kris_inwood, 7 months ago to econhist

Dramatic wage & price fluctuations influenced the hierarchies of well-being & working conditions in French prison workshops 1900-1940, according to Elsa Genard (Harvard) at the 2023 SSHA conference in Washington DC
https://ssha2023.ssha.org/sessions/177

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average wages in French prisons 1913-1938

breton, 8 months ago to ethics

No more of the same.

Orly Noy (chairwoman of the Israeli NGO B'Tselem) has a proposal for action that assumes that all human lives are of equal value: https://www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-warlords-militarism-alternative/

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kris_inwood, 10 months ago to anthropology

"The Well-Being of Indigenous Communities in the Pacific Northwest: Anthropometric Evidence from British Columbia’s Jails, 1864-1913", new working paper from Ian Keay & Kris Inwood
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4544077

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