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How social movement unionism helped shape the 2006 immigrant rights marches in L.A. [PDF]
, 2015 Labor scholars have long advocated social movement unionism as a strategy to revitalize the American labor movement, but how is social movement unionism practiced?
Engeman, Cassandra
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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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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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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 [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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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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Sustainable HRM in the Public Sector: A Question of Viability or Legitimacy?
Human Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent research has underlined the growing importance of sustainability in HRM policy and practice, taking into account long‐term multi‐stakeholder goals. However, few studies have specified the drivers and outcomes of sustainable HRM practices, nor the contradictions that arise when managers attempt to satisfy the demands of both internal and
Mathew Johnson +3 more
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Social Movement Unionism and Progressive Public Policy in New York City
, 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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Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the role of wages and the arbitration system in Australia's nine‐year experiment with official monetary targeting, initiated by the Fraser government in 1976. Instead of depoliticising inflation by turning it into a technical problem of monetary policy, monetarism in Australia was absorbed into the local view in which ...
Michael Beggs
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Social movement unionism? : an analysis of labour organisations strategies in the global political economy [PDF]
, 2005 This thesis examines the extent to which the modern labour movement is utilising social movement unionism as a form of organisation in the modern political economy.
Dodd, John Alan
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