Towards typologies of socio-economic marginality: North/South comparisons

2019 ◽  
pp. 7-24
Author(s):  
Lawrence M. Sommers ◽  
Assefa Mehretu ◽  
Bruce WM. Pigozzi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Marginality

Employment of educated youth in rural Punjab: Amidst Stagnancy and (IM)Mobility

2021 ◽  
pp. 026272802110559
Author(s):  
Kamlesh Narwana ◽  
Angrej Singh Gill
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Rural People ◽  
Young Males ◽  
Economic Marginality ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Career Options

In the context of larger discussions of how education, employment opportunities and social mobility processes intersect, this article presents micro-evidence to interrogate the role of higher education in accessing avenues for mobility regarding employment opportunities for educated youth in India’s rural Punjab. By presenting their career ambitions and trajectories, this fieldwork-based article maps a plethora of dynamics influencing the individual journeys. The article reflects on how social capital, caste and economic marginality affect the career options and mobility potential of these young males and females. The findings reaffirm that caste, compounded by economic inequality, tends to inhibit paths to upward mobility for young people located at the lower end of traditional hierarchies. However, determined efforts by many disadvantaged young rural people to succeed, partly supported by targeted affirmative action programmes, are also showing some remarkable results that offer hope.

African American and Latino Workers in the Age of Industrial Agriculture

2018 ◽  
pp. 174-190
Author(s):  
Erin L. Conlin
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
Pesticide Exposure ◽  
Farm Labor ◽  
Farm Work ◽  
Latino Farmworkers ◽  
Economic Marginality ◽  
History Of

Extensive chemical and pesticide exposure in the post–World War II period highlights African American and Latino farmworkers’ shared encounters with coercive labor structures, state hostility, economic marginality, racial discrimination, and bleak working conditions. Drawing heavily on oral histories and traditional archival sources, this case study of Florida farm labor draws directly on workers’ lived experiences and sheds light on the modern labor and environmental history of southern farm work. Examining this deep history of exploitation and negligence illuminates the challenges facing the South’s new working class.

What Now Supports Jewish Liberalism?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Kranson
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Upward Mobility ◽  
American Jews ◽  
World War ◽  
Political Values ◽  
Economic Marginality

In the years after World War II, many liberal and left-leaning Jewish leaders expressed concern that American Jews would adopt conservative political values as the result of their economic rise. While there is little evidence to prove that Jewish upward mobility led directly to conservative political values, this fear of a rightward political shift continued to circulate. To the left-leaning leaders of postwar American Jews, this move toward Jewish conservatism – a shift that they saw as an inevitable consequence of Jewish upward mobility -- represented a betrayal of “authentic” Jewish values that were forged out of historical Jewish experiences of social and economic marginality.

Imprisoning ‘Those’ Kids: Neoliberal Logics and the Disciplinary Alternative School

Youth Justice ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaitlyn J. Selman
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Alternative Education ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Alternative School ◽  
Code Of Conduct ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Alternative Education Programs ◽  
Economic Marginality ◽  
Disciplinary Alternative Education ◽  
Disciplinary Alternative Education Programs

Despite a perceived retrenchment of exclusionary school punishment, the disciplinary alternative school has emerged as a space in which to enforce upon marginalized students the logics of neoliberal carcerality. This article draws on the code of conduct handbooks of 15 Texas Disciplinary Alternative Education Programs to illustrate how this space seeks to reaffirm social and economic marginality for certain youth. Specific processes in the alternative school prepare youth for a life of imprisonment, often characterized by criminal justice system involvement, but also precarious (un)employment. As such, this article situates the disciplinary alternative school as one of many ‘alternatives’ to carcerality through which the carceral state maintains its power.

scholarly journals Big Data for the Sustainability of Healthcare Project Financing

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 3748 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Moro Visconti ◽  
Donato Morea
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Predictive Analytics ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Project Finance ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Smart Healthcare ◽  
Economic Marginality ◽  
Sustainable Planning

This study aims to detect if and how big data can improve the quality and timeliness of information in infrastructural healthcare Project Finance (PF) investments, making them more sustainable, and increasing their overall efficiency. Interactions with telemedicine or disease management and prediction are promising but are still underexploited. However, given rising health expenditure and shrinking budgets, data-driven cost-cutting is inevitably required. An interdisciplinary approach combines complementary aspects concerning big data, healthcare information technology, and PF investments. The methodology is based on a business plan of a standard healthcare Public-Private Partnership (PPP) investment, compared with a big data-driven business model that incorporates predictive analytics in different scenarios. When Public and Private Partners interact through networking big data and interoperable databases, they boost value co-creation, improving Value for Money and reducing risk. Big data can also help by shortening supply chain steps, expanding economic marginality and easing the sustainable planning of smart healthcare investments. Flexibility, driven by timely big data feedbacks, contributes to reducing the intrinsic rigidity of long-termed PF healthcare investments. Healthcare is a highly networked and systemic industry, that can benefit from interacting with big data that provide timely feedbacks for continuous business model re-engineering, reducing the distance between forecasts and actual occurrences. Risk shrinks and sustainability is fostered, together with the bankability of the infrastructural investment.

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