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Showing 1 to 20 of 97 for “"Labor unions"”.
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The non-pecuniary contributions of labor unions to their members
<p>Do unions make non-pecuniary contributions to their members? Are these contributions regarded by the members to be of sufficient importance to justify, at times, the unions existence?</p><p>This paper will consider the non-pecuniary contributions of labor unions to their members in an effort to …
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Labor Unions, Corruption, and Electric Vehicles: Three Essays on Applied Microeconomics
… the welfare consequences of the regulation of labor markets. In the past five decades, there has been a trend of production base moving to the south instead of clustering in the union-heavy Midwest. Many foreign automakers operated their assembly plants in the southern right to work (RTW) …
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Shattered power, reconstructed coalitions : an analysis of rural labor unions in Mananhão, Brazil
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1997.
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The organizational consequences of democracy : labor unions and economic reforms in contemporary Italy
… and organizational transformation of the Italian labor movement. The wave of strikes that swept all West-European countries between the late 1960s and the early 1970s lasted longer in Italy than anywhere else in the world and its effects were much more incisive. 1 The Italian unions emerged from …
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The Relationship Between Labor Unions and Safety in US Airlines: Is There a "Union Effect?"
Every airline union claims to work for safety and presents anecdotes where greater airline safety has been achieved through union efforts. The effect unionization has on safety outcomes in U.S. commercial airlines, however, wasn’t found to be previously tested. Studies have shown that in industries …
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Guns or Roses: A Comparative Case Study on the Influence of the Military and the Labor Unions on Regime-Change
… with a politicized military and a fragmented labor movement are more likely to experience a return to authoritarianism. Reversely, authoritarian regimes with a politicized labor movement and a fragmented or apolitical military yields a higher likelihood of a pacted transition towards …
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The Experience With The Provisions of The Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act Regulating The Internal Affairs of Labor Unions
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Labor unions and shareholder activism: Union and firm characteristics in determining shareholder activism, resolution outcomes, and firm targets among labor union pension funds
This dissertation examines the role of labor unions, via their pension funds, as shareholder activists in corporate America. For decades unions have struggled to regain their strength as representatives of the American worker, and since the turn of the 21st century they have found a creative new …
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Women speaking in and for institutions: a rhetorical history of the politics of respectability in Black Chicago, 1919 - 1939
… explores how Black women used the discourse of labor unions and the Black Church to promote their enclaved communities in Black Chicago from 1919 to 1939. Black women often shouldered the work to help a community thrive and, while they may not be the public face of Black communities, their …
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The Relationship Between the Industrial Workers of the World and the Communist Party Shortly After World War I
Recognized as one of the most revolutionary labor unions in America during the early twentieth-century by the general public and the federal government, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) separated themselves from the rest of the labor unions because of their success in executing general …
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Learning and doing literate activity and labor activism in a graduate worker union
… engagement with literate activity mediates collaborative projects of social transformation and how participation in such projects consequentially transforms their trajectories of semiotic becoming in union activism. Challenging narrow, segmented accounts of people’s lives, activities, and …
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Adaptiveness of political interest organizations to social change in the United States since 1960: a theoretical examination
… of the adaptiveness of business associations, labor unions, and environmental organizations to social change since 1960. These three types of interest organizations are selected because they are particularly likely to have become targets of increased popular demands for environmental …
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Contestation and collectivies: protecting labor organizing rights in the global economy.
… of treaties protecting international labor organizing rights, states do not necessary comply with these rights under the current period of economic globalization. This is because the foundational conditions of these norms--specific to the political, ethical and economic concerns of the …
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The new role of labor unions as developers of responsive dependent care benefit programs : extending dependent care benefits to the independent contractor, freelancer and self-employed worker : a study of professional freelance musicians from Boston Musicians' Association Local 9-535
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1990.
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"Down with the landlords" : tenant activism in New York City, 1917-1920
… worked collectively, employed the techniques of labor unions, and lobbied their state legislature, governor, and even the president for relief. This thesis examines in more detail the tenant activism of this period, through informal groups of tenants, city-wide associations, action in court and …
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Destroying old myths while building development : lessons from the Sisal Region
… the Brazilian Government implemented the Child Labor Eradication Program - PETI, a conditional cash transfer program aimed at reducing child labor by paying a stipend to families who send their working children to an extended day program. After 12 years, PETI has had its most successful …
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