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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Wage labour"”.
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Domestic service : changing relations of class domination 1841-1948 : a focus on Cape Town
… its particular colour and sexual division of labour, where the majority of domestic workers were and are Black women were examined. It was felt that an emphasis on women's oppression only would obscure a broader understanding of domestic service in a class society where domestic service has …
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Women working for their freedom : FCWU and AFCWU and the women question
… employment and periodic unemployment; child labour; piece-work; excessive overtime. 2. The inclusion of women into wage labour faces them with a task of combining motherhood and wage labour. How can a union win demands to assist these women workers with this task? The two ways in which the …
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A contrastive ethnographic case study of homes in Cape Town
… neither of the parents were formally employed in wage labour, and one middle class family, where the parents were both employed professionals. While the two families shared a common relation to South Sotho/Setswana as their family heritage language, they differed widely in other respects, because …
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Changing aspects of economic and family structures in Kalārdasht, a district in Northern Iran, up to 1978
… in an economy based on non-agricultural wage labour. The study is based on fieldwork carried out in four villages of the district from August 1977 to October 1978. One of these villages, Rudbarak, has experienced dramatic change, due to economic and administrative penetration of the …
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Characteristics to Complement Requisite Managerial and Leadership Attributes to Effectively Manage a Multinational Corporation: a Study based in the Thai Automotive Industry
… since the mid-1950s. Further, following the low-wage labour market and social stability, Thailand has grown to be one of the top five countries targeted for Japanese investment. More importantly, with the support of both governments establishing the Japan-Thailand Economic Partnership Agreement …
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Relations of production and exchange in the fishing and fish processing industries of North East Scotland.
… to explanations based on the concepts of wage labour and industrial capital. The convergence of these two sectors, particularly evident in the 1970s is explained in teims of merchant capital, and transitional forms. The changing role of the fishselling companies and the rise of fishermen's …
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Smallholder agriculture and household food and nutrition security: a study from East Hararghe, Ethiopia
… off-farm and non-farm activities, particularly wage labour, which were particularly important to the poorest households. In terms of food availability, more than half of the households experienced a food gap during the year, which was worse for female-headed households than their male …
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Migrant labour remittances : the developmental cycle and rural differentiation in a Lesotho community
… the problem of the impact of a migratory wage-labour system on relations of production and of distribution in rural Lesotho. Some 200 000 of that country's 1,25 million people are oscillating labour migrants to South Africa, most of them men. Their earnings, remitted to their rural home …
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The measurement of unemployment in Europe with particular reference to Britain, France and Poland
… Firstly, the relationship between unemployment, wage-labour, gender, and the industrial revolution are discussed. Secondly, on an ideological level, the late conceptualisation of unemployment is considered, its significance being the relative autonomy between the reality and representation of …
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Aquaculture and rural livelihoods in the Bolivian Amazon - Systems of Innovation and pro-poor technology development
… whilst requiring considerable skills and labour, both of which tend to be in short supply in Amazonia. Development and poverty reduction objectives might be best met by supporting small and medium-scale commercial aquaculture in areas with access to input/output markets, developing …
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Crime, community and police in Cape Town, 1825-1850
… population and the transition from slave to wage labour engendered a great deal of alarm among Cape Town's dominant classes. That they felt their dominance and hegemony threatened by the potentially challenging White, Khoi and Black under classes, entailed a re-assertion of their power. …
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The makeshift settlement: colonial policy in British West Africa
… capital, and the formation of a class of wage labourers. The absence of a working class, and the political impossiblity of the disruptions necessary to create such a class, forced a retreat from these projects, and led to the articulation of a West African Policy, premised on peasant …
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Haratin di Mauritania: da status ascritto a rivendicazione identitaria. La schiavitù in prospettiva postcoloniale
… transformation of slavery into temporary forced labour, freeing slaves ten years later. The expansion in the North of the Senegal River Valley and the need to administrate a vast desert area, populated by few nomadic people, forced France to substantially maintain traditional leaderships and the …
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The informal politics of rural livelihoods in Northern Thailand: A case study of Chiang Mai’s songthaeo drivers
… of the drivers’ shift from farm to urban-based, wage labour to interrogate dominant portraits of rural Thai history and to explore the politics through which the drivers have forged and consolidated comparatively healthy livings. In so doing, the thesis contends that rather than a monochromatic …
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The informal politics of rural livelihoods in Northern Thailand: A case study of Chiang Mai’s songthaeo drivers
… of the drivers’ shift from farm to urban-based, wage labour to interrogate dominant portraits of rural Thai history and to explore the politics through which the drivers have forged and consolidated comparatively healthy livings. In so doing, the thesis contends that rather than a monochromatic …
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Peasant production and capitalist development: a model with reference to Bangladesh.
… which systematically retard the generation of wage labour can constrain capitalist development because of the peculiar properties of land as a means of production. The problem, therefore, has to be posed in terms of the transformation of the pre-existing relations of production rather than …
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Resources, Environment, and Rural Development in Uruguay, 1779-1913
… the largest employer in the economy, with rural wage labour becoming increasingly permanent rather than seasonal. While these changes underpinned the rising productivity of agriculture, they greatly limited the resources for smallholder farming, completing a process of concentration and …
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Towards a regional development strategy for Namaqualand
… efforts to coerce the region's inhabitants into wage labour. Relevant literature is reviewed to elucidate underdevelopment and the scope for future development. The conclusion drawn is that no body of theory adequately explains Namaqualand's underdevelopment or offers workable solutions. An …
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Sexist vs non sexist education : its implications for the education of South African Indian females
… teenage pregnancy encourage women to engage in wage labour include parents in restructuring education.
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