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The Independent Football Regulator: An Idea Whose Time Had Come?
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Major public policy change is both driven and constrained by consensus and dissensus. As J. W. Kingdon observed, when old agreements falter, new alliances can be built, ‘sometimes very rapidly, by cutting in many and diverse interests’. We show how a peculiar set of circumstances following the Covid pandemic brought together an unusual ...
Geoff Walters +2 more
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A Machiavellian Moment? Devolution and the New Politics of Place
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The Cabinet statement, Rewiring the State, published in July 2026, promises a radical devolution of the British state and a remaking of territorial politics. We review this development and assess its political and historical significance. We argue that the present conjuncture is distinctive because claims of the English North are driving a new
Kevin Morgan, John Tomaney
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IdeAs, 2020 This paper examines the position of black women domestic workers in the United States from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s and their struggles for improved working conditions and social recognition, which primarily took place in the workplace through the ...
Grégory Bekhtari
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Varieties Of Social Unionism: Towards a Framework for Comparison [PDF]
, 2007 In academic and activist debates about union renewal, the replacement of business unionism with social unionism is seen as central to the labour movement's short- and long-term survival.
Ross, Stephanie
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1955, two female factory workers and trade union leaders, Tan Lee Eng and Kwek Tai Eng, established the Singapore Women's Federation (SWF) to unite women regardless of race, religion or class for the anti‐colonial nationalist struggle. Singapore Chinese left‐wing feminism emerged at the confluence of the nationalist interest in mobilising ...
Yee‐Ting Leong
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Social-movement unionism [PDF]
, 1991 Traditional socialist trade-union theories or models have not prevented the frequent isolation of labour from other social movements, or the subordination of labour struggles to the ideologies and interests of other categories and classes. Such understandings are today an obstacle to emancipatory strategies.
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the published writings of Lorna Gulston (c. 1932–2023), a hitherto unknown Northern Irish civil servant who wrote many articles for the earliest British lesbian magazines such as Arena Three, Sappho and Sequel. In doing so, the article asks: How did Gulston find her way onto the pages of these pioneering magazines?
Maurice J. Casey
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A theory-based analysis of labour unions in the South African Public Service
Otoritas: Jurnal Ilmu PemerintahanThis study provides a theory-based analysis of labour unions in the South African Public Service (SAPS), focusing on the evolving dynamics of labour relations, power structures, and collective bargaining processes.
Tando Rulashe
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The contributions of propagandist and writer Hildegart (1914–1933) to Spanish cultural life are overshadowed by accounts of her unusual upbringing and violent death. This article examines the conditions that enabled the teenager to become a prominent voice for feminism and sexual reform on the eve of Spain's Second Republic (1931–1939).
Micaela Pattison
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La Nouvelle Revue du TravailThis article examines a protest movement that emerged in 2022 within Cameroon’s public education sector. It demonstrates how the development of this movement sheds light on the transformation of trade union action in the digital age.
Aboubakar Sidi Njutapwoui
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