In commemoration of those women who fought for progressive legislation in South Africa, the authors would like to dedicate this paper to all of those women who were forced to carry a ‘dom-pass’.Key Words: Basic Conditions of Employment Act, Domestic Worker, PassbookJenni GobindGraham du...
A March 2017 studybyDaron Acemoglu of MIT and Pascual Restrepo of Boston University found that each robot reduces local employment by 6.2 workers.26Automation has been put forward as an explanation for the persistent gap between economic growth and wage growth in the U.S. since the 1970s. And...
During the 1995 World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen, the United Nations (1996, 38) defined absolute poverty as “a condition characterised by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information. ...
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Universal basic income (UBI) is an unconditional cash payment given at regular intervals by the government to all residents, regardless of their earnings or employment status. [45] UBI remains largely theoretical and, thus, does not have much of a history. Pilot UBI or more limited basic incom...