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Women in business: Gender and commercial space in nineteenth‐century Glasgow

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Focusing on women entrepreneurs in a large British city, we examine how women's commercially listed businesses populated that city. Using commercial property rental records, our study allows us to understand sectoral variation and the distribution of businesses across the city and to assess both the absolute and relative contribution of women ...
Graeme Acheson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Elbow grease and yellow soap’: Housework time in working‐class households in late‐nineteenth and early twentieth‐century Britain

open access: yesThe 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

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

open access: yesInternational 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
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking informal circularity through metanarratives: Tensions, insights and directions for management research

open access: yesInternational Journal of Management Reviews, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores the intersection of the informal and circular economies and its implications for business, management and organization (BMO) scholarship and practice. Informal circularity, practices of collecting, reusing, repairing, recycling and repurposing materials outside formal economic, legal and regulatory arrangements, constitutes
Tulin Dzhengiz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

People's participation in slum upgrading

open access: yes, 1981
People's participation in slum ...
Quratal Ain (7224503)
core   +3 more sources

Memórias, histórias e representações sociais do bairro de Vila Isabel e de uma de suas favelas (RJ, Brasil) Memories, stories and social representations of the district of Vila Isabel and one of its slums (RJ, Brazil)

open access: yesEtnográfica: Revista do Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, 2009
A partir da etnografia realizada num Centro Comunitário do Morro dos Macacos, localizado no bairro de Vila Isabel, na cidade do Rio de Janeiro (Brasil), o presente artigo discute a história e a memória do morro e do bairro, explorando alguns eventos ...
Fernanda Delvalhas Piccolo
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Counter‐Plantation Imaginaries: Deproletarianisation and Struggle for Autonomy in India

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the decline of the 2015 Pembillai Orumai movement in India's Munnar tea belt as an event revealing the dialectical relationship between labour struggle and agrarian capitalism within the plantation complex. Although widely celebrated for securing wage gains through a historic Dalit woman–led strike, the movement's rapid ...
Jayaseelan Raj
wiley   +1 more source

Slum Planning Schemes

open access: yes, 2011
Public agencies and NGOs in India have been pursuing slum-improvement projects since a long time, often with remarkable success. However, though political resolve, finances and basic institutional capacity are not a constraint today, scaling-up has ...
Bimal Patel   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Mediated Aspirations and Structural Walls: Daily Media Practices Among a Peripheral Roma Community in Türkiye

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how media usage trends of Roma people intersect with urban peripherality and structural inequalities. The study designed as a two‐stage comparative ethnographic field study and conducted in 2016 and 2025 on a Roma community living in Izmir Province of Türkiye, focuses on the ongoing deprivations of the Roma population in ...
Mehmet Işık, Şakir Eşitti
wiley   +1 more source

“It Is Difficult to Investigate a Phenomenon That the Community Does Not Believe Exists” Sociological Research on Poverty in Hungary, 1960–2010

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The study presents the history of poverty research in Hungary from the socialism of the 1960s to the post of regime‐change period, up to 2010. The decline of social research during the socialist period had a significant impact on the development of poverty research.
Ibolya Czibere
wiley   +1 more source

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