Browsing by Keyword "Labor"
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American Lucifers: Makers and Masters of the Means of Light, 1750-1900
(2014-06-06)This dissertation examines the social history of Atlantic and American free and unfree labor by focusing on the production and consumption of the means of light from the colonial period to the end of the nineteenth century. ... -
Building Japan's Empire: Local Practice and Colonial Expertise in Northeast China, 1905–1953
(2021-05-14)This dissertation explores the development of Japanese legal, social, and technological expertise in colonial spaces in Northeast China (historically Manchuria). This dissertation is at the intersection of three fields: ... -
Care Agency: a 10-year choreography of architectural repair
(2021-01-20)“El mundo que queremos es uno donde quepan muchos mundos.” / “The world we want is one where many worlds fit.” -Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional “What the world will become already exists in fragments and ... -
Coupling Labor Codes of Conduct and Supplier Labor Practices: The Role of Internal Structural Conditions
(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2019-07)Exploitive working conditions have spurred companies to pressure their suppliers to adopt labor codes of conduct and to conform their labor practices to the standards set forth in those codes. Yet little is known about ... -
Entrepreneurial: Management Expertise and the Reinvention of the American Work Ethic
(2022-05-15)This dissertation analyzes the development of the work ethic in the United States over the course of the twentieth century –– the cultural structure that impels people to work more than is strictly necessary to meet their ... -
Essays on Gender, Intra-Household Allocation and Development
(2014-06-06)This dissertation studies gender, intra-household allocation and development. Industrialization and globalization has expanded opportunities for women in developing countries to work in manufacturing and service sector ... -
The IKEA effect: When labor leads to love
(Elsevier BV, 2012)In four studies in which consumers assembled IKEA boxes, folded origami, and built sets of Legos, we demonstrate and investigate boundary conditions for the IKEA effect—the increase in valuation of self-made products. ... -
Importance of Forward Leaning in Optimizing Sitting Position for Administration of Labor Neuraxial Analgesia in Term Parturients: An Ultrasonographical Study
(2021-06-23)Abstract Background: There is controversy on the optimal sitting position for women in labor undergoing neuraxial analgesia placement in relation to the interspinous space. In this prospective observational study, we ... -
The Macroeconomic Consequences of Microeconomic Phenomena in the Housing and Labor Markets
(2014-06-06)This dissertation consists of three independent chapters, each of which use microeconomic data and methods to inform an analysis of macroeconomic models and questions. The first two chapters study the short-run dynamics ... -
Materializing Access: Intersecting Walksheds, Viewsheds, and Supply Sheds
(2022-05-18)Materializing Access is a thesis which investigates the opportunity for landscapes to provide an array of resources within the public realm. Situated in Pittsburgh, PA, the project navigates the varying topography and ... -
Mechanistic Evaluation of the Dural Puncture Epidural in a Porcine Model
(2020-09-11)Background: The dural puncture epidural (DPE) technique involves placing a 17G Weiss needle in the epidural space, introducing a 25G Whitacre needle via the Weiss needle to puncture the dural sac, and threading a catheter ... -
Minting Slavery in the Colonial Andes: Labor and Race in Potosí and Lima
(2022-05-10)Historians of racial ideologies in Latin America have long debated about their origins, antecedents, development, and connections to slavery. My dissertation project contends that labor history is an essential lens for ... -
Performative Labor: An Ethnography on South Korea’s Magazine Industry
(2021-09-15)The belief that cultural goods are made by individuals with superior taste and skills has been central to the formation and reproduction of culture industries. In recent years, it has become ever more critical for workers ... -
The Work of Ennui: Studies on Attention in Early French Modernism (Baudelaire, Flaubert, Huysmans)
(2019-01-20)This dissertation examines the theorization and crystallization of literary creation as mental work in the writings of Baudelaire, Flaubert and Huysmans. Literary modernity was marked by the emergence of literature as an ...