Numerous studies have shown worker cooperatives’ potential to reduce the precarity and economic exclusion of marginalised groups. However, less is known about their other social effects. In particular, impact cooperative work on intimate scales such as family life home has received little academic attention. This article examines how joining a changes migrant women’s position in spaces: hom...

I served for 36 years in several hospitals as a medical social worker. In my childhood, father was internist and mother helped his work. She also prepared meal using foodstuffs. Families the district were almost two family dwelling. And elderly people cared neighboring children their spare time. studied welfare worked at some gave advise to solve personal problem of patients. We (doctor, nurse,...

Politico-Economic Causes of Labor Regulation in the United States: Rent Seeking, Alliances, Raising Rivals’ Costs (Even Lowering One’s Own?), and Interjurisdictional Competition This paper offers an eclectic survey of the political economy of labor regulation in the United States at federal and state levels along the dimensions of occupational health and safety, unjust dismissal, right-to-work,...

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What kind of housing choices will families with two paid workers make? Will higher income families still tend to live further away from the central city, as is the current U.S. pattern, leaving one worker (presumably the male) with a longer home-to-work commute, the other worker (presumably the female) with the shorter worktrip commute? Or will two salaried worker households locate homes, or ev...

In this study we investigate some aspects of top management pay in China’s listed firms. While China has embraced many capitalist practices it still retains some vestiges of socialism and this has an impact on the way business executives are rewarded. In particular, the Chinese government wants to maintain social harmony and it believes that differences in pay between managers and workers shoul...

Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker program (MIHOW) is a community-based intervention dedicated to enhancing birth outcomes and healthy child development. Trained neighborhood women provide home and group services to underserved families in rural and inner city communities. This report describes MIHOW's history and work in Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virg...