union organizing, and solidarity (in the case of the workers organization), and increase in market share and stability inlabor management relations(in the case of the employers). The government’s goal is to achieve industrial peace, settlement of disputes, and the balance of the protection of...
In 1919, the Soviet Union founded the Communist International (Comintern). Predictably, the Russia Revolution had captured the imagination of left-wing radicals, including in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or Wobblies), so Wobblies attended the first Comintern, yet hesitated to join. ...
(i.e., on-the-job training), average income coupled with substantial job security (at least until deindustrialization), middling social honor and prestige, quite limited authority and autonomy on the job, and comparatively good health outcomes (by virtue of union-sponsored health benefits and ...
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Owen Jones reveals Labour Right playbook for Unite union election The political commentator believes the Labour Right will hold fire on calling for a leadership challenge until election rules have been changed to make a left run untenable.Continue reading ...
The socialist revolution in Yugoslavia provided a blueprint for a more equal society where women’s emancipation followed economic and social emancipation from capitalist models of production. However, with the Yugoslav disintegration, the women’s question (as happened with many other aspects of social...
According to IndustriALL, an international union claiming to represent 50 million laborers in the energy, mining, and manufacturing sectors, living conditions for the contract workers are poor. The workers live on-site in unsanitary dormitories and eat low-quality food in their canteens. “Contractor...
The State, Capital, and Workers' Control during the Industrial Revolution: The Rise and Fall of the North-East Pitmen's Union, 1831-2 Focuses the unionization of the coal miners during the industrial revolution in Great Britain. Alteration of relations between workers and employers and th... ...
MARTIN UPCHURCH, GRAHAM TAYLOR, & ANDREW MATHERS, THE CRISIS OF SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC TRADE UNIONISM IN WESTERN EUROPE: THE SEARCH FOR ALTERNATIVES (Ashgate 2009) GEORGE URWIN, INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES (London 1957) MACK WALKER, GERMAN HOME TOWNS, COMMUNITY, ST...
Depending on the structure of the trade union movement within the respective countries, white-collar workers tend to organize exclusively or are integrated into general unions (Behringer 1985, Bain and Pollins 1965, Bain 1972; Jenkins and Sherman 1979). In most cases union membership among white-...