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Regulating Uncharted Waters: The EU Platform Work Directive Between Uncertainty, Lobbyism and Politicisation

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In 2024, the EU adopted a much‐debated directive on improving working conditions in platform work, which aims to facilitate the correct classification of people performing platform work and regulates the use of algorithmic management. The initiative attracted intense lobbying from digital platforms and trade unions, whilst dividing the member ...
Sven Schreurs
wiley   +1 more source

A strike in the time of COVID-19 pandemic: The 2020 health workers' dispute in Hong Kong. [PDF]

J Ind Relat, 2022
Taylor BW, Chan MYI.
europepmc   +1 more source

Power in Coalition: Strategies for Strong Unions and Social Change [PDF]

, 2010
{Excerpt} For decades, unions around the world, like the teachers\u27 union in Australia, have been struggling. Across advanced English-speaking economies, we have seen the rising power of capital and its increasing influence over government.
Tattersall, Amanda
core   +1 more source

Removing the Basis of the Historic Conflict? The Downing Street Declaration and the Contested Role of European Integration in the Northern Ireland Peace Process

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the section on European integration in the Joint Declaration by British Prime Minister John Major and his Irish counterpart Taoiseach Albert Reynolds in 1993. The Joint Declaration, also known as the ‘Downing Street Declaration’, was a pivotal moment in the Northern Ireland peace process.
Conor J. Kelly, Eleanor Leah Williams, Annabel Harris, Ruth Murray   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Neoliberalism and Radical Rights: On the Work and Theory of Law and Organising. [PDF]

Int J Semiot Law, 2023
Fay W.
europepmc   +1 more source

American Unionism and U.S. Immigration Policy [PDF]

, 2001
Throughout its lengthy history, few issues have caused the American labor movement more agony than immigration. It is ironic this should be the case as most adult immigrants directly enter the labor force.
Briggs, Vernon M., Jr.
core   +1 more source

Stephen Gwynn and the failure of constitutional nationalism in Ireland, 1919-1921 [PDF]

, 2010
The Irish Party, the organization which represented the constitutional nationalist demand for home rule for almost fifty years in Westminster, was the most notable victim of the revolution in Ireland, c. 1916–23.
Reid, Colin
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How Violence Shapes Place: The Rise of Neo‐Authoritarianism in the Global Value Chain and the Emergence of an ‘Infernal Place’ in the Bangladesh Garment Industry

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how and to what extent violence has become a pivotal tool for conducting business in places integrated into the global value chain. It also explores the roles stakeholders play in silencing workers' resistance within these places.
Shoaib Ahmed
wiley   +1 more source

Labor and Urban Crisis in Buffalo, New York: Building a High Road Infrastructure [PDF]

, 2005
With inequality growing and competitive market forces on the march, can unions play a constructive role in solving the problems of capitalist economic development? Should they try?
Fleron, Lou Jean, Greer, Ian
core   +1 more source

Federalism in Post‐Assad Syria: Toward Durable Peace in a Pluralist Society

Middle East Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Syria's civil war has left behind a fractured state. While the new president, Ahmed al‐Sharaa, seeks to unify the country and restore centralized governance, this appears unworkable. Instead, this article contends, asymmetrical federalism offers a pathway toward stability.
Dilan Okcuoglu
wiley   +1 more source