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1962-, Allen Mary K., Statistics Canada, Canada. Human Resources Development Canada., and Council of Ministers of Education (Canada), eds. Understanding the rural-urban reading gap. Ottawa: Statistics Canada, 2002.

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Mulenga, Leonard Chileshe. Structural adjustment and the rural-urban gap in Zambia. Lusaka: University of Zambia, Institute for African Studies, 1993.

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1941-, Weeks John, and International Labour Office, eds. Africa misunderstood, or, Whatever happened to the rural-urban gap? Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan, 1993.

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Gale, H. Frederick. Is there a rural-urban technology gap?: Results of the ERS rural manufacturing survey. [Washington, D.C.?]: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, 1997.

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Gale, H. Frederick. Is there a rural-urban technology gap?: Results of the ERS rural manufacturing survey. [Washington, D.C.?]: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, 1997.

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Gale, H. Frederick. Is there a rural-urban technology gap?: Results of the ERS rural manufacturing survey. [Washington, D.C.?]: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, 1997.

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Gale, H. Frederick. Is there a rural-urban technology gap?: Results of the ERS rural manufacturing survey. [Washington, D.C.?]: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, 1997.

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Gale, H. Frederick. Is there a rural-urban technology gap?: Results of the ERS rural manufacturing survey. [Washington, D.C.?]: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, 1997.

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The villagers: Changed values, altered lives : the closing of the urban-rural gap. New York: Anchor Books, 1994.

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Gale, H. Frederick. The rural-urban gap in manufacturing productivity and wages: Effects of industry mix and region. Washington, D.C: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Rural Economy Division, 1997.

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Zhang, Xin. Zhongguo cheng xiang ju min shou ru cha ju ji qi cheng yin de yan hua lu jing yan jiu =: Research on the evolutive path of the income gap and its reasons between urban and rural residents in China. 8th ed. Beijing Shi: Jing ji guan li chu ban she, 2011.

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Fiore, Alessio, and Luigi Provero, eds. La signoria rurale nell’Italia del tardo medioevo. 3 L’azione politica locale. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-427-4.

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Rural lordship is one of the classic medieval themes of recent decades, but its specific developments of the late Middle Ages have long been neglected by research, especially engaged in considering other processes in these centuries, such as the construction of regional states, the economic dynamics, the urban riots. This volume, as part of a large research project coordinated by Sandro Carocci, intends to help fill this gap by offering a wide sample of cases, relating to very different areas of the Italian peninsula. Local realities are investigated here from a very specific perspective, that is, in their strictly political dimension: while taking into account the broad contexts (economic, settlement and social) in which the rural lordships are located, the main questions of this volume focus on forms of the lordly domain and its relations with the subjects, with the regional states and with the other lordly powers.

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author, Shu Deming, ed. Zou jin xing fu: Nong min gong cheng shi rong ru yu zhu guan xing fu gan yan jiu. Suzhou Shi: Suzhou da xue chu ban she = Soochow University Press, 2012.

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Mattson, Jeremy W. Effects of rising gas prices on bus ridership for small urban and rural transit systems. Fargo, N.D.]: Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, North Dakota State University, 2008.

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Cheng shi xin yi min de she hui ren tong: Gan xing yi lian yu li xing ce lüe. Shanghai: Shanghai she hui ke xue yuan chu ban she, 2011.

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Zhongguo min gong chao: Guan yu da gong zu sheng cun zhuang kuang de diao cha bao gao = China min gong chao. Beijing: Chang zheng chu ban she, 2005.

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Cheng shi hua yu nong cun ren kou zhuan yi: Lai zi Shandong Sheng de bao gao. Beijing Shi: Zhongguo cheng shi chu ban she, 2002.

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Ren kou liu dong, zhi du bi lei yu xin xing cheng zhen hua: Ji yu shi di diao cha de bao gao = Institutional Barriers to Population Mobility and New Urbanization : Based on Reports of Field Survey. Beijing Shi: She hui ke xue wen xian chu ban she, 2013.

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Zhi shu yu ta de cun zhuang: Zhongguo cheng zhong cun shi di nong min sheng cun bao gao. Beijing Shi: Jie fang jun wen yi chu ban she, 2008.

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Zhi shu yu ta de cun zhuang: Zhongguo cheng zhong cun shi di nong min sheng cun bao gao. Beijing Shi: Jie fang jun wen yi chu ban she, 2008.

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Sanchez Velasco, Jeronimo. The Christianization of Western Baetica. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789089649324.

