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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"economic dependence"”.
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Extended living arrangements in Chile: An analysis of subfamilies
… household extension as a strategy to face economic deprivation, giving little attention to other factors affecting it, such as gender inequalities and changing needs for support over the life course. In this dissertation, I contribute to the understanding of extended households Chile …
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Independent Women? Social class and Social Policy after the Gender Revolution in the West
… century resulted in extensive changes in social, economic, and policy realms. 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 …
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Commerce and coercion in contemporary China : local leader responses to foreign policy crises
… involving China and its most important foreign economic partners, some local leaders in China willingly threaten foreign commercial interests, while others attempt to protect foreign commerce from diplomatic tensions. This subnational variation in participation in economic retaliation is …
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Mozambique's post-conflict political economy :
… harm this poor economy. Also, neo-liberal economic policies have altered the role of state institutions, not eliminating state power, but redirecting it. This study challenges the neo-liberal claim that Mozambique's post-conflict political economy has been “revolutionary”. Economic reforms …
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Gendered boomtown impacts: a social service perspective on experiences of women in resource extraction communities
… service workers. The findings indicate that economic dependence, family impacts, and lack of affordable housing are the largest challenges facing women in boomtown communities. This thesis also discusses recommendations offered by social service professionals to improve the lives of women in …
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LIVING ON THE EDGE
… aging and unaffordable housing stock, and the economic precarity of small-scale fisheries. Studies show that fishing-dependent communities experience higher impacts from climate change than any other coastal communities in the United States, due to their geographic exposure, economic dependence …
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Fashion, Class, and Labor: Clothing in American Women's Fiction, 1840-1913
… highlights her central concern with women's economic dependence on men and the ways industrialism exploits women's labor. In her fiction, clothing brings the reader back to the material conditions of women's lives as they conflict with idealized representations. In The Minister's Wooing, My …
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An investigation of domestic workers' perceptions into the effects of employer involvement on parenting and parental autonomy
… and unassertiveness by virtue of their economic dependence on employers. Observations of DWs in clinical settings have confirmed these assertions. This study examines how eight DWs negotiate their parental authority f autonomy while having their own children living with them on their …
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An ideal woman : literary, parliamentary, and sexual representations of model femininity in mid-Victorian England.
… separate "spheres" for men and women, feminine economic dependence, and even the concept of chaste sexuality. Finally, the purpose of this reevaluation of femininity is to assert a new interpretation of gender roles during the nineteenth-century. This study asserts that women were an integral …
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The extent of the regulation of atypical employment relationships in Ethiopian law, with comparative reference to South African labour law
… though in fact they are on the same level of economic dependence and vulnerability with those who perform work as ‘employees’. It is to this category of workers that literature refers collectively as ‘atypical employees’ or ‘non-standard employees’. Despite the fact that there have been moves …
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The extent of the regulation of atypical employment relationships in Ethiopian law, with comparative reference to South African labour law
… though in fact they are on the same level of economic dependence and vulnerability with those who perform work as ‘employees’. It is to this category of workers that literature refers collectively as ‘atypical employees’ or ‘non-standard employees’. Despite the fact that there have been moves …
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Plant City, Florida, 1885-1940: A Study In Southern Urban Development
… The study chronicles the town's origins and economic, political, and social development in relationship to the broader historical theories of southern urban development, specifically those put forward in David Goldfield's pioneering work, Cotton Fields and Skyscrapers: Southern City and …
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Consumer credit in the clothing and textile retail trade: A study of two English provincial retailers, 1878-1914
… late-Victorian and Edwardian England, and of the economic and retail environments of the towns in which they were located. It examines the firms’ management of credit and the economic, social and cultural aspects of their credit relations. From the perspective of their customers, it explores the …
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Geographies of confinement : America's carceral bulwark, 1973-2022
… prison’s novel importance to the cultural and economic function and survival of the state and nation at-large. The proliferation of the prison, in both real space and the cultural imaginary, has produced barriers to abolition that now appear indestructible and insurmountable. The primary …
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An empirical study of the key knowledge economy factors for sustainable economic development in Oman
Heavy economic dependence on oil revenues has come under scrutiny in most oil producing countries, including the Sultanate of Oman. The main catalysts for this have been the gradual decline of oil production, depletion of oil reserves, fluctuations in oil price and high rates of population growth …
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European urbanism in Caracas (1870s-1930s)
… is not reduced to a deterministic effect of economic dependence, but is rather regarded as a component of the cultural relationship maintained by the Venezuelan elite with the most advanced countries of North Atlantic capitalism. By tracing the transfer of urban ideas from Europe into Caracas …
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The Commodification of Polynesian Tattooing: Perrsistence, Change and Reinvention of a Cultural Tradition.
… former colonies of the world have experienced independence in the 20th century, French Polynesia remains an autonomous province of France. The native population resents this close association with France and new political movements have developed to counter French dependency and sovereignty in …
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Politics and trade in Africa : Does Sino-African trade and investment significantly influence Africa's United Nations General Assembly voting behaviour?
… consequences of China's rapidly growing economic engagement in Africa. Whilst there has been much debate regarding the economic impact of China, few studies have been concerned with the foreign policy consequences of Sino-Africa trade relations. Using a panel of ten Sub-Saharan countries, …
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The political economy of South African foreign direct investment in Mozambique: a case study of Mozal and its implications for development in Mozambique and Southern Africa
… for regional integration in southern Africa and economic reconstruction in Mozambique: a practical manifestation of the African Renaissance. This thesis is a case study of MOZAL as an example of cross-border industrial development and its implications for development in Mozambique. Using an …
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