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VOID URBANISM: Unbuilt New Cities and State Formation in the Democratic Republic of Congo

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the planning process behind Kitoko City in the Democratic Republic of Congo—a new city project officially launched in 2019 but never implemented—this article examines the political, social, and spatial effects generated by urban initiatives that remain at the stage of intention. It investigates how such unbuilt projects
Patrick Belinga Ondoua
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La territorialisation heurtée de l’action syndicale : la CGT et l’émergence d’une contestation de la métropolisation en Isère

Métropoles
Based on the analysis of an interprofessional group of a departmental union of the CGT, this article examines the conditions for asserting trade unionism as an actor in the debates and struggles around metropolisation.
Pierre Rouxel
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Monetary Targeting, Wages and Inflation in 1970s Australia: Always and Everywhere a Distributional Phenomenon?

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the role of wages and the arbitration system in Australia's nine‐year experiment with official monetary targeting, initiated by the Fraser government in 1976. Instead of depoliticising inflation by turning it into a technical problem of monetary policy, monetarism in Australia was absorbed into the local view in which ...
Michael Beggs
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“If It Means Lives Lost That is How it Must Be”: The Ethics of Strike Action in the NHS, from the Winter of Discontent to the Nurses’ Strike of 2022-2023

Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique
Ethical questions are seldom asked about trade union activities and of trade unionists themselves. Both scholars of labour history and industrial relations and trade unionists themselves would regard the altering of the balance of forces with the ...
Marc Lenormand
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Le jardin aux sentiers qui bifurquent ? Le syndicalisme en Équateur

Cahiers des Amériques Latines, 2017
The “Revolución Cidadana” (Citizen’s Revolution) government that assumed power of Ecuador in 2007 opened a controversial and paradoxical scenario to recuperate the country’s sovereign character under a nationalist and developmentalist rhetoric at the ...
Magali Marega
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The public agglomeration effect: Urban–rural divisions in government efficiency and political preferences

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Why and when do cities vote for the left? The emergence of the urban–rural divide in the United States in the 1930s is inconsistent with canonical theories of cleavages. This paper introduces an explanation: agglomeration effects. The provision of government services is more efficient in urban environments because of nonrivalries, economies of
Theo Serlin
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Crítica de la libertad sindical

Derecho PUCP, 2012
Critique of trade union freedomThe article begins of the protective character of Labor Law and of the study of trade union freedom as an instrument of compensatory inequality, to analyze critically the protection of this right in the Committeeof Trade ...
Oscar Ermida Uriarte
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Le syndicalisme au Nicaragua depuis le retour du Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (2007-2016)

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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Implementing Automation: The Shopfloor Politics of Technological Change in the Canadian Aerospace Sector

British Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What are the social processes of integrating new production technologies into existing work processes? How do management and trade union approaches shape the implementation and debugging of new technologies on the shopfloor? Drawing on the industrial relations literature on debugging and four cases of technological change at a major Canadian ...
Daniel Nicholson
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Too Little, Too Weak? Paid Parental Leaves in Philippine Collective Bargaining Agreements

British Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When statutory work–family entitlements are deemed insufficient, workers often rely on collective bargaining to secure better terms. However, the extent to which unions can deliver higher than statutory benefits remains underexplored, especially in developing countries with decentralized bargaining systems and low union salience. Bridging this
Vincent Jerald Ramos
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