Globally, coercive labor (i.e., forced, bonded, and/or trafficked labor) and child labor are disproportionately prevalent in environments with weak regulatory enforcement and state capacity. Effective strategies for addressing them may therefore need to align with the private incentives of...

The founding of Zanesville, Ohio -- Establishing the pottery industry in southeastern Ohio -- Mosaic Tile Company begins : 1894 through World War I -- World War I through 1928 -- The Great Depression through 1960 -- 1960 Through the closing of the Zanesville facility -- The sad state of the...

"Many of London's Victorian buildings are built of coarse-textured yellow bricks. These are 'London stocks', produced in very large quantities all through the nineteenth century and notable for their ability to withstand the airborne pollutants of the Victorian city. Whether visible or, as is...

This paper provides a comprehensive econometric framework for the empirical analysis of buyer power. It encompasses the two main features of pricing schemes in business-to-business relationships: nonlinear price schedules and bargaining over rents. Disentangling them is critical to the empirical...

We present an econometrically feasible model that uses the information contained in the innovation profile of each firm to test for the existence of complementarity among production and innovation strategies. Our approach is able to distinguish between complementarity and correlation induced by...

Foundations and Dimensions of Border Brick Culture -- The Reynoso Brothers and the Brick Industry in Ejido Los Longoria -- The Gas Line and the Capitalist Development of the Reynosa Brick Industry -- Brick Fever: the Periurban Ejidos and the Field Boss System -- Class Tensions, Collective...

Since the work of George Richardson on the problem of investment coordination, the literature has focused on explaining equilibrium in investment games and neglected the problem of how investments are coordinated. This paper reports the findings of a case study of the brick industry which used...

"The ladrillera" -- Approaches to the "informal sector" and to the brickmakers of Mexicali -- Petty commodity producers in the informal sector : the peasant adaptation of the brickmakers in Colonia Popular, Mexicali -- "The old brickmaker, 1993" -- "Invisible" women and children workers on the...

The authors explain changes in rural cottage industry employment by means of a Central Javanese case study of the rural tile industry. It demonstrates that a decline in employment in this industry, despite a favourable rural industrial environment, is largely due to transition from...