Development of the wages and work conditions in forest work in Finland prior to the age of agreements on the terms of working by Makkonen, Olli

“…In Finland the first trade union in the field of forest work and timber floating was founded in 1946 and the first formal collective agreement was achieved in 1962. …”
Get full text

Tadeusz Kowalik: Radical Political Economist, Solidarity Advisor and Critic of Globalised Capitalism by Jan Toporowski

“…In the English-speaking world Kowalik is best known as the last surviving collaborator of Michał Kalecki, an advisor to the Polish trade union Solidarity during the 1980s, and subsequently as a fierce critic of the brand of capitalism that established itself in his country.…”
Get full text

A changing world: new opportunities, new dangers (editorial) by Durrani, Shiraz

“…This is an editorial to a special issue of 'Information society and justice journal' which is titled Trade union and working class struggles.…”
Get full text

KOMUNIKASI ORGANISASI SERIKAT PEKERJA: Studi Kasus Komunikasi Organisasi FSP LEM-SPSI Terkait Isu HOSTUM di Jakarta by , RATRI KARTIKA SARI, , muhammad sulhan, S.IP., M.Si., PhD Cand

“…When the welfare of the workers is disturbed, the organization of trade union is able to urge thousands of workers to conduct demonstration. …”

Why far right parties do well at times of crisis: the role of labour market institutions by Vlandas, T, Halikiopoulou, D

Gender Earnings Differential In The Malaysian Manufacturing Sector by Cheong, Jia Qi

“…Further decomposition was done by education levels, ethnicity, marital status, occupation groups, manufacturing subsectors, firm size, firm ownership and trade union membership. The data used was drawn from the Second Productivity and Investment Climate Survey (PICS II), 2006, conducted collaboratively by the World Bank, the Malaysian Department of Statistics, and the Economic Planning Unit.…”
Get full text

More than Formal Recognition? by Silvia Rainone

“…However, this blogpost argues that even if certain collective labour rights are formally recognised, the proposed directive does not offer adequate basis for their effective exercise. Trade union organising, collective bargaining and workplace democracy do not find sufficient support in the directive, thus limiting their development within the platform economy.…”
Get full text

WHAT IS TO BE DONE? : BURNING QUESTIONS OF OUR MOVEMENT / by Lenin, V. I, (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov) 1870-1924, author 512910, Rajimwale, Anil, editor 654502

“…It deals with the tasks of the RSDLP in conditions of spontaneity of the masses, difference between trade union and party politics, polemics with the 'Economists', tasks of the revolutionaries on ideological and organizational fronts, organization as a weapon for the working class, and other: questions. …”

Precarious Associational Power by Felix Syrovatka

“…It argues that, as a result of changing economic conditions and the decline of trade union countervailing power, the institutional power resources of employers’ associations have been relativised, which in turn has led to a reassessment of employers’ associations by capital. …”
Get full text

Empresarios, conflictividad obrera y negociación colectiva durante el primer peronismo en la ciudad de Rosario by Silvia Simonassi

“…This article argues that the growing trend towards centralized collective bargaining produced during the first Peronism, organized by the state and supported by the trade union movement was resisted by the businessmen of Rosario. …”
Get full text

Social Democratic Reflections on Women’s Activism in the Labor Movement in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the First World War by Sonja M. Dujmović

“…This article seeks to provide an insight into the perception of female activism, the symbolic role of women and their future in the labor movement during the First World War, i.e. to show the imagined space that party and trade union bodies intended for women. The newspaper of the Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina (SDP BiH), Glas slobode (Voice of Freedom), will be used to analyze the category of gender and its representation in one of the sections of the international social democratic movement.…”
Get full text

En búsqueda de un sindicalismo “moderno”: reformismo sindical y formación política en los años sesenta en Argentina by Gabriela Scodeller

“…Interested in analyzing in a transnational perspective those systematized experiences of trade union training developed in Argentina during the long sixties; departing from an experience developed within the CGT, this article seeks to scrutinize the interests from which a fraction of the Argentine unionism arose these training processes during this convulsed period and, at the same time, to elucidate its initiative in building international relations in the matter – not exempt from certain dynamics of resignification and reappropriation with a local view of the educational guidelines promoted by labor international organizations.…”
Get full text

Call centre workers unite! changing forms of organisation and representation in the Portuguese and British Digital Economy by Isabel Roque

“…This article draws on 30 semi-structured interviews conducted between 2014 and 2017 with former and present Portuguese and British call centre workers, trade union delegates, activists and academics, aiming at analysing the engagement between trade unions and social mobilisation, that is, how workers engage in new forms of organisation in Portuguese and British call centres.…”
Get full text

Reviving Working Class Politics: Canadian Labour and the Struggle for Public Services by Carlo Fanelli

“…This article explores the theoretical contributions of Marx and Engels regarding the progressive potential and political limitations of trade union organizing as an end in itself. Section two overviews the demographic shifts that has taken place since the 1980s, drawing attention to an increasingly feminized and public sector-centred Canadian labour movement. …”
Get full text

Le collectif Front paysan : films de luttes et travail syndical dans les années 1970 by Édouard Lynch

“…The 1970s were marked in France by an original mobilization of a fraction of agricultural unionism, which, breaking with the unanimous strategy of the majority trade union, the FNSEA, engages in a series of struggles to denounce the devastating effects of the industrialization of agriculture. …”
Get full text

Will Chinese ICT workers unite? new signs of change in the aftermath of the global economic crisis by Yu Hong

“…It argues that both new incentives and new impediments to labour activism have arisen in the midst of broader changes in the labour market, the official trade union, and regional production networks. The recent trend of spatial and technical restructuring of China's ICT sector, as induced simultaneously by capital's self-initiated transformation of the modes of accumulation and by the governmental need to sustain China's economic growth, is likely to generate a sizeable reshuffling of labour markets and to reconstitute working-class experiences across regional, industrial, and educational segmentations.…”
Get full text

Labour standards, export performance and labour mobility in Asean by Ng, Kar Yee

“…This study uses numbers of strikes and lockouts, average weekly working hours, trade union density rates and casesFirstly, this study applies Cheng and Wall (2005) 2-step fixed effect model to examine the effect of labour standards on exports. …”
Get full text

Women Workforce in the Korean Context by Yeonu Lee

“…Lastly, this article brings different actors of HR managers, trade union representatives and employees together to fully understand the gender relations at workplaces. …”
Get full text

MUTAÇÕES NA COMUNICAÇÃO: velhos atores, novas técnicas e as perspectivas de democratização no Brasil by Ed Wilson Ferreira Araújo

“…The dialogue between these aspects allows us to place communication in the focus of reproduction, but points to democratization, taking as a time frame the practices of trade union and alternative communication in the Military District and its re-significances in the transition between analog and digital media.…”
Get full text

Azares, riscos e culpas: representações sobre os acidentes de trabalho da construção civil na imprensa portuguesa (1996-2017) by Bruno Monteiro, Carla Aurélia de Almeida

“…On the basis of a corpus of 1218 news items collected in a trade union archive, we carried out, between 1996 and 2017, a sociological critique in combination with a semantic and pragmatic analysis of the speeches produced.…”
Get full text