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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"class relations"”.
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World War I and Local Change in America: Federal War Production and Class Relations in Portland, Oregon
… government---keeping the arenas of industrial relations and civil liberties, critical to the organizations of workers, at the center of inquiry. I analyze interaction among: the local political establishment, AFL unions, shipyard owners, 'enemy aliens,' and anti-capitalist radicals.
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Political crisis and the politics of water pollution control in the 1970s
… federal state made concessions to the capitalist class, again, political benefits to social classes took the form of legal safeguards to promote the accumulation of capital and to maintain existing class relations.
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Feminist issues in education: developing a theory of class and gender relations
… to the overall project of developing a theory of class and gender relations in education. Three stages in the construction of this theory are identified. These are: (a) a critical evaluation of theories concerning the social and cultural reproduction of class relations in terms of their …
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State and Capital Accumulation: Mining Industry in Indonesia
This dissertation examines the relations between state and capital accumulation in the mining industry in Indonesia. Karl Marx's theory of rent under capitalist mode of production (Marx, 1981), as social/class relations, is utilized to provide a conceptual framework of such peculiar relations. …
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Class Formation in High-Tech Information and Communications as an Aspect of China's Reintegration Into Transnational Capitalism
… of Chinese labor in this context. Shifting class relations and identities in the ICT industry comprise a sensitive and portentous field; my dissertation probes the social, political and historical construction of the labor market and managerial practices in the ICT sector, as well as …
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The industrial suburbs of Leeds in the nineteenth century : Community consciousness among the social classes
The changing relationship between community and class has been a subject generally neglected by historians. Marxist social theory provides little framework for the examination of the significance of community in capitalist society. This study of the industrial suburbs of Leeds indicates the …
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"Vulgarized" : victorian women's fiction in minor theatres
… for an often ignored sub group--the working class. In particular, I investigate multiple adaptations of Charltote Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton, and M.E. Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret for what the adaptation can reveal about how these playwrights conceptualized class …
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Class and community in an Egyptian textile town
… conditions underlying the development of class relations in an Egyptian industrial town, al-Mehalla al-Kubra. The research was directed at understanding social and economic relations among groups in the textile industry in al-Mehalla in terms of the reality which exists there, without a …
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Domestic service : changing relations of class domination 1841-1948 : a focus on Cape Town
… of domestic service in Cape and Cape Town class relations. The forces which led to the present class structure with 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 …
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From Dispossession to Surplus Production: A Theory of Capitalist Accumulation in Neoliberal Bangladesh
… 'variable capital' and to creating antagonistic class relations. Finally, it explores how market and non-market actors control those dispossessed peasants-turned-workers inside and outside factories to produce surplus values in order to reproduce the capitalist system locally and globally. These …
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Naturally Generated Decision Trees for Image Classification
Image classification has been a pivotal area of research in Deep Learning, with a vast body of literature working to tackle the problem, constantly striving to achieve higher accuracies. This push to reach achieve greater prediction accuracy however, has further exacerbated the black box phenomenon …
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At the Margins of the Plantation: Alternative Modernities and an Archaeology of the "Poor Whites" of Barbados
… methodologies, this dissertation explores class relations of Below Cliff residents to processes of capitalism as well as other island laborers, including Afro-Barbadians. Additionally, racial categories are interrogated through an analysis of complex and interracial genealogies of Below …
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New York City Street Theater: Gender, Performance, and the Urban from Plessy to Brown
… to our ability to interpret race, gender, and class relations. I detect race, class, and gender-based impulses to segregate and exclude others that overlap with the motives guiding the national, legal edict to segregate people by race. These guiding inclinations, legible through the history of …
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Defining the Boundaries: Family Farmers, Migrant Labor, Industrial Agriculture, and the State in the Rural Midwest, 1898--1938
… the sugar beet industry in Michigan and the new relationships and conflicts it engendered. Rural Michigan offers an excellent place for analyzing how one part of the rural Midwest experienced many of the social and economics changes historians usually associate solely with urban industrial …
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The working class experience in contemporary Australian poetry
The Working-Class Experience in Contemporary Australian Poetry Contemporary Australian poetry neglects its working-class voices. Literary journals rarely publish poetry that focuses on working-class life and there is little analysis of the poetics of class in contemporary Australian scholarship on …
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Domestic Space, Modernity, and Identity: The Apartment in Mid-20th Century Turkey
… continuation and modernization of hierarchical class relations; it also highlights women's gendered identity in domestic space. Most significantly, the analysis demonstrates that the urban apartment, as a physical embodiment of contemporary beliefs, social norms, and shared values, occupied the …
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Those Magnificent Men in their Fighting Machines: An Investigation into the Lives of WWI Tankmen
… of this investigation is the unique way that class relations in the British Army were altered by the emergence of mechanized warfare. Working-class soldiers were given significantly more agency through the tank corps, and were able to engage in the sorts of tactical education and …
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Sisterhood or surveillance?: the development of working girls' clubs in London 1880-1939
… and situates it within the context of gender, class and race. Part One places the clubs in their historicalcontext and critically examines issues of poverty, sexual purity, morality, femininity and ethnicity. The ways in which ideas about race superiority interacted with class superiority in …
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Ideology, History, and Action in Cotocollao, a Barrio of Quito, Ecuador (Andes, Urbanism, Marginality, Ethnicity, Symbolism)
… look at public responses of some urban, working class mestizo and indigenous residents of Cotocollao to poverty, powerlessness, and ideological themes such as mestizaje (social race mixture), and marginality by concentrating on the following domains: (1) the political-economic system that forms …
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