Wage Labor and Economic Diversification in Small Scale Fishing

授予东卡罗来纳大学的这一奖项将允许一组研究人员研究波多黎各的小规模渔民。他们假设，不同程度的参与雇佣劳动将导致不同程度的多样化，投资和资本形成的渔户。将分析渔民的认知取向，以了解它如何限制他们在经济选择中的选择。该项目将随机采访约200户渔户，以获得基本的人口普查、生态和经济数据。将选择较小的子样本来收集判断的相似性数据，这些数据将通过各种多变量技术进行分析，以得出潜在的认知结构。这个项目之所以重要，是因为自第二次世界大战以来，随着欠发达国家工人阶级的不断壮大，世界各国的国际分工日益尖锐。在这样的社会中，小规模无产阶级的经济活动在整个经济中很重要，但我们对它们知之甚少。这些经济活动对当地经济的影响，以及它们对热带海洋环境的影响，是这项研究将有助于我们理解的重要课题。

This award to East Carolina University will allow a team of researchers to study small scale fishermen in Puerto Rico. They hypothesize that different degrees of involvement in wage labor will result in different levels of diversification, investment, and capital formation among fishing households. The cognitive orientation of the fishermen will be analyzed to see how it constrains their choices among economic alternatives. The project will interview about 200 randomly selected fishing households to get basic census ecological and economic data. Smaller subsamples will be selected for the collection of judged similarity data that will be analyzed by various multivariate techniques to elicit the underlying cognitive structure. This project is important because since WWII the world has seen a sharpening of the international division of labor, with underdeveloped countries experiencing a growing working class. The economic activities of small scale proletarians in such societies are important in the overall economy, yet we know little about them. The effects of these economic activities in the local economy, and their impact on the tropical marine environments are important topics that this research will help us to understand.