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The Negotiations Process and Structures [PDF]
[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
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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
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The 1941 miners' strike in northern France: from a dispute over soap to armed resistance [PDF]
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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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
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Workers’ Behavioral Practices on the Eve of February, 1917: On the Prerequisites for the Revolution
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
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Foundations and Perspectives of Trade Union Wage Policy in Europe [PDF]
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
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Industrial Actions in Germany - Realistic in an International Context? [PDF]
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
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Have a nice day! The American journey to better working conditions [PDF]
Employment (Economic theory ...
Richard Alm, W. Michael Cox
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Technological changes and manufacturing unions in South Africa : failure to formulate a robust response [PDF]
: 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]
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
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