This paper contains a comparative study into the statutory provisions of workers’ participation in New Zealand and the Netherlands. The extent and nature of workers’ participation is an important element of industrial ...

This thesis focuses on the correctional institution of the contemporary gymnasium. Using the theory of Michel Foucault and Max Weber it traces the dissemination of Christian asceticism and pastoral power into contemporary ...

This dissertation looks at meeting talk as organisational action, asking how meetings partly constitute “organisation”. It considers how meeting members use the phrase “out there” in their work. I conducted observation ...

The purpose of this thesis was to explore the effectiveness (or otherwise) of an autism-specific techniques (Social Stories and Comic Strip Conversations) in improving the social understanding and inclusion of two 8 year ...

Very little is known about whether library patrons are able to effectively manipulate library shelf arrangement systems in order to locate required items. Also unknown is how this affects their views of libraries. This ...

This thesis brings together two writers, Georges Perec and Samuel Beckett, with particular focus on their struggle to bring us closer to realities that cannot be translated into words. In Perec's case that struggle is with ...

Among major twentieth century German writers there were many whose professional careers were not restricted to literature. Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931), Alfred Döblin (1878-1957) and Gottfried Benn (1886-1956) were qualified ...

Following the Nationalist victory in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39), General Francisco Franco’s authoritarian regime ruled Spain in a dictatorship that lasted almost forty years. In order to preserve the dominance of the ...

Roman accounts of the history, geography and ethnography of Britain, while useful to modern historians for the limited factual information they contain, are perhaps of even more use for the insight they give into Roman ...

This thesis investigates New Zealand women's menstrual knowledge within a cultural, social and historical context. An analysis or dominant menstrual discourses and their impact on women's menstrual knowledge was undertaken ...