"Gender matters in economics--for even with today's technology, fertility choices, market opportunities, and improved social norms, economic outcomes for women remain markedly worse than for men. Drawing on insights from feminism, postmodernism, psychology, evolutionary biology,…
This dissertation explores the ways in which genetically modified (GM) cotton seeds, rice seeds, and organic cotton seeds in Telangana, India set farmers on diverging economic, environmental, and social trajectories. GM cotton, a cash crop sold under hundreds of different brand …
This book investigates and documents multidimensional poverty in the United States and identifies patterns and relationships that contribute to the development of a more complete understanding of the incidence and intensity of deprivation. The first part introduces multidimensio…
A cardboard suitcase and a backpack: Northeastern migrations to Sao Paulo in the 1950s -- Land of the Northeasterners: migration, urbanization, and factory work in Sao Miguel Paulista -- Worker community and everyday life: "becoming Northeastern" in Sao Paulo -- The right to pra…
This book explores the essence of the middle-income trap based on two major perspectives, namely "economic transformation" and "social transformation". China has experienced high-speed economic growth for nearly 40 years since the adoption of the Reform and Opening policies. How…
Producing in/visibility in Los Angeles -- Middle-class dreaming and the limits of "Americanness"--Making mothers count -- Organizing, motherhood, and the meanings of (domestic) work -- Dreaming American
