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Race, class, and the changing division of labour under apartheid

Crankshaw, Owen - 1997

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Market Integration in the North and Baltic Seas, 1500-1800

Jacks, David S. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

growth process has fallen under therubric of market integration, the conversion of discrete and autonomous markets intoan … interdependent and unified whole. This concept of market integration is particularlyrelevant to the early modern era in Europe, in …

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Regional Market Integration in Italy During the Unification (1832-1882)

Missiaia, Anna - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

integration even after the Unification. This was due to the low complementarity between its regions. However, in recent work …, Federico (2007) finds evidence of market integration starting even before 1861. The purpose of the present study is to examine … market integration in 19th century Italy within its regional context. The question is whether the Italian market integration …

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Rules and Reality: Quantifying the Practice of Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe

Minns, Chris; Wallis, Patrick - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

This paper uses recently digitised samples of apprentices and masters in London and Bristol to quantify the practice of apprenticeship in the late 17th century. Apprenticeship appears much more fluid than is traditionally understood. Many apprentices did not complete their terms of indenture;...

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Labour Market Adjustment to Economic Downturns in the Catalan TextileIndustry, 1880-1910. Did Employers Breach Implicit Contracts?

Domenech, Jordi - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

This paper studies the way workers and firms behaved in a highly cyclical sector such as the cotton textile industry, which encompassed 1/5 of the Catalan industrial workforce in the early 20th century. Using firm level evidence from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the paper shows that,...

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Workers and ‘Subalterns’: A comparative study of labour in Africa, Asia and Latin America

Lewis, Colin M. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

[...]In part, this collection of papers derives from the impact of Subaltern Studies on approaches to the history of labour. While the contributions may not be located within ‘subalternism’, to differing degrees they reflect responses in the literature to that paradigm. At the very least,...

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Careers for the unskilled in the Great Eastern Railway Company, 1870-1913

Howlett, Peter - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001

One of the most significant changes in the labour market in the twentieth century was the rise of the internal labour market. Its origins can be found in the nineteenth century, particularly in the large service companies such as banks and the railway companies. By studying the internal labour...

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United Kingdom Education 1997-2001

Glennerster, Howard - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001

This paper reviews the achievements of the Labour Government’seducation policy between 1997 and 2001. Tony Blair claimed that hisGovernment would make education a priority. The first part of thepaper reviews the scale of education spending in relation to theeconomy at large and within the...

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Measuring Income Risk

Burgess, Simon M.; Gardiner, Karen; Jenkins, Stephen P.; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

We provide a critique of the methods that have been used to derive measures ofincome risk and draw attention to the importance of demographic factors as asource of income risk. We also propose new measures of the contribution tototal income risk of demographic and labour market factors....

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Understanding Social Exclusion

Hills, John; Le Grand, Julian; Piachaud, David - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002

Since the mid-1990s the term and phenomenon of “social exclusion” has attractedmuch academic attention in the UK, and since 1997 has been an explicit focus ofgovernment policy. In a new book, CASE members examine the debate around themeaning of the term, and the extent and nature of problems...

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