Why did teachers’ long campaign to fund schools with progressive income taxes on the rich fall short? Labor-liberals hoped to equalize opportunity for students by shifting school taxes from local communities like Detroit and Los Angeles to the states. Businessmen and conservativ…
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The cinema intermission (or samosa break, in Bombay vernacular) has long been phased out in many parts of the world, but remains a pervasive ritual for audiences in India. This dissertation focuses on a transnational history of the intermission and its role as a multi-sided plat…
In this dissertation I examine the role played by “unease” in the Homeric epics, the Ancient Near Eastern Gilgamesh texts, and the Indian Rigveda. I position unease as an affect that the texts can provoke in their audiences through poetic devices that interrupt the narrative, dr…
This dissertation tells the story of the United Teachers of New Orleans (UTNO) from 1965, when they first launched their collective bargaining campaign, until 2008, three years after the storm. I argue that UTNO was initially successful by drawing on the legacy and tactics of th…
The southern Indian city of Bangalore is extolled as India's "Silicon Valley," emerging over the past decade as a premier site for capital flows into India's Information Technology (IT) sector. In the dominant narrative of globalization Bangalore is lauded as an aspiring "global…
Caravan porters were vital to the functioning of trade and transportation throughout precolonial and early colonial Sub-Saharan Africa. In nineteenth century East Africa, the world's largest supplier of ivory. Lens of thousands of caravan porters carried ivory to the coast from …
This work explores the effects of international migration on sending families, and the lifecycle deficit in Ethiopia. The first two chapters examine the effects of emigration on the living standards and health of the sending families, using (for identification) the Diversity Vis…
This dissertation investigates mechanisms through which ethnic identity influences labor market outcomes in Pakistan. The first essay explores the role of the British Colonial Government and the Pakistani Government in promoting certain ethnic groups over others, over the period…
From 1854 to the present, Egyptian Evangelical and Coptic Orthodox women have gained a variety of new leadership roles within their respective churches. The reason for the expansion of their roles within their minority communities can be traced to several factors: innovations in…
This dissertation comprises three essays examining the impact of globalization on the labor market and the effect of financial education on demand for financial services. The first essay analyzes the interaction between trade liberalization and the allocation of skill across ind…
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships among the situational variables of perceived stress of the childbirth experience, perceived length and perceived difficulty of labor, selected personal variables, perceived nursing support, and postpartum depression in p…
The world of labor hinted at in DtrH is more complicated than usually thought. Socioeconomic and political decisions (war, distribution of land, pauperization of peasants, remission of debts, manumission of indentured servants) influenced women's lives. Labor in the Ancient Near…
This dissertation. introduces an example of integrating biological, textual, and artifactual evidence to produce a socio- and political-economic history of the Roman province of Arabia and the Byzantine province of Palaestina Tertia. This investigation focused on the interaction…
This dissertation examines four cases, Poland, Egypt, Mexico and the Czech Republic, in order to explain when and in what ways labor organizations will be able to influence the privatization process. The central argument of this dissertation is that whether labor organizations w…
This study investigates changes in ceramics at Tell Leilan, Syria, during three consecutive periods between 2500 and 2200 B.C. These changes co-occur with significant socio-political changes: urbanization of the region and fledgling statehood. The approach developed to examine c…
This dissertation explores the struggle to define labor and economic rights as human rights and to defend them in the 1990s. In theoretical terms, the dissertation advances the discussion of why and how normative understandings change over time. Empirically, it develops three ca…
My dissertation consists of three unrelated chapters. The first chapter studies the presence and effect of a serious labor-market distortion in the Surgical Instrument (S.I.) industrial network of Sialkot. The problem arises due to the non-perfect substitutability between family…
This study examines the historical impact of American labor organizations on both a national and transnational level. Its analysis moves outside traditional policymaking institutions such as the Department of State and Department of Defense to consider ways in which non-governme…
In Israel, a country with one of the highest birthrates in the western world and a religious-secular divide, Israeli Jewish midwives conduct the majority of deliveries for different groups of Jews as well as other cultures. The purposes of this first descriptive intra-cultural s…