Focusing on the south-eastern coastal region of Guayama, one of Puerto Rico's three leading centres of sugarcane agriculture, Luis Figueroa examines the transition from slavery and slave labour to freedom and free labour after the 1873 abolition of slavery in colonial Puerto Ric…
Sugar workers before and after emancipation.
Brazil is one of the world's best-known examples of inequitable growth. Since 1964 its military government has used a trickle-down development strategy that relies on the private market and high profits for owners of capital and at the same time relies on holding down wages of t…
Brazil is one of the world's best-known examples of inequitable growth. Since 1964 its military government has used a trickle-down development strategy that relies on the private market and high profits for owners of capital and at the same time relies on holding down wages of t…
Brazil is one of the world's best-known examples of inequitable growth. Since 1964 its military government has used a trickle-down development strategy that relies on the private market and high profits for owners of capital and at the same time relies on holding down wages of t…
Study analysing economic growth, employment creation and income distribution in Brazil - challenges the orthodox view of inequitable economic development; reviews productivity patterns and employment trends since 1945; examines economic indicators of standard of living, absolute…
Intelligent algorithms are already well on their way to making white collar jobs obsolete: travel agents, data-analysts, and paralegals are currently in the firing line. In the near future, doctors, taxi-drivers and ironically even computer programmers are poised to be replaced …
Intelligent algorithms are already well on their way to making white collar jobs obsolete: travel agents, data-analysts, and paralegals are currently in the firing line. In the near future, doctors, taxi-drivers and ironically even computer programmers are poised to be replaced …
The outstanding moral problem of our time is the emergence of an underclass, provoking both pity and an angry political backlash. Robin Marris finds that a slowdown in growth is the root cause, leading to a collapse of the labour market for unskilled men in particular. Fashionab…
