'The art of living with ICTs (information and communication technologies)' today not only means finding new ways to cope, interact and create new lifestyles on the basis of the new digital (network) technologies individually, as 'consumer-citizens'. It also means inventing new modes of living, producing and, not in the least place, struggling collectively, as workers and producers. As the so-ca...

Abstract The article analyzes the condition of Brazilian Nursing workforce when confronted with international trends. Diagnoses in publications by organizations marked confrontation trends reality Nursing, based on secondary research data. analysis allows asserting that follows trends, essentially, because social and sexual division work foundations origin as a capitalist occupation are maintai...

A host of studies on wealth inequality in pre-industrial Europe has recently been published. Out these, a narrative emerges rising context emerging markets and growing state taxation, punctuated by calamities. By surveying the available material, this article highlights an element that is less systematically discussed literature: role associational organizations. They developed regressive forms...

This paper traces the evolution of land tenure changes in contemporary China since 1949. The transfer from peasant households to family farms and commercial sized units is on a vast scale forms one greatest reforms we have ever seen. agrarian question both policy academic context which this legislative account assessed raises whether assembly resembles previous agricultural transformation proce...

between proto-industrialization or industrialization and changes in opportunities for marriage. The standard historical argument was summarized a decade ago by D. E. C. Eversley (1965:45): the ability to marry was contingent, in pre-industrial societies, upon access to land in the peasant economy; in the cities guilds &dquo;were supposed to be powerful bars to marriage.&dquo; When the system br...

This article focuses on cognitive enhancement technologies (CET) and their possible anthropological implications, and argues for a reconsideration of the human-technology relation so as to be able to better understand and assess these implications. Current debates on cognitive enhancement (CE) often start from an instrumental and anthropocentric view of technology and a (neo-)Darwinist account ...

Since the summer of 2020, Indian farmers have been protesting three laws that aim to liberalize agricultural markets and encourage contract farming. In doing so, they also mounted largest challenge an authoritarian Hindu nationalist government date. The contributions this JPS Forum provide deep diverse insights into these farmer protests, including their social composition political character, ...

<p>Este artículo analiza las modalidades recientes de proletarización los trabajadores rurales agronegocios flores y brócoli en la provincia Cotopaxi, sierra del Ecuador. Se trata un territorio rural donde modernización capitalista no requiere expropiación total recurso tierra; por lo mismo, utiliza tanto a sin tierra ubicados parte baja como campesinos indígenas que todavía disponen parc...