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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1989) 9 (1): 12–25.
Published: 01 May 1989
...” , in Binswanger & Rosenzweig, op. cit. 1984 . Bardhan , Pranab Land, Labor and Rural Poverty: Essays in Development Economics . Columbia University Press. 1984 . Bardhan , Pranab , and Ashok Rudra “Employment and Wages in Agriculture: results of a survey of villages in West Bengal...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (2): 14–24.
Published: 01 August 1995
...Stephen Rockel © 1995: South Asia Bulletin 1995 Wage Labor and the Culture of Porterage in Nineteenth Century Tanzania: The Central Caravan Routes’ Stephen Rockel The historiography of labor in sub-Saharan Af- Hence...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 75–88.
Published: 01 May 2013
... in Abadan. In Persian Story oil modernity is made legible in the spaces of leisure shaped by British town planning. Meanwhile, the film renders invisible the spaces of Abadan’s working class, whose demands for fair wages, regular hours, and decent living conditions were routinely neglected by the oil...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (2): 250–261.
Published: 01 August 2010
... where a virulent insurgency has reemerged. In these regions, aid interventions are deeply entangled in active insurgent and counterinsurgent politics as aid settings are often used to wage ideological, cultural, and political campaigns over Afghans in order to demonstrate victory. This article argues...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 317–326.
Published: 01 August 2024
... of capitalism—one connecting wage labor exploitation with other human and nonhuman work—requires methods that do not prioritize what is visible. Rather than asking what X-ray images show diagnostically, this article charts how the creation of visibility and invisibility was a political act, a tactic of capital...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1982) 2 (2): 55–65.
Published: 01 August 1982
... which the phenomenon should be viewed. The idea that once labor is freed from the worst visible oppression and paid a "fair" wage or set up on a small parcel of land that it is no longer oppressed or exploited is politically limited, if not naive. And the call to Parliament to free bonded labor...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (1): 80–84.
Published: 01 May 1995
..., into SA. This wariness has much less to do with high investment incentives and other forms of market- wages, or worker militancy, or communists in the distorting policies and mechanisms, and the suppres...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (2): 72–88.
Published: 01 August 1995
.... Wartime and post-war inflation reduced real wages in many strength of the working people of Britain within the instances, and the strain on urban resources such as state meant that the era of post-war...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1986) 6 (1): 3–16.
Published: 01 May 1986
...: The Calcutta Experience . Center for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. (Mimeograph). Bardhan , K. ( 1984 ). “Work Patterns and Social Differentiation Rural Women of West Bengal,’ in Binswanger & Rosenzweig (ed.): Contractual Arrangements. Employment and Wages In Rural Labor Markets in Asia...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1999) 19 (2): 47–52.
Published: 01 August 1999
... for Brenner’s argument is a detailed illustration of the food outruns supply, resulting in an increase in food Marxist axiom that the barrier to capital is capital it- prices and rents even as agricultural wages fall. The self.’ As such, Brenner focuses sharply on neo- terms of trade turn against...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1982) 2 (1): 6–18.
Published: 01 May 1982
... the working class and prevented it from presenting a united opposition to the capitalists. Finally, it examines the efforts of the Indian farmworkers to unionize, which they have done successfully and which has given them an entrenched position from which to bargain for better wages...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (1): 206–219.
Published: 01 May 2014
... After a visit to the factory in 1898, a sanitation in- The workers in the Cibali factory were often spector reported that although an open space in paid piecework wages. In a petition addressed the middle of the building enabled air to circulate, to the Grand Vizierate...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1992) 12 (2): 104–107.
Published: 01 August 1992
... of collective bargaining labor laws. and legislation, and comparing wages and working In the present context of an attack on workers' conditions in the different branches of each company rights and the fact that there is a free flow of informa- in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan. The tion...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (2): 47–63.
Published: 01 August 1995
... always used their position as producers to lever- in an area populated by the Igbo people, one of the age for improved wages, power in the work place and three largest ethnic groups in contemporary Nigeria. social amenities in the labor camps. The war time During the period covered by this paper...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1988) 8 (1_and_2): 12–19.
Published: 01 August 1988
... within the conditions and wages, training of workers, extension of framework of first two Five Year Plans under the guidance unionization to rural workers as well as workers in the of experts from Harvard University. The core of industrial- informal urban sector and remuneration of female labor...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (1): 76–79.
Published: 01 May 1995
... Organisation (ILO) and WHO considered to focus on health and safety, with other priorities such as the importance of adequately trained personnel in the field wage and political demands having taken precedence. of occupational health, as well as the usefulness of data Since occupational health has...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1999) 19 (2): 61–85.
Published: 01 August 1999
... the United States and the United Kingdom) counts for the passage from long booms to long experienced record-breaking rates of investment, out- downturns is a fall in profitability. So, the conceptual put, productivity, and wage growth, along with low challenge in explaining each progression from...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (2): 4–13.
Published: 01 August 1995
... interacted in a com- sans, mostly male, dependent on wage labor with a plex and ever changing environment then subject to collective sense of group consciousness and shared the vicissitudes of the expanding mercantile system. interests. This paper is about ideas in the broadest The establishment...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1982) 2 (1): 19–28.
Published: 01 May 1982
... the would not go into the additional expense of crops had changed from wheat to fruits bringing their families -- a factor which etc, the produce was still being grown for made it possible for employers to pay even a market that was separated from lower wages to these male...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1999) 19 (1): 106–121.
Published: 01 May 1999
...: Subarnarekha, pp. 90 –100. Boahen , A. A. (ed.). 1985 . Africa under Colonial Domination 1880–1935 , Vol. VI, of UNESCO General History of Africa, Paris, UNESCO and London: Heinemann. Botwinick , H. 1993 . Persistent Inequalities: Wage Disparity under Capitalist Competition , Princeton...