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Missing Men? Precarity and Declining Labor Force Participation Among Working-Class Men

open access: yes, 2022
Recent research has noted declining labor force participation among working class men in the United States, but with little attention to the mechanisms underlying such withdrawal.
Francis, Robert
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Living Labor [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
For much of the twentieth century, the iconic figure of the U.S. working class was a white, male industrial worker. But in the contemporary age of capitalist globalization new stories about work and workers are emerging to refashion this image.
Entin, Joseph B.
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Boom and stagnation: a century of slavery in Curitiba (1765-1862)

open access: yesRevista Mundos do Trabalho, 2021
In this article an attempt is made to use burial records to describe some basic characteristics of the slave population of Curitiba, studying also the economic activities to which the slaves’ work was directed.
Carlos Alberto Medeiros Lima
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Associations Between Being ‘Locked-In’ and Health – An Epidemiological Study

open access: yesNordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2019
Objective. The aim of this study was to investigate associations between an individual’s level of perceived control over labor market position (locked-in and not locked-in) and self-rated health and psychological well-being. Methods.
Gunnar Aronsson   +3 more
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The Global Challenge of Human Rights and Solidarity to Nordic Global Companies and Trade Unions

open access: yesNordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2014
The idea that corporations, besides making profit, have a social responsibility to society is not new in history. Nor is it new that unions besides representing material interests stand for a universal ambition as defenders of the oppressed in the world.
Bernt Schiller
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Labour, militancy and repression at Recife: Júlia Santiago between DOPS and the Factory (1933-1956)

open access: yesRevista Mundos do Trabalho, 2022
This paper aims to discuss the relationship between workers' militancy and repression in Recife through the path of Júlia Santiago da Conceição (1917-1988).
Guilherme Machado Nunes
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Joint Responsibility at its Peak – Searching for a New Nordic Unemployment Model

open access: yesNordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2012
Earlier research has shown that the Nordic Ghent systems seem to be weakened. The unemployment insurances administered by the unions have experienced a decline in numbers of members, very similar to the drop in trade union membership.
Tora Dahl
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Adversities and claims of the seafarers: dynamics around the wage litigation and protests against the privateering in the Portuguese merchant navy (c.1788 - c.1822)

open access: yesRevista Mundos do Trabalho, 2022
This article will address the daily work of seafarers from the Portuguese merchant navy at the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century.
Hugo André Flores Fernandes Araújo   +1 more
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A GEOGRAFIA SINDICAL DA FORMAÇÃO PROFISSIONAL: UMA CONTRIBUIÇÃO PARA A INTERPRETAÇÃO ONTOLÓGICO-GEOGRÁFICA DO MUNDO DO TRABALHO

open access: yesRevista Pegada Eletrônica, 2011
A formação profissional é uma das principais preocupações dos gestores de políticas públicas e do empresariado, no Brasil este é um tema recorrente para justificar, entre outras coisas, o desemprego crescente, relegando a responsabilidade para os ...
Marcelo Carvalhal
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The slavery of the present under the shadows of the past

open access: yesRevista Mundos do Trabalho, 2022
Book review: SILVA, Nauber Gavski da. Nos limites da lei: a escravidão contemporânea no interior de São Paulo (1991-2010). São Paulo: Editora da Universidade de São Paulo; Salvador: Sagga, 2022.
Clarice Speranza
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