OBJECTIVE To explore the characteristics, motivations, ideologies, experience and perspectives of experienced medical humanitarian workers. DESIGN We applied a qualitative descriptive approach and conducted in-depth semistructured interviews, containing open-ended questions with directing probes, with 44 experienced international medical aid workers from a wide range of humanitarian organisat...

This study explores how Chinese riders game the algorithm-mediated governing system of food delivery service platforms and they mobilize WeChat to build solidarity networks assist each other better cope with platform economy. We rely on 12 interviews from 4 (Meituan, Eleme, SF Express Flash EX) in 5 cities, draw a 4-month online observation 7 private groups. The article provides detailed accoun...

Displaced workers may not be fully aware of the federal financial aid and enrollment opportunities available to them. Indeed, incomplete knowledge of financial aid availability and eligibility during the recent recession may have limited the extent to which workers receiving Unemployment Insurance (UI) took advantage of collegiate opportunities. In May of 2009, an executive initiative and guida...

Abstract This paper is about the intersection of technological utopianism with safeguarding rush in international aid and DNA imaginations that it has given rise to. It explores implications centering technology efforts to prevent punish sexual exploitation abuse by workers asks what types accountability approaches yield. The article examines discursive power imaginaries shaping politics practi...

Using the database of the Korea Labor Welfare Corporation (KLWC), which is the public organization for workers' compensation in Korea, we analyzed the occupational infectious diseases among the health care workers who were compensated by the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance (IACI). From January 1998 to December 2004, 307 cases of infectious diseases were approved as being cases of occ...