The making of labour precariousness in post-1949 China by Feng, X

“…The magnitude of exploitation has been modulated primarily by labour regulation, and by labour movements as well.</p> <p>On top of these findings, this thesis also extends the extant literature by unveiling the continuities and discontinuities of labour precariousness practices and mechanisms in post-1949 China, and by contributing to two debates in this field. …”

Building Women Homebased Workers' Organizations in Turkey by Gülsüm Coşkun

“…A slightly different version of this article was presented in the session titled as 'Organizing Women Homebased Workers in the Era of Globalization' by RC 44, Labour Movements, in the First ISA Forum of Sociology, 5-8 September 2008, Barcelona, Spain. …”
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Un estudio preliminar acerca de la relación entre el Partido Comunista de la Argentina y el Partido Comunista de la Unión Soviética en tiempos de la Tercera Internacional: algunas... by Víctor Augusto Piemonte

“…The Communist Party of Argentina (CPA) was strongly constituted among its Southamerican counterparts and within the Argentine political frame in the period between wars mainly because of its early link to the Russian Revolution and to the intense activity it developed within the labourers' movement. The objective of this work is to stress the critical importance that the analysis of the relations between the CPA’s management and the Soviet Union Communist Party’s management through the Third International represents for the study of the Argentine communism. …”
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Science Spaces as ‘Ethnoscapes’: Identity, Perception and the Production of Locality by Dave Valler, Nicholas Phelps, Julie Tian Miao, Paul Benneworth, Franziska Eckardt

“…Science and technology spaces around the world are, simultaneously, major physical, technological and symbolic forms, key elements of economic strategy, and sites of international labour movements and knowledge transfer. They are thus the product of multiple imaginations, with multiple, potentially divergent, objectives. …”
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Land-constrained growth in a developing economy: A Kaldorian perspective by Isha Gupta

“…Using the two-sector Kaldorian framework, we analyse the complementary interactions between agriculture and industry through trade flows, labour movements, and land transfers in this setup. We characterize the balanced growth path for such an economy in the long run using two scenarios: a) equilibrium growth with fixed distribution of land by the centralized authority in each sector and b) equilibrium growth with inter-sectoral land transfers accompanied by land-saving innovations in each sector. …”
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A Policy-related Homelessness Discourses in Canada: Implications for Nursing Research, Practice, and Advocacy by Arnel Boras, Morris Komakech, Dennis Raphael

“…As nurses and health justice advocates, we stand in solidarity with labour movements to protect public health. This study can be adopted in local, national, and global settings. …”
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Labour migrant in Southeast Asia as non-traditional threat and efforts taken by ASEAN: an analysis / Nik Syamim Aisyah Nik Hashim by Nik Hashim, Nik Syamim Aisyah

“…The phenomena characterize these labour movements legal and illegally within Southeast Asia countries. …”
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Global forces and national Institutions: call centre work in Colombia by Anita Weiss

“…It concludes that several features that are specific to the Colombian context appear to play a major role in shaping working conditions in Colombian call centres, including the particular characteristics of the labour market, the low regulatory power of the State, low compliance with labour laws, the persistence of the armed conflict that weakens all social and labour movements and the existence of a ‘culture of distrust’. …”
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Local Dynamics as a Resource for Labour Protests: The Case of Wildcat Strikes in the Metal Industry in Turkey, 2012-2016 by Isil Erdinc

“…Through an analysis of the wildcat strikes, the article contributes to the literature on labour movements and strikes in authoritarian contexts. …”
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Trade Union Resurgence in Ethiopia by Samuel Andreas Admasie

“…KEYWORDS: trade unions; labour movements; Confederation of Ethiopian Trade Unions …”
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Trade unions and worker movements in the North American communications industries by Vincent Mosco

“…This paper reports on a project that examines trends in North American labour movements, and specifically in the workforce, in the converging communications, culture, and information technology sectors. …”
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Defending Informal Workers’ Welfare Rights: Trade Union Struggles in Tamil Nadu by K. Kalpana

“…Placing this case study in the larger context of labour movements across the world that have won contingent victories in protecting workers’ interests and well-being, the article raises troubling questions regarding the implications of these victories in neo-liberal state regimes. …”
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Migrant workers and labour agency: social actors or submissive players? by Pereira, S

“…Involvement in classical collective labour movements is low but other daily strategies are employed to navigate the labour market mostly involving individual agency. …”

Cultivating Equitable Ground: Community-based Participatory Research To Connect Food Movements with Migrant Farmworkers by Anelyse M. Weiler, Charles Z. Levoke, Carolyn Young

“…As food networks are seeking to build meaningful alliances with migrant justice and labour movements, this study provides a timely contribution to literature and practice at the intersection of community-based participatory research, sustainable food networks, labour, and immigration.…”
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American modernism and the poetics of labour by Grogan, K

“…Spanning the years 1903–1974, my research shows how modernist writers engaged with discussions around labour movements, labouring technologies, radical politics, and the relationship between work, race, and gender, and how this shaped how they conceived of their own writing as constituting a new kind of work. …”

The power to transform structures: power complexes and the challenges for realising a wellbeing economy by Bärnthaler, R, Novy, A, Arzberger, L, Krisch, A, Volmary, H

“…This reveals strategic selectivities that favour multi- and transnational corporate actors over civil society, labour movements, and public bureaucracies. The article then examines firm-to-state lobbying as a strategy employed by corporate actors within today’s structural context to assert their interests. …”

The science of progress by Grimmer-Solem, E, Grimmer-Solem, Erik

“…Having directly observed the effects of rapid urbanisation, industrialisation, and the rise of labour movements and socialism in Prussia and abroad, they became dissatisfied with classical economic doctrines and <em>laissez-faire</em>, subjecting these to empirical tests and criticism. …”

Niterói, 1964 – Memórias da prisão esquecida: a Operação Limpeza e o cárcere político do Caio Martins by Paulo Knauss, Eric Maia

“…In this sense, the case study is the city of Niterói, the former capital of the old state of Rio de Janeiro and centre of political and labour movements. The research starts with the news in the local press and a collection of interviews, trying to show how the events happened in the city until the Caio Martins sport complex became a political prison. …”
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John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath: Narrating the Wrong by Joxerramon Bengoetxea

“…The role of the criminal justice system and social control is also modern, crimmigration, labour movements criminalisations and abuse of police force. …”
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