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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “""Free" Trade Unions"”.
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Public sector trade union response to change in South Africa: a case study of the South African municipal workers union (SAMWU) in the Western Cape (1992-97)
… the relationship between the public sector trade unions and the government in South Africa from 1992-7. The research is located in debates concerning the ANC government's endorsement of the 'free-market 1 economy in the post apartheid period. The Marxist method of historical materialism is …
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Free or co-ordinated markets? education and training policy options for a future South Africa
… Congress (ANC) and Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu). The analysis establishes a continuum of ET systems, with the policy proposals of the South African state representing a <low-skill equilibrium' system and the Framework for Lifelong Learning document of the ANC/ Cosatu …
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Dalla Francia all'Italia: impegno politico, inchiesta e transfers culturali alle origini della sociologia del lavoro in Italia
… influence of the productivity drive, the role of trade unions and the activity of early young researchers. European Productivity Agency's Italian office Comitato Nazionale per la Produttività propagandised studies on management and on the effects of the industrialization on work and society. …
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The Conservative Party and Thatcherism, 1970-1979: A grass-roots perspective
… inflation, pay controls, taxation, organised trade unions, and even comprehensive education, resulted in a strong emphasis on individual freedom. The free market, property, and choice, with their strong norm of methodological individualism, were the Thatcherite alternative. This strengthened …
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A ‘FROG HYPNOTIZED BY A SNAKE’? WESTERN EUROPE AND THE POLISH MOVEMENT SOLIDARNOŚĆ, 1980–1989
… Solidarność’s encounters with Western European trade unions, national governments, and EC institutions revealed a profound tension within Europe itself: the contrast between its proclaimed attachment to democratic values and the pragmatism imposed by Cold War diplomacy. Nowhere is this tension …
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THE CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY AND THE CANADIAN LABOUR CONGRESS: A DEVELOPING PARTNERSHIP
… Labour Congress (CLC), which is Canada's largest trade union central or federation, and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), which is the government agency that administers the Canadian foreign aid programme. It traces the history of that relationship from 1969 to 1983 and …
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The State and medical care in Britain: political processes and the structuring of the National Health Service
… advocates representing the Labour party and trade unions, and recently released documents of the Ministry of Health and the Coalition and Labour Cabinets, the interaction of the interests with the two governments and with each other is traced, and the reconciliation by the state of the health …
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Essays in dynamic political economy
… the evolution of organizations that allow free entry and exit of members, such as cities, trade unions, religious organizations and cooperatives. The organization chooses a policy, which influences the set of agents who want to become members, but current members decide policy in the next …
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Wage Policy in a Global World
… A specific focus lies thereby on the role of trade unions as one major labor market institution. A brief introductory chapter motivates the general topic before an extended literature review highlights main findings from previous studies. The first essay sets up a multi-sector general …
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Marshall Plan Films and Americanization
… Plan Films discussed productivity, multilateral trade, and labor unions. For Marshall Planners these issues were the key to both revitalizing the European economy, and creating a self sustaining Europe. In film, Europeans could see not only the modernizing techniques, building projects, and …
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Exploring the status of African Women in the South African Labour Market 1995-2004
… of women in v decision making bodies such as trade unions. This invited a consideration of the gender differences in union membership. Finally, the research seeks to establish the nature and extent of the gender differences in trade union membership. It hypothesises that the gaps are either …