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Tue, 03 Mar 2015 22:48:45 +0000

[…] For this population, entering the workforce does not in itself constitute an opportunity to practice English as Australian research with meat workers from the Philippines demonstrates. Since the mid-1990s the Australian meat processing industry has increasingly relied on migrants to fill labor shortages as employment conditions in the industry have deteriorated. Large meat processing enterprises hire meat workers in bulk from countries such as Brazil, China and the Philippines. The meat processing plant in a rural town in Queensland where the research took place hired almost e… […]

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