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The province of Baetica, in present-day Spain, was one of the most important areas in the Roman Empire in terms of politics, economics, and culture. And in the late medieval period, it was the centre of a rich and powerful state, the Umayyad Caliphate. But the historical sources on the intervening years are limited, and we lack an accurate understanding of the evolution of the region. In recent years, however, archaeological research has begun to fill the gaps, and this book-built on more than a decade of fieldwork-provides an unprecedented overview of urban and rural development in the period.

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Hou, Jie. Zhongguo cheng xiang jian she fa zhan bao gao, 1997: China urban and rural construction development report. Beijing Shi: Zhongguo cheng shi chu ban she, 1998.

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Zhongguo nong min gong ruo gan wen ti yan jiu: The research on several problems of emigrant workers in China. Beijing: Zhong yang bian yi chu ban she, 2007.

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Wang, Weiguang. Zhongguo cheng xiang yi ti hua: Li lun yan jiu yu gui hua jian she diao yan bao gao = China's urban-rural integration : a research report on theory and planning. 8th ed. Beijing: She hui ke xue wen xian chu ban she, 2010.

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Jin cheng nong min gong ruo shi di wei gai bian yan jiu: Zheng fu ren li zi yuan guan li de shi jiao. Changchun Shi: Jilin da xue chu ban she, 2010.

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Gai ge kai fang san shi nian: Xinjiang cheng xiang ren min sheng huo, 1978-2008 = 30 years of the reform and opening up : urban and rural people's livelihood of Xinjiang, 1978-2008. Beijing Shi: Zhongguo tong ji chu ban she, 2008.

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Qian, Zhenwei. Fu gai cheng xiang ju min she hui bao zhang guan li ti zhi yan jiu: Ji yu dui bu fen Shi (Zhou) Xian shi jian de diao cha = The research on social security management system covering rural and urban residents based on Fnvestigating the practice in some prefectures and counties. 8th ed. Beijing Shi: Jing ji ke xue chu ban she, 2011.

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Weeks, John, and Vali Jamal. Africa Misunderstood: Or Whatever Happened to the Rural-Urban Gap? Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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Rijkers, Bob, Mans Soderbom, and Josef Loening. Mind The Gap? A Rural-Urban Comparison Of Manufacturing Firms. The World Bank, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-4946.

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The Widening rural-urban income gap: Past trend or-- forecast for the 1990s? Harrisburg, PA (212 Locust St., Ste. 604, Harrisburg 17101): The Center, 1991.

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Egger, Eva-Maria, Aslihan Arslan, and Emanuele Zucchini. Does connectivity reduce gender gaps in off-farm employment? Evidence from 12 low- and middle-income countries. 3rd ed. UNU-WIDER, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.35188/unu-wider/2021/937-2.

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Gender gaps in labour force participation in developing countries persist despite income growth or structural change. We assess this persistence across economic geographies within countries, focusing on youth employment in off-farm wage jobs. We combine household survey data from 12 low- and middle-income countries in Asia, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa with geospatial data on population density, and estimate simultaneous probit models of different activity choices across the rural-urban gradient. The gender gap increases with connectivity from rural to peri-urban areas, and disappears in high-density urban areas. In non-rural areas, child dependency does not constrain young women, and secondary education improves their access to off-farm employment. The gender gap persists for married young women independent of connectivity improvements, indicating social norm constraints. Marital status and child dependency are associated positively with male participation, and negatively with female participation; other factors such as education are show a positive association for both sexes. These results indicate entry points for policy.

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Marat, Erica. Rural Violence and Reassertion of State Control in Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190861490.003.0007.

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This chapter argues that incidents of transformative violence in the periphery fail to generate enough public revulsion to spark an open debate about how policing must change. Vulnerable individuals in the periphery lack the connections with civil society activists, mostly concentrated in urban areas, who would advocate for their rights. Many rural-based activists and NGOs call for a police overhaul in the aftermath of these episodes of transformative violence, but their voices are not as loud or as unified as those speaking about similar events in urban areas. The national leadership’s response to outbreaks of transformative violence in rural areas aims at closing the center’s governance gap where the public rebels against unpopular local authorities. As a result, the state moves to increase the political loyalty of the local police to the center under the pretense of police reform.

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Gao, Qin. Targeting Performance. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190218133.003.0004.

