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"I'm Not Wanting to be a Martyr": Learning from Latina Educator Activists in Chicago Public Schools During COVID-19. [PDF]

Urban Rev, 2023
Rodriguez G.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) and New Agrarian Questions in Brazil

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Landless Rural Workers Movement of Brazil (MST) primarily organized occupations of large‐scale farms, forcing the redistribution of land for creation of agrarian reform settlements. In the past 20 years, however, land occupations and the establishment of new agrarian reform settlements have consistently declined, while the MST shifted ...
Estevan Coca, Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira
wiley   +1 more source

Social-movement unionism: Is it the answer for Kenya?

, 2020
Society
openaire   +2 more sources

Counter‐Plantation Imaginaries: Deproletarianisation and Struggle for Autonomy in India

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the decline of the 2015 Pembillai Orumai movement in India's Munnar tea belt as an event revealing the dialectical relationship between labour struggle and agrarian capitalism within the plantation complex. Although widely celebrated for securing wage gains through a historic Dalit woman–led strike, the movement's rapid ...
Jayaseelan Raj
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the Sober State: The Work of Drunkenness in British Bureaucracy

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reports the drinking stories of British civil service clerical workers based at a large civil service office complex located in Newcastle upon Tyne between 1968 and 1993. It uses these stories to develop an account of state formation that takes seriously the place of joy, solidarity, contention, and exhaustion within public sector
Michael Vine
wiley   +1 more source

Struggling in pandemic times: Migrant women's virtual political organization during the COVID-19 crisis in Spain. [PDF]

Int Migr, 2022
Martín-Díaz E, Castellani S.
europepmc   +1 more source

How Violence Shapes Place: The Rise of Neo‐Authoritarianism in the Global Value Chain and the Emergence of an ‘Infernal Place’ in the Bangladesh Garment Industry

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how and to what extent violence has become a pivotal tool for conducting business in places integrated into the global value chain. It also explores the roles stakeholders play in silencing workers' resistance within these places.
Shoaib Ahmed
wiley   +1 more source

The U.S. Labor Relations System after <i>Janus v. AFSCME</i>: an Early Assessment. [PDF]

Empl Responsib Rights J (Dordr), 2021
Hodges AC.
europepmc   +1 more source

Relative Autonomy beyond the State: Private Transnational Regulation and the Politics of Labour Governance in Bangladesh

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Private transnational governance institutions increasingly acquire regulatory authority in contexts of weak or inactive state regulation, yet their capacity to exercise it remains contested. We extend Poulantzas' concept of relative autonomy, understood as the capacity to act with organizational independence from specific fractions of capital ...
Mahreen Khan, Jimmy Donaghey, Juliane Reinecke   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating coal transitions in Germany and India: the role of trade unions and their power resources

Environmental Research: Energy
As global coal transitions intensify, their social consequences are increasingly felt by workers and communities whose livelihoods are intertwined with fossil fuels.
Sree Harica Devagudi
doaj   +1 more source