Entry-level crowd work is often reported to pay less than minimum wage. While this may be appropriate or even necessary, due to various legal, economic, and pragmatic factors, some Requesters and workers continue to question this status quo. To promote further discussion on the issue, we asked Requesters and workers if they would support restricting tasks to require minimum wage pay. As a form ...

This paper explores the recent trends that have influenced how we understand modern accountability relationships. These relationships involve how corporations relate to their external stakeholders and other significant parties. A continuum of ideas is introduced to investigate these obligations and suggest some ways forward. In particular, liberal, communicative and radical arguments are discus...

This paper studies the effects of hedge fund activism on the activity and efficiency of target companies’ internal capital markets. I find that firms targeted by activist hedge funds significantly increase investment cross-subsidies between divisions, predominantly by enhancing the efficiency of their internal resource allocations. Following Schedule 13D filings by activist hedge funds, segment...

This article explores the way archival material has the potential to become a core component of activism, through an evaluation of an AHRC-funded collaborative research project on the histories and futures of local food in Liverpool. "Memories of Mr Seel's Garden: exploring past and future food systems in Liverpool" is a collaboration between four academics, two arts/heritage professionals and ...

This article discusses the lives and impact of leading activists whose work is highlighted in histories clinical sociology United States South Africa. The four scholar-practitioners from discussed here are Jane Addams, W.E.B. Du Bois, Charles Gomillion James Laue. African sociologists profiled Harold Wolpe H.W. van der Merwe. Based on career experiences these six individuals, concluding comment...