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Chapters 4 through 8 focus on the evaluation of Dibao’s effectiveness and its impact on various outcomes. Specifically, Chapter 4 examines Dibao’s targeting performance. The chapter documents the existence of substantial targeting errors in both urban and rural Dibao. With regard to population targeting, across urban and rural areas, significant portions of eligible families were mistakenly excluded from receiving Dibao benefits. Others were mis-targeted or included erroneously in Dibao coverage. Rural Dibao has had more severe leakage and mis-targeting errors than urban Dibao. Urban Dibao benefits have also been more concentrated among the poor than have rural benefits. Both urban and rural areas had significant benefit gaps as reflected by large differences between the entitled amount and the actual amount received by families. Despite these errors and gaps, however, Dibao’s targeting performance is actually better than many other similar programs around the world.

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McDougal, Topher L. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198792598.003.0001.

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This chapter serves as an accessible introduction to the issue, divided into five subsections. Section 1.1 describes the principal puzzle driving the research: why do some rural-based rebel groups prey on urban areas, while others do not? Section 1.2 summarizes the thesis: namely, that the structure of the transportation network and the social structure of the trade network jointly inform the outcome. Section 1.3 argues for the importance of this study, contending that understanding the rural–urban relationship will bolster our understanding of economic governance more generally—and the nature of disruptions currently upsetting the scalar consolidation of governance institutions in the early twenty-first century. Section 1.4 discusses the gap in scholarly literature this study fills. Section 1.5 describes the structure of the remaining chapters.

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Gao, Qin. Anti-Poverty Effectiveness. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190218133.003.0005.

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Chapter 5 investigates Dibao’s anti-poverty effectiveness. The chapter shows that, based on various poverty lines and across urban and rural areas, Dibao’s anti-poverty effectiveness is limited and at best modest, largely due to its targeting errors and gaps in benefit delivery. Dibao is more effective in reducing the depth and severity of poverty than it is the rate of poverty, and its anti-poverty effectiveness is greater among recipients than in the general population. Dibao’s influence on reducing poverty is larger when a lower poverty line is used and smaller when a higher poverty line is used. Because relative poverty lines are often set relative to the median income in society and tend to be much higher than the more widely used absolute poverty lines, Dibao’s effects on reducing relative poverty are particularly limited. Dibao has had minimal effect on narrowing the income inequality gap in society.

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Lofgren, Hans. Closing Rural-Urban MDG Gaps in Low-Income Countries: A General Equilibrium Perspective. The World Bank, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-6390.

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Sicular, Terry, Shi Li, Ximing Yue, and Hiroshi Sato, eds. Changing Trends in China's Inequality. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190077938.001.0001.

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This work provides a new, comprehensive, and empirically grounded study of household incomes in China that critically examines the long-term rise and recent apparent decline in inequality. It covers incomes and inequality nationwide as well as separately in the urban and rural sectors, with close attention to measurement issues and to underlying changes in the economy, institutions, and public policy. The chapters examine a range of related topics, including the inequality of wealth, the emergence of a new middle class, the income gap between the Han and the ethnic minorities, the gender wage gap, and the impacts of government policies, such as social welfare programs and the minimum wage. A distinguishing feature of the book is its use of data from the China Household Income Project (CHIP), a collaborative, international research project that has organized nationwide household surveys spanning 1988, 1995, 2002, 2007, and, most recently, 2013. The CHIP data make possible to provide a consistent picture of the evolution of China’s income and inequality from the late 1980s to the beginning of the Xi Jinping era. Analyses of the 2013 CHIP data, with comparisons to findings from past rounds of the survey, reveal new trends in China’s inequality.

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Filtzer, Don. Privilege and Inequality in Communist Society. Edited by Stephen A. Smith. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199602056.013.029.

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Like capitalist societies, the Soviet Union and the Soviet-type societies of Eastern Europe showed a high degree of social stratification and inequality. By the 1960s the rapid upward mobility of worker and peasant children in the intelligentsia and Party hierarchy had noticeably slowed, and an inherited class structure emerged. Because privileges in the Soviet Union were only weakly monetarized, and wealth could not be accumulated or inherited, privileged groups perpetuated themselves mainly through the use of internal ‘connections’ and by ensuring their offspring preferential access to higher education through which they would secure elite positions. We also see important differentiations within the workforce: urban vs. rural workers; ‘core’ workers vs. migrants; and men vs. women. China prior to the reform movement displayed a similar overall picture, with, however, some radical differences. Under Mao the gap in living standards between Party officials and ordinary workers was much more narrow than in the USSR, while the Cultural Revolution blunted attempts to ensure the reproduction of social stratification via access to higher education.

