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The Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (MSPA) was enacted to provide workplace protections for migrant and seasonal farm workers. The US Dept. of Labor is charged with audit enforcement of the Act's wage and hour provisions as well as parts of the Act that ensure health and...
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Agriculture is Pennsylvania's single largest industry and migrant farm workers constitute a significant portion its …
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institutions, slavery, farm inequality, and political inequality on long-term development in São Paulo. The principal findings are … end of the twentieth century; (2) measures of the intensity of slavery have little if any independent impact on income in … contemporary economic or political inequality. Overall, neither the intensity of slavery nor the pattern of inequality had any …
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from slavery to modern capitalism. In Between Slavery and Capitalism, Martin Ruef examines how this institutional change … the most extensive sociological treatment of the transition from slavery since W.E.B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction in …, survey responses, census records, and credit reports. Through a resolutely comparative approach, Between Slavery and …
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from slavery to modern capitalism. In Between Slavery and Capitalism, Martin Ruef examines how this institutional change … the most extensive sociological treatment of the transition from slavery since W.E.B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction in …, survey responses, census records, and credit reports. Through a resolutely comparative approach, Between Slavery and …
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about the morality or long-term viability of slavery. It is unclear, however, whether such expressions of anti-slavery … that there was a change in elite rhetoric about slavery, initiated by Whig politicians in the mid-1830s seeking a campaign … issue in the South, in which anti-slavery rhetoric became linked to attempts by abolitionists to foment slave unrest, making …
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This paper will focus upon the Swedish consumption of sugar, a product that illustrates the shift from being a luxury to being a mass-consumed commodity. Very little attention has been paid to the commodity of sugar by Swedish scholars, at least concerning the period prior to the introduction of...
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In the late 1980s Robert Ross and co-author Pieter van Duin reversed the widely accepted view of the Cape economy as a ‘social and economic backwater’ of widespread subsistence farming and overall poverty, scattered with small islands of relatively affluent farmers. Exploring the rich...
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the years 1990 - 2013. In this context the sector Agriculture comprises the emissions from animal husbandry, the use of … agriculture, from the use of energy and from land use change are reported elsewhere in the national inventories. The calculation …. Total emissions of methane (CH4) and laughing gas (N2O) from German agriculture (including the anaerobic digestion of energy …
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Umweltverschmutzung, Urbanisierung sowie die Versorgung der noch immer wachsenden Bevölkerung sind große Herausforderungen für Chinas Nahrungsmittelpolitik im 21. Jahrhundert. Diese Publikation zeichnet verschiedene Aspekte im Zusammenhang mit Nahrungsmitteln in China nach - von der...
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