Labor In A New Land

Author : Stephen Innes
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400855490

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Labor in a New Land by Stephen Innes Pdf

Stephen Innes studies the relationship between work, land, and community in seventeenth-century Springfield, Massachusetts. Using analytical concepts drawn from anthropology--dependence, mediation, and clientage--he shows that the town was a highly commercialized, developmental community contrasting sharply with the communal, quietistic models that currently form our image of early New England. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Duncan K. Foley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134387977

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Unholy Trinity by Duncan K. Foley Pdf

Many of the central results of Classical and Marxian political economy are examples of the self-organization of the capitalist economy as a complex, adaptive system far from equilibrium.An Unholy Trinity explores the relations between contemporary complex systems theory and classical political economy, and applies the methods it develops to the pro

Author : R. H. Tawney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1138727475

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Land and Labour in China by R. H. Tawney Pdf

Author : Alexander C. Lichtenstein
Publisher : Verso
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1859840868

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Twice the Work of Free Labor by Alexander C. Lichtenstein Pdf

Twice the Work of Free Labor is both a study of penal labor in the southern United States, and a revisionist analysis of the political economy of the South after the Civil War.

Author : Joshua B. Freeman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780231549585

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City of Workers, City of Struggle by Joshua B. Freeman Pdf

From the founding of New Amsterdam until today, working people have helped create and re-create the City of New York through their struggles. Starting with artisans and slaves in colonial New York and ranging all the way to twenty-first-century gig-economy workers, this book tells the story of New York’s labor history anew. City of Workers, City of Struggle brings together essays by leading historians of New York and a wealth of illustrations, offering rich descriptions of work, daily life, and political struggle. It recounts how workers have developed formal and informal groups not only to advance their own interests but also to pursue a vision of what the city should be like and whom it should be for. The book goes beyond the largely white, male wage workers in mainstream labor organizations who have dominated the history of labor movements to look at enslaved people, indentured servants, domestic workers, sex workers, day laborers, and others who have had to fight not only their masters and employers but also labor groups that often excluded them. Through their stories—how they fought for inclusion or developed their own ways to advance—it recenters labor history for contemporary struggles. City of Workers, City of Struggle offers the definitive account of the four-hundred-year history of efforts by New York workers to improve their lives and their communities. In association with the exhibition City of Workers, City of Struggle: How Labor Movements Changed New York at the Museum of the City of New York

Author : Julia Chuang
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520973428

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Beneath the China Boom by Julia Chuang Pdf

For nearly four decades, China’s manufacturing boom has been powered by the labor of 287 million rural migrant workers, who travel seasonally between villages where they farm for subsistence and cities where they work. Yet recently local governments have moved away from manufacturing and toward urban expansion and construction as a development strategy. As a result, at least 88 million rural people to date have lost rights to village land. In Beneath the China Boom, Julia Chuang follows the trajectories of rural workers, who were once supported by a village welfare state and are now landless. This book provides a view of the undertow of China’s economic success, and the periodic crises—a rural fiscal crisis, a runaway urbanization—that it first created and now must resolve.

Author : Olivier Frayssé
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Land use
ISBN : 0252019792

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Lincoln, Land, and Labor, 1809-60 by Olivier Frayssé Pdf

In Lincoln, Land, and Labor the French scholar Olivier Fraysse traces Lincoln's problematic relationship with and ideas about the land and those who worked it, revealing Lincoln as an intelligent and ambitious man who in fact turned his back on his rural roots for a time in favor of the opportunities offered in law and politics.

Author : Leila Farsakh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134328482

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Palestinian Labour Migration to Israel by Leila Farsakh Pdf

This book examines the flow of Palestinian labour to Israel over the last three decades, and shows how it has fluctuated over time, with, most recently, a shift in the flow towards Israeli settlements in the occupied territories.

Author : Jeannie M. Whayne
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0813916550

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A New Plantation South by Jeannie M. Whayne Pdf

Whayne also offers an analysis of the forces at work on the local level. She suggests that concerted opposition to modernization existed even before New Deal programs gave power to the planters in the 1930s. She also demonstrates that the Arkansas delta experienced many of the same conflicts based on social class and racial caste that were evident in former slaveholding areas.

Author : United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Labor
ISBN : UCBK:C005014304

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Monthly Labor Review by United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics Pdf

Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.

Author : Stephen Innes
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807838587

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Work and Labor in Early America by Stephen Innes Pdf

Ten leading scholars of early American social history here examine the nature of work and labor in America from 1614 to 1820. The authors scrutinize work diaries, private and public records, and travelers' accounts. Subjects include farmers, farmwives, urban laborers, plantation slave workers, midwives, and sailors; locales range from Maine to the Caribbean and the high seas. These essays recover the regimen that consumed the waking hours of most adults in the New World, defined their economic lives, and shaped their larger existence. Focusing on individuals as well as groups, the authors emphasize the choices that, over time, might lead to prosperity or to the poorhouse. Few people enjoyed sinecures, and every day brought new risks. Stephen Innes introduces the collection by elucidating the prophetic vision of Captain John Smith: that the New World offered abundant reward for one's "owne industrie." Several motifs stand out in the essays. Family labor has begun to assume greater prominence, both as a collective work unit and as a collective economic unit whose members worked independently. Of growing interest to contemporary scholars is the role of family size and sex ratio in determining economic decision, and vice ersa. Work patterns appear to have been driven by the goal of creating surplus production for markets; perhaps because of a desire for higher consumption, work patterns began to intensify throughout the eighteenth century and led to longer work days with fewer slack periods. Overall, labor relations showed no consistent evolution but remained fluid and flexible in the face of changing market demands in highly diverse environments. The authors address as well the larger questions of American development and indicate the directions that research in this expanding field might follow.

