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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Private transnational governance institutions increasingly acquire regulatory authority in contexts of weak or inactive state regulation, yet their capacity to exercise it remains contested. We extend Poulantzas' concept of relative autonomy, understood as the capacity to act with organizational independence from specific fractions of capital ...
Mahreen Khan +2 more
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The Trade Union Movement, 1850-1914
Revue Française de Civilisation BritanniqueThis article examines the role of trade unionism in the long nineteenth century and considers the drawbacks to standard approaches to this subject. Discussing the changed focus of much historical scholarship towards the history of trade unions, it re ...
Antony Taylor
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Words After the Storm: Elite Rhetoric and the Limits of De‐Escalation in Postreferendum Catalonia
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT When does a secessionist crisis end? What drives political elites to shift from hostility to moderation? This article examines the prospects of rhetorical de‐escalation in the aftermath of a secessionist dispute through the paradigmatic case of Catalonia.
Daniel Cetrà +3 more
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New Technology, Work and Employment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Unions are increasingly adopting digital tools, yet research often portrays them as lagging in the digital age. This article challenges that view by examining union agency in the digitalisation of voting. Drawing on qualitative interviews with union officials, digital consultants collaborating on developing digital union voting and 12 years of
Nana Wesley Hansen, Mark Friis Hau
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New Technology, Work and Employment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the diverse assumptions and priorities that managers and technology developers assign to workplace technologies in UK warehousing. Rooted in labour process theory (LPT), and its concern for worker agency and management control, it addresses a need for finer‐grained theorisations of management and developer agency in ...
Abbie Winton +2 more
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CROSS-NATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT ON THE BASIS OF INSTITUTIONS [PDF]
Annals of the University of Oradea: Economic Science, 2017 This study deals with an issue of collective action theory. Its question is related to the activity of trade unions. According to the literature on collective action, large organisations, such as trade unions, have problems with organising themselves ...
Elek Nora Ilona
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New Labor Governance? The German Supply Chain Act and National Governance Mechanisms in Brazil
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Due diligence laws respond to labor governance challenges and to a lack of public governance addressing human rights violations in Global Value Chains. Despite ongoing contestation, the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act seeks to hold German‐based firms accountable for human rights risks in their supply chains.
Helena Gräf
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Little Fish in Big Ponds: The Pathways to Inclusion for Micro‐Minorities in Power‐Sharing Societies
Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.Abstract Emergent critique of consociations has focused on how micro‐minority ‘others’ are frequently excluded from the opportunities presented by power‐sharing systems, with dominant elites shutting them out. Therefore, a key question is: how do the political elites of micro‐minorities gain more meaningful inclusion by adopting or navigating the ...
Aleksandra Zdeb, Drew Mikhael
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Informalization from Above, Informalization from Below: The Options for Organization
African Studies Quarterly, 2010 The paper examines different strategies for the collective organization of informal workers, on the basis of a number of empirical illustrations from South Africa.
Jan Theron
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