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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (1): 109–142.
Published: 01 February 2010
... in the early Cold War years is placed within the trajectory of Andreotti’s working life as a skilled electrician. The labor market demand for skilled workers, it is shown, provided the foundation for Andreotti’s sustained militancy and decisively shaped his philosophy of shop floor organizing based...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (2): 269–302.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of the population, fluency in written communication and accounting skills became important means to accumulate wealth and power, allowing individuals with these skills to occupy central positions in long-distance trade and patronage networks. Differences in the nature of honor also fueled disdain and hatred...
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Hispanic American Historical Review 11543343.
Published: 25 September 2024
...-imperial Caribbean. Indigenous maritime technologies and martial skills allowed them to forge transimperial networks of raiding and trafficking of European merchandise, captives, foodstuffs, and staple commodities. These practices were tools used to repel European incursions, exploit the Spanish Empire...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 February 2017
... and military skills helped them maintain a special identity within the Miskitu Kingdom and then wage a civil war against its indigenous leaders. The subsequent history of the Miskitu Kingdom involved rivalry between the Zambos and the indigenous Miskitu (Tawira) components of the population, involving...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (2): 366–368.
Published: 01 May 2015
... of labor codes. Specifically, he considers skill levels of workers in the “preincorporation” phase and argues that labor laws were fashioned in response to labor market dynamics generated by these skill distributions. This unique explanation for labor law's design is essential to Carnes's main argument...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1998) 78 (1): 165–167.
Published: 01 February 1998
... countries the particular nexus that exists between the nature of the structural adjustment process, the skills required, and the institutional training structure most conducive to teaching these skills. The absence of country-specific details on the links between adjustment and human resource...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (4): 810–811.
Published: 01 November 1969
... analyzes the conditions of factor supply to the industry. In addition to dealing with problems concerning the supply of capital, entrepreneurship, and “know how,” he examines with commendable thoroughness the supply of human resources, especially engineers and skilled workers. Too often the literature...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (2): 300–302.
Published: 01 May 2018
... of archaeological inquiry to which the editor, Cathy Costin, has made significant contributions. In an effort to breathe new life into this area of study, the notion of techné is invoked as the book's focal concept, a Greek term referring to embodied skilled craftsmanship and “skilled making” in general...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1972) 52 (4): 709–710.
Published: 01 November 1972
... age-sex structure, per capita income, and geographical variables for their relationship to labor force participation rates. He shows that education, skill, and salaried employment grew relatively faster than the labor force itself and interprets these data to mean that disguised unemployment has...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (1): 186–187.
Published: 01 February 2010
... tunnels, and importing modern tools and skilled technicians. Robinson also forged close ties with local elites, including the powerful Terrazas family, and benefited from reduced taxes and slack government regulation. The revival of silver mining, however, came at a cost in natural and human resources...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1971) 51 (4): 567–585.
Published: 01 November 1971
... in relatively small lots. The trade also, at least in these early years, moved overwhelmingly from ports north of Rio de Janeiro into the center, with only minor imports from the South. The migrant slave group was predominantly adult and male, and higher priced skilled and urban slaves seem to have been...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1990) 70 (3): 379–404.
Published: 01 August 1990
... supposedly efficient solutions to these problems and remove them from the arena of class struggle. 25 The inadequacy of the existing system of worker training and apprenticeship was also apparent to the industrialists by the 1920s. Typically, young workers acquired skills not through a formal...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (2): 393–394.
Published: 01 May 2001
..., or modern anthropology, Buffington points to the less obvious “perceptual continuity” underlying all reforms despite the most violent social and institutional changes. Carlos Roumagnac, the police inspector, criminologist, and journalist, whose versatility and narrative skills made him the chief...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (3): 558–559.
Published: 01 August 2019
..., and socialized along rivers, lakes, and the sea and that the many aquatic skills they developed in those “amphibious culturescapes”—especially swimming, underwater diving, canoe making, and canoeing—were easily transferred to the Americas along with a host of cultural practices and spiritual beliefs about water...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (4): 684–687.
Published: 01 November 2023
... individuals from primary sources that had been recorded in colonial Louisiana. Each line of her database contains information about one individual—their name and a host of characteristics, including age, location, enslaver, skills, injuries, illnesses, marriage partners, children, and African ethnicities—all...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (3): 573–574.
Published: 01 August 2011
... the tools at hand — wanton violence, media manipulation, exploitation of existing rivalries, cultivation of useful clients, and massive graft — to gain and keep power. Prior to becoming governor of Puebla in 1937, Maximino had spent years honing his skills, learning how to use his military positions...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (1): 154–156.
Published: 01 February 2020
... learned how to use the forests and the rivers to their advantage. De la Torre describes this as a process of “environmental creolization,” whereby Afro-Amazonians developed mastery in the skills and lifeways of the tropical lowlands. Slaves learned, for example, where to find the groves of wild Brazil...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (1): 175–176.
Published: 01 February 2015
... while at the same time defending community members from abuses. These skills led to a leadership position in the CRIC. Perhaps appropriately for a book about anthropological mediation of Indigenous voices, a theme that runs throughout Palechor's narrative is his own mediation of native concerns. He...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (2): 327–329.
Published: 01 May 2022
... topic of interest to specialists in textile history, it provides a window into many aspects of Spanish American colonial cultural and social history. To exalt God and attract adherents, churches and patrons sought high-quality materials and skills to manufacture liturgical textiles. To reflect...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1977) 57 (2): 254–272.
Published: 01 May 1977
.... Nonetheless, total union membership during this period was never more than a few thousand and was confined almost exclusively to the skilled trades and construction, transportation, and port workers. Notably, all efforts to form unions in the textile industry, the nation’s leading employer of industrial labor...
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