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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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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 ...
Kim Scipes, Scipes, Kim
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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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Global constitutionalism and social movement unionism
Global ConstitutionalismStrikes against public policies have often been classified as illegal political strikes. Nevertheless, the concept of social movement unionism (SMU) describes how trade unions in some countries have become active players in social struggles, alongside ...
Lilach Litor
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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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Feminist social movement unionism from South To North [PDF]
, 2021 Employer crackdowns on trade unionisation, neoliberal governments’ gutting of trade union protections, and increasing bureaucratisation and risk-averseness of unions themselves, have led to declines in traditional trade union membership.
Bhardwaj, Maya
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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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Partecipazione e Conflitto, 2019 This article aims to explore the forms of collective actions that are emerging in new sectors of digital capitalism. In particular, it enquires into the mobilisation of food delivery workers that has been developing since 2016 in four Italian cities ...
Riccardo Emilio Chesta +2 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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