Economics

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Fourth Revolution and the Bottom Four Billion

Making Technologies Work for the Poor

By Nir Kshetri
Subjects: Economics, Development, Class Studies, Cultural Studies

Advanced technology for the Bottom Four Billion

The Dangerous Class

The Concept of the Lumpenproletariat

By Clyde Barrow
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Political Economy, Economics, Economic Theory, Class Studies

The lumpenstate dystopia of the Trump/Brexit era

Slaves to Fashion

Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops

By Robert Ross
Subjects: American Studies, Sociology, Economics, Labor, Health, and Educational Economics, Anthropology, Political Science, Political Economy, Class Studies

A provocative and accessible history and study of the sweatshop and a major contribution to the debate over its rebirth

Market Dreams

Gender, Class, and Capitalism in the Czech Republic

By Elaine Susan Weiner
Subjects: Sociology, Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, History, Russian History, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Economics, Labor, Health, and Educational Economics, Public Policy, Class Studies

How have women experienced the transition from socialism to market economy in Eastern Europe?

Coping With Poverty

The Social Contexts of Neighborhood, Work, and Family in the African-American Community

Edited by Sheldon Danziger & Ann Chih Lin
Subjects: Sociology, Economics, African American Studies, Political Science, American Politics, Class Studies

Qualitative research seeks to place poverty among African-Americans into the context of family, work, and community

Harvesting Coffee, Bargaining Wages

Rural Labor Markets in Colombia, 1975-1990

By Sutti Ortiz
Subjects: Anthropology, Economics, Labor, Health, and Educational Economics, Latin American Studies, Sociology, Class Studies
Series: Linking Levels of Analysis

A close ethnographic study of how culture, power, gender, and institutions affect labor exchanges

Joint Ventures of Labor and Capital

By Lester G. Telser
Subjects: Economics, Micro Economics, Industrial Organization, Business, Class Studies

Core theory sheds light on the formation and survival of joint ventures of labor and capital

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