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Sweatshop Workers Speak Out: Building Solidarity Between U.S. Communitees and Workers in Bangladesh and Pakistan (Photo Essay Highlights from the Speaking Tour) [PDF]

, 2010
This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.
International Labor Rights Forum
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High Cost and Low Trust: Insights From Qualitative Commercial Fishing Cost Data in the Northeast United States

Fisheries Management and Ecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In fisheries management, socioeconomic data, specifically qualitative data analysis, is often underutilized. This study qualitatively analyzed a primary federal data collection effort in the Northeast United States, The Greater Atlantic Region Commercial Fishing Business Cost Survey.
Elizabeth D. Conley, Samantha Werner, Gregory Ardini, Matthew Cutler, Patricia M. Clay   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Looking at Sierra Leone’s Ebola Epidemic Through an Agrarian Lens

Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016
First paragraphs: When the residents of the small town of Fort Kent in rural Maine expressed their concerns about Sierra Leone's Ebola epidemic arriving "on their doorstep" (Freyer, 2014), they may have not known that they were right to realize that ...
Rami Zurayk
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PROVINCIALISING BERLIN IN MENSCHEN IM HOTEL

German Life and Letters, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article, I take the peculiar source of Vicki Baum's Menschen im Hotel (1929) in a Southern Moravian town as a starting point to reveal the ways in which the hierarchies between metropolis and province are negotiated and complicated by the novel.
Meindert Peters
wiley   +1 more source

A half century of monitoring reveals contrasting survival responses of Icelandic seabirds to climate and fisheries pressures

Ibis, EarlyView.
Seabirds serve as key indicators of marine environmental changes, with adult survival being a critical parameter for assessing population health. Iceland hosts some of the largest seabird populations in the North Atlantic, making it a valuable location for studying long‐term trends in seabird demographics.
Sarah E. Gutowsky, Mark L. Mallory, Gregory J. Robertson, Anna M. Calvert, David A. Fifield, Sverrir Thorstensen, Ævar Petersen   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Labor Market Effects of Occupational Licensing in the Public Sector

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the United States, occupational licensing is about twice as prevalent in the public sector as in the private sector. However, the influence of occupational regulation for public sector workers and how it compares with that of private sector workers has not been analyzed in detail.
Morris M. Kleiner, Wenchen Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing the Employee Welfare Impact of Right‐To‐Work Laws: Insights From State‐Level Legislation

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the effect of right‐to‐work (RTW) laws on employee welfare using the stacked difference‐in‐differences (DiD) methodology. We posit that RTW laws weaken collective bargaining power, increase free riding, and ultimately reduce employee welfare. We document a significant employee welfare decline following RTW adoption, especially among
Shima Amini, Eilnaz Kashefi‐Pour, Ali Sajjadi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sam Van Aken: New Edens

, 2011
Hybridized fruit trees, grafted orchids on shiny, reflective aluminum pedestals, fluorescent lights placed vertically on stands, and sheets of silver Mylar create a lush and somewhat disorienting space in contemporary artist Sam Van Aken’s most recent ...
Egan, Shannon
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Structural Vulnerability in Health Research: A Systematic Mixed Studies Review

Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aims To systematically examine how structural vulnerability has been defined and operationalised in United States‐based health research, identify conceptual consistencies and methodological gaps, and propose core dimensions of structural vulnerability along with implications for future application in health research.
Levia A. Sutton, Carmen Alvarez, Therese S. Richmond, Sara F. Jacoby   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Northern cod (Gadus morhua) movement: insights from acoustic telemetry and genomics

Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Knowledge of the timing and diversity of fish movements within a commercially exploited stock complex is required to ensure the sustainability of fisheries. Although migration can be driven by environmental factors, genomic mechanisms also play an important role in this complex life‐history trait. The northern cod (Gadus morhua) stock complex,
M. Lisette Delgado, Nicole Smith, Frederick Whoriskey, Steve Devitt, Emilie Novaczek, Corey J. Morris, Tony Kess, Ian Bradbury, Sara Iverson, Paul Bentzen, Daniel E. Ruzzante   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source