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Trade-Union Activism Among University Teachers During Cameroon’s Political Liberalisation
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2004 Academic staff trade unions in universities have succeeded in preserving a considerable degree of autonomy versus the state in a number of West African countries since independence, enabling them to play a significant role in the defence of their ...
Piet Konings
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The Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) and New Agrarian Questions in Brazil
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Landless Rural Workers Movement of Brazil (MST) primarily organized occupations of large‐scale farms, forcing the redistribution of land for creation of agrarian reform settlements. In the past 20 years, however, land occupations and the establishment of new agrarian reform settlements have consistently declined, while the MST shifted ...
Estevan Coca, Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira
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Organising the self-employed: combining community unionism, coworking and cooperativism across contexts. [PDF]
Open Res Eur, 2023 Pitts FH, Borghi P, Murgia A.
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Counter‐Plantation Imaginaries: Deproletarianisation and Struggle for Autonomy in India
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the decline of the 2015 Pembillai Orumai movement in India's Munnar tea belt as an event revealing the dialectical relationship between labour struggle and agrarian capitalism within the plantation complex. Although widely celebrated for securing wage gains through a historic Dalit woman–led strike, the movement's rapid ...
Jayaseelan Raj
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Anatomy of a merger: a study of the merger process in British trade unions, with particular reference to the case of the GMB/Apex merger of 1989 [PDF]
, 1995 The historic context, characteristics, effects of social and industrial determinants and the tendentious factors of trade union mergers are explored. The literature on trade unionism, its history and merger trends and styles, is reviewed with special ...
Creaby, John
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Beyond the Sober State: The Work of Drunkenness in British Bureaucracy
Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reports the drinking stories of British civil service clerical workers based at a large civil service office complex located in Newcastle upon Tyne between 1968 and 1993. It uses these stories to develop an account of state formation that takes seriously the place of joy, solidarity, contention, and exhaustion within public sector
Michael Vine
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Trade unionism and immigration: reinterpreting old and new dilemmas
, 2003 Disponible en acceso abierto: articles.2https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/102425890300900308?icid=int.sj-full-text.similar-articles.2The social and economic changes that have taken place since the mid-1980s in Spain and other southern European ...
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Le syndicalisme britannique dans la première mondialisation (1868-1914)
Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2009 British trade-unionism has often been described as less concerned with international matters than its continental counterparts. But did the founders of the TUC really live in a secluded world?
Yann Béliard
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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how and to what extent violence has become a pivotal tool for conducting business in places integrated into the global value chain. It also explores the roles stakeholders play in silencing workers' resistance within these places.
Shoaib Ahmed
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