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School Board Elections in England and Wales, 1870–1902: An Electoral Experiment?
History, EarlyView.Abstract The 1870 Elementary Education Act enabled the creation of school boards in England and Wales. Members were directly elected by the cumulative vote. This method gave each individual voter as many votes as there were seats on a school board, in some cases up to fifteen.
ED GREEN
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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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Socialist antisemitism and its discontents in England, 1884–98 [PDF]
, 2017 Virdee's essay explores the relationship between English socialists and migrant Jews amid the new unionism of the late nineteenth century: a cycle of protest characterized by sustained collective action by the unskilled and labouring poor demanding ...
Virdee, Satnam
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Sustainable HRM in the Public Sector: A Question of Viability or Legitimacy?
Human Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent research has underlined the growing importance of sustainability in HRM policy and practice, taking into account long‐term multi‐stakeholder goals. However, few studies have specified the drivers and outcomes of sustainable HRM practices, nor the contradictions that arise when managers attempt to satisfy the demands of both internal and
Mathew Johnson +3 more
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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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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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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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Digital Transformation of Retail Work: The Rise of Chaotic Rationalisation
British Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine how new digital technologies are transforming labour processes in frontline jobs in United States (US) store‐based retail, examining the US as an extreme case of labour market liberalisation. Research on technological change presents three scenarios: job displacement, job enrichment and ‘digital Taylorism’ involving heightened ...
Chris Tilly, Françoise Carré
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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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Latin American "free-trade unionism" and the cold War: an analysis based on educational policies [PDF]
, 2017 The political education of workers and their leaders was viewed as a strategic concern in the cold war period’s bipolar world. This article discusses how this issue was dealt with by Latin American reformist trade unions grouped together in the Inter ...
Scodeller, Gabriela Noemi
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