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Beyond Westminster: How the Four‐Day Working Week Reached the UK Public Sector
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The United Kingdom's emergence as a public sector pioneer in the four‐day working week debate presents a striking paradox. A post‐Thatcher liberal market economy hostile to statutory working‐time reform might be expected to resist government‐sponsored working‐time reduction in the public sector.
Joan Sanchis, Raúl de Arriba
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Freedom of association and trade unionism in South Africa : from apartheid to the democratic constitutional order [PDF]
, 2007 Includes bibliographical references (leaves 297-330).This doctoral thesis deals with freedom of association and trade unionism in South Africa.
Budeli, Mpfariseni
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The Perils of Proportional Representation for Ethnic Minorities
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Two arguments about ethnic minorities run through the debate over replacing first past the post. One promises that proportional representation would represent minorities better; the other worries that it would empower the parties they have most reason to fear. This article argues that the promise is unreliable and the worry real.
Tarunabh Khaitan
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Educação (Santa Maria. Online), 2013 This paper discusses how teachers unions have been singled out for attack because throughout the world they are the most significant barriers to this project of education reform that has been implemented in the last four decades. Teachers unions globally
Lois Weiner
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The Independent Football Regulator: An Idea Whose Time Had Come?
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Major public policy change is both driven and constrained by consensus and dissensus. As J. W. Kingdon observed, when old agreements falter, new alliances can be built, ‘sometimes very rapidly, by cutting in many and diverse interests’. We show how a peculiar set of circumstances following the Covid pandemic brought together an unusual ...
Geoff Walters +2 more
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Labor conflicts and trade unions
Italian Political Science, 2020 This article explores differences in labour conflicts in Italy and France by focusing on the characteristics of the most prominent structures of worker mobilization: trade unions.
Katia Pilati, Sabrina Perra
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Global Labour Journal, 2015 Academic research on public attitudes towards unions in Canadian provinces is virtually non-existent. Using quantitative evidence from a Saskatchewan telephone survey, we demonstrate that public attitudes towards unions are more positive when the labour ...
Dave McGrane, Loleen Berdahl
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« Vague rose » et syndicalisme : enseignements des expériences argentine et brésilienne
Revue Interventions Économiques, 2020 This article offers a comparative analysis of Argentina and Brazil’s labour movement during and immediately after the “Pink Tide”, a period during which most South American countries elected progressive governments.
Thomas Collombat
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A Machiavellian Moment? Devolution and the New Politics of Place
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The Cabinet statement, Rewiring the State, published in July 2026, promises a radical devolution of the British state and a remaking of territorial politics. We review this development and assess its political and historical significance. We argue that the present conjuncture is distinctive because claims of the English North are driving a new
Kevin Morgan, John Tomaney
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Order, 2011 We present some new results on union ultrafilters. We characterize stability for union ultrafilters and, as the main result, we construct a new kind of unordered union ultrafilter.
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