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Labor productivity --- Labor productivity. --- Labor output --- Productivity of labor --- Industrial productivity --- Capital productivity --- Hours of labor --- Labor time --- Productivity bargaining --- Productivity, Industrial --- TFP (Total factor productivity) --- Total factor productivity --- Industrial efficiency --- Production (Economic theory) --- Industrial productivity. --- Management Styles & Communication --- productivity --- policy analysis --- well-being --- living standards --- economic

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Since 1993, crime in the United States has fallen to historic lows, seeming to legitimize the country's mix of welfare reform and mass incarceration. The Upper Limit explains how this unusual mix came about, examining how, beginning in the 1970s, declining living standards for the poor have defined social and penal policy in the United States, making welfare more restrictive and punishment harsher. François Bonnet shows how low-wage work sets the upper limit of social and penal policy, where welfare must be less attractive than low-wage work and criminal life must be less attractive than welfare. In essence, the living standards of the lowest class of workers in a society determine the upper limit for the generosity of welfare and for the humanity of punishment in that society. The Upper Limit explores the local consequences of this punitive adjustment in East New York, a Brooklyn neighborhood where crime fell in the 1990s. Bonnet argues that no meaningful penal reform can happen unless living standards and the minimum wage rise again. Enlightening and provocative, The Upper Limit provides a comprehensive theory of the evolution of social and penal policy.

Public welfare --- History. --- East New York (New York, N.Y.) --- brooklyn neighborhood. --- comprehensive. --- contemporary punishment and society studies. --- east new york. --- enlightening. --- evolution of social and penal policy. --- higher living standards and minimum wage. --- local consequences of punitive adjustment. --- provocative. --- punishment harsher. --- welfare more restrictive. --- welfare reform and mass incarceration.

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Japan was the only non-Western nation to industrialize before 1900 and its leap into the modern era has stimulated vigorous debates among historians and social scientists. In an innovative discussion that posits the importance of physical well-being as a key indicator of living standards, Susan B. Hanley considers daily life in the three centuries leading up to the modern era in Japan. She concludes that people lived much better than has been previously understood--at levels equal or superior to their Western contemporaries. She goes on to illustrate how this high level of physical well-being had important consequences for Japan's ability to industrialize rapidly and for the comparatively smooth transition to a modern, industrial society. While others have used income levels to conclude that the Japanese household was relatively poor in those centuries, Hanley examines the material culture--food, sanitation, housing, and transportation. How did ordinary people conserve the limited resources available in this small island country? What foods made up the daily diet and how were they prepared? How were human wastes disposed of? How long did people live? Hanley answers all these questions and more in an accessible style and with frequent comparisons with Western lifestyles. Her methods allow for cross-cultural comparisons between Japan and the West as well as Japan and the rest of Asia. They will be useful to anyone interested in the effects of modernization on daily life.

Material culture --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- Ethnic & Race Studies --- Japan --- Social life and customs. --- History --- anthropology. --- asia. --- asian history. --- asian studies. --- consumption. --- cultural history. --- daily diet. --- economics. --- ethnic studies. --- food studies. --- food. --- furnishings. --- health. --- history. --- housing. --- human waste. --- hygiene. --- industrialization. --- irori. --- japan. --- japanese history. --- kamado. --- kosode. --- living standards. --- material culture. --- meiji. --- nonfiction. --- politics. --- premodern japan. --- quality of life. --- sanitation. --- shoin. --- social history. --- tokugawa. --- transportation. --- urban sanitation. --- wellness. --- world history.

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'Embodied Protests' examines how Bolivia's hesitant courtship with globalization manifested in the visceral and emotional diseases that afflicted many Bolivian women. Drawing on case studies conducted among market- and working-class women in the provincial town of Punata, Maria Tapias examines how headaches and debilidad, so-called normal bouts of infant diarrhea, and the malaise oppressing whole communities were symptomatic of profound social suffering.

Women --- Emotions --- Culture --- Socioeconomic Factors --- Psychophysiologic Disorders --- Psychophysiological Disorders --- Psychosomatic Disorders --- Psychophysiologic Disorder --- Psychophysiological Disorder --- Psychosomatic Disorder --- Psychosomatic Medicine --- Factors, Socioeconomic --- High-Income Population --- Land Tenure --- Standard of Living --- Social Inequalities --- Social Inequality --- Factor, Socioeconomic --- High Income Population --- High-Income Populations --- Inequalities, Social --- Inequality, Social --- Living Standard --- Living Standards --- Population, High-Income --- Populations, High-Income --- Socioeconomic Factor --- Tenure, Land --- Economics --- Beliefs --- Cultural Background --- Cultural Relativism --- Customs --- Background, Cultural --- Backgrounds, Cultural --- Belief --- Cultural Backgrounds --- Cultural Relativisms --- Cultures --- Relativism, Cultural --- Relativisms, Cultural --- Regret --- Feelings --- Emotion --- Feeling --- Regrets --- Girls --- Woman --- Women's Groups --- Girl --- Women Groups --- Women's Group --- psychology --- etiology --- Social conditions. --- Bolivia --- Economic conditions.

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Genetic engineering --- Biotechnology --- Genetic Engineering --- Genetics --- Social Change --- Socioeconomic Factors --- Social aspects --- Genetic Engineering. --- Biotechnology. --- Genetics. --- Social Change. --- Socioeconomic Factors. --- Social aspects. --- Modernization --- Social Development --- Social Impact --- Change, Social --- Changes, Social --- Development, Social --- Developments, Social --- Impact, Social --- Impacts, Social --- Social Changes --- Social Developments --- Social Impacts --- Factors, Socioeconomic --- High-Income Population --- Inequalities --- Land Tenure --- Standard of Living --- Factor, Socioeconomic --- High Income Population --- High-Income Populations --- Inequality --- Living Standard --- Living Standards --- Population, High-Income --- Populations, High-Income --- Socioeconomic Factor --- Tenure, Land --- Biotechnologies --- Engineering, Genetic --- Intervention, Genetic --- Genetic Intervention --- Genetic Interventions --- Interventions, Genetic --- Designed genetic change --- Gene splicing --- Genetic intervention --- Genetic surgery --- Group Processes --- Genetic Structures --- Genetic Phenomena --- Economics --- Cloning, Molecular --- DNA, Recombinant --- Industrial Microbiology --- Artificial Gene Fusion --- Organisms, Genetically Modified --- Animals, Genetically Modified --- Plants, Genetically Modified --- Chemical engineering --- Genetic recombination --- Transgenic organisms --- Social Sciences - General --- Social Inequalities --- Social Inequality --- Inequalities, Social --- Inequality, Social --- Economic and Social Factors --- Social and Economic Factors --- Socioeconomic Characteristics --- Characteristic, Socioeconomic --- Socioeconomic Characteristic