From empowerment to encapsulation: Sanitation workers’ struggles and sources of power in South China

Xu, Yuehua; Dou, Xuewei

doi:10.1080/0023656x.2021.1957805

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“…A critical body of research also focuses on the multifaceted challenges of the livelihoods of sanitation workers, including how institutions shape this occupation, informality, low and irregular incomes, and arbitrary contracts (van der Wel et al, 2010;Nkansah et al, 2012;Mallory et al, 2020;Xu and Dou, 2021;Rajendra, 2022). This area of focus correlates with current initiatives in the WASH sector around improving sanitary work.…”

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Sanitation work: Realizing equity and inclusion in WASH

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Recognition of the human right to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), and equity and inclusion concerns around gender, disability and age have led to crucial change in WASH programmes and policy, responding to commonly hidden issues such as menstrual hygiene, inclusive facilities for people with disabilities, and affordable services for residents of informal settlements. Despite progress toward realizing the rights of end users “to” sanitation, this crucial body of work has overlooked the rights of an unseen, diverse population working “in” these services, including those who handle human waste. There are increasing calls within and beyond WASH for sanitation workers - marginalized by their informal and hazardous roles, and intersections of caste, religion and gender - to realize their rights to safe working conditions and social security. Yet, sanitation work has received little attention from equity and inclusion WASH scholars, despite the pressing need to challenge dominant technical, health-centric framings of sanitation that can overlook workers' lived realities. We argue for an intersectional, interdisciplinary approach to support sanitation workers to realize rights to fair living and working conditions, including inclusive WASH infrastructure at work. We draw on the limited literature available to highlight gaps in, and show the importance of the sub-sector of equity and inclusion to engage further with the lived realities of sanitation workers. Increased collaboration between sanitation workers, activists, and allies working on inclusion, labor rights, fecal sludge and solid waste management is paramount to realize sanitation workers' rights and to truly provide “inclusive” sanitation for all by 2030.

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“…e lower accessibility of public leisure and sports facilities will increase the time and cost for residents to obtain health. Especially for vulnerable groups, it will not only increase their living burden but also may reduce the frequency of their access to health, a ecting their quality of life [8][9][10][11][12]. In recent years, China's investment in the health service industry continues to increase, but due to the acceleration of urbanization, the new population in medium-sized and large cities continues to increase, making the existing health resources difficult to meet the needs of citizens, and the contradiction between supply and demand becomes more prominent.…”

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Accessibility of Rehabilitation Facility: Evaluation Based on Spatial Big Data in Xiamen

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Wang

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Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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With the help of spatial calculation and numerical analysis, this paper reveals the spatial distribution of rehabilitation infrastructures and the accessibility difference in the city Xiamen. The calculation of Moran’s I, Z value, and P value are, respectively, −0.229787, −0.122751, and 0.902304 for health facilities and −0.159235, 0.186166, and 0.852315 for fitness facilities. Such calculation results indicate an uneven pattern and varied accessibility numerical values. The reasons for this influence are diverse, but it is worth noting that the two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) calculation shows that compared to fitness facilities, the standard deviation of accessibility numerical value of health facilities decreased significantly, which indicates that the accessibility of health service facilities is becoming better, while the change of accessibility of fitness facilities is not obvious. It is pointed out this is due to society’s insufficient attention and education on daily health. For better rehabilitation under the pandemic, the importance of fitness facilities should be noticed.

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Culture lag in Chinese labour relations: managers’ perceptions and behaviour towards workplace trade unions (2009 - 2014)

Zhu

2022

Labor History

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From empowerment to encapsulation: Sanitation workers’ struggles and sources of power in South China

Cited by 4 publications

References 34 publications

Sanitation work: Realizing equity and inclusion in WASH

Sanitation work: Realizing equity and inclusion in WASH

Accessibility of Rehabilitation Facility: Evaluation Based on Spatial Big Data in Xiamen

Culture lag in Chinese labour relations: managers’ perceptions and behaviour towards workplace trade unions (2009 - 2014)

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