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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Rank-and-File"”.
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Solidarity Forever: The Story of the Flint Sit-Down Strike and the Communist Party from the Perspective of the Rank and File Autoworkers
… with how the workers responded the Communism and other political ideologies of the day. The final chapter then examines the many anti-Communist forces that surrounded the autoworkers before, during, and after the Sit-Down Strike, which may account for the strikers' reluctance to admit their …
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ʻIdle, Drunk and Good-for-Nothingʼ: The Rank-and-File Perpetrators of 1932-1933 Famine in Ukraine and Their Representation in Cultural Memory
… famine in Ukraine, known as the Holodomor, and their representation in cultural memory. It shows that the men and women who facilitated the famine on the ground were predominantly ordinary people largely incongruous with the dominant image of the perpetrator in Ukrainian cultural memory. I …
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Teacher unionism and empowerment in rural Illinois school districts
… influence union presidents', superintendents', and rank-and-file teachers' observed perceptions about teacher empowerment, as well as empowered-teaching-conditions contractual outcomes.
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Factional strife and policy making in the Bolshevik Party 1912-April 1917: with special reference to the Baltic fleet organisations 1903-17
… both the leaders of the Second International and his own middle echelon leaders inside Russia that Bolshevism was distinct from Menshevism. This proved difficult before August 1914. The War made the distinction clearer, but also gave rise to an international tendency, with support inside the …
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Battle of the Corner: Urban Policing and Rioting in the United States, 1943-1971
Battle of the Corner: Urban Policing and Rioting in the United States, 1943-1971 provides a national history of police reform and police-citizen conflicts in marginalized urban neighborhoods in the three decades after World War II. Examining more than a dozen cities, the dissertation shows how …
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Tommy Atkins, War Office Reform and the Social and Cultural Presence of the Late-Victorian Army in Britain, c.1868-1899
… to rehabilitate the public image of the ordinary ranks initiated by the Cardwell-Childers Reforms. Venerated in popular culture, Tommy Atkins became a symbol of British imperial strength and heroism. Socially, however, attitudes to the rank-and-file were defined by a pragmatic realism purged of …
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'Generous and lofty sympathies': the Kensington Society, the 1866 women's suffrage petition and the development of mid-victorian feminism
… a pivotal position in the women's movement, it and its organisation have received scant attention. This thesis examines the origins of this petition, which was organised by members of the Kensington Society (1865-1868). It investigates the members of this society, and those 1,499 women who …
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The Development of IAM District Lodge 776 in Fort Worth, Texas, 1942-1946: A Case Study in the Growth of Organized Labor During World War II
… Second, it argues that the existence, survival, and strength of the union depended greatly on outside forcesan expanding national economy, a powerful national union, and a generally labor-friendly government. Third, it shows that union officers and rank-and-file members used their bases of …
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An Exploratory Analysis of the Psychological Dimensions of Airline Security and Correlates of Perceived Terrorism Threats: A Study of Active American Airlines Pilots.
… States. Missing, however, were the inputs from rank and file pilots of the airlines that policy makers were attempting to protect. This exploratory study distributed a 50-question survey designed to measure pilot perceptions of security risk and threats. Univariate descriptives were used to …
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Upon a dangerous design: the public life of Edward Sexby, 1647-1657
Edward Sexby was a figure active during England's Civil War and Interregnum (1642-1660). He is best remembered today for some populist assertions and heated exchanges with Oliver Cromwell during those discussions in parliament's New Model Army on the constitution and future of England known as the …
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The internet and the politics and processes of trade unionism
… implications of the internet for the politics and processes of trade unionism. Michels' classic formulation on the "iron law of oligarchy" and its grounding in a communications based theory of leadership domination is presented as a heuristic devise for uncovering the significance of …
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STRATEGIC INTEGRATION, CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION, AND COMPREHENSIVE CONTRACT CAMPAIGN EFFECTIVENESS: A CASE STUDY OF THE CULINARY WORKERS UNION, HERE LOCAL 226'S 2002 COMPREHENSIVE CONTRACT CAMPAIGN
… as well as its organizational structure and culture. This case study also examines how the political, social, and economic context of Las Vegas?s casino industry influenced the Culinary Union?s comprehensive contract campaign. It describes the interactive relationship between these …
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The Southern Baptist Convention and civil rights, 1954-1995
… within the Southern Baptist Convention. Yet rank-and-file Southern Baptists went along with efforts to abolish segregation only when those efforts did not conflict with evangelical interpretations of Scripture. Between World War II and the Supreme Court's school desegregation decision, …
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Fostering virtue among autorickshaw drivers in Sri Lanka: a case study of an urban sharing institution
… MacIntyrean Virtue Ethics, Institutional Theory and Algorithmic Management, explores the MacIntyrean Virtues-Goods-Practice-Institution Framework and Institutional Work strategies in a non-western context among autorickshaw drivers transiting to roles in a prominent ride-sharing app company in …
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Loyalism in Massachusetts: The Characteristics and Motivations of the Harvard Loyalists
… of its winners. They have tried to understand the causes and consequences of the war in terms of the attitudes, perceptions and actions of the revolutionaries. Although this approach had been very fruitful, the focus on the reasons for a revolution has obscured the possibility that any …
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Workers against Institutions: Power Relations and Political economy in the Irish Mushroom Industry
… of the obstacles on the way towards a militant and democratic, grassroots trade unionism. Therefore, it is an ethnography of trade union organising. At a general level this study deals with the relationship between labour and capital in the Irish mushroom industry in the context of global …
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Methodist families c. 1850-1932
… from a sample of 77 subjects (both individuals and families), mainly drawn from Wesleyan and Primitive Methodism. These subjects are sub-divided into "ministerial, "officer" and "rank-and-file" categories. Personal accounts in the form of published and unpublished auto/biographies, transcripts …
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Disentangling Discrimination: The Impact of Political and Societal Discrimination on Democratic (Dis)Engagement
… impact the political behaviors of racial and ethnic minority groups in democratic societies? Are all types of discrimination the same? The direct relationship between discrimination and behavior is surprisingly understudied. The few studies that have focused on this topic suggest that …
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