Browsing by Subject "labor"
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(Vanderbilt University, 2021-05-03)Since the start of the War in the Donbas in 2014, the miners of the Donetsk Coal Basin have suffered immensely due to economic and political destabilization, mine flooding, mine closures, intermittent shelling, mounting ...
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(2019-07-17)Department: EconomicsImproving population health, educating adolescents, and reducing crime rates are all goals that economists and policy makers share. To practice evidence-based decision making, policy makers must be informed about how ...
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(2021-03-26)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation explores the role of beliefs in behavior using field and lab experiments. The first paper establishes a methodological framework for measuring beliefs (first-order) and beliefs about beliefs (second-order) ...
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(2015-07-31)Department: AnthropologyThis dissertation combines archaeological and ethnohistorical methods to examine the lived experiences of enslaved African laborers on the wine haciendas of San Joseph de la Nasca and San Francisco Xavier de la Nasca, owned ...
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(2015-01-28)Department: SociologyResearch on women’s experiences with work schedules and flexibility tend to focus on professional women in high-paying careers, despite women's far greater prevalence in low-wage jobs. This paper seeks to contribute to the ...
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(2016-08-17)Department: EnglishWith a series of technological innovations in cotton cultivation and production, a booming transatlantic cotton economy sprang into life in the early decades of the nineteenth century, an economy that depended on the forced ...
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(2021-03-23)Department: HistoryThis dissertation studies the relationship between working and knowing over the course of the late eighteenth and earlier nineteenth centuries. It reinterprets the science of Prussian savant Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) ...
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(2008-12-11)Department: SociologyIn this paper, I examine the relationship that exists between work arrangements and co-worker relations. The current literature does not posit any kind of connection between the way workers do their work and how they relate ...
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(2021-07-08)Department: GermanWith origins in flight and automobile simulation technologies developed in the 1970s, simulator games are one of the oldest genres of computer games and among the first commercially-available software products which offered ...