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Assessing the Employee Welfare Impact of Right‐To‐Work Laws: Insights From State‐Level Legislation
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine the effect of right‐to‐work (RTW) laws on employee welfare using the stacked difference‐in‐differences (DiD) methodology. We posit that RTW laws weaken collective bargaining power, increase free riding, and ultimately reduce employee welfare. We document a significant employee welfare decline following RTW adoption, especially among
Shima Amini +2 more
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Organising the self-employed: combining community unionism, coworking and cooperativism across contexts. [PDF]
Open Res Eur, 2023 Pitts FH, Borghi P, Murgia A.
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Striking for a Just Transition? North American Auto Unions and the Electric Vehicle Transition
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Decarbonization heightens risks for workers, but union strategies shape how these risks are managed and whether new jobs offer quality employment. This paper compares U.S. and Canadian auto unions during the 2023 Detroit Three bargaining, focusing on strategic capacities and internal politics to explain their divergent responses to the EV ...
Mathieu Dupuis, Ian Greer, Dongwoo Park
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A strike in the time of COVID-19 pandemic: The 2020 health workers' dispute in Hong Kong. [PDF]
J Ind Relat, 2022 Taylor BW, Chan MYI.
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A ‘New Unionism’ for 21st Century Britain: Towards a Strategic Synthesis
Industrial Relations Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article presents research exploring how ‘mainstream’ unions can revitalise inspired by the bottom‐up organising of ‘indie’ unions. Putting insights from the ‘organising debate’ and Power Resource Theory to iterative work with rich interview data, we develop a strategic synthesis for a new unionism for 21st Century Britain.
Carl Hughes +2 more
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The South Asianist, 2015 Much has been written, mainly in mainstream media, about the hundred day struggle launched in 2012 by the Federation of University Teachers' Association (FUTA) of Sri Lanka.
Dileepa Witharana
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JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract In 2024, the EU adopted a much‐debated directive on improving working conditions in platform work, which aims to facilitate the correct classification of people performing platform work and regulates the use of algorithmic management. The initiative attracted intense lobbying from digital platforms and trade unions, whilst dividing the member ...
Sven Schreurs
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JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the section on European integration in the Joint Declaration by British Prime Minister John Major and his Irish counterpart Taoiseach Albert Reynolds in 1993. The Joint Declaration, also known as the ‘Downing Street Declaration’, was a pivotal moment in the Northern Ireland peace process.
Conor J. Kelly +3 more
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Neoliberalism and Radical Rights: On the Work and Theory of Law and Organising. [PDF]
Int J Semiot Law, 2023 Fay W.
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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how long‐standing local conflicts concerning the nature of common property, the distribution of access and administrative rights associated with it, and more broadly the nature of the community and the forms of citizenship that organise its governance shape demands for justice regarding land transfers to outside investors
Eric Léonard +2 more
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