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From:Resources for Feminist Research (Vol. 34, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedIn Canada in the 1990s the labour movement expressed deep concern about widespread union density decline and aging memberships in trade unions (Gomez, Gunderson and Meltz, 2002; Jackson, 2005; Lowe and Rastin, 2000;...
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From:Labour/Le Travail (Issue 64) Peer-ReviewedCAPITALISM HAS DISCREDITED itself and by any measure should be on the defensive today. Its proponents made many promises that now seem very hollow if not totally false. They claimed that if the private sector took over...
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From:Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand (Vol. 22, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedUNION ACTIVISM is social activism was the theme of Stand Up's biennial conference, held in September at Te Mahurehure Marae in Auckland. Stand Up is the Council of Trade Unions' youth movement and brings together...
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From:Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand (Vol. 26, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCAROL GILMOUR, who has worked for NZNO since 1994, left the organisation last month. Associate industrial services manager Glenda Alexander announced Gilmour's departure "with considerable sadness". Gilmour had...
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From:Socialist Lawyer (Issue 67)The Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers is shocked and deeply saddened by the death of Bob Crow, who was the General Secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) from 2002 to 2014....
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From:Government Computer News (Vol. 23, Issue 27)The Labor Department has rolled out new e-government initiatives to bring services and information to the public quickly and easily as well as handle internal business efficiently. Patrick Pizzella, Labor's CIO and...
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From:Canadian Woman Studies (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMuriel Duckwort, (94) et Betty Peterson (85) reflehissent sur ce que'lles ont appris au cours de leur longue vie comme resistantes de guerre, et activistes pour lapaix au Canada et aux USA. A la lumiere de leurs combats...
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From:ABA Journal (Vol. 103, Issue 4)IN 1963, PHILIP HIRSCHKOP WAS walking toward the Georgetown University Law Center when he ran into his constitutional law professor. The chance encounter led to a meeting with the attorneys who'd met with President John...
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From:Information & Culture (Vol. 52, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis article argues that labor activists initiated Silicon Valley's antitoxics movement and were the driving force behind environmental remediation in the region in the first half of the 1980s. In order to unionize...
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From:Manitoba History (Issue 85) Peer-ReviewedIn the winter of 1926, Ku Klux Klan organizers entered the Province of Saskatchewan. Lewis A. Scott and Hugh Findlay "Pat" Emmons were experienced Klan organizers from Indiana. They aroused old prejudices and revived...
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From:Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand (Vol. 18, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedOne of NZNO's longest-serving organisers, Jackie McGrath, who is based in Nelson, is retiring after 25 years service to first NZNU and subsequently NZNO. She will leave on August 31. She was leaving primarily for family...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 64, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBetween 23 and 27 March 1913, approximately ten inches of rain fell over the Miami Valley region in southwestern Ohio, resulting in a deluge of near-Biblical proportions. The floodwaters moved rapidly down the Great...
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From:Journal of International Women's Studies (Vol. 20, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedA major figure in Latin American struggles for women's rights and social justice, Magda Portal (1900-1989) co-founded the revolutionary nationalist APRA Party of Peru and was the principal women's leader of that party....
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 31, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis paper analyzes the political and cultural thought of Hugh MacDiarmid, a poet, and John Maclean, a radical labor leader, in the context of Scottish political and literary history between World War I and the...
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From:Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand (Vol. 11, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedHundreds of people from all walks of Life attended memorial services in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch late Last month and early this month, to honour the life of long-time trade unionist, social justice activist...
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From:European Social PolicyPeer-ReviewedDetermined to settle the issue of the working time directive, which has been dragging on through several EU presidencies, the Finnish EU Presidency stepped up its efforts behind the scenes in the run-up to the...
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From:Multinational Monitor (Vol. 26, Issue 9-10) Peer-ReviewedBASRA, IRAQ -- The cracking towers and gas flares of the al-Daura oil refinery rise above the neighborhood on Baghdad's outskirts that bears its name. On February 18, Ali Hassan Abd (Abu Fahad), a leader of the...
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From:Canadian Woman Studies (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedC'est l'histoire de deux femmes juives et d'une Palestinienne engagees a fond pour en finir avec l'occupation en faisant la promotion des droits des Palestiniens, en publicisant partout les entorses aux droits humains...
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From:American Jewish History (Vol. 99, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn 1980 Paula Hyman published an article in American Jewish History on an obscure three-week boycott of kosher butcher shops in New York City that would subsequently revolutionize American Jewish women's history,...
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From:Journal of Labor Research (Vol. 25, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe relationship between government behaviors and union collective action has been a neglected research area. Where unions are not heavily involved in policymaking, as long as governments respect the status quo and do...