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The future of cooperatives and trade unions: the relevance for the question of democratization of society
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Cooperatives and trade unions are the oldest organizations of democratic participation, founded nearly 200 years ago as discussed by the authors and are the main challenges for the world and especially for the trade unions.Abstract:
Co-operatives and trade unions are the oldest organizations of democratic participation, founded nearly 200 years ago. For sure the main challenges for the world and especially for the trade unions...read more
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Varieties of Unionism. Strategies for Union Revitalization in a Globalizing Economy
TL;DR: In this article, Carola Frege and John Kelly present a comparative cross-country study of union revitalization in five countries: Germany, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, and the United States.
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Trade unions in China: : The challenge of labour unrest.
TL;DR: A review of the book "Trade Unions in China: The Challenge of Labour Unrest" by Tim Pringle is presented in this paper, where the authors discuss the challenges of labour unrest in China.
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The Abolition of Forced Labour Convention
TL;DR: The Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery as mentioned in this paper provides for the complete abolition of debt bondage and serfdom.
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Trade union responses to globalization. A review by the Global Union Research Network
TL;DR: Regini et al. as discussed by the authors discuss the resurgence of labour quiescence, in M. Shalev, M. Regini, and P. T. Hartman (1992) The future of labour movements.
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The End of History and the Last Man
TL;DR: Fukuyama as mentioned in this paper identifies two powerful forces guiding our actions: the logic of desire (the rational economic process); and the desire for recognition, which he describes as the very motor of history.
Varieties of capitalism : the institutional foundations ofcomparative advantage
Peter A. Hall,David Soskice +1 more
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About Capital in the Twenty-First Century
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present three key facts about income and wealth inequality in the long run emerging from my book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, and seek to sharpen and refocus the discussion about those trends.
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
TL;DR: Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century as mentioned in this paper is an intellectual tour de force, a triumph of economic history over the theoretical, mathematical modeling that has come to dominate the economics profession in recent years.
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Economy and society : an outline of interpretive sociology
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the economy and the Arena of Normative and De Facto Powers in the context of social norms and economic action in the social sciences, and propose several categories of economic action.