How Did the Great Recession Affect Different Types of Workers? Evidence from 17 Middle-Income Countries This paper examines how different types of workers in 17 middle-income countries were affected by labor market retrenchment during the great recession. Impacts on different types of workers varied by country and were only weakly related to the severity of the shock. Among active workers, yout...

By Miss Dagmar Curjel, M.D., D.P.H. Bulletins of Indian Industries and Labour, No 31. Superintendent, Government Printing, Calcutta Price, 8 annas. Pp. 40. In this interesting brochure of 40 pages Dr. Curjel records the results of an enquiry held between November 1921 and October 1922 into the conditions of female labour in the jute and cotton mills around Calcutta, the tea districts in the Doo...

A survey of government reports and the archives and journals of other agencies interested in industrial health in early twentieth-century Britain has led us to conclude that, in addition to apprehension about the potentially harmful impact of industrial work on the reproductive health of women, there was a great deal of interest in the health of young, unmarried girls in the workplace, particul...

This paper proposes a theory of why the state enacted social policy that regulated the length of the working day in 19th century industrial England. This paper will argue that, far from being capable of self-regulation, the capitalist labor market during Britain’s industrial revolution is best conceptualized as consisting of two major social coordination problems resulting from conflicting inte...

Maternal health is part of public that will show a positive trend if there decrease in maternalmortality and an increase delivery assistance provided by workers service facilities.to know the relationship between pregnancy disorders access to services for female workersin industrial area Sidoarjo. this research was cross-sectional The sample study 159midwives. ANC visits are still low have not ...