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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

Managing agency business groups, elite directors, and the rubber boom, 1897–1913

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We identify a new organizational form, the Managing Agency Business Group (MABG), demonstrating how agency houses used interlocking directorships to build groups on the basis of commercial and plantation expertise to access finance on London stock markets and local capital markets in the pre‐1914 rubber boom.
David Higgins, Steven Toms
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The depth and breadth of capitalism at the Cape

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Limited liability company legislation was introduced to the Cape Colony in 1861. An amendment in 1892 led to wider adoption, expanding and diversifying the capital market. Using novel data from the Cape Joint Stock Archive between 1892 and 1902, this paper examines who invested, where capital flowed, and how these patterns shaped firm outcomes
Edward Kerby, Lloyd Melusi Maphosa
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Remote investing in Latin America, 1869–1929

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Substantial amounts of British capital flowed to Latin America during the first era of globalization. Companies financed by this capital were typically headquartered in the United Kingdom, but operated thousands of miles away. This paper asks how this geographic separation between governance and business activities affected the valuation of ...
Gareth Campbell, Áine Gallagher, Richard S. Grossman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Compartmentalized L1/L2 Teaching: Connecting Languages to Foster In‐Depth Learning and Multi/Trans Lingual Selves

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines elementary Grade 5 and 6 students’ emic perspectives on their L1 French and L2 English teachers’ cross‐curricular efforts to build linguistic and conceptual bridges. Drawing on research on translanguaging pedagogies and recent motivation scholarship, we propose a multi‐competence view of motivation that aligns more closely ...
Sunny Man Chu Lau, Andrée‐Anne Tremblay   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Challenging the Monolith: Ambivalence, the Native‐Speaker Ideal and Teacher Preparation in Multilingual South Africa

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explored the ambivalence of final‐year TESOL pre‐service teachers towards a non‐native‐speaking (NNS) lecturer within a historically white South African university. The research involved twelve student teachers being prepared to teach English as either a home language or a first additional language to high school learners in the ...
Nhlanhla Mpofu
wiley   +1 more source

Dreaming and Living the Globalized World Through IELTS: A Case Study of Bangladeshi Test‐Takers

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This case study investigated the lived experiences of 10 IELTS test‐takers from Bangladesh. It explored their motivations for taking the test as well as their test experiences during and after the test. It demonstrates how the participants sought to position themselves in the imagined community through renegotiating their identities to climb ...
Tazin Ahmed, M. Obaidul Hamid, Xiaofan Liu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Muslim mothers’ intersecting tensions in combining breastfeeding and employment: A systematic review and research agenda

International Journal of Management Reviews, EarlyView.
Abstract The intersection of gender, time and marginalization in organizations is evident in the challenges faced by employed mothers, particularly those who are breastfeeding. These challenges are amplified for Muslim mothers, who must navigate intersecting social identities within these structures shaped by dominant masculine norms.
Feranaaz Farista, Ameeta Jaga
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“Why?”: C. Wright Mills on the Spirit of the Classical Sociological Tradition and Positivist Versus Critical Sociology

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite their very diverse interests, the classical sociological thinkers were concerned with analyzing the dramatic social transformations in the wake of colonialism, slavery, and modern industrial capitalism as well as the multiple revolutions, particularly in relation to the new forms of social inequalities and power disparities.
Zaheer Baber
wiley   +1 more source

Can the subaltern speak through WhatsApp? Unearthing the labour/knowledge of digital methodologies

Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Prompted by the challenges that Syrian refugees posed to a qualitative WhatsApp survey, this article dissects what researchers and research participants actually do when they ‘produce’ knowledge through digital methods such as WhatsApp. While many refugee participants saw the survey as an opportunity to express their views on social tensions ...
LEILA ULLRICH
wiley   +1 more source