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Dismissing class

Nordicom Review
Volume 42 (2021): Issue s3 (April 2021)
By: Vladimir Cotal San Martin  
Open Access
|Apr 2021

Figures & Tables

Topics and sub-topics within the general theme “workers/working conditions”

TopicSub-topics and lexical choices
Working conditions

  • excessive working hours

  • environmental dangers; toxic chemicals; insufficient safety equipment

  • harassment and abusive practices

  • poor, miserable, deplorable, abominable, and inhuman

Pay

  • low wages

  • minimum wage

  • starvation wages

  • not a living wage

Employment conditions

  • deceptive contracts

  • precarious

  • sub-contracts

  • short contracts

Housing

  • shanty towns

  • small dormitories

  • huts

  • sanitary problems

Workforce composition

  • young

  • women

  • migrants

  • children

Worker organisation

  • dangerous

  • risk to life

  • harassment

  • threat

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2021-0025 | Journal eISSN: 2001-5119 | Journal ISSN: 1403-1108
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Language: English
Page range: 35 - 55
Published on: Apr 7, 2021
Published by: University of Gothenburg Nordicom
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year
Keywords:
transnational corporations,
working conditions,
Global South,
critical discourse analysis,
newspapers
Related subjects:
Social sciences,
Communication science,
Public and political communication,
Mass communication

© 2021 Vladimir Cotal San Martin, published by University of Gothenburg Nordicom
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

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