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National Development Banks in South America : Governance, Financial Performance and Development Impact
Zimmermann Robiatti, Raphael - 2021 - 1st ed. 2021.
This book features an in-depth comparative study of South American National Development Bank’s governance systems. It explores the relationship between bank governance and performance frameworks, both in terms of financial-economic indicators and development impact. It seeks to observe,...
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The (Re)Making of the Chinese Working Class : Labor Activism and Passivity in China
Leung, Elly - 2021 - 1st ed. 2021.
system. Through the investigation of the key events in Chinese history, she presents how China’s stable political party is …
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Unfree Workers : Insubordination and Resistance in Convict Australia, 1788-1860
Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish; Quinlan, Michael - 2022
classic in Australian and imperial history.' ---Clare Anderson, University of Leicester 'In Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and Michael … Quinlan we have two gifted historians, writing at the peak of their powers, about one of world history's most fascinating ….' ---Marcus Rediker, author of The Slave Ship: A Human History 'The book makes a major contribution to understanding the world …
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Informal Workers and Organized Action : Narratives From the Global South
Choudhary, Neetu - 2022 - 1st ed. 2022.
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Informal workers organizing: Trends from Asia, Africa and Latin America -- Chapter 3. Organizing informality: the story from Nepal -- Chapter 4. Helping ourselves: organizing in Bangladesh -- Chapter 5. Organizing among informal workers of Uganda -- Chapter...
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Trade unions on YouTube : online revitalization in Sweden
Jansson, Jenny; Uba, Katrin - 2019
“Trade Unions on YouTube provides a much-needed assessment of how old social movement actors employ new social media platforms to promote themselves and their activities today. A must-read for trade unions scholars and activists alike, this book illustrates how, in the age of digital media,...
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Employee Representation in Multinational Companies : The Articulation of Interests in Multilevel Action Fields
Haipeter, Thomas; Hertwig, Markus; Rosenbohm, Sophie - 2019
Investigating the issue of employee representation in multinational companies (MNCs), this book sets out to systematically conceptualise the modes of articulation between different action fields. While previous studies have focused on forms of employee representation that have emerged throughout...
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Trade Union Cooperation in Europe : Patterns, Conditions, Issues
Furåker, Bengt; Larsson, Bengt - 2020 - 1st ed. 2020.
1. Why and How to Study Trade Union Cooperation in Europe? -- 2. Patterns of transnational trade union cooperation in Europe -- 3. The European Trade Union Movement and the Issue of Statutory Minimum Wages -- 4. Revision of the EU Posting of Workers Directive, Social Dumping and Trade Unions’...
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Sidney and Beatrice Webb : An Academic Biography
Reisman, David A. - 2022
1. Introduction -- 2. The Webbs -- 3. The Economics of Deprivation -- 4. Unemployment -- 5. Cooperation -- 6. The Labour Factor -- 7. Decline and Fall -- 8. Communism -- 9. Rights and Duties -- 10. The Legacy of the Webbs.
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Multi-Polar Capitalism : The End of the Dollar Standard
Guttmann, Robert - 2022 - 1st ed. 2022.
History of the Dollar Standard -- Chapter 4. The New Deflation – From Great Recession to Global Pandemic -- Chapter 5. The …History teaches us important lessons, provided we can discern its patterns. Multi-Polar Capitalism applies this insight … shape this next chapter of our history. Multi-Polar Capitalism adds to a century of research and debate on long waves, those …
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Strong Money Demand in Financing War and Peace : The Cases of Wartime and Contemporary Japan
Saito, Makoto - 2021 - 1st ed. 2021.
Long-Run Observations (the 1890s to the 2010s) and an Alternative Theory of the Price Level -- Demand for BOJ Notes from Black Markets under Price Controls (1937 to 1949) -- On Wartime Money Finance in the Japanese Occupied Territories (1942 to 1945).
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