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Cahiers des Amériques Latines, 2017 In an historical approach and in the distinction between social movement and institution, the article deals with the relationships between Trade Union and the Nicaraguan State since the Sandinistas returned to power in 2007.
Julien Dufrier
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The Royal Commission on the Constitution, 1927–1929
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Royal Commission on the Constitution (1927–1929) is a little‐remembered event in Australian political, policy and legal history, which produced—in the words of the constitutional law scholar Geoffrey Sawer—‘a useful student's textbook and a minor alteration in the Judiciary Act’.
Carolyn Holbrook
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American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In response to the planetary climate crisis, influential scholarship has directed us to decenter the human, recognize nonhuman agency, and imagine more‐than‐human futures. But what might this leave out? Drawing on Indigenous forest worlds in India and the incarcerated intellectual‐activists who struggled alongside them, this article develops a
Alpa Shah
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Globalisation and trade unions: towards a multi-level strategy?
Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, 2008 International trade unionism is facing a serious challenge from what is commonly called globalisation. Trade unions feel the need to ‘scale up’ their activities beyond their, once paramount, national terrain and to challenge capital's untrammelled ...
Ronaldo Munck
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American Ethnologist, EarlyView.Abstract Engaged Dharma Israel (EDI), a radical‐left group, combines Buddhist‐inspired contemplation with anti‐occupation activism in solidarity with Palestinians. For EDI, ethical self‐cultivation and political resistance are mutually sustaining commitments, yet their relationship demands ongoing, sometimes anxious work.
Ori Mautner
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Iberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal, 2015 El presente trabajo analiza los hitos históricos más relevantes del proceso evolutivo del sindicalismo venezolano. Se discutirá la etapa de deterioro del movimiento sindical, en el que esta organización se vio arrastrada por la inercia de una crisis ...
Luis Lauriño Torrealba
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British Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the 2000s, questions were open on whether the EU eastern enlargement would contribute to upwards or downwards convergence in labour standards, or even to divergence. Over two decades later, it is possible not only to attempt an answer, but also to identify the industrial relations processes that mediate economic integration between widely ...
Jon Erik Dølvik +3 more
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Argumentation et Analyse du Discours, 2008 This article analyzes the construction of the French students’ collective ethos during the Algerian War. Unsettled by the events, a large fraction within the leadership of the National Union of the Students of France (UNEF), the only representative ...
Eithan Orkibi
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British Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite growing interest in union renewal, worker voice and new forms of labour organisation, industrial relations scholarship has paid limited attention to assemblies as an organisational form in their own right. This article argues that assemblies constitute a historically recurring democratic repertoire through which workers negotiate the ...
Martí López‐Andreu
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Unolympic Unionism or Apocryphal Olympism? Ideas for future anti-doping governance
Acta Universitatis Carolinae Kinanthropologica, 2015 This article aims to present ideas for future anti-doping governance by considering the relative merits of trade union-based athlete representation (ATU) as opposed to the current system of so-called athletes’ commissions or athletes’ committees (AC). It
Jacob Kornbeck
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