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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"domestic labor"”.
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Revisting the Domestic Labor Debate: Toward a Critique of Workerist Feminism
… of housewives to the reproduction of labor-power, the character of reproductive labor and the relation between the participation of women in waged labor and unwaged domestic labor. In revisiting this phenomenon, this thesis argues that, contrary to the appearance of women being …
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The invisible weight of cognitive labor
Cognitive labor is the mental work it takes to run a home. This type of labor, separate from physical tasks, is a form of domestic labor that often goes unnoticed, it is often invisible. This invisible mechanism that shapes our home life has historically been excluded from research on topics …
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Puntada Mitocondrial/Abuela Debe Ser Tiempo
… humans and non-humans, the gendered division of labor, and intertextuality beyond the code of words and the page. I argue that domestic labor dynamics are conceptual invitations to create with words. According to Federici, domestic work produces the labor force, a fact naturalized in the nuclear …
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Essays on International Trade and Development
… is decomposed using an individual-level Korean labor income survey. This dissertation finds the role of industry capital intensity and firm productivity in the differential choices of global sourcing such as vertical FDI and foreign outsourcing. Also, this dissertation finds that input …
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u.s. Immigration in the 1970's: Settlement Patterns and Processes
… has been used as a means of alleviating domestic labor shortages; (2) to assess the effect of emigration on the economic development of origin countries; (3) to document and explain the immigrant settlement pattern within the United States during the 1970's. In response to public concern …
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Losing home: Housing, displacement, and the American Dream
… urban housing and heteropatriarchal cultures of domesticity produce racialized and gendered cycles of displacement. Further, it enables a radical reimagining of domestic space as a potential site of collective appropriation and mutual care, in resistance to isolated domestic labor and the …
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The seen, the unseen, and the aesthetics of infrastructure
… that define space and use. Unregulated, human labor markets are deeply embedded into necessary components of contemporary global, societal infrastructures. This relationship plays itself out in plain sight, and yet can be silent. I imaginatively liken laboring bodies to the inner workings of …
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The Political Economy of Preferential Trade Agreements
… relationship between trade agreements and domestic labor mobility. The domestic-commitment motive from Maggi and Rodriguez-Clare (2007) and standard trade models with labor frictions predict that trade liberalization should occur when labor is more mobile. I find support for this …
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The Political Economy Of Preferential Trade Agreements
… relationship between trade agreements and domestic labor mobility. The domestic-commitment motive from Maggi and Rodriguez-Clare (2007) and standard trade models with labor frictions predict that trade liberalization should occur when labor is more mobile. I find support for this …
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Strategies of survival among illegal migrants in Montreal
… sector jobs and the increased demand for paid domestic labor in the Canadian economy. It is concluded that immigration policies allow and maintain illegal migration and that there is a demand for this kind of labour in the Montreal economy. Furthermore, illegal migrants fulfill a particular …
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Dirty Work: Domestic Service and the Making of the Middle Class in Modern Women's Fiction
<p>In my dissertation, "Dirty Work: Domestic Service and the Making of the Middle-Class in Modern Women's Fiction," I analyze the social anxieties surrounding domestic servants that permeated both popular and canonical archives in the United States during the early half of the twentieth century. I …
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Figuring Women's Work: The Cultural Production of Care and Labor in the Industrial U.S.
… conventionally begin their investigation of U.S. labor history with industrialization, focusing on forms of industrial labor, union organization, and labor legislation, to the exclusion of work performed in the “private sphere”: domestic, service, and care labor. But by presuming that these forms …
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Essays on Spatial Constraints and Gender Equality: the Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Work-from-Anywhere Dynamics and Gender Equality in Job Searches
… of mandatory lockdowns drastically shifted the labor market landscape, prompting an increase in the demand for flexible work formats. Utilizing data from over one million job seekers on an online employment platform, this research examines how the sudden wide availability of remote work options …
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Independent Women? Social class and Social Policy after the Gender Revolution in the West
… With their unprecedented entrance into the paid labor market, women moved toward greater economic independence. However, it remains unclear whether these changes in women’s economic well-being resulted in positive change for women across the class spectrum. The large-scale entrance of women into …
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ESSAYS ON A SMALL OPEN ECONOMY WITH CROSS-BORDER LABOR MOBILITY
… short-run association between remittances and domestic output depends on the sources of the shocks. Third, our results indicate that the equilibrium impact of a tax on remittances can be expansionary and welfare-improving when an economy is initially close to full employment. The presence of …
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Creativity and its discontents: a case study of precarious playbour in the video game industry
Considered to be a blindspot until recently, labor has now become a popular research topic within media and communication studies. This dissertation is an attempt to contribute to the emergent scholarship on media labor, critically using the concepts of precarity and immaterial labor. The concept …
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The structural preconditions for maximizing FDI spillovers in Colombia : a sectoral impact analysis of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on Industry output, labor payments, firm productivity, and the productive structure (1995-2009)
Do multinational corporations (MNCs) crowd out domestic firms in developing countries, or is foreign direct investment (FDI) complementary to domestic firm profitability, productivity, and employment? Empirical literature has identified diverse channels through which FDI facilitates aggregate …
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Made for export : labor migration, state power, and higher education in a developing Philippine economy
… Philippines have led to an enormous exodus of labor. Failing to integrate its highly educated labor force in the domestic economy, the Philippine state focused its attention on exporting college-educated/highly-educated workers by creating a set of elaborate institutions to facilitate overseas …
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Gender and the Political Economy of Oil in the Niger Delta: A Feminist Critique
<p>The exploitation of women's labor is central to the international political economy. Since the 1980s, the trend has been towards a 'feminization of labor' in which women are confined to low-skilled, low-paying, and mostly part-time work. The exploitation of women's labor is not just confined to …
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