Clemens et al. (2018) examine the impact of the exclusion of Mexican immigrant workers, known as braceros, from US agricultural labour markets in the 1960s. The explicit goal of this policy was to boost wages and/or employment for local agricultural workers by decreasing labour supply. The...

"The book examines ethnographic insights into how everyday conceptualizations of justice emerge, become prevalent, transform, and are negotiated by differently positioned actors at work on Assam's tea plantations. Four workings of justice are analyzed in detail: justice on scales, in context, in...

This study evaluates the effectiveness of different farm-level adaptation measures aimed at mitigating the adverse impacts of heat waves on labour productivity. Despite the increasing frequency of heat waves, existing literature on occupational heat stress primarily relies on modelled estimates....

In many lower-income countries, rural households depend heavily on farming for their livelihoods, yet limited access to labor-saving technologies constrains productivity and earnings. This study evaluates a two-year randomized phase-in trial with more than 2,000 cotton farmers in rural Côte...