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The depth and breadth of capitalism at the Cape

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Brunhild: reassessing women in the Fredegar Chronicle

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
Scholarly consideration of women in the seventh‐century Fredegar chronicle has long been dominated by the author’s hostility towards Brunhild, queen of Austrasia. Statistical analysis of Latin world chronicles before ad 900, however, shows that Fredegar’s representation of women was unusually high within this tradition.
Emily Quigley
wiley   +1 more source

Increasing Women in Construction Using Public Procurement: Exploring the Impact of a Government‐Led Building Equality Policy

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Australian construction industry remains one of the most male‐dominated sectors, with women comprising only 12.5% of the workforce and 3% of trades. In this context, policy plays a critical role in challenging entrenched gender norms, removing structural barriers, and promoting equitable access, participation, and progression for women and
Sarah Holdsworth   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

On Racialized, Gendered, Precarious Work: Struggles of Community Health Workers During the National Health Insurance Pilot Program in the Tshwane District, South Africa

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The infrastructure of precarious work is racialized and gendered, affecting disenfranchised Black women who carry the burden of low paid caregiving within the healthcare system. In South Africa, Community Health Workers, predominantly Black women from marginalized communities, have been vital in providing primary healthcare services at home ...
Sivuyisiwe Wonci
wiley   +1 more source

Boundaries of Work: Elite Black African Identities and Place of “(Re)productive” Labor in Kenya's Extractive Industries

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the positioning of elite Black African women in extractive labor spaces, arguing that their experiences are shaped by interrelated feminist concepts of care, time, experience, equality, and difference. Using an African feminist theoretical framework, the study recenters African epistemologies of work and embodiment to ...
Nerea Amisi Okong'o
wiley   +1 more source

Redefining power in social psychology. [PDF]

open access: yesBr J Soc Psychol
Bettache K, A Travaglino G, Beattie P.
europepmc   +1 more source

‘By the Very Rivalry’: On Some Necessary Tensions in Newman's Epistemological Formulations in the Idea of a University and the Grammar of Assent

open access: yesThe Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Newman's educational writings can present an apparent contradiction or rupture, with the ‘intellectualist’ Idea of a University opposed to the ‘commonsensical’ Grammar of Assent. An appeal to the imagination—to imaginative and implicit reasoning—has sometimes been made in order to reconcile these apparent contradictions. While Newman's thought
Austin Walker
wiley   +1 more source

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