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Rethinking Regional Innovation Systems in the Age of De‐Globalisation

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract Since a few years, the international economic system has been experiencing the risk of growing fragmentation and uncertainty. However, research on Regional Innovation Systems (RIS) has yet to comprehensively engage with this phenomenon, despite its (spatial) significance. The paper contributes to addressing this gap, in particular by exploring
Francesco Molica, Francesco Cappellano, Teemu Makkonen   +2 more
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Building Social Movement Unionism: The Transformation of the American Labor Movement

, 2001
[Excerpt] In the United States, the renewed energy displayed by the labor movement is particularly promising. From organizing drives to strike victories to legislative campaigns, labor\u27s renewed influence in the American political economy is clearly ...
Turner, Lowell, Hurd, Richard W, Hurd, Richard W.   +2 more
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Professors-in-Training or Precarious Workers? Identity, Coalition Building, and Social Movement Unionism in the 2015 University of Toronto Graduate Employee Strike

, 2017
In this article, I argue that graduate employees took on the political identity of precarious workers who face job insecurity and income insecurity, drawing attention to the casualization of work in the academic labor market in Canada, and the cost of ...
Louise Birdsell Bauer
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Futures of Transit Work: Contesting Devaluation and Neoliberal Automation in Bus Transit

Anthropology of Work Review, Volume 47, Issue 1, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Being a bus operator has long meant access to middle class wages, quality benefits, and union membership, forms of security increasingly rare amid growing precarity. But transit is in trouble. In the wake of the COVID‐19 pandemic and decades of disinvestment, bus operators face mounting time pressure, frequent violence, and eroding job ...
Hunter Akridge, Sarah E. Fox
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White labour and the 'social democratic' movement in the Transvaal; the South African Labour Party, the South African Trades and Labour Council and their trade union affiliates, 1930 - 1954

, 1982
Bibliography: p.330-353.The first quarter or so of the present century witnessed violent struggles between white workers and the South African state, and the entrenchment of the job colour bar in the mining industry.
Touyz, Brian Martin
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Invisible Architects of Labour Internationalism: How Professional Experts Shape Cross‐Border Union Relations in Turkey

Global Networks, Volume 26, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how local trade unions in Turkey have cultivated global partnerships over the past two decades, with particular attention to how cross‐border interactions are organized and sustained in practice. Although agency‐centred explanations of labour internationalism emphasize the role of progressive union leaders, I shift ...
İrem Yıldırım
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Russia and the Birth of Right‐Wing Terrorism: Mass Politics, Antisemitism, and the Assassination of Mikhail Gertsenshtein

The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 3, Page 289-306, July 2026.
Abstract This article examines the assassination of Duma representative Mikhail Gertsenshtein in July 1906 as the pivotal moment for the emergence of the concept of “right‐wing terrorism” (pravyi terrorizm) in the Russian Empire. Drawing on court documents, police files, and censorship reports, this article argues that the significance of the ...
Moritz Florin
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Swedish Trade Unionism – a Renewed Social Movement?

, 2010
A Legion of literature has developed referring to a ‘new labour internationalism’ emerging that is a significant break from the influential post-war trend of nation-statist unionism.
Wahlström, Mattias,, Peterson, Abby,, Wennerhag, Magnus,   +2 more
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Introduction-trade unions in times of austerity and development. [PDF]

Dialect Anthropol, 2020
McNamara T, Spyridakis M.
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Welfare, Work and the Conditions of Social Solidarity: British Campaigns to Defend Healthcare and Social Security. [PDF]

Work Employ Soc, 2023
Coderre-LaPalme G, Greer I, Schulte L.
europepmc   +1 more source