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The limits of anticolonialism: the British Labour movement and the end of the empire in Guiana by Mawby, Spencer

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International labour movement and welfare effects: Malaysia as case study by Hasan, Sharina Farihah, Matsushima, Kakuya, Kobayashi, Kiyoshi

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Employability and the rise of the no-wage economy: resistance to unpaid work in the United Kingdom by Weghmann, Vera

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The socialist blues? Citizenship, class and civil society by Stevenson, Nick

“…This article seeks to explore the relationship between the British labour movement, the Left and the Labour party. It does so through the intellectual prism of debates around citizenship and civil society. …”
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Class against class: the Communist Party of Great Britain in the third period, 1927-1932 by Worley, Matthew

“…The increasingly draconian measures of the Labour Party and trade union bureaucracy between 1924 and 1927 significantly restricted the scope of communist influence within the mainstream labour movement. As such, the CPGB - in accordance with the Communist International - attempted to establish an 'independent leadership' of the working class. …”
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Employment relations, the state and transitions in governance in Myanmar by Gillan, M., Thein, Htwe Htwe

“…Myanmar is undergoing a wide-ranging process of reform which in employment relations has allowed for the formation of a nascent labour movement as well as employer organisations and industrial tribunals. …”
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Transnational solidarity or conflict? Trade unions and neo-liberal restructuring in Europe. by Bieler, Andreas

“…Second, the paper will review concrete examples of trade union cooperation opposed to neo-liberal restructuring on the one hand, as well as outline several areas of tensions within the European labour movement, which undermine potential transnational solidarity on the other. …”
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Unity is Strength. A history of the Australian Labor Party and the Trades and Labor Council in Western Australia, 1899-1999 by Oliver, Bobbie

“…It was the genesis of an organised labour movement that, by 1907 was to span the vast State. …”
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Perbandingan Kesatuan Sekerja Dan Pendemokrasian Di Borneo Malaysia Dan Borneo Indonesia: Kajian Kes Di Sektor Minyak Dan Gas, Perkayuan Dan Kelapa Sawit by Syed Annuar, Sharifah Nursyahidah

“…However, studies on trade unions and labour movement tend to be predominantly concentrated in Peninsular Malaysia and Java. …”
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Creating a rainbow: ideas and coalition building on the American left, c. 1973-1988 by Riggs, Alex

“…Contrary to narratives of the American left as retreating in response to the rise of Reaganism and neoliberalism, this thesis instead shows that by making use of ideas like participation, redistribution, and equality, common agendas could be formed between constituencies of the ‘old’ left of the working class and labour movement and ‘new’ left constituencies of feminists, civil rights activists, and LGBT rights activists, amongst others. …”
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Raymond Williams and the politics of the Commons: the performative quality of the intellectual by Stevenson, Nick

“…In this respect, Raymond Williams is best understood in Gramscian (1988) terms as an organic intellectual connected to the labour movement and the working-class, seeking to criticise the dominating features of contemporary capitalism. …”
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Organising From the Road: Private Hire Drivers, Platforms, and Independent Unions by Kearsey, Joe

“…But this was not the result of strategic intervention from existent labour movement institutions. Instead, private hire drivers’ grasp of their racialised exploitation and their consequent tactics of collective resistance and opposition, developed through the process of collective self-organisation. …”
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Globalisation and labour market in China by Feicheng, Wang

“…These findings offer important implications to the current labour market reform in China and to other developing countries with inter-region labour movement barriers like India and Vietnam. Finally, Chapter 5 summarises main findings of the thesis and briefly discusses potential directions for future research.…”
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Transnational labour solidarity in (the) crisis by Bieler, Andreas

“…The global financial crisis as part of globalisation has put labour movements under pressure around the world. This poses yet again the question of transnational solidarity. …”
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Globalisation - Challenges for Health and Health System by Westaway, Jennifer

“…This paper argues that health is a progressively realised right, and that because the right to health lacks the protection of a global legal or regulatory structure, with competing and conflicting demands created by the effects of globalised industry, trade, and labour movements, health budgets will become increasingly marginalised. …”
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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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Militantly ‘studying up’?: (ab)using whiteness for oppositional research by Clare, Nick

“…Through a discussion of research into the relationship between migrants and social/labour movements in Buenos Aires, Argentina, it explores the way in which my positionality both helped and hindered the (militant) research process. …”
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