domestic sales went down by 0.3% during the economic crises. According to Bianco, foreign contributions could help the S&P 500 rise by 15%, to 1275. This is what he bases his 2010 market view on. "The S&P...

  People are still optimistic about Brazil, even though there are ongoing corruption problems and economic uncertainty, and even though it is one of the hardest places in the world to do business. Brazil is still the best place for US companies to invest in Latin America. For more than one hundred years, the two biggest economies in the Americas have worked together in business. In fact, the American Chamber of Commerce in Rio de Janeiro is the oldest in Latin America, and trade goes both ways and is very large and varied. The US is still one of the main places where direct investment comes from in Brazil. In 2014, the most recent year for which data is available, the Brazilian Central Bank said the US had the biggest single-country stock of FDI in Brazil, worth US$112 billion. Brazil is a "must play" market for US companies because it has more than 200 million people, which is almost 3% of the world's consumers. In 2016, the US sent 16% of all goods brought into Brazil...

  Employers must be aware that if an employee believes they have been treated unfairly, they can exercise their rights and file complaints for discrimination and other shady behavior under the Equality Act. The complaint creates an atmosphere in which employees and employers can flex and spill tea about discrimination and other prohibited behavior under the Equality Act. Some of my colleagues were complaining aloud but did not bother filling out the complaint form to obtain information and answers from their boss or the person they believe is to blame.  You don't have to use the complaint form You know, information can be requested and obtained via letter or other means. However, some respondents, such as Jakub and Raymond, were completely against the redundancy dismissal decision. They outright called it a discriminatory move. But their bosses didn't give them the correct answer, smh. They were dissatisfied with the response because their employers failed to inform them of th...

  Choice-sensitive measures of resource distribution can be like, totally talked about in terms of accommodation practices to see who can flex and absorb some of the cost of others' free, morally relevant choices. Seana Shiffrin is like, all about accommodation, which is basically when people take on the costs of other people's actions, even if those actions are totally optional and the cost-taking isn't needed to be fair (Shiffrin, 2004:275).  A choice-sensitive criterion ain't the only vibe of egalitarianism, fam. Egalitarianism also requires resource distribution to be designed according to luck-insensitive vibes, suggesting morally arbitrary factors like luck shouldn't flex on the distribution scheme and therefore people shouldn't be held accountable for dealing with the Ls they didn't choose or the bad luck that comes their way. Yet, like, some egalitarians are like, yo, does equality mean we gotta be totally unbothered by people's natural misfortun...

This research is, like, a qualitative study about migrant farm workers' experiences, ya know? Not just about their jobs, but also about their social and cultural transitions. It's gonna be lit! Yo, this research is all about checking if farm migrants in Scotland get treated equally and if they, as ethnic minorities, get the same rights and respect for their culture as the majority peeps do. I've been lowkey analyzing the research problem and checking out all the lit that's been dropped on it. This chapter is, like, all about why and how I've chosen the methods for studying the problem and how I've evaluated them. It's, like, super clear and stuff. The whole point of my research process is like, not just to drop some major knowledge bombs, but also to clap back at all those haters who be dissing farm workers and to explore all the stuff I don't even know yet. Methodo-challenges So like, this study is all about qualitative research, but there's no one ...

  Interviewees were asked to talk about their experience with work and employment;  whether they were satisfied with work and employment conditions in their job; what would they most prefer in a job (for example, work that pays well; provides good working conditions; where there is no mistreatment or exploitation by employer and there is not too much supervision; where both formal and informal education, skills and other qualifications are not devalued or undermined; where there are promotional prospects/opportunities; or other); whether they felt people were nice to work with; whether they thought immigration might have impact on skills, education and qualifications they brought with them from the country of origin to the UK (country of migration). This lit research is done within a cross-sectional vibe with some case study elements by using semi-structured interviewing with a bunch of migrant farm workers at one point in time.  OMG, like, cross-sectional design is total...

  It's extremely difficult to contact migrant farm workers and learn about their experiences, you know? They are difficult to understand due to their limited English proficiency and the constant back and forth about the immigration reform act/law. These groups are referred to as the invis group in the literature, and they are the most disadvantaged group in society, completely unseen and unheard. Chapter 5 describes how difficult it was to contact the participants and learn about their experiences. Picking and interviewing a sample of migrant farm workers was not an easy task for me. This is why a small-scale interpretivist study with qualitative methodology was chosen for this research in order to investigate the broader issues confronting migrant farm workers regarding employment and social and cultural transitions, ya know? OMG, there is now a database of migrant farm workers, correct? To collect the data, they contacted a random sample of the migrant population. Lit! Overanalyz...