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The Negotiations Process and Structures [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
[Excerpt] This chapter examines the process by which unions and employers negotiate collective agreements and the structures they use for those negotiations, continuing the analysis of the middle (functional) level of labor relations activity.
Colvin, Alexander   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Segmentation and gender wage disparities in the early industrial workforce: Insights from Arkwright's Lumford Mill, 1786–1811

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 471-495, May 2026.
Abstract This article examines the gender wage gap and wage setting in the early cotton spinning factories of the industrial revolution, with a specific focus on Richard Arkwright's Lumford Mill in Bakewell, Derbyshire. The research links workers from the mill's wage books with parish baptism records to estimate ages and construct age–wage profiles in ...
Alexander Tertzakian
wiley   +1 more source

The 1941 miners' strike in northern France: from a dispute over soap to armed resistance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
In Northern France in 1941, while under German military occupation, 100,000 miners went on strike from the 27th May to the 9th June. This strike not only cost the German war machine half a million tonnes of coal, but also had long-term consequences for ...
Cushion, Stephen
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Strategic materials and state capacity in Renaissance Italy: The economic policies of ‘Roman saltpetre’ procurement

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 757-780, May 2026.
Abstract Demonstrating the existence of a soaring demand for strategic materials in fifteenth‐century Rome, the article pioneers research in the late medieval trade in saltpetre, the irreplaceable, rare component of gunpowder, indispensable for waging war following the diffusion of artillery technology.
Fabrizio Antonio Ansani
wiley   +1 more source

Workers’ Behavioral Practices on the Eve of February, 1917: On the Prerequisites for the Revolution

open access: yesИзвестия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2017
This article considers the role of the workers’ movement, mass sentiments, and behavioral practices of workers in the development and resolution of the revolutionary crisis on the eve of February, 1917 in the context of the modern historiographical ...
Olga Sergeevna Porshneva
doaj   +1 more source

Foundations and Perspectives of Trade Union Wage Policy in Europe [PDF]

open access: yes
Considering the degree of political and economic integration in Europe, trade unions can no longer stick to purely national strategies. Since the 1980s the key political projects of European integration have played a major role to force the neoliberal ...
Schulten, Thorsten
core  

Industrial Actions in Germany - Realistic in an International Context? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In the EU, transborder collective action exists in theory but not in practice. Which would be the conditions to cooperate and even fight together? One should know each other, especially the underlying economic interest, the institutions, the traditions ...
Däubler, Wolfgang
core   +1 more source

Have a nice day! The American journey to better working conditions [PDF]

open access: yes
Employment (Economic theory ...
Richard Alm, W. Michael Cox
core  

Technological changes and manufacturing unions in South Africa : failure to formulate a robust response [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
: Technological innovation has had far-reaching implications for labour and for the world of work generally. It has led to job losses, the creation of new jobs, the loss of some skilled positions and the creation of new ones, and an increase in the ...
Hlatshwayo, Mondli
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The aging of the unions in West Germany, 1980 - 2006 [PDF]

open access: yes
Using data from the social survey ALLBUS for West Germany in the period 1980 to 2006, this paper demonstrates that union members are on average older than non-unionized employees.
Schank, Thorsten, Schnabel, Claus
core   +3 more sources

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