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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Social relations of production"”.
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High school socialization and the social relations of production
<p>The Bowles-Gintis thesis that the structure of social relations (i.e., the system of rights, responsibilities, duties and rewards that govern the interaction of all individuals involved in organized productive activity) of the workplace is replicated in the school is investigated. Several …
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Disability, values and quality : a case study in Derbyshire
Cultural representations of disability reveal a cultural value system which characterises the disadvantage experienced by disabled people in terms of personal tragedy, the impaired body and otherness. The reproduction of these disabling values in the dominant discourses of British policy making …
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Food Sovereignty: A Critical Case
… that poverty and hunger result from a state of underdevelopment, which can be alleviated through the distribution of technology to increase farm-level productivity. In more recent years, transnational corporate involvement within food security has led to a global imposition of intellectual …
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Agricultural change and rural class formation in Iringa district, Tanzania
This thesis is a study of rural development policy in Tanzania with special reference to Iringa District. Its principal aim is to assess the ujamaa (rural socialism) programme. However, an historical approach is adopted and the thesis devotes considerable attention to the development of …
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Social geographies of seasonal labor migration in rural western India
… dissertation, I study the seasonal migration of landless communities in rural western India. My research explains how labor migration has transformed gender, caste, and class relations in the drylands of Maharashtra state in India. I study labor migration as a social process, which …
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Sustainable Rural Livelihoods and Women's Access to Resources in a Southern Ghanaian' Forest Community
This thesis examines the organization of livelihoods in a forest reserve fringe community in south western Ghana. Livelihoods in these communities have been organized within three main contexts. These are community vulnerabilities of increasing population, decreasing soil fertility and poor …
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Decentralising forest management in India: the case of Van Panchayats in Kumaun.
This thesis is an examination of the political settlement in Indian forest policy. In the last two decades the rapid degradation of Indian forests has led to a reconsideration of who should manage the forests and with what priorities. An agenda has emerged which identifies the decentralisation of …
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The European Union, Immigration and Inequality: “Albanian” Labor in the Political Economy of Rural Greece
<p>Many early studies of globalization hypothesized a withering away of thee nation-state as a significant arena for the production of identity and social regulation. From this perspective the persistence of nationalism and resurgence of neo-racism in Europe have often been seen as a futile …
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The Cassa Integrazione Guadagni, unemployment welfare and industrial conflict in post-war Italy, 1941-1987
This PhD thesis tracks the history of the Italian unemployment welfare during the second half of the twentieth century, offering an account of why the Italian system of social security never established a universal safety net against unemployment, choosing instead a social policy system targeted on …
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The economics of social subordination : gender relations and market failure in the highlands of Papua New Guinea
… is concerned with the causes and consequences of the market failure that is generated by the social subordination of women in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG). It is argued that the development impasse in PNG, noted by a number of observers, has its principle antecedents in the extreme …
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Tailor Made in India: Jaipur's Masters of Cloth, Doctors of Clothing
… clothing and textiles are a source of pride domestically and have long been used and admired throughout the world. So how is that India’s tailors, the people whose knowledge, abilities, and hard work form the backbone of this industry, receive so little thought or recognition? …
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Work relations and forms of production in New Zealand agriculture
… to the debates over the conceptualisation of enterprises involved in agriculture, the industrialisation of agriculture and the reproduction and subsumption of family farms. In making this contribution, a framework is developed for the examination of work relations and forms of production in …
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Towards an Articulation of Architecture as a Verb; Learning from Participatory Development, Subaltern Identities and Textual Values.
… with the contemporary definition and realisation of Westernised architecture as a commodity and product, this thesis seeks to explore alternative examples of positive socio-spatial practice and agency. These alternative spatial practices and methodologies are drawn from participatory and …