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The new "toolbox" of the trade union between material and digital spaces: the experience of Toolbox CGIL of Bergamo

Labour & Law Issues, 2019
The article examines the case of Toolbox Cgil of Bergamo, a territorial experience with which the confederal trade union experiments with new organizational and relationship methods to get in touch, directly or through technological tools, with workers ...
Lucio Imberti
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Section 35 of the Scotland Act 1998 and Executive Control of Devolved Legislation

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
This article examines the first use of section 35 of the Scotland Act 1998, which prevented the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill from receiving Royal Assent. It argues that the 2023 Order is constitutionally significant because it operationalised a previously unused form of executive control over devolved legislation.
Darryn Nyatanga
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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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Social Movement Unionism and Networked Technology [PDF]

The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge, and Society, 2006
From a European perspective, the wide-ranging social, economic, and political effects of networked computers have generated tensions between 'new' social movements and the 'old' labour movement. From an American perspective on social movements, there is no such tension between old and new social movements.
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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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Social Movement Unionism and Progressive Public Policy in New York City [PDF]

, 2005
This paper explores the state of social movement unionism in New York City and how labour-community coalitions are forging a progressive public policy agenda.
Reiss, Jeremy
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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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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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From Sectarianism to Multipolarity: The Workers’ Party and the Roots of Brazilian Progressive Diplomacy (1980s–2000s)

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Since its formation in the 1980s, the worldview of the Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores; PT) in Brazil has undergone significant transformations amid the consolidation of neoliberal hegemony and the post‐Cold War reconfiguration of the global left.
Tiago Soares Nogara
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VOID URBANISM: Unbuilt New Cities and State Formation in the Democratic Republic of Congo

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the planning process behind Kitoko City in the Democratic Republic of Congo—a new city project officially launched in 2019 but never implemented—this article examines the political, social, and spatial effects generated by urban initiatives that remain at the stage of intention. It investigates how such unbuilt projects
Patrick Belinga Ondoua
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