School Board Elections in England and Wales, 1870–1902: An Electoral Experiment?
History, EarlyView.Abstract The 1870 Elementary Education Act enabled the creation of school boards in England and Wales. Members were directly elected by the cumulative vote. This method gave each individual voter as many votes as there were seats on a school board, in some cases up to fifteen.
ED GREEN
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Union-Freeness, Deterministic Union-Freeness and Union-Complexity
, 2019 Union-free expressions are regular expressions without using the union operation. Consequently, union-free languages are described by regular expressions using only concatenation and Kleene star. The language class is also characterised by a special class of finite automata: 1CFPAs have exactly one cycle-free accepting path from each of their states ...
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VOID URBANISM: Unbuilt New Cities and State Formation in the Democratic Republic of Congo
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Based on an analysis of the planning process behind Kitoko City in the Democratic Republic of Congo—a new city project officially launched in 2019 but never implemented—this article examines the political, social, and spatial effects generated by urban initiatives that remain at the stage of intention. It investigates how such unbuilt projects
Patrick Belinga Ondoua
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Romanian vector in theforeign policy of the Republic of Moldova: The political dimension of thefoundations and dynamics of bilateral relations between Chisinau and Bucharest [PDF]
Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: История. Международные отношенияThe article examines the foundations of bilateral relations between Moldova and Romania since the collapse of the USSR. The author analyzes the phenomenon of Moldovan unionism and its influence on the foreign policy of Chisinau in the Romanian direction.
Golovchenko, Dmitry P.
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Committee for Democratic Trade Unionism - What side are you on in the red moratorium?
, 1972 Committee for Democratic Trade Unionism - What side are you on in the red ...
Committee for Democratic Trade Unionism
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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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Worrying Expertise: Representation and Expert Knowledge in Trade Unions
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Studies of professionalisation, oligarchy and expertise have asked how expertise affects democratic representation in professionalised membership organisations. This article approaches that problem from the other direction by examining the role of representation in the production of expert knowledge.
Staffan Edling
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Ulster Exclusion and Irish Nationalism: Consenting to the Principle of Partition, 1912-1916
Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2019 In April 1912, Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith introduced the third Home Rule (Government of Ireland) Bill to Westminster. In so doing, he ignited a crisis in both Ireland and Britain which consumed political discourse right up to the eve of the ...
Conor Mulvagh
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A “Thompsonian” pattern of labour unrest? Social movements and rebellions in the Global South
Revista Mundos do Trabalho, 2020 In this article, we will argue that the so-called Fordist pattern of labor unrest was a historical and geographical exception and that the focus on this model made it difficult to identify alternative patterns of worker mobilization, especially in the so-
Ruy Gomes Braga
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The Effect of Unionism on Worker Attachment to Firms [PDF]
This study examines these important questions using newly available data files on individuals, which contain information on their job tenure and union status, among other things.
Richard B. Freeman
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