This study examines the emergence of Business ProcessOutsourcing (BPO) in white collar occupations. Recent BPOpractices are compared to the offshore outsourcing of productionin the context of the shift from Fordist to flexible production. Thestudy considers BPO in light of Harry Braverman’s...

This thesis sets out to give contemporary commercial context to a luxury business, whose products have been traditionally studied as art-objects. The provincial firm, under the Duesburys, was the country's pre-eminent producer of fine porcelain from c. 1770, a position no other domestic...

This study examines the emergence of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) in white collar occupations. Recent BPO practices are compared to the offshore outsourcing of production in the context of the shift from Fordist to flexible production. The study considers BPO in light of Harry Braverman's...

Attitudinal data are expected to be useful for the design and implementation of population policies and family planning programs. The reason for including questions on fertility attitudes and expectations in fertility surveys is the belief that such attitudes affect future fertility behavior....

Targeting specific populations can be an arduous task in survey research. While the ability of researchers to use intricate sampling techniques to build a geographically representative population has increased over the last fifty years, the ability to parse together a representative subsample of...