Author : Xinshen Diao,Peter Hazell,Shashidhara Kolavalli,Danielle Resnick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780192584038

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Ghana's Economic and Agricultural Transformation by Xinshen Diao,Peter Hazell,Shashidhara Kolavalli,Danielle Resnick Pdf

Many African countries have experienced unprecedented rates of economic growth in recent years, yet their economic transformations display features that could constrain their future growth prospects. Patterns of urbanization without industrialization, rapid growth of low productivity jobs in the informal economy, and a neglected agricultural sector with increased need for important foods are all areas for concern as Africa continues to develop. Using Ghana as a case study, Ghana's Economic and Agricultural Transformation: Past Performance and Future Prospects integrates economic and political analysis to explore the challenges and opportunities of Africa's transformation. It examines Ghana's overall economic performance since it went through a major Structural Adjustment Program in the early 1980s, and provides an in-depth empirical analysis of the broader economy and the agricultural sector over the last four decades. It explains why Ghana has not transformed its economy more substantially, why its agriculture sector has not played a greater role beyond cocoa production, and what must be done in the future to achieve a successful transformation. In addressing these puzzles Ghana's Economic and Agricultural Transformation considers what the rest of the world can learn from Ghana's experience.

Author : W. E. B. Du Bois
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199385676

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Black Reconstruction in America (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois) by W. E. B. Du Bois Pdf

W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, including the history of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period. Du Bois was also a prolific author of novels, autobiographical accounts, innumerable editorials and journalistic pieces, and several works of history. Black Reconstruction in America tells and interprets the story of the twenty years of Reconstruction from the point of view of newly liberated African Americans. Though lambasted by critics at the time of its publication in 1935, Black Reconstruction has only grown in historical and literary importance. In the 1960s it joined the canon of the most influential revisionist historical works. Its greatest achievement is weaving a credible, lyrical historical narrative of the hostile and politically fraught years of 1860-1880 with a powerful critical analysis of the harmful effects of democracy, including Jim Crow laws and other injustices. With a series introduction by editor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and an introduction by David Levering Lewis, this edition is essential for anyone interested in African American history.

Author : Leah Platt Boustan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691202495

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Competition in the Promised Land by Leah Platt Boustan Pdf

From 1940 to 1970, nearly four million black migrants left the American rural South to settle in the industrial cities of the North and West. Competition in the Promised Land provides a comprehensive account of the long-lasting effects of the influx of black workers on labor markets and urban space in receiving areas. Traditionally, the Great Black Migration has been lauded as a path to general black economic progress. Leah Boustan challenges this view, arguing instead that the migration produced winners and losers within the black community. Boustan shows that migrants themselves gained tremendously, more than doubling their earnings by moving North. But these new arrivals competed with existing black workers, limiting black–white wage convergence in Northern labor markets and slowing black economic growth. Furthermore, many white households responded to the black migration by relocating to the suburbs. White flight was motivated not only by neighborhood racial change but also by the desire on the part of white residents to avoid participating in the local public services and fiscal obligations of increasingly diverse cities. Employing historical census data and state-of-the-art econometric methods, Competition in the Promised Land revises our understanding of the Great Black Migration and its role in the transformation of American society.

Author : Cindy Hahamovitch
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400840021

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No Man's Land by Cindy Hahamovitch Pdf

From South Africa in the nineteenth century to Hong Kong today, nations around the world, including the United States, have turned to guestworker programs to manage migration. These temporary labor recruitment systems represented a state-brokered compromise between employers who wanted foreign workers and those who feared rising numbers of immigrants. Unlike immigrants, guestworkers couldn't settle, bring their families, or become citizens, and they had few rights. Indeed, instead of creating a manageable form of migration, guestworker programs created an especially vulnerable class of labor. Based on a vast array of sources from U.S., Jamaican, and English archives, as well as interviews, No Man's Land tells the history of the American "H2" program, the world's second oldest guestworker program. Since World War II, the H2 program has brought hundreds of thousands of mostly Jamaican men to the United States to do some of the nation's dirtiest and most dangerous farmwork for some of its biggest and most powerful agricultural corporations, companies that had the power to import and deport workers from abroad. Jamaican guestworkers occupied a no man's land between nations, protected neither by their home government nor by the United States. The workers complained, went on strike, and sued their employers in class action lawsuits, but their protests had little impact because they could be repatriated and replaced in a matter of hours. No Man's Land puts Jamaican guestworkers' experiences in the context of the global history of this fast-growing and perilous form of labor migration.