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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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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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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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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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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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The Australian Union Movement and the Politics of Full Employment, 1945–1976

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that the Australian union movement played a crucial and often overlooked role in both the success and rapid decline of Australia's post‐war full employment framework. A particular focus is placed on the unions' response to the Fraser Liberal‐Country Party government's 1976 abandonment of post‐war full employment and the ...
Owen Bennett
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Looking for collective protection for digital workers: organization, representation, bargaining

Labour & Law Issues, 2018
The essay analyzes the different ways of organizing the digital workers' union. The digital economy has accelerated the process of fragmentation of work and has weakened traditional forms of collective representation.
Michele Forlivesi
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Monetary Targeting, Wages and Inflation in 1970s Australia: Always and Everywhere a Distributional Phenomenon?

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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DYNAMICS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF A STUDENT-VOLUNTEER IN THE PROCESS OF PROFESSIONALLY-ORIENTED VOLUNTEERING ACTIVITY

Образование и наука, 2018
Introduction. In the modern world, volunteering is one of the most effective ways for successful social development and improvement of the quality of human life.
A. A. Kuznetsova, N. A. Solovyeva
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The public agglomeration effect: Urban–rural divisions in government efficiency and political preferences

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Why and when do cities vote for the left? The emergence of the urban–rural divide in the United States in the 1930s is inconsistent with canonical theories of cleavages. This paper introduces an explanation: agglomeration effects. The provision of government services is more efficient in urban environments because of nonrivalries, economies of
Theo Serlin
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