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The internet and the politics and processes of trade unionism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This thesis explores the implications of the internet for the politics and processes of trade unionism. Michels' classic formulation on the "iron law of oligarchy" and its grounding in a communications based theory of leadership domination is presented ...
Hogan, John Michael Christopher
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Organising black and minority ethnic workers: trade union strategies for recruitment and inclusion. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
PhDThis research explores the challenges that trade unions face in organising workers in southeast England in the context of union decline and labour market change.
Holgate, Jane
core   +4 more sources

Marins, dockers et autres au sein de la Fédération internationale des travailleurs des transports (ITF) au début du 21 siècle

open access: yesCahiers d’histoire, 2022
Bolstered by its fight against flags of convenience, the ITF has developed a very large paid staff that allows it to deploy standardized coordinated campaigns combining powerful communication and solidarity between industrial sections.
Kevin Crochemore
doaj   +1 more source

Alliances et autonomie politique. Les deux faces du syndicalisme chilien

open access: yesCahiers des Amériques Latines, 2017
Chile has experienced in the last decade an increase of the labor conflict, with special protagonism of the workers mobilized in illegal strikes. Based on interviews with leaders of 43 strikes held in 2014 and complemented by statistical data, three ...
Rodrigo Medel Sierralta
doaj   +1 more source

Democracy in trade unions, democracy through trade unions? [PDF]

open access: yesEconomic and Industrial Democracy, 2018
Since the Webbs published Industrial Democracy at the end of the nineteenth century, the principle that workers have a legitimate voice in decision-making in the world of work – in some versions through trade unions, in others at least formally through separate representative structures – has become widely accepted in most West European countries ...
Gumbrell-McCormick, Rebecca, Hyman, R.
openaire   +2 more sources

Triggering Solidarity Actions towards Contingent Workers and the Unemployed. The Point of View of Grassroots Trade Unionists and Labour Activists

open access: yesPartecipazione e Conflitto, 2018
Since the 1980s, trade unions have suffered a decrease in membership, public legitimacy and the capacity to achieve their core objectives. Renewal strategies have varied, depending on the national context.
Christina Karakioulafis   +1 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Trade Unions in the European Union

open access: yes, 2023
Trade unions have repeatedly been challenged by neoliberal programmes implemented within Member States of the European Union (EU) and at the European level. The twentyseven country chapters at the core of this book chart the features of the neoliberal challenge in the EU Member States and the measures implemented by unions in their attempts to adapt to
Waddington, Jeremy   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Revisiting Hyman: direct democracy, shop steward organisation and labour process conflict at Ford's Dagenham plant

open access: yesWork Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, 2016
This article utilises detailed research into workplace trade unionism in the Dagenham plant of the Ford Motor Company in the UK to explore fundamental issues of workplace trade union democracy, organisation and struggle.
Sheila Cohen
doaj   +1 more source

O sindicalismo, a política internacional e a CUT Trade unionism, internacional politics and CUT

open access: yesLua Nova: Revista de Cultura e Política, 2005
O artigo confere uma atenção especial à relação entre sindicalismo e política internacional, um tema escassamente analisado pelos estudiosos do movimento sindical.
Hermes Augusto Costa
doaj   +1 more source

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