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Restructuring health services and labour : management and union relations in an English health authority [PDF]

This research explores the state of health service trade unionism in the 1980' s and considers its prospects for the future. This is located within the context of trade unionism in general and more specifically within the public services. Historically
Sheaff, Michael
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Neoliberalism and Radical Rights: On the Work and Theory of Law and Organising. [PDF]

Int J Semiot Law, 2023
Fay W.
europepmc   +1 more source

Union Retreat and Regional Economic Performance: the UK in the 1990s [PDF]

This paper uses a panel of regional data to investigate the impact that the well-documented decline in trade unionism in the UK had on the economic performance of its regions.
Vassilis Monastiriotis
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How Violence Shapes Place: The Rise of Neo‐Authoritarianism in the Global Value Chain and the Emergence of an ‘Infernal Place’ in the Bangladesh Garment Industry

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
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction-trade unions in times of austerity and development. [PDF]

Dialect Anthropol, 2020
McNamara T, Spyridakis M.
europepmc   +1 more source

KENSINGTON UNION. [PDF]

The Lancet
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openaire   +1 more source

Political Culture and Christian Trade Unionism

, 2014
Belgian trade unionism has always intensely attracted industrial relations specialists because of some peculiarities in its structuring and functioning. The object of the following paper is to impart some knowledge about the history of pluralist Belgian ...
Samuel Barnes
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Relative Autonomy beyond the State: Private Transnational Regulation and the Politics of Labour Governance in Bangladesh

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, Jimmy Donaghey, Juliane Reinecke   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Rise of Northern Unionism’s Influence on the Political Scene of Great Britain Against the Backdrop of Belfast’s Social and Economic Transformations During the Great War

Faces of War
This article examines the situation in Belfast during the First World War, considering its role as the political and economic centre of the north of Ireland.
Antonina Pawłowska
doaj   +1 more source