This thesis uses official reports, legislative documents, and news articles to understand the relationship between incarceration, labor, and the environment. In the nineteenth century reformers, state officials, the general ...

The wave of working-class radicalism that swept across France at the turn of the twentieth century has largely been attributed by historians to the pressures of industrialization undermining traditional methods and ...

I model a hiring process in which a candidate is evaluated sequentially by two agents of a firm. Each agent observes an independent signal of the candidate's productivity. I show that if the second agent values a non-productive ...

This thesis examines the dramatic political transformation of Southern California in the 1970s to 2000s, shifting from a Republican stronghold to Democratic through a series of voter mobilization efforts specifically towards ...

This thesis explores the relationship between transit development and job creation through a case study of the Orange MAX Line in Portland, OR. Opening on September 12, 2015, this transit investment introduced light rail ...

Title: Performing Work: Internationalism and Theatre of Fact between the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. Theatre’s public, and yet intimate emotional ability to demarcate extraordinary occurrences and provoke communal ...

This dissertation examines the intersections of the body, senses, and labor within a Post-Fordist, consumption based economy. Data was collected via ethnographic research of specialty coffee baristas. The concepts of “sense ...

Work in the environment conjures images of violence against the earth: tractors chewing through dirt, logging trucks lumbering with a full load of harvested trees, and clearcut landscapes featuring barren land and debris ...