THE FELLOWS - Jefferson Scholars Foundation

jefferson scholars foundation 2010Mary Hicks, the Newman Family Fellow (History), talks to a group about domesticservants in Brazil.throughout the life of a product.Life cycle thinking advances aholistic approach to operationsthat focuses on maximizingvalue and minimizing negativeenvironmental and social impactthroughout the value chain.Ultimately, a life cycle approachcan promote a more sustainablerate of both production andconsumption and can help uselimited financial and naturalresources more effectively.abuses. During the decadeleading to emancipation in 1888,many ex-slaves and their descendentsalso sought to break bondsof rural patronage by relocatingto Salvador, Bahia, one of thelargest cities in Brazil. My studyfocuses on the increasing mobilityof these people as they left thehinterland to become domesticservants in the provincial capital.The migration of ex-slaves (andrunaways) to the city of Salvadorand the subsequent renegotiationof labor relations between masterand servant provoked elitesto respond by limiting this newthreat to their patriarchal domination.This period also reveals thefaint beginnings of state laborregulation of the popular classes.The end of slavery coincided withand produced legislation aimedat domestic servants and other urbanprofessions, which attemptedboth to prolong social and laborrelations deeply influenced byslavery, as well as to incentivizethe transition to wage-labor.ray lamasWhere’s the plane going?The Future of the LargeCommercial AircraftIndustryThis project will examine the past,current, and future levers of valueof the large commercial aircraftindustry, focusing on what havebeen successful companies andtheir approaches to business, aswell as the failures and the lessonsmary hicksmigration, mobility,gender, Race, and LaborRelations among UrbanDomestic Servants inSalvador, Brazil, 1887-1893During the long period leadingto slave emancipation in Brazil’sempire (over fifty years), Brazilianslaves of African descent hadbegun increasingly to challengethe dominance of the landed,slave-holding elites that hadconstituted the nation’s governingclass for over three centuries.Slaves ran away, renegotiatedlabor conditions with their owners,and appealed to governingauthorities to stem physicalRay Lamas, the Melville Foundation Fellow (Darden School of Business), discusses the future ofcommercial aviation with prospective Jefferson Fellows.116