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Contemporary Unionism and the tactics of resistance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Revised version of a paper presented to the IBIS conference, From political violence to negotiated settlement : the winding path to peace in twentieth century Ireland, University College Dublin, 23 March 2001.This paper emphasises the importance of the ...
Dixon, Paul
core   +1 more source

The Most Disproportionate UK Election: How the Labour Party Doubled its Seat Share with a 1.6‐Point Increase in Vote Share in 2024

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 37-64, January/March 2025.
Abstract The Labour Party doubled its seats in the 2024 UK general election, winning a landslide majority with only a 1.6 point increase in its UK vote share and an historically low vote share for a winning party at just under 34 per cent. This article provides new evidence for three constituency‐level explanations for this outcome in the context of ...
Marta Miori, Jane Green
wiley   +1 more source

Um laboratório das relações de trabalho: o ABC paulista nos anos 90 A laboratory of industrial relations: the Paulista ABC area in the 90's

open access: yesTempo Social, 2002
O estudo discute as principais questões presentes na ação sindical na região do ABC paulista, confrontando-as com a experiência nacional. O trabalho se baseia em amplo levantamento dos acordos firmados entre o sindicato dos metalúrgicos do ABC e as ...
Iram Jácome Rodrigues
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond Westminster: How the Four‐Day Working Week Reached the UK Public Sector

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

Freedom of association and trade unionism in South Africa : from apartheid to the democratic constitutional order [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 297-330).This doctoral thesis deals with freedom of association and trade unionism in South Africa.
Budeli, Mpfariseni
core   +1 more source

‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
During World War I, Protestant churches in Australia, on the whole, enthusiastically supported the war effort. The Queensland Presbyterian Church was a significant exception. This study analyses discord and tensions among its clergymen about what constituted an appropriate response to the war.
Mark Cryle
wiley   +1 more source

Social Unionism, Public Relations, and Support for Unions: A Case Study of Public Opinion in Saskatchewan, Canada

open access: yesGlobal 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
doaj   +1 more source

« Vague rose » et syndicalisme : enseignements des expériences argentine et brésilienne

open access: yesRevue 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
doaj   +1 more source

Accommodating Women: Geographies of Citizenship in the Twentieth‐Century Campaign for Women's Jury Rights

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian women were among the first in the world to receive electoral suffrage, yet it took until 1997 before they had full equality of jury suffrage. This article examines the debate around female jurors by focusing less on discourses of citizenship than on the subterranean spatial arrangements upon which equality depended.
Alecia Simmonds
wiley   +1 more source

Neoliberal Globalization and Trade Unionism: Toward Radical Political Unionism? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This article revisits the question of changing forms of trade unionism within the context of neoliberal globalization. While broadly accepting the argument that globalization might encourage the development of more radical forms of unionism as survival ...
Upchurch, Martin   +3 more
core   +3 more sources

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