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The 1984-1985 UK Miners’ Strike and the Rise of Social Movement Unionism

Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique
The research that has looked at the 1984-1985 UK miners’ strike has, correctly and from its early days, emphasised the role played by women’s groups during the strike, the support of the international labour movement and the establishment of solidarity ...
Marc Lenormand
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A Universidade e o Estado Novo: De “corporação orgânica” do regime a território de dissidência social

Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2008
This article aims to relate the discourse of the ‘New State’ on the University and on student association organisms (reproduction) to the strategies for survival and imagination of the student movement itself (dissent).
Álvaro Garrido
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Honouring the Past, Embracing the Future

The Ecumenical Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The United Church of Canada, founded in 1925, represents an ambitious experiment in church union that blends Methodist, Presbyterian, and Congregationalist traditions. Over the past century, the church has played a pivotal role in shaping Canadian society by advocating for social justice, Indigenous reconciliation, interreligious dialogue ...
Hyuk Cho
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Unionism and peer-referencing [PDF]

, 2010
This study assesses the “fair-wage-effort” hypothesis, by examining (a) the relationship between relative wage comparisons and job satisfaction and quitting intensions, and (b) the relative ranking of stated effort inducing-incentives, in a novel dataset
Theodossiou, Ioannis, Panos, Georgios A., Panos, Georgios   +2 more
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The New Unionism and the New Bargaining Agenda: UNISON–Employer Partnerships on Workplace Learning in Britain

, 2000
A model of new unionism has been developed which is characterized by features such as the servicing of members as customers and a shift to co-operative industrial relations.
Rainbird, Helen, Munro, Anne
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Gendering Digitalization: Technology Change in Feminized Supermarket Work

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Digitalization is re‐shaping the way work is organized, yet processes of digitalization have largely been examined in male‐dominated workplace contexts like manufacturing and logistics, often with little reference to gender dynamics. This paper explores how workers experience digitalization in the context of a female‐dominated occupation, that
Laura Good, Rae Cooper, Meraiah Foley
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Building Cross-Border Trade Union Solidarity in the Americas: Putting Organizational Identities at Stake

Entreciencias: Diálogos en la Sociedad del Conocimiento, 2022
Purpose:This article considers an in-depth intra-case analysis of a North-South alliance that came into being in the Americas, where the absence of any state power regulating such initiatives makes their emergence more complex.   Methodological design:To
Melanie Dufour-Poirier
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Structure and agency: Clash or complement towards quality public education within the South African legislative framework?

South African Journal of Education, 2019
In the current South African society, characterised by typical neo-liberal market-driven priorities also forced upon the education sector, the search for quality education needs careful consideration.
Nontsha Liwane, JP Rossouw
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Social Movement Unionism or Social Justice Unionism? Disentangling Theoretical Confusion within the Global Labor Movement [PDF]

, 2014
After the election of John Sweeney as President of the AFL-CIO in October 1995, activists and supportive intellectuals in the United States began thinking about how to revitalize the almost moribund American labor movement.
Kim Scipes, Scipes, Kim
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Academic Women's Labor and Feminist Praxis “From Below”: A Social Reproduction Feminist Analysis of Working‐Class Women Academics' Transformative Possibility in Australian Higher Education

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines working‐class women academics' labor as constituting transformative praxis within the capitalist university. Drawing on oral history interviews with 28 Australian women academics from working‐class backgrounds, I demonstrate that working‐class women occupy contradictory class positions simultaneously, exploited through ...
Piper A. Bell
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