Working Hard, Working Poor: A Global Journey
- ISBN-10
- 0199928606
- ISBN-13
- 9780199928606
- Category
- Labor market
- Pages
- 230
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Author
- Gary S. Fields
Description
More than three billion people, nearly half of humankind, live on less than two-and-a-half U.S. dollars per person per day. Studies have shown repeatedly that the main and often the sole asset of the poor is their labor. It follows that to understand glob.
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