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This article addresses two questions about the standard employment relationship that have become prominent in labour law literature: Does it exacerbate inequality? Is its decline inevitable? The focus is on the second question and... more
This article examines attitudes and behavior of white-collar employees and professionals towards unions in the framework of post-industrial economy which challenges traditional industrial and manual-based model of unionism. We use data... more
Braverman's analysis of the changing division of labor is crucial for understanding the impact of the neoliberal assault on higher education on academic labor. Much like Taylorism a century ago, adjunctification of the faculty, online... more
This paper will provide a brief analytical overview of the current political-economy of South Africa. It begins with an “In Brief” section: a snapshot of political institutions and social and economic indicators before addressing... more
There is, on Scanlon’s view, a great deal more to the normative significance of equality. We don’t just want to see equal distribution of some thing. We want to live together, on terms of equal recognition, in ways that avoid... more
To cite this article: Brian Marren (2016): The Liverpool Dock Strike, 1995–98: a resurgence of solidarity in the age of globalisation, Labor History To link to this article: http://dx.
Türk Sosyal Bilimler Derneği'nin 2013'te ODTÜ'de düzenlediği 13. Ulusal Sosyal Bilimler Kongresi'nde sunulan bu metin, Paulo Freire'nin Eleştirel Pedagojisini temel alan bir takım kriterler belirleme denemesi ile bu kriterlerin işçi... more
Ellen Martinali 2008. Literature study and theoretical framework as part of advisory research on how today's labour unions could reach out to informal workers.
This text is the final part, of the Danish book Drømme og Støv (Dreams and Dust), published in Danish on the 1. May 2019 by the publisher Solidaritet. The book is divided into four roughly equal parts. The first part, describes the... more
Teacher unionisation is among the under-researched themes in South Africa. The few teacher union studies focus on the notoriety of teacher unions' activities, especially the impact of teacher strikes. Studies frequently demonstrate how... more
Presentationen kretsar kring effekterna av marknadsorienteringen av den svenska skolan, med särskilt fokus på de utmaningar som dessa effekter innebär för det fackliga arbetet.
В очерке даётся обзор организованного учительского движения на территории Российской Империи в период двух революций, от его возникновения до фактического прекращения и перехода под начало ВКП(б).
This chapter seeks to re-interpret Iraqi politics after the US-led intervention of 2003 by examining the alternative discourses of democracy emanating from within Re-Colonial Iraq. It details the complex public sphere of the post-Saddam... more
At first sight child labour may not appear to be a material issue for Australian companies and investors: Australia has labour laws that prescribe the minimum school-leaving and employment age. Australia also has a rich tradition in... more
The contributions of this edited book analyze the role of labour unions as political actors not only in regard to issues like labour rights and wages, but also regarding processes of democratization and the political process in... more
T. M. Scanlon’s work on the value of equality provides the resources for developing a powerful and distinctive contractualist egalitarian view. This view acknowledges a range of egalitarian concerns, of a diverse nature, and points us... more
This paper examines management whipsawing practices in the European auto industry based on more than 200 interviews and a comparison of three auto makers. We identify four distinct ways in which managers stage competition between plants... more
El análisis día a día de la gran huelga de los zapateros de Barcelona en junio y julio de 1903, en base a la información publicada en la prensa burguesa y obrera, permite evidenciar por una parte las divergencias tácticas entre militantes... more
Economic reforms face a collective action problem: they trigger the reaction of groups that expect significant losses, while the government must forge a support coalition among those who anticipate gains. This problem may exhibit a... more
Rosa Luxemburg: a (very) political economy Summary: This article attempts to prove the political relevance of Luxemburg’s achievements in political economy. It presents the current usages of Luxemburg’s concepts in finance theory and... more
This article analyses the variation and change in firm-level employment relations in Spain between the transition to democracy and the global financial crisis. Using three auto companies as case studies, I address a crucial puzzle in the... more
Bu çalışmada, Türk hava ulaştırma sektöründeki en büyük kuruluş olan THY ile Hava-İş arasında yapılmış bulunan toplu iş sözleşmelerinde çalışma şartlarının düzenlenmesindeki gelişimin seyri, sektörde ve ülkede yaşanan gelişmelerin toplu... more
Labor and the state have had a contradictory and conicting relationship in post-revolutionary Algeria. Conventional analyses of labor struggles in Algeria have tended to impose binary frames: state and counter-state, political regime and... more
"Vancouver’s Ethical Purchasing Policy: A Participatory Public Policy Process Highlights and Key Findings: • This chapter is an analytic narrative of how Vancouver’s Ethical Purchasing Policy was written. This empirically grounded... more
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century has, in the words of Paul Krugman, “transformed our economic discourse” about wealth and inequality. It is difficult to think of a recent work of social science that has received as... more
What are the conditions under which transnational collective action is initiated and sustained? This paper presents a case study of General Motors Europe, where labor leaders have mobilized the workforce and bargained with management at... more
This article focuses on the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions (IFOU), Iraq’s largest and most powerful independent workers’ union. Leaving aside IFOU’s resistance of foreign occupation and its fight against privatisation, this article... more
This paper argues that a revival of traditional American values that are more libertarian and individualistic. i.e., much less social-democratic, than in Europe and Canada, have weakened organized labor. During the years of its greatest... more
At no other firm has transnational worker cooperation been taken further than at General Motors Europe. Worker representatives engaged in European wide mobilization, strikes, and collective bargaining, with the aim of “sharing the pain”... more
My main contention is that racism should be read beyond the registers of attitude, discrimination, human rights, or harassment-rather, I approach racism as a workload issue that labour organizations and employers need to address at the... more
Purpose-The purpose of our study is to find how the changing relationship between labour and political parties influenced the growth of reasonably independent labour unions in Taiwan. Design/methodology/approach-The authors have drawn on... more
Nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg unternimmt Marcel Mauss die Abfassung seines opus magnum über «Die Nation», aber über diese große Frage publiziert er nur den Text seines Vortrages «The Problem of Nationality» (1920). Von dem großen Buch von... more
... ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELDWORK With the help of our fieldschool students, we have completed five years of excavations both at Ludlow and at the CF&1-owned company town of Berwind. ... InBerwind, the streets, foundations, latrines, and... more