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The Capability to Reduce Inequality via STEM Occupations: The Case of Ecuador
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between labor income inequality, higher education, and STEM occupations in Ecuador from 2009 to 2013 and from 2014 to 2019, considering techniques, degrees, and postgraduate education. It analyzes the “composition effect” and the “structural effect” using the recentered influence function (RIF).
Susana Herrero Olarte +3 more
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Trade Unions and Sociotechnical Change: Examining Legal Mobilisation in the Retail Sector in Chile
ABSTRACT This article examines how trade unions in Chile adopted legal mobilisation to address a sociotechnical transformation agenda that triggered wage decline and work intensification. The proposed change involved the implementation of a Functional Flexibility Plan by a multinational retailer, facilitated by in‐store logistics and supermarket front ...
Alejandro Castillo +2 more
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Occupational exposure to uncomfortable temperatures in two university presses of Costa Rica
Muchos procesos industriales se llevan a cabo en condiciones de temperatura excesiva, creando en la mayoría de los casos malestar y, con menor frecuencia, un riesgo para la salud, especialmente cuando se añaden al calor una ventilación inadecuada y la ...
Lourdes Arce Espinoza +1 more
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The essential ecological roles of rodents are often overlooked, as they can decimate crops and spread diseases. We aimed to unpack the knowledge, attitudes and control practices of farmers and foresters towards rodents from an indigenous community in Nuevo San Juan, Mexico.
Margarita Gil‐Fernández +6 more
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Encrucijadas chiapanecas. Jornaleros agrícolas indígenas tseltales y choles en el noroeste de México
El presente artículo tiene el objetivo de documentar, describir y analizar los procesos migratorios de indígenas mayas tseltales y choles que se unen a los contingentes de trabajadores agrícolas temporales
Oscar Sánchez Carrillo
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Beyond Animal‐Based Diets? Alternative Food Networks and Vegetarianism in the City of Buenos Aires
Short Abstract Vegans and vegetarians represent an important group of customers in alternative food networks. Compared to other consumers, they show a greater interest in the systemic aspects of the food system and valorisation of the contra‐hegemonic values associated to AFN.
Clara Craviotti
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Heroic Creation and the Socialist City: The Making of Villa El Salvador
Abstract J.C. Mariátegui believed Indo‐American socialism would be neither calque nor copy, but heroic creation. This article explores an attempt at heroic creation in 1970s Peru: the Self‐Managed Urban Commune of Villa El Salvador (Villa). Putting Marxism in conversation with decolonial theory, I argue Villa shows universality and particularity can be
Rafael Shimabukuro
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Revisiting Deere in an Extractivist Era: Agrarian Reform and Feminist Legacies in Coastal Ecuador
ABSTRACT This article examines how campesinas in coastal Ecuador have navigated shifting labour roles, financial precarity and ecological degradation under Plan Tierras, a state‐led land redistribution policy embedded in an extractivist model of agriculture.
Natalia Landívar, Lynne Phillips
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La mejora de la cobertura de la negociación colectiva en América Latina
El artículo toma como punto de partida la meta fijada por la OIT en la Agenda Hemisférica para promover el trabajo decente en las Américas 2006-2015, referida al incremento de la cobertura de la negociación colectiva, lo que le permite pasar revista a ...
Martín Carrillo Calle
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Abstract How contexts shape organizational phenomena has long been a focus of management and organization studies (MOS), as has how actors influence contexts. This paper deepens this debate using a rhythm perspective, developed against the backdrop of entrepreneurship research, which has made context a priority but not fully clarified how ...
Pascal Dey, Simon Teasdale
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