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Environmental Management Strategy in the Golden Era of the Poboya Village Mining Area, Mantikulore District, Palu City

Administrative and Environmental Law Review
Artisanal gold mining in Poboya Village, Mantikulore District, Palu City, poses significant environmental risks due to the continued use of mercury in gold processing. Mercury contamination has degraded land and water quality and threatens public health,
Ikbal Ikbal, Gabriela Almasari Datuan, Abdullah Abdullah, Nursiah Moh. Yunus, Widyatmi Anandy   +4 more
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Marxism and Decolonizing Praxis: From Decolonial Misinterpretations to Marxist Contributions

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article intervenes in postcolonial and decolonial critiques that portray Karl Marx and Marxism as intrinsically Eurocentric and inattentive to race, colonialism and non‐European revolutionary agency. It argues that such critiques often rely on selective, historically limited interpretations that overlook Marx's later writings, in which he
Ana Cecilia Dinerstein
wiley   +1 more source

Mine Ventilation System Variable Resistance Regulate Air Quantity Economy and Its Impacts on Artisanal Mine in Ivory Coast

MATEC Web of Conferences, 2016
The artisanal gold mining is one of the major illegal activities in Ivory Coast. Thousands of indigents and foreigners including men, women and children are involved in this dangerous activity.
Kouame Kouame Arthur Joseph, Jiang Fuxing, Feng Yu, Zhu Sitao   +3 more
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Identification of hazards in the workplaces of Artisanal mining in Katanga

International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, 2011
Abstract
Elenge Molayi, Myriam, De Brouwer, Christophe   +1 more
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Chasing the perfida Albione: Anglo‐Italian productivity gap in the late 1930s

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper presents new estimates of Anglo‐Italian labour productivity levels in manufacturing in the late 1930s, derived using the standard single‐deflation approach. The findings confirm a substantial productivity gap between Italy and the United Kingdom at the aggregate level, alongside pronounced intersectoral heterogeneity.
Tancredi Salamone
wiley   +1 more source

Socio-economic and environmental impact of mining on women in Kasigau mining zone in Taita Taveta County

Journal of Sustainable Mining, 2016
The Kasigau ward is home to many gemstones with their mining contributing to the county's economic development. The mining sector is dominated by artisanal and small scale mining with 3–5% of women employed. A Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach
Maarifa Ali Mwakumanya, Mwikamba Maghenda, Hamida Juma   +2 more
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‘Elbow grease and yellow soap’: Housework time in working‐class households in late‐nineteenth and early twentieth‐century Britain

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Housework is central to feminist calls for recognition of women's work, economic histories explaining the sexual division of labour, and claims regarding the progressive role of scientific knowledge. Yet little is known about the time it actually took. We address this lacuna.
Sara Horrell, Jane Humphries
wiley   +1 more source

Les logiques du coopérativisme minier en Bolivie. Ancrages locaux, savoirs et luttes sociales comme légitimités d’une activité contestée

EchoGéo
Bolivia is a special case in South America in that 90 % of its mining workforce comes from artisanal and small-scale mines, organized in the form of cooperatives bringing together over 150,000 workers throughout the country.
Claude Le Gouill
doaj   +1 more source

The Capital–Labour–State Dynamics of Herbicide Adoption in Rainfed India

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper engages debates around the capital–labour–state dynamics of agrarian transitions to address the oft‐studied but still little‐understood question of why farmers adopt herbicides when they do. Over the last several years, smallholder farmers in India have begun using the herbicide bispyribac sodium at breakneck speeds, particularly in
Carly Nichols, Nidhi Kumari
wiley   +1 more source

Évaluation préliminaire des impacts environnementaux de l’orpaillage dans le Domaine de chasse de Bili-Uéré en République démocratique du Congo

VertigO
Environmental impacts resulting from human activities remain a fundamental concern of government policies on biodiversity protection in protected areas. One such activity causing these impacts is artisanal gold mining. Analyzing the case of the Bili-Uéré
Justin Kyale Koy, Antoine Tabu, Gloire Ganza Bamulezi, Matthieu Mamiki Kebongobongo, Serge Alebadwa Mombenga, Jean-Claude Kalala, Camille Welepele, Theodore Tréfon, Elie Lamarre   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source