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American Journal of Industrial Medicine, Volume 69, Issue 5, Page 335-344, May 2026.ABSTRACT Background For much of the 20th century, the South African mining industry had a statutory compensation system for pneumoconiosis and tuberculosis characterized by gross racial inequality. This study examines the impact of inflation over the period 1973–2024 on the real value of miners' lung disease compensation, including the effect of the ...
Martin Nicol +3 more
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Mediating the Scottish independence debate [PDF]
, 2015 In the six months leading up to the referendum vote on 18 September 2014 Scotland experienced a period of exceptionally heightened political discourse, a widespread form of political participation unusual in western liberal-democracies.
Law, Alex
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Industrial Relations Journal, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 205-231, May 2026.ABSTRACT This paper reviews methodological developments in Industrial Relations (IR) research on union effects from 1990 to 2023, based on 511 studies in six leading IR journals in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. We find that institutional contexts shape methodological choices over time and note a general shift from ...
Kwon Hee Han +2 more
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Thinking outside the box? Trade union organising strategies and Polish migrant workers in the UK [PDF]
, 2007 On the 1 May 2004 the EU witnessed its most challenging enlargement, with the accession of eight post-communist countries (known as the A8)1. Despite the EU’s espoused ‘fundamental freedom’ of labour mobility, the UK was only one of three countries to ...
Fitzgerald, Ian, Hardy, Jane
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Industrial Relations Journal, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 232-243, May 2026.ABSTRACT In this paper we explore the representative strategies of different trade unions within the UK platform economy, and the efforts to build legitimacy among a disparate workforce. Using data from multiple in‐depth research projects, we find that independent unions and self‐organised groups are competing to build representative claims from the ...
Mathew Johnson +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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Multinationals and Unionism in Indonesia [PDF]
, 2007 This paper presents a critical analysis of the factors shaping the interaction between multinationals and trade unions in Indonesia, focusing on the recent period of democratization following the downfall of the Suharto regime. It has been suggested that
Rachmawati, R. (Riani) +1 more
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Industrial Relations Journal, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 244-253, May 2026.ABSTRACT Strategies designed to revive the declining union movement require new resources and new members for success. For this, many unions often used closed or agency shops. We compare these with the now dominant open shop as well as the union default.
Mark Harcourt, Gregor Gall
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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.
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Problematizing the Cooperative Firm: A Marxian View on Paradoxes, Dialectics, and Contradictions
Journal of Management Studies, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 1124-1154, May 2026.Abstract Scholars are increasingly turning their attention to cooperative firms, characterized by worker ownership and management, as a way for organizations to address the economic, societal and environmental problems posed by corporate capitalism. This renewed interest stems from the potential of cooperatives to foster an alternative economic system ...
Jon Las Heras +2 more
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