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Category : Environmental policy
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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CEPNEWS
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Environmental policy
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Green Globe Yearbook of International Co-operation on Environment and Development
Author: Helge Ole BergesenPublisher:
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Category : Energy development
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Union Mergers in Hard Times
Author: Gary N. ChaisonPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501722514
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The past fifteen years have been difficult for the labor movements in industrial countries. Gary N. Chaison addresses questions implicit in the decline of unions in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand: How and why do labor unions merge under pressure? What role do mergers play in the unions' strategies to deal with membership losses, management opposition, and hostile governments? Are there distinctive national profiles of union mergers? Chaison begins by describing the dynamics of the union merger process as large unions combine with each other in amalgamations, as small unions are absorbed into larger ones, and as local unions affiliate into nationals. He discusses the reasons for mergers, the barriers to consolidation, and the problems of integration which may result. The five chapters that follow are arranged in order of increasing intensity in merger activity, ranging from the United States, where interest in mergers is growing, to New Zealand, where changing legislation has catalyzed an enormous wave of mergers. For each of the five countries considered, Chaison characterizes the industrial relations climate and merger record since 1980, explains landmark mergers, identifies the antecedents, and assesses the chances that a sudden flood of mergers will occur. The final chapter compares the national profiles, extrapolating the significant differences and common threads. Chaison concludes that while mergers can play a critical role in revitalizing labor movements and building the dominant unions of the future, they are not necessarily solving the fundamental economic and political problems that plague unions.
CEP News
Author: Freedom's Teacher
Author: Katherine Mellen CharronPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807898465
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
In the mid-1950s, Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987), a former public school teacher, developed a citizenship training program that enabled thousands of African Americans to register to vote and then to link the power of the ballot to concrete strategies for individual and communal empowerment. In this vibrantly written biography, Katherine Charron demonstrates Clark's crucial role--and the role of many black women teachers--in making education a cornerstone of the twentieth-century freedom struggle. Using Clark's life as a lens, Charron sheds valuable new light on southern black women's activism in national, state, and judicial politics, from the Progressive Era to the civil rights movement and beyond.
Daily Report
Author: United States. Foreign Broadcast Information ServicePublisher:
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Category : Daily report
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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CEP Report
Author: Council on Economic PrioritiesPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Newsworkers Unite
Author: Catherine McKercherPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Over the last forty years, new technology and rapid concentration of ownership have caused fundamental changes in North American newspapers. Newsworkers' unions have struggled to protect their members and to reinvent themselves to keep up with the relentless pace of change in the workplace, and recent strikes such as that of Seattle newspaper workers highlight the ongoing challenges. This engaging and accessible book focuses on how the Newspaper Guild--the main union for reporters and editors--adopted a strategy of labor convergence, joining with other media workers in the large and diverse Communications Workers of America union. McKercher also looks at the nationalism of Canadian newsworkers who instead joined an all-Canadian union similar to CWA and explores a case study on an extreme form of labor convergence in Vancouver. She concludes that while labor convergence is a work in progress, it is a promising development for newsworkers and their unions, helping them adjust to change and perhaps expand into new areas of the communication sector.
Soviet Military Conversion
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed ServicesPublisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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