experience with them at my current field placement. The B4 Consent for Services standard revolves around obtaining informed client consent before the providing of services is initiated. This essentially details that responsibility falls on the social worker to provide accurate and detailed information about what services they would/do offer, and what the implementation of those services would look like for the client (ASCW, 2013, p.10). As well, included in this is the duty to inform the client…
leader and activist who organized the strike for farm workers in Delano, California in 1965. Cesar Chavez was the son of an immigrant workers who work in the field. Cesar after the eighth grade stop going to school and also himself as well started working in the field and he saw all these discrimination against the workers. Cesar Chavez organized a nonviolent strike and many immigrants farm workers went on a strike demanding labor rights for farm workers and to increase their wages and also to…
Chapter 2 - The Private Rented Sector Private renting means housing that is owned by private individual, company or organisation. Private rented sector plays important role in providing accommodation for all sorts of different household and people. There have been increasing in the private rented sector over the past 25 to 30 years. There are now more than 9 million private renters in England. This growth has been particularly rapid since 2001 with the introduction of Buy to Let mortgage finance…
The wonderful concept of humans is that, regardless of what they are told, they will inevitably do whatever they please. Someone that is told to not often increases their desire to do, even if what they are doing is justifiable in their own eyes, it is often received with a negative connotation. Prostitutes do not do what they do out of spite, or as an “I’ll show you!” with an uplifted shaking fist to “the man.” Deeming an occupation “illegal” will cause those who have that particular job to…
as Steinbeck explains what sets humanity apart from all other species—what makes us so different that we can excel and progress. Steinbeck explains that it is our hard work that builds us up, and in this way I believe he alludes to to the migrant workers as if to say that while they deserve fair wages, unions, and better working conditions, their hard work is not required to diminish. The quotation above adopts an almost biblical tone as it speaks of the toils of man, rapturous in its conviction…
Music is an important cultural aspect of everyday life of people living in northern Mexico and Mexican-Americans within the southern United States. One such type of music that is very popular among these people is cumbia, which is a dance-oriented music style originating from afro-Cuban roots that has spread throughout Latin America and wherever Latin Americans settle. Cumbia has grown from its origins across northern Mexico and the southern United States and plays in important role in the…
women in the developing world come to first world countries and take up low paying jobs such as nannies, maids, and even sex workers. These women leave their entire lives behind to support their families, yet they are still expected to fulfill all the duties of a “superwoman”. This paradigm is demonstrated in Barbara Ehrenreich’s piece, Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy, which explained the story of Josephine Perera, a nanny from Sri Lanka, who moved to Greece to…
document that sets out the high risk construction work activities to be carried out at a workplace, the hazards arising from these activities and the measures to be put in place to control the risks. A study done by David (2012) on how the managers and workers interpret and use the safe work method statement in the Australian construction industry in order to explore if there was a gap between work as imagined and work as performed found that there is gap that exists between work as imagined and…
globalization, Korean companies chose to exploit their workers more than ever. Yet what brought by the socio-cultural globalization was the awareness of democracy and human rights. Influenced by the trend of thought, workers began to fight for their rights. The contrast between economic and socio-cultural globalization could even seem contrary, which can be seen in the case of foreign workers. As Moon points out,…
I am just finishing my first year at CTE. I am a junior in high school, and I need to start thinking about what career I should pursue right now. In CTE I am in Building Technology which involves framing, little bit of Plumbing and a little bit electrical. I am interested in Heating and ventilating for plumbing, but on the other hand I am also interested in construction work like rough building. I don 't know much about Plumbing at all, but I know a little bit more on the construction piece and…