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China. Wen hua shi chang si. and Hua zhong shi fan da xue. Quan guo nong min gong wen hua sheng huo zhuang kuang diao cha ke ti zu., eds. Dang dai Zhongguo nong min gong wen hua sheng huo zhuang kuang diao chao bao gao. 8th ed. Beijing: Zhongguo she hui ke xue chu ban she, 2007.

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Hussey, Karen, and Stephen Dovers. Managing Water for Australia. CSIRO Publishing, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643098442.

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Australian water policy and management are undergoing rapid and immense change in response to drought, technological advances, climate change and demographic and economic shifts. The National Water Initiative and the 2007 Australian Government water policy statements propose a fundamental shift in how Australians will use and manage water in the future. The implementation of the national water policy presents many challenges – the creation of water rights and markets, comprehensive water planning, new legislative settings, community participation in water management, linking urban and rural water management, and more. Managing Water for Australia brings together leading social sciences researchers and practitioners to identify the major challenges in achieving sustainable water management, to consolidate current knowledge, and to explore knowledge gaps in and opportunities for furthering water reform.

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Vaid, Divya. Uneven Odds. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199480142.001.0001.

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Focussing on patterns of intergenerational stability, this book traces the unequal structures of opportunity in India. The author addresses questions and approaches towards social mobility (or the lack thereof) through interactions between social class, caste, and gender while adopting a rural–urban perspective, capturing changes over time, and the implications of social mobility on a national scale. This book plugs in crucial gaps in the research on social mobility, which has been marked by the lack of precision regarding the extent of mobility in contemporary India. Using a broad lens of both caste and class, this up-to-date statistical analysis, which uses national-level datasets and advanced quantitative methods, enriches the sociological as well as the anthropological literature, while also locating India within the larger context of social mobility research in the industrialized and industrializing world.

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Qi, Xiaoying. Remaking Families in Contemporary China. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197510988.001.0001.

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The book examines a number of emerging family-relations practices engaged in contemporary China. In doing so, it draws attention to new patterns of behavior and expectations related to transformation of the family since the advent of marketization. It also shows why exploration of family-related themes is important in understanding the nature of society, the forces that underpin social relationships more broadly, and the basis and nature of social change. It fills a gap in the literature by examining such heretofore unrecognized topics as the practices related to giving a child a surname. It also examines the previously unrecognized migratory movement of rural and small-town grandparents who join adult children who have relocated to urban areas for employment, providing childcare so that both of the child’s parents can earn an income—thus becoming part of the massive “floating” population that characterizes China’s workforce today. Three other aspects of family life that are underexplored in the literature are also examined—namely, spousal intimacy, divorce, and remarriage and cohabitation in later life. In all of these cases empirical material is refracted through new insights and theoretical developments. Research for this book is based on semistructured in-depth interviews with 178 men and women. The interviews were conducted between 2015 and 2017 in Beijing, Changshu, Dongguan, Guangzhou, Hefei, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong.

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Gisselquist, Rachel M., and Anustup Kundu. Horizontal inequality, COVID-19, and lockdown readiness: Evidence from India. UNU-WIDER, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35188/unu-wider/2020/913-6.

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A growing body of research shows that COVID-19 both reﬂects and exacerbates existing inequalities. However, there are significant gaps in this research area with respect to ‘horizontal’ or group-based inequalities in Global South countries. Lack of group-disaggregated data often contributes. In this paper, we use available data to explore how horizontal inequality in India may inﬂuence COVID-19’s impact through the differential impact of lockdown policies across caste and religious groups, as well as across states and urban-rural areas. In so doing, we build upon Egger et al. (2020)’s lockdown readiness index. India, the second most populous country in the world, is a relevant case for such analysis not only because it has pronounced horizontal inequality, but also because it adopted an especially stringent lockdown policy. Our analysis illustrates stark differences in lockdown readiness across groups, which in turn could exacerbate existing horizontal inequalities.

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Khanna, Muniya S., and Tommy Chou. Electronic Communication, Telehealth, and Social Media. Edited by Thomas H. Ollendick, Susan W. White, and Bradley A. White. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190634841.013.46.

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Explosive growth of communication technologies and increased ubiquity of Internet access in both urban and rural communities and particularly in youth have occurred. Coupled with concerns regarding limitations to traditional service provision models, researchers and practitioners are looking to affordable, acceptable technologies to expand the reach of evidence-based care and reduce barriers to intervention and unmet need in areas with few providers. This chapter describes the present literature on use of video teleconferencing, web-based programs, social media, and smartphone apps to enhance mental health intervention delivery, psychiatric assessment, and training and supervision. The strengths of the various delivery methods are discussed for providing empirically supported mental healthcare, focusing on implications related to science and practice with children and families. Outlined also are current limitations, risks, and challenges to technology-mediated services, including the significant gaps in the evidence base underlying these technologies and the legal, ethical, and safety issues that remain.

