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Jane Smiley's award winning and disturbing novel, A Thousand Acres, invites a critical appraisal of a popular assumption for proponents of sustainable agriculture: that family farming and sustainable agriculture are (at least indirectly) mutually reinforcing. This process begins with a plot that...
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or failure of European farming in southern Africa was to a large extent depending on their access and control over labour … labour. …
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millions of children in our country who are subjected to violence and exploitation. …
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recognition and management of the threat and challenges of TIP will do much to prevent the abuse and commercial exploitation of …
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This is a note on labour exploitation and alienation in the economic thought of Marx and Napoleoni. It is a comment on …
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We examine differences in altruism and laziness between public sector employees and private sector employees. Our … decreases with a worker's laziness depending on his altruism. Using questionnaire data from the German Socio-Economic Panel … difference in altruism is already present at the start of people's career, while the difference in laziness is only present for …
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We examine differences in altruism and laziness between public sector employees and private sector employees. Our … decreases with a worker's laziness depending on his altruism. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we find … altruism is already present at the start of people's career, while the difference in laziness is only present for employees …
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We examine differences in altruism and laziness between public sector employees and private sector employees. Our … decreases with a worker’s laziness depending on his altruism. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we find … altruism is already present at the start of people’s career, while the difference in laziness is only present for employees …
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We examine differences in altruism and laziness between public sector employees and private sector employees. Our … decreases with a workers laziness depending on his altruism. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we find that … already present at the start of peoples career, while the difference in laziness is only present for employees with …
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Theories about power present a theoretical dilemma. Some believe that the greater an agent’s degree of power is, less will be the freedom of those subject to that agent. Others suggest just the opposite: greater freedom of the dominated implies a greater power of the dominant agent. This...
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