OBJECTIVE To determine neonatal outcomes (perinatal mortality and special care unit admission) and maternal outcomes (mode of delivery, delivery complications) of elective induction of labour compared with expectant management. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study using an unselected population database. SETTING Consultant and midwife led obstetric units in Scotland 1981-2007. PARTICIPANTS 1...

This thesis sets out to investigate the extent and nature of labour turnover in hotels. The general thrust of the work is to build up on existing knowledge. This knowledge, as appraised in a review of the past literature, is based primarily on measures and manifestations of labour turnover which are external to aD organisation. Thus, while the work starts from a broad base illustrating the over...

Emotional labour involves management of one's emotions to match the demands of their roles. This emotion display involves just expression (surface-level emotional labour) or experience in addition to expression (deep-level emotional labour) of the desired emotions. Emotional labour is required in the effective, efficient and successful healthcare service delivery. Burnout associated with emotio...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of feeding during labour on obstetric and neonatal outcomes. DESIGN Prospective randomised controlled trial. SETTING Birth centre in London teaching hospital. PARTICIPANTS 2426 nulliparous, non-diabetic women at term, with a singleton cephalic presenting fetus and in labour with a cervical dilatation of less than 6 cm. INTERVENTION Consumption of a li...

BACKGROUND: To determine the prevalence, types and demographic features of child labour among school children in Nigeria. METHODS: A cross-sectional interview study of 1675 randomly selected public primary and secondary school pupils aged 5 to less than 18 years was conducted in the Sagamu Local Government Area of Ogun State, Nigeria from October 1998 to September 1999. RESULTS: The overall pre...

This paper presents an initial typology of the costs of forced labour at both the firm and societal level. A cost-benefit analysis of forced labour at the firm level indicates that a rational firm that utilizes forced labour may actually incur significant costs that could potentially outweigh any financial benefits. While the costs will likely vary significantly by case, additional empirical re...

We construct a political equilibrium in which employers and labour unions bargain over labour contracts, wage-earners and profit-earners lobby the government for taxation and labour market regulation, and labour market legislation must be accepted by the majority of voters. We show that the voters rule out profit sharing, because otherwise the government would capture all the gain. Furthermore,...