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Labor Process (labor + process)
Selected AbstractsThe Quest for Distinction: A Reappraisal of the Rural Labor Process in Kheda District (Gujarat), India,ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY, Issue 2 2000Vinay Gidwani Abstract: In this article I examine how the rural labor process is constitutive of social identity, particularly status, by harnessing empirical evidence from Kheda District, Gujarat, and other parts of India. Emphasis is on the labor practices of the dominant Lewa Patel caste, and only secondarily on the practices of other caste groups. My central claim is that the labor process is a primary arena in which the quest for social distinction occurs and that the primary source of distinction is the ability to withdraw family labor power from the commoditized labor circuit. In this paper I seek to deepen conventional understandings of the labor process within economic geography, agrarian studies, and mainstream economics. [source] How Do Expert Labor Nurses View Their Role?JOURNAL OF OBSTETRIC, GYNECOLOGIC & NEONATAL NURSING, Issue 6 2003Dotti C. James Objective: To examine how expert perinatal nurses in a nurse-managed labor model view their role in caring for mothers during labor and birth. Design: Focus group methodology. Data were analyzed using inductive coding methods to gain understanding from the perspective of those providing the care. Setting: Labor and birth units in four large Midwestern medical centers. Participants: Fifty-four expert labor nurses. Inclusion criteria: 5 years experience in nursing care during labor and birth in institutions where nurse-managed labor was the predominant practice model. Results: Four common themes related to nursing roles were identified. These included knowing the labor process and the intuitive nature of nursing care provided by expert labor nurses based on years of experience, knowing the woman and letting her body guide labor, advocacy for laboring woman, and the autonomous nature of the nurse-managed labor model. Conclusions: Expert labor nurses developed a keen sense of intuitive knowledge based on their years of experience. They reported using hands-on high-touch supportive care techniques with the potential to affect labor and birth outcomes. Autonomy is perceived as a key component of practice within the nurse-managed labor model. [source] The Low-Wage Conservationist: Biodiversity and Perversities of Value in MadagascarAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 4 2009Genese Sodikoff ABSTRACT In the early 1990s, donors began to implement "integrated conservation and development projects" (ICDPs) in Madagascar to stem deforestation, develop ecotourism, and promote forest conservation practices in rural areas. ICDPs recruited agrarian labor to groom and police parks and disseminate rules. In this article, I present a Marxian analysis of biodiversity's value in the global north, focusing on the role of manual workers in a Biosphere Reserve. I argue that ICDP's reliance on cheap local labor has maintained the historical interdependency of "slash-and-burn" agriculture, wage work, and forest conservation. By facilitating the discovery of species while unintentionally perpetuating the conditions of habitat endangerment, the conservation labor process creates forms of rain forest value. [source] | ||||||||||