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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Wage Labor"”.
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Collective action and changes in wage labor
… for explaining changes in the distribution of wage labor. The findings of the study suggested that many of the common assumptions held by Weberians and Structural Marxists concerning the effects of technological growth, increasing bureaucratization of production, increasing concentration of …
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Mais Bonito Da Região: the Cacao-Producing Region of Cachoeira Alta, Bahia, and the Transition From Wage Labor to Small Farming
… mobility within the field of agriculture, from a laborer to a self-sufficient, small farmer, requires an agricultural and market-based knowledge to which few wage laborers are privy. Small-scale farmers suffer shortcomings within regional and global markets because of their inability to respond to …
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Consumption Smoothing and Labor Supply Allocation Decisions: Evidence from Tanzania
… agricultural households engage in intermittent wage labor as a way to smooth consumption in the face of idiosyncratic shocks to agricultural income. Using data on agricultural households from the Tanzanian LSMS-ISA National Panel Survey and global commodity price data as a source of plausibly …
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Towards a theory of logistics urbanism: how the transport fix, racialized low-wage labor, and engagement with the state define Chicago’s role as the inland port city of North America
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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Essays in empirical environmental economics : GIS-econometric analysis of Indonesia's fires, Bolivia's deforestation and Mexico's trade with the U.S.
… forest clearance by increasing the returns to wage labor. It analyzes a unique survey of 649 indigenous households in protected areas in Bolivia's lowland forests. It finds that an additional year of education among household heads is associated with a reduction of 0.05 hectares or 4.3% of the …
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Hours vs. Employment: The Determinants of Labor Market Adjustment Since The Great Depression
… three forms of quantity-side adjustment in the labor market--weekly hours, employment, and layoffs. We primarily focus on the role played by unionization and some of the non-wage labor costs that have become a quasi-fixed cost of employment. Although the effects of unionization and fixed …
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The social complexity of woman and child valuation in rural Bangladesh
… modes of production are being replaced by wage labor within a globalizing labor market. The lived experiences of this change are structured by family and kinship arrangements, ideology, history, tradition, and deeply-internalized gender norms. The purpose of this research is to document via …
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Work or welfare: The choice for single mothers in poverty
… mothers limited to either welfare or the minimum-wage job market to support their families. A snowball sampling technique resulted in a sample of ten women with experience both in the minimum-wage labor market and on welfare. The study took place over fourteen months. A qualitative design was …
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A Fair Day's Wages: Liberty, Legality, and Liability Among Denver's Day Laborers
<p>Day laborers occupy an essential position in Denver’s booming construction industry. Day laborers make up a highly flexible, highly effective workforce able to respond to market changes. For day laborers, informal day-labor gathering points provide increased control over working hours and …
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Reclaiming stability: the dialectic of stability and instability in capitalist society
… society through the abolition of unstable wage-labor as value producing labor. I theorize this possibility through an engagement with Benjamin’s conception of “the new historical epoch” and his understanding of justice. Thus, this dissertation reclaims stability as emancipation from …
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'A Deadly Menace to All Young Womankind': Seduction and Protective Legislation in America, 1850-1923
… of American history, the entry of women into wage labor in factories and offices during the late nineteenth century dramatically increased the number of girls and women that were subjected to what we today call harassment. Careful examination of American newspaper archives, court records, and …
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‘a Deadly Menace To All Young Womankind’: Seduction And Protective Legislation In America, 1850-1923
… of American history, the entry of women into wage labor in factories and offices during the late nineteenth century dramatically increased the number of girls and women that were subjected to what we today call harassment. Careful examination of American newspaper archives, court records, and …
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Intersecting Issues of the Kashmir Earthquake: Risk reduction, vulnerability and the erosion of seismic culture
… and weak institutions, increased dependence on wage labor and the global economy which leads to the out-migration of men, and rapidly expanding population pressure which leads to urban growth and forces marginalized populations into inappropriate living sites and conditions. Women are especially …
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Intersecting Issues of the Kashmir Earthquake: Risk reduction, vulnerability and the erosion of seismic culture
… and weak institutions, increased dependence on wage labor and the global economy which leads to the out-migration of men, and rapidly expanding population pressure which leads to urban growth and forces marginalized populations into inappropriate living sites and conditions. Women are especially …
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Shifting economic perceptions in South Africa: the impact of migration
… South Africa's history, rural areas provided the labor necessary to fuel the furnaces of South Africa's manufacturing and mining sectors. In turn, wage labor in urban areas and mines provided opportunities for black Africans to access the hard currency increasingly necessary for survival. However, …
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The political and economic influences on the Mexican Industrialization Program
… tariff exemptions facilitated the relocation of labor-intensive assembly operations from the US to the Mexican border region. Critics have argued that arrangements of this type are quickly undermined by developments in both the developed and the developing country involved. In the developed …
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Appalachian Regionalism: Reimagining Modernism on the Periphery of American Art
… and craft, unequal valuation of modes of skilled labor, and differing access to artistic opportunity based on class and longstanding stereotypes of the region. In this way, my research complicates conventional narratives of regionalism by examining how the centralization of fine art practice in …
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The Geographies of the $15 Wage Movement: New Union Campaigns, Mobility Politics, and Local Minimum Wage Policies
The $15 wage movement has grown substantially since the first $15 minimum wage initiative was passed in SeaTac, Washington in 2013. This dissertation investigates the geographies of the $15 wage movement that has developed in the years since. Taking the form of a three-part comparative case study, …
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The Rise and Fall of Markets Along Bluefields Bay, Jamaica
… While many people in Belmont are seeking formal wage labor and operating various businesses, fishing and small-scale farming continue to be the primary means of subsistence. If the people are not involved in fishing and farming, if community and kinship relationships are not maintained through …
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Consuming Poverty: The Unexpected Politics of Food Aid in an Era of Austerity
… Today, the typical food stamp recipient is a low-wage worker who does not earn enough to afford basic household necessities like food. Far from a simple return to Keynesian welfare policy, the growth of food assistance reflects a broader restructuring of the US welfare state, which increasingly …
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