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Social Movement Unionism or Social Justice Unionism? Disentangling Theoretical Confusion within the Global Labor Movement [PDF]
Class Race Corporate Power, 2014 After the election of John Sweeney as President of the AFL-CIO in October 1995, activists and supportive intellectuals in the United States began thinking about how to revitalize the almost moribund American labor movement. A key part of this literature has revolved around the concept of “social movement unionism.” This term touched a nerve, and has ...
Scipes, Kim
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Social movement unionism or professionalism? the union movement of Taiwanese documentary makers
Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, 2010 Taiwanese documentaries have grown rapidly in terms of local consumption and production since the 2000s, despite the dominance of Hollywood in the local film market. However, most documentary workers still suffer from poor working conditions because of a
Chang-de Liu
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The political agency and social movements of Japanese individually-affiliated unions [PDF]
, 2021 In contrast to dominant enterprise unions, individually-affiliated unions in Japan such as community and general unions are eager to ameliorate the precarious working conditions of non-regular workers and regular workers in small- and medium-size ...
Watanabe, H.
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Cahiers Balkaniques, 2018 The announcement focuses on the industrial unionism movement in Greece, which was developed during the second half of the 70's. Firstly, the main political, economical and social transformations, following the collapse of the military dictatorship (1974),
Akis Palaiologos
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Global Labour Journal, 2015 Academic research on public attitudes towards unions in Canadian provinces is virtually non-existent. Using quantitative evidence from a Saskatchewan telephone survey, we demonstrate that public attitudes towards unions are more positive when the labour ...
Dave McGrane, Loleen Berdahl
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Journal of World-Systems Research, 2015 First suggested in the Netherlands, in the late-1980s, the notion of Social Movement Unionism was ?rst applied in South Africa, where it had both political and academic impact.
Peter Waterman
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Community and union-led living wage campaigns [PDF]
, 2017 Trade unions in Britain, as elsewhere, have faced a sustained challenge to their role and there has been extensive debate, analysis (and practical action) over the most appropriate way for the union movement to respond to these challenges (Kelly, 1998 ...
Abiti Puliti +3 more
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Trade unions, civil society organisations and health reforms [PDF]
, 2009 This article provides an analysis of resistance to neoliberalism and commodification in the public healthcare sector as seen from a trade union perspective.
Afford, C. W. +18 more
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Partecipazione e Conflitto, 2018 Since the 1980s, trade unions have suffered a decrease in membership, public legitimacy and the capacity to achieve their core objectives. Renewal strategies have varied, depending on the national context.
Christina Karakioulafis +1 more
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El Frente Único, las Alianzas Obreras y el Frente Popular
Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, 2011 The positions adopted by anarchists and anarcho-syndicalists against cooperation with other working-class forces were fuelled by fear of losing their organisations’ ideological independence.
Rocío Navarro Comas
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