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Why are There Strikes?

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
Les grèves, tout comme d’autres types de conflits, étaient autrefois difficiles à expliquer d’un point de vue économique. Au départ, on pensait qu’elles étaient le résultat d’erreurs ou d’irrationalité. Puis, dans les années 1980, une explosion de la recherche a fait apparaître l’asymétrie d’information comme une cause importante de grèves. Après avoir
Nok Chun, Kyung   +2 more
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To strike or not to strike? an investigation of the determinants of strike participation at the Fridays for Future climate strikes in Switzerland

open access: yesPLOS ONE, 2021
The Fridays for Future strikes involve students striking for increased action on climate change, and this movement has spread to 185 countries and received widespread media attention. This exploratory study investigates motives for participating or not in the climate strikes and future participation among students in Switzerland.
Viktoria Cologna   +2 more
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Lightning Strike

open access: yesJournal of Education and Teaching in Emergency Medicine, 2022
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Powell, Thomas   +2 more
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Trade and Strike Activity in the Postwar United States

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2020
This paper examines the effect of international trade on strike activity within the United States since World War II. Globalization may influence strike activity through its effects on the bargaining position of labor.
M. Rodwan Abouharb, Benjamin O. Fordham
doaj   +1 more source

Political, General or Economic Strikes? New Types of Strikes and Workers' Contention [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
The article provides an overview of workers' collective actions occurred in Italy, characterizing a new wave of contention between 2008 and 2018. It focuses on the development of strike activities.
Perra, Margherita Sabrina; University of Cagliari   +1 more
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Unions against governments: explaining general strikes in Western Europe, 1980-2006 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Across Western Europe, unions have increasingly engaged in staging general strikes against governments since 1980. This increase in general strikes is puzzling as it has occurred at the same time as economic strikes have been on the decline.
Hamann, Kerstin   +4 more
core   +1 more source

The Role of Discursive Constructions in Nigeria's ASUU-FGN Labour Conflict of 2013

open access: yesThe African Journal of Information and Communication, 2019
The performance of Nigeria's tertiary education sector has been undermined on numerous occasions by labour conflicts. While these labour disputes are widely reported in the media, there has been only minimal scholarly examination of the discourses that ...
Samuel Alaba Akinwotu
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Strikes, unions and privatization in Serbia [PDF]

open access: yesSociološki Pregled, 2013
This paper analyzes and describes the most important characteristics of strikes, unions, and privatization in Serbia during the last two decades. Author explores the role of trade unions in privatization process and social transition.
Novaković Nada
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Sustaining the old world, or imagining a new one? The transformative literacies of the climate strikes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
In this article, we consider the climate strikes in the context of intergenerational narratives that de/limit young people’s political subjectivities and imaginaries concerning climate change.
Chloé Germaine   +3 more
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Mobilising the Masses: Explaining the Rapid Rise of Worker Activism in Transnistria in the Late 1980s

open access: yesComparative Southeast European Studies, 2023
Between August and September 1989, Russian-speaking workers in Moldova went on strike against a series of laws that made Moldovan the sole official language of the republic.
Harrington Keith
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