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... was conducted between 2010 and 2013, both through interviews with day laborers, labor contractors, agricultural business owners, and expert witnesses and through an ethnographic study of migrant accommodations. © 2015 Duke University Press 2015 Romanian migrants Burkinabé migrants farm labor...

... closely by thewage curve. It is the price level of manufactured goods that has been held down, in spite of the increased costs that the manufacturer must pay for materials and labor. This combination foreshadows less profiteering, but also less capital in the hands of industry for the resumption...

... materially affected the labor supply and made the negro less dependent upon the white man than formerly. The second cause is to be found in the rise of a new school of politicians in the South who have discovered in the negro question a door to political success through agitation and appeals to the passions...

... of the American West and Canada, but their actions did not contribute to good international relations. Considerable money flowed into the economy; $15,000,000 in 1953 and 1954 and slightly less in 1955. All work capable of being done by Icelandic contractors and labor was so done. These sub­ contracts were...

... was an asset rather than a liability. From the beginnings of colonization to the end of the World War, labor was scarce in America. There were three principal ways in which an adequate labor supply could be secured to exploit the resources of a new continent: first, by the purchase of slaves; second...

... employers through a government agency.25 Employers do not always like the idea that workers are completely immobile in the destination country. In the late 1990s some small con- struction companies in Singapore brought in workers from China and farmed them out to other companies that needed short-term labor...

.... The companies provided the inputs (eggs, chickens, feed, medication), while the contractors sup- plied the housing, labor, energy, and especially the risk (whether of flock failure or price decline).35 With this new vertical integration, risk and safety were segmented. Risks were borne primarily...

...' not plan their work; they had no progress schedules; they showed no foresight and nobody knew what an equitable day s work was. Their cost accounting was primitive and technically trained labor was wasted on odd jobs requiring no special ability. The same thing was true of the manufacture of clothes...

..., the agricultural and construction sectors accommodate most workers who run away. Many farmers and construction contractors rely on runaway migrant workers to meet labor needs. Other employers who hire runaway migrant workers do not want to deal with administrative procedures or have been blacklisted for violating...

... migration within and beyond an approach that emphasizes the lived experience, subjectivity, and labor of the migrant. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 migrant currency Pacific Solution externalization border References Agnew John . 2005 . “ Sovereignty Regimes...

..., the ranks of casual workers, on-call workers, temps, employees leased or subcon- tracted from business service firms, day laborers, independent contractors, and the self-employed swelled across the entire workforce (Gleason 2006: 1). Under the influence of Chicago school labor law, employers sought...

... with commitments to labor and environment as well as specific local issues, one of which has always been protecting the River Valley that links communities within and beyond the municipality. Citizens, working at the community level and with a range of environmental organizations including the aforementioned, have...

... property, and is handed over to the laboring masses, without compensation. 111 Nor does the rift stop with a philosophy; the mechanics of applied government have cut equally deep. The Italian na­ tion, says Article I of the Fascist Labor Charter, is an organ­ ism whose aim, whose life and whose means...

.... The mayors knew the strength of the Irish vote. Du­ quesne University of Pittsburgh and De Paul University of Chicago presented him with honorary degrees. The Massachusetts branch of the American Federation of Labor invited him to address its convention and, after hearing him, adopted a resolution favorable...

... the commonplaces of the daily toil which they despised by the labor of slaves and women. This idea is still so widely held that it is perhaps worth while to survey the scene again and' see if, from our modern knowledge of social and economic forces, some expla­ nation more satisfying may not be drawn. I All...

... of labor a week by an individual laborer should be reduced. This accomplishes two purposes tending to lessen the amount produced and creating a spread out of labor. For example, if the working time a week of a laborer is cut in half, another laborer can be employed and thus un­ employment may be cut down...

... (for furniture repair), mule (for labor or farm produce), tree (for cutting and moving it), stove (for groceries), lodging (for cleaning windows and rugs in hotel), trousers (for shirts), clothes (for housekeeping), shoes (for sawing wood), day-bed (for bureau), clothes (for ironing), milk and butter (for labor...

... . “Productivity and Protest: Scientific Management in the Ghanaian Gold Mines, 1947–1956.” In Struggle for the City: Migrant Labour, Capital, and the State in Urban Africa , edited by Cooper Frederick , 91 – 130 . London : Sage . Crush Jonathan . 2001 . “Undermining Labour: The Rise of Sub...

... of reforms from labor legislation to prohibition. Fifth and finally, the public service concept of government: the extension of govern­ mental responsibilities into a wide range of direct services to the people good roads, education, public health and welfare, rural credits, conservation, among others. 94...

... that different forms of “unfree” labor and social conditions coexist with this reserve army in a productive way. The relation between land posses­ sion, farming, small trade, new sweatshops, and the transformation of poor houses into a sort of new private revenue (by renting rooms for instance) is clear...