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Feller, Laurent. Travail, salaire et pauvreté au moyen âge. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198777601.003.0010.

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Hired working is a topic rarely dealt with by medievalists. It is nevertheless a central matter: beside the corvée and the range of constraints that goes with the seigniorial system, wages play an important part in the organization of rural or urban working. In the first place, every kind of work, even constrained work, has a cost. This ranges from the material organization of the tasks to the offering of a meal or to the payment of a monetary counterpart in exchange for the work. These features are compensations for the time passed in the fields or in the workshop and for the strength and skill used to satisfy the demands of the master. The fact that this cost is not necessarily, and never entirely, monetized is a barrier to thinking that between tenth and fifteenth centuries work could be considered a mere commodity whose wage is a price. The existence of counterparts in working means that there are reciprocal obligations: this fits well with an economic system in which acts and things can be valued according to social or political circumstances. Hired working appears to have been part of the seigniorial system from its very beginnings, as a marginal but useful way to obtain work from free workers. The way in which the different tasks are remunerated, and not only the amounts concerned, reveal the hierarchies in working: there is a gap between the gold given once a year to an architect (or to a professor at a university) and the bullion used to pay workers once a week on construction sites. The ways of remunerating work can be very complicated, mixing payments in cash and in kind. These payments show a considerable confusion in the conception of what the remuneration consists of: different words are used, even in the same contexts, to indicate the same economic reality, especially in rural contexts where the remuneration can involve clothes, cash, food, and accommodation. In the end, salary and poverty appear to be closely linked in the mentalities as well as in the social and economic reality. Hired working, salary, and misery are clearly three interrelated features of the medieval economic and social reality.

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Ledford, Katherine, and Theresa Lloyd, eds. Writing Appalachia. University Press of Kentucky, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813178790.001.0001.

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From the earliest oral traditions to print accounts of frontier exploration, from local color to modernism and postmodernism, from an exuberant flowering in the 1970s to its high popular and critical profile in the twenty-first century, Appalachian literature can boast a long tradition of delighting and provoking readers. Yet, locating an anthology that offers a representative selection of authors and texts from the earliest days to the present can be difficult. Katherine Ledford and Theresa Lloyd have produced an anthology to meet this need. Simultaneously representing, complicating, and furthering the discourse on the Appalachian region and its cultures, this anthology works to provides the historical depth and range of Appalachian literature that contemporary readers and scholars seek, from Cherokee oral narratives to fiction and drama about mountaintop removal and prescription drug abuse. It also aims to challenge the common stereotypes of Appalachian life and values by including stories of multiple, often less heard, viewpoints of Appalachian life: mountain and valley, rural and urban, folkloric and postmodern, traditional and contemporary, Northern and Southern, white people and people of color, straight and gay, insiders and outsiders—though, on some level, these dualisms are less concrete than previously imagined.

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Arias, Enrique Desmond, and Thomas Grisaffi, eds. Cocaine. Duke University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478021957.

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The contributors to Cocaine analyze the contemporary production, transit, and consumption of cocaine throughout the Americas and the illicit economy's entanglement with local communities. Based on in-depth interviews and archival research, these essays examine how government agents, acting both within and outside the law, and criminal actors seek to manage the flow of illicit drugs to both maintain order and earn profits. Whether discussing the moral economy of coca cultivation in Bolivia, criminal organizations and drug traffickers in Mexico, or the routes cocaine takes as it travels into and through Guatemala, the contributors demonstrate how entire ways of life are built around cocaine commodification. They consider how the authority of state actors is coupled with the self-regulating practices of drug producers, traffickers, and dealers, complicating notions of governance and of the relationships between economic and moral economies. The collection also outlines a more progressive drug policy that acknowledges the important role drugs play in the lives of those at the urban and rural margins. Contributors. Enrique Desmond Arias, Lilian Bobea, Philippe Bourgois, Anthony W. Fontes, Robert Gay, Paul Gootenberg, Romain Le Cour Grandmaison, Thomas Grisaffi, Laurie Kain Hart, Annette Idler, George Karandinos, Fernando Montero, Dennis Rodgers, Taniele Rui, Cyrus Veeser, Autumn Zellers-León

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