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Precariado e sindicalismo no Brasil contemporâneo: Um olhar a partir da indústria do call center

Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2014
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s victory in the 2002 presidential elections in Brazil led to a reconfiguration of the relationship between the trade union movement and the state.
Ruy Braga
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Labor in the New Urban Battlegrounds: Local Solidarity in a Global Economy [PDF]

, 2007
[Excerpt] Labor in the New Urban Battlegrounds is an energizing, optimistic book. By using the contemporary metropolis as a comparative laboratory to see what contexts and strategies contribute best to labor revitalization, Lowell Turner, Daniel ...
Cornfield (Editor), Daniel B, Turner (Editor), Lowell   +1 more
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‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
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Union Voices: Tactics and Tensions in UK Organizing [PDF]

, 2013
[Excerpt] This book tells the story of what is, in our view, probably the most significant development in British trade unionism of recent years: the increasing focus on organizing activity.
Heery, Edmund, Holgate, Jane, Simms, Melanie   +2 more
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New Deal Labor Policy and the Containment of Radical Union Activity [PDF]

, 1976
New Deal labor policies were designed with the stability of the capitalist economy in mind. Their pro-union provisions responded to labor militance and served to head off the formation of a radical working-class movement. The National Labor Relations Act
Hurd, Richard W
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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Between Precarity and Paternalism: Farm Workers and Trade Unions in South Africa's Western Cape Province

Global Labour Journal, 2017
The labour market in rural areas of South Africa’s Western Cape province has undergone considerable changes over the last thirty years. New labour and tenure legislation protecting farm workers combined with trade liberalisation, the abolition of ...
Christopher Webb
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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
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Spatial relations, histories from below and the makings of agency: Reflections on The Making of the English Working Class at 50 [PDF]

, 2015
In this paper we propose a conversation between work in labour history and labour geography, in part centring on the formative contribution of E.P. Thompson.
Featherstone, David, Griffin, Paul
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School Board Elections in England and Wales, 1870–1902: An Electoral Experiment?

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The 1870 Elementary Education Act enabled the creation of school boards in England and Wales. Members were directly elected by the cumulative vote. This method gave each individual voter as many votes as there were seats on a school board, in some cases up to fifteen.
ED GREEN
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