Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "labor"
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Essays on Matching in Labor Economics
(2013-08-12)In this dissertation, I present three essays on matching and assignment in labor economics. The first chapter presents an integrated model of occupation choice, spouse choice, family labor supply, and fertility. Two key ... -
From the House to the Street: Sex Workers and Domestic Laborers in Brazil's Democratic Transition
(2023-05-09)This dissertation intervenes in debates about grassroots feminism and Brazilian re- democratization in the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s, contending that poor women of color, mobilizing around their rights as workers and citizens, ... -
Imperial Crucible: Alcoa and the Transimperial History of American Capitalism, 1888-1953
(2022-07-18)Imperial Crucible tells the story of the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) from the company’s founding in Pittsburgh in 1888 through to the 1950s. Although scholars have long contended that American multinational ... -
Meritless: Unemployed Autoworkers, the Social Safety Net, and the Culture of Meritocracy in America and Canada
(2013-02-22)This study examines the worsening position of jobless blue-collar workers in an increasingly meritocratic economy, and uses an innovative crossnational comparative approach to gauge how much the social safety net improves ... -
The Labor of Law and Order: How Police Unions Transformed Policing and Politics in the United States, 1939-1985
(2021-11-16)This project narrates the rise of the police union movement in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century. It shows how after World War II, a segment of predominantly white, male rank-and-file officers ...