Wage Labor, Bondage, and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century America
In: International labor and working class history: ILWCH, Band 48, S. 6-27
ISSN: 1471-6445
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In: International labor and working class history: ILWCH, Band 48, S. 6-27
ISSN: 1471-6445
In: Science & society: a journal of Marxist thought and analysis, Band 57, Heft 1, S. 66-73
ISSN: 0036-8237
In: International labor and working class history: ILWCH, Band 86, S. 89-106
ISSN: 1471-6445
AbstractMobility and wage labor are two key variables that help to explain some of the complexities of the labor history of colonial Eritrea. Focusing on the initial period of Italian colonization, between the 1880s and 1920s, this article analyzes the relationship between the two above-mentioned variables. Based on previously unexplored archival sources and documents, the authors conclude that wage labor did contribute to the mobility of workers throughout the region (and not vice versa). In the period under consideration, Eritrea did not become a settler colony, despite Italy's initial efforts to import a national labor force. Instead, through a mix of capital investments in construction and transport, and increasing military recruitment, the Italian regime contributed significantly to an increase in free wage labor in the region. Within a year of Italy's 1911 invasion of Libya, it needed to reinforce its colonial army. From 1912 onward, in return for wages, tens of thousands of Eritreans entered the Italian colonial army to fight on the Libyan front. This military employment left voids in the local labor market, which were filled by people from neighboring countries, particularly Ethiopians and Yemenis. A relationship thus developed and continued between mobility and wage labor.
In: Contexts / American Sociological Association: understanding people in their social worlds, Band 14, Heft 1, S. 26-31
ISSN: 1537-6052
Exploring the mid-sized cities of the Northeast United States, where immigrants make their homes but export their labor.
In: Explorations in economic history: EEH, Band 18, Heft 1, S. 21-39
ISSN: 0014-4983
In: SUNY series in the anthropology of work
In: Dialectical anthropology: an independent international journal in the critical tradition committed to the transformation of our society and the humane union of theory and practice, Band 44, Heft 1, S. 83-85
ISSN: 1573-0786
In: IMF Working Papers
The paper looks at the dynamics of employment in South Africa and examines the factors that contributed to the job-shedding observed during the recent financial crisis. The paper finds that the rapid growth of the real wage, which outpaced the labor productivity growth in most sectors, played an important role in suppressing employment creation. The paper also finds that while there is a co-integrating link between the real wage and labor productivity, the deviations from equilibrium are persistent and thus contribute to a weak link between real wage growth and labor productivity growth in the
In: Science & society: a journal of Marxist thought and analysis, Band 62, Heft 4, S. 600-603
ISSN: 0036-8237
In: Journal of development economics, Band 140, S. 355-374
ISSN: 0304-3878
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In: Journal of development economics, Band 140, S. 355-374
ISSN: 0304-3878
In: NBER Working Paper No. w4617
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In: Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia
Coming to work in the city -- A job for a working man -- Dredging and drudgery -- A job for a working woman -- The living wage -- The hard work of being poor -- The consequence of failure -- The market's grasp
In: Monthly Review, S. 29-36
ISSN: 0027-0520
An expanded Marxist understanding of capitalist exploitation is long overdue. There are many pathways of surplus extraction beyond the wage form, and understanding them is a task with profound implications for anticapitalist movements around the world.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.