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Inflation, Race, and Legislation-The Erosion in the Real Value of Monetary Compensation for Miners' Occupational Lung Disease in South Africa, 1973-2024. [PDF]
Am J Ind MedABSTRACT Background For much of the 20th century, the South African mining industry had a statutory compensation system for pneumoconiosis and tuberculosis characterized by gross racial inequality. This study examines the impact of inflation over the period 1973–2024 on the real value of miners' lung disease compensation, including the effect of the ...
Nicol M +3 more
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Cahiers 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
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Theorising International Trade Unionism
Global Labour Journal, 2011 This paper uses neo-functionalist and institutionalist theories of geo-political integration to develop a theory of international trade unionism. In brief, the theory asserts that the type of international ‘context’ in which international trade unions ...
Keith Abbott
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Alliances et autonomie politique. Les deux faces du syndicalisme chilien
Cahiers 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
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Race, Gender, and the Rebirth of Trade Unionism [PDF]
, 2007 [Excerpt] Diversity is not the enemy of solidarity. We contend that solidarity can, and must, be built among an ever-diversifying labor movement, nation, and world.
Bronfenbrenner, Kate, Warren, Dorian T
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Trade unions, civil society organisations and health reforms [PDF]
, 2009 This article provides an analysis of resistance to neoliberalism and commodification in the public healthcare sector as seen from a trade union perspective.
Afford, C. W. +18 more
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Work 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
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Trabalho, desigualdades sociais e sindicalismo
Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2005 In recent years, the world of labor has been affected by a vast array of changes in the context of the global economy in which we live and under the effects of different transnational forces and institutions.
Elísio Estanque
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Social Movement Unionism or Social Justice Unionism? Disentangling Theoretical Confusion within the Global Labor Movement [PDF]
, 2014 After the election of John Sweeney as President of the AFL-CIO in October 1995, activists and supportive intellectuals in the United States began thinking about how to revitalize the almost moribund American labor movement.
Scipes, Kim
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Gérer la distance syndicale face à l’« autonomie » des Universités
Carnets de Géographes, 2023 If work as a scientific object begins to be invested by geographers, the spatial dimension of unionism constitutes a “blind spot” of the discipline, despite the fact that some consider union involvement as work, and that trade unionism, by defending the ...
Mathieu Uhel
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