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Thesaurus: 1501 entries.


ASSOCIATE PROFESSIONALS IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE (Search for related entries in the library)

Scope Note: Employees who are neither professionals nor support providers but who perform work that has professional characteristics and for whom some formal education is typically required (e.g., dental hygenists, medical technicians).

ASYLUM SEEKERS (Search for related entries in the library)

ASYLUM-SEEKERS 

ATLANTIC CANADA 

ATTITUDES (Search for related entries in the library)

ATYPICAL EMPLOYMENT 

AUSTRALIA (Search for related entries in the library)

AUSTRIA (Search for related entries in the library)

AUTHORS 

AUTOMATION (Search for related entries in the library)

Scope Note: The transfer of task performance from human workers to machines, and/or the control and organization of work processes by machines.