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Labor of Meaning, Labor of Need:

2016
This chapter critically examines the promise of organic farm volunteering programs such as WWOOF in meeting organic farmers’ need for affordable labor in Hawaii. While organic farm volunteering offers a short term coping strategy for some organic farmers, the cultural logic and rationale that propels these programs perpetuates the underlying labor ...
Mary Mostafanezhad, Krisnawati Suryanata, Saleh Azizi, Nicole Milne   +3 more
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Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow

Monthly Review, 1986
Review of Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present by Jacqueline Jones. This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website , where most recent articles are published in full. Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
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The Dimensions, Antecedents, and Consequences of Emotional Labor

, 1996
This article conceptualizes the emotional labor construct in terms of four dimensions: frequency of appropriate emotional display, attentiveness to required display rules, variety of emotions to be displayed, and emotional dissonance generated by having ...
J. Andrew Morris, Daniel C. Feldman
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Unemployment and Labor Market Rigidities: Europe versus North America

, 1997
The received wisdom tells us that the rigidity and inflexibility of European job markets relative to that in the United States is the reason why Europe has high unemployment.
S. Nickell
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Labor Economics and the Labor Historian

International Labor and Working-Class History, 1982
A well celebrated and documented renaissance has marked the enterprise of labor history in the United States during the last twenty years. A steady increase in the number of students and monographs, widening application of sociological theory and statistical analysis, and most important, a fundamental shift in focus and interpretation, have contributed
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Is Anyone Doing the Housework? Trends in the Gender Division of Household Labor

, 2000
Time-diary data from representative samples ofAmerican adults show thatthenumber ofoverall hours ofdomestic labor (excluding child care andshopping) has continued to decline steadily and predictably since 1965.
S. Bianchi, Melissa A. Milkie, Liana C. Sayer, John P. Robinson   +3 more
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Documenting a labor of love: emotional labor as academic labor

Review of Communication, 2018
ABSTRACTNeoliberal practices embedded in academia have transformed the university into a service industry. Through this lens, this review documents the current exploration of emotional labor in academia, specifically in communication studies. While a paucity of literature on this topic exists, I explore how a neoliberal agenda creates an expectation ...
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Labor, Conventions, and Conventions of Labor

International ...
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THE PHYSIOLOGY OF LABOR AND MANAGEMENT OF PROLONGED LABOR

Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 1993
Prolonged labor is a common occurrence, but proper diagnosis is difficult, and the management is controversial. Prolonged labor can be prevented by providing the laboring woman with proper emotional support and by encouraging ambulation and position changes. The indication for and proper use of oxytocin and other measures to correct prolonged labor are
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Labor Input and Labor Income

2018
This chapter discusses the measurement of labor input in the eight countries. Labor input is a combination of employment, hours per worker, and human capital per worker. Detailed data on the school attainment of the employed and their full-time/part-time status is used to construct more precise measures of total labor input than what is typically found
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