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Abstract This paper studies side activities, including political activities, in the context of a hidden action agency problem. Given increases in the number of employees working from home and increases in managerial political engagement, such activities have become more prevalent. We examine the impact of these activities on the optimal contact, the agent's welfare, the firm's profit, and total welfare. For the case of political activities, we study the impact of external negative and positive feedback as the result of these activities on the optimal contract and all equilibrium variables. We ask whether the firm should encourage or discourage these activities.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Prologue. Feminismo americano -- 1. A New Force in the History of the World -- 2. The Anti-imperialist Origins of International Women's Rights -- 3. Feminismo práctico -- 4. The Great Feminist Battle of Montevideo -- 5. The Birth of Popular Front Pan-American Feminism -- 6. United Fronts for Women's Rights and for Human Rights -- 7. Mobilizing Women's Rights as Human Rights -- 8. The Latin American Contribution to the Constitution of the World -- Epilogue. History and Human Rights -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y

This paper explores Bertha Lutz and Mary Wilhelmine Williams's trans-national, Pan-American friendship in the interwar years. Lutz was the leader of Brazil's suffrage movement and Williams was a U.S. historian and member of the National Woman's Party and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. They collaborated together to advance Pan-American feminism, a belief that the Western Hemisphere shared a common history and that, through unity, women of the Western Hemisphere could bring about greater equality for women and world peace, which they saw as two inextricably linked goals. The women's influence over each other's feminist activism was mutual; in turn, each utilized ideas forged through their friendship to shape the feminist movement in her respective country. The case revealed in this paper thus prompts a reconsideration of interwar international and Pan-American feminism, so often described as a hegemonic, one-way ideological project of North American and European women.