Henry Carter Hull

Examines the lives of female migrant factory workers in China, focusing on the experiences of two young women and including the author's story of her family's migration within China and to the West.

Carmen Durán works the graveyard shift in one of Tijuana's 800 maquiladoras; she is one of six million women around the world who labor for poverty wages in the factories of transnational corporations. After making television components all night, Carmen comes home to a dirt-floor shack she built out of cast-off garage doors from the U.S., in a neighborhood with no sewage lines or electricity. She suffers from on-the-job kidney damage and lead poisoning...

Working and Living Injury Free-The Battle to Eradicate Unsafe Behavior from the Workplace is the story of one safety professional, who stepped into the role with no such designation behind his name, nor with any education or experience in the health and safety field. However, with determination and common sense, and with a passion for the health and safety of the employees he served, he took a manufacturing plant from the bottom pit of safety performance,...

Sitting between Planned Parenthood and Pornhub, sexual wellness is the next blue ocean for tech entrepreneurs and investors alike-and nobody is talking about it. This recession-proof industry will be worth an estimated $122 billion by 2026, yet no one is prepared for this wave of innovation. But after years of being ignored due to shame and stigma, the sexual wellness revolution is upon us at last. If you ask Andrea Barrica, it's embarrassing it...

This book covers important performance characteristics of aeronautical structures. The subject matter is presented in laymans terms without complicated mathematical details. This has been a basic one quarter course for safety, contracting, maintenance, research management, professional engineers and other professionals dealing with related aeronautical and systems engineering fields in the US Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT). The topics covered...

Winner of twenty-one national and international awards, Mardi Gras: Made in China follows the path of Mardi Gras beads from the streets of New Orleans during Carnival - where revelers party and exchange beads for nudity - to the disciplined factories in Fuzhou, China - where teenage girls live and sew beads together all day and night. Blending curiosity with comedy, Mardi Gras: Made in China is the only film to explore how the toxic products directly...

Deja de detenerte usted mismo. No puedes ser pobre si tienes un dispositivo Android. Más personas que nunca se ven a sí mismas como quejándose o recuperándose de una queja, ya sea contra el gobierno o las circunstancias, sobre el dinero, los ingresos, los privilegios, los antecedentes, habilidades o falta de trabajo. Pero a pesar del aumento sin precedentes, nuestra entendimiento de la queja está atrapado en un razonamiento infundado del siglo...

This is the 3rd of a series of books on World Class Maintenance Management - The 12 Disciplines that discuss about creating a solid partnership with operators. This book had to be written for industries to realize what they are missing. For as long as operators and maintenance in industries remain a separate function, Industries will continue to be reactive. This book does not only cover the principles and concept of Autonomous Maintenance, but provides...

The design of circuit breakers is mainly based on experience rather than precise science. Empirical formulae can be used to determine dimensions of certain general types and the breaking capacity rating. Further developments will rely on new research of a scientific as well as a practical nature. This book, by a woman who has contributed to the development of electrical arc control in circuit breakers, provides new insight into arc root motion in...

The full cost of filing and receiving a patent can be anywhere from $2,000 to $10,000 depending on what you need to complete the process. For those who have spent their entire lives developing an idea and a patentable process, it can be incredibly frustrating to know you have to wait just that much longer to pay for the applications, legal forms, and most of all, the patent drawings necessary to move forward. This book has been designed to guide you...