Few studies of handicraft industries in India attempt to fuse aesthetic and economic perspectives. The present study explores how the knowledge and skills of female embroiderers in the chikan industry of Lucknow illuminate relations of production between merchants and embroiderers, and among...

This dissertation analyzes the conditions that explain the dynamism of socio-territorial systems of firms and examines how these systems can foster local industrialization and reduce urban poverty in Peru. The theoretical argument builds upon the concepts of external economies, industrial...

The Mexican maquiladora industry was thirty-four years old in 1999, the second summer of my field work. Many maquiladora workers are second and in a few cases third generation in their families in the industry. This dissertation is about the spaces they have negotiated. Maquiladora workers live...

Over the last 60 years social scientist have debated the causes of the demographic transition with very little consensus about the ultimate cause of the transition. Various theories have attempted to explain the transition from high-mortality and high-fertility to low-mortality and...

In contrast with a widespread notion that a concentration of resources and income is taking place among few people, this thesis attempts to demonstrate that an increase in population, an increase in cost of production, and a decline in productivity, income and real wage tend to impoverish all...