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The Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) and New Agrarian Questions in Brazil

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Landless Rural Workers Movement of Brazil (MST) primarily organized occupations of large‐scale farms, forcing the redistribution of land for creation of agrarian reform settlements. In the past 20 years, however, land occupations and the establishment of new agrarian reform settlements have consistently declined, while the MST shifted ...
Estevan Coca, Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira
wiley   +1 more source

Potbank and union : a study of work and trade unionism in the pottery industry, 1900-1924 [PDF]

open access: yes
The thesis analyses work and trade unionism in the pottery industry between 1900-1924. It explores the structural influences on work and unionism and the experience of the people involved.
Whipp, Richard
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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

open access: yesJournal 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

New challenges in the context of changing conditions in unionism after 1980 : Service and social movement unionism

open access: yes, 2015
Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Çalışma Ekonomisi ve Endüstri İlişkileri Ana Bilim Dalı1980 sonrası sendikacılıkta değişen koşullar bağlamında yeni arayışlar:Hizmet ve toplumsal hareket sendikacılığı Anahtar Kelimeler: Sendika, İşçi, Ekonomi, Küreselleşme.New
Yıldız, Gonca
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BOOK REVIEW: Labour Unionism, Leadership and Development in Nigeria

open access: yes, 2021
The book presents a comprehensive explanation of leadership and labour unions in the advancement of society, two contentious issues in Nigerian politics and social development.
Abayomi, Adeniji Olawale
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Why Do Voters Vote for ‘the Other Side’? Instrumental and Expressive Motives for Cross‐Ethnolinguistic Voting in Brussels

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While electoral support in deeply divided societies is expected to follow segmental lines, parties often attract substantial backing from outside their core constituencies. This article examines why voters in Belgium's Brussels‐Capital Region—a consociational system designed to enable the peaceful cohabitation of the French and Dutch language ...
Benjamin Blanckaert   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

"Social Progress After the Age of Progressivism: The End of Trade Unionism in the West" [PDF]

open access: yes
This essay is about trade unions, an institution that arose to play an important part in relation to the social progress characterizing much of the present century and that served as an important reference point for several varieties of normative ...
Volker Meja, David Kettler
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Words After the Storm: Elite Rhetoric and the Limits of De‐Escalation in Postreferendum Catalonia

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When does a secessionist crisis end? What drives political elites to shift from hostility to moderation? This article examines the prospects of rhetorical de‐escalation in the aftermath of a secessionist dispute through the paradigmatic case of Catalonia.
Daniel Cetrà   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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