The Future Of Trades Unionism And Capitalism In A Democracy Classic Reprint

Author : Charles W Eliot
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 144 pages
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Release : 2017-11-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0331841509

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The Future of Trades-Unionism and Capitalism in a Democracy (Classic Reprint) by Charles W Eliot Pdf

Excerpt from The Future of Trades-Unionism and Capitalism in a Democracy In a given trade, or rather in a given manufacturing establishment. The rules of many unions prescribe the number of apprentices that shall be employed in any industrial or producing establishment in proportion to the number of journey men employed, and this limit of the number of apprentices is ordinarily far below the number which it would be for the interest of the proprietor to employ. The object of this limitation is to keep down the number of journeymen in the trade, so as to prevent the coming into the trade of a number of persons so great as to affect the rate of wages, or, in other words, to produce within the trade an undesirable competition for employment. With a similar intention, trades unions have in general resisted the introduction of trade schools into public-school sys. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Charles William Eliot
Publisher : New York ; London : G.P. Putnam's sons
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Capital
ISBN : UCAL:$B240039

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The Future of Trades-unionism and Capitalism in a Democracy by Charles William Eliot Pdf

Author : Harold J. Laski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000431094

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Trade Unions in the New Society by Harold J. Laski Pdf

First Published in 1950, Trade Unions in the New Society examines the changing significance of trade unionism and the place they occupy in the democratic world. Harold J. Laski contrasts their function in a capitalist or socialist society with what it became under Russian totalitarianism. This book explores the relation between trade unions and the public, trade unions and the law and trade unions and democracy to show the impact of developments such as mass production, social security and a planned economy on the position of the working man and considers the proper role of the government in disputes which may affect the basic public welfare. Most important of all, possibly, are Laski’s observations on the desirability of labour activity in organised politics. Trade Unions in the New Society will be of immense interest for scholars and researchers of politics, political economy, labour studies, and for all who are concerned with the future of democracy.

Author : Tom Clarke,Laurie Clements
Publisher : Hassocks : Harvester Press by agreement with Fontana
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCAL:B4393657

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Trade Unions Under Capitalism by Tom Clarke,Laurie Clements Pdf

Author : Joseph Ambrose Banks
Publisher : MacMillan of Canada
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCAL:B4393643

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Trade Unionism by Joseph Ambrose Banks Pdf

Monograph on aspects of trade unionism in the UK - covers collective bargaining, sociological aspects of the labour movement, workers participation, the role of shop stewards, etc., and includes comparisons with the labour relations systems of the USSR, Yugoslavia, the USA, ex-colonial Africa, etc. Annotated bibliography pp. 125 to 134.

Author : Marc Stears
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400835041

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Demanding Democracy by Marc Stears Pdf

What today's political thinkers can learn from the radical democratic movements of twentieth-century America This is a major work of history and political theory that traces radical democratic thought in America across the twentieth century, seeking to recover ideas that could reenergize democratic activism today. The question of how citizens should behave as they struggle to create a more democratic society has haunted the United States throughout its history. Should citizens restrict themselves to patient persuasion or take to the streets and seek to impose change? Marc Stears argues that anyone who continues to wrestle with these questions could learn from the radical democratic tradition that was forged in the twentieth century by political activists, including progressives, trade unionists, civil rights campaigners, and members of the student New Left. These activists and their movements insisted that American campaigners for democratic change should be free to strike out in whatever ways they thought necessary, so long as their actions enhanced the political virtues of citizens and contributed to the eventual triumph of the democratic cause. Reevaluating the moral and strategic arguments, and the triumphs and excesses, of this radical democratic tradition, Stears contends that it still offers a compelling account of citizen behavior—one that is fairer, more inclusive, and more truly democratic than those advanced by political theorists today.

Author : Michael Waller,Martin R. Myant
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Europa Oriental
ISBN : 0714645834

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Parties, Trade Unions, and Society in East-Central Europe by Michael Waller,Martin R. Myant Pdf

This collection of essays is divided into two parts, and originates in a conference hosted by the Political Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in March 1993.

Author : Paul Nolte
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110492798

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Transatlantic Democracy in the Twentieth Century by Paul Nolte Pdf

Transatlantic democracy in the 20th century - this concept goes beyond the idea of an American civilizing mission in Europe after two World Wars, and certainly beyond the notion of re-educating Germans, and making them fit for Western institutions after Nazism. As democracy is being contested anew in the beginning of the 21st century, a much more complicated landscape of democracy since 1900 emerges. Transfer was not a one-way-street, and patterns of conflict and transformation affected both American and European political societies. American democracy may not be reduced to a resilient defense of original traditions, while the narrative of German democracy is more than redemption from catastrophe. The essays in this volume contribute to a new history of transatlantic democracy that accounts for its manifold experiences and constant renegotiations, up to the current challenges of American and European populism.

Author : Andrea Bosco
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781527554450

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Democracy, Federalism, the European Revolution, and Global Governance by Andrea Bosco Pdf

The European Union is facing today the greatest crisis since its creation. Brexit could mean not only the reversal of its steady enlargement—from 6 to 28 member states—but also the beginning of an inexorable decline leading to its disintegration. However, few today seem to recollect that it was precisely the British who were the first to promulgate the political culture which inspired the European Union’s construction—democracy and federalism—and the first who tried to realise, in June 1940, a European federation on the basis of an Anglo-French union. This volume traces the fundamental stages of the European unification process, placing it in relation to the wider process of world economic and political integration. In particular, it analyses the historical significance of the European Revolution, which is identified in the overcoming of the nation state—namely the modern political formula which institutionalised the political division of mankind—and the birth of the first truly international state. The universal historical significance of the European Revolution lies in its exportability—as for the other great European revolutions—and, therefore, its potential as progressively extensible to all the states of the planet. Europe was indeed the first region of the world where the barriers between national states fell, and a post-national political identity emerged, complementary to national political identities. It is, in fact, in the context of the European Union that democracy beyond the borders of the nation state has first been realized, constituting a guiding principle for global governance.

Author : John McIlroy
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fagforeninger
ISBN : 0719039835

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Trade Unions in Britain Today by John McIlroy Pdf

This revised edition provides an introduction to British trade unionism and key debates about its role in politics in the 1990s. It explores the political background to union activities, the industrial relations scene, the arguments for and against controversial aspects of union practice and the state of the unions in the face of the sustained challenge of the Conservative years.

Author : Yanis Varoufakis
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781612199566

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Another Now by Yanis Varoufakis Pdf

What would a fair and equal society actually look like? The world-renowned economist and bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis presents his radical and subversive answer in a work of speculative fiction that recalls William Morris and William Gibson The year: 2035. At a funeral for Iris, a revolutionary leftist feminist, Yango is approached by Costa, Iris’s closest comrade, who urges him to carry out Iris’s last wish: plough into her secret diaries to tell their story. “But”, Costa insists “leave out anything that might help Big Tech replicate my technologies!” That night Yango delves into Iris’s diaries. In them he discovers a chronicle of how Costa’s revolutionary technologies had unveiled an actually existing, fully democratized, postcapitalist society. Suddenly he understands Costa’s obsession with the hackers trying to steal his secrets. So begins Yanis Varoufakis’s extraordinary novelistic thought-experiment, where the world-famous economist offers an invigorating and deeply moving vision of an alternative reality. Another Now tells the story of Costa, a brilliant but deeply disillusioned, computer engineer, who creates a revolutionary technology that will allow the user a “glimpse of a life beyond their dreams” but will not enslave them. But an accident during one of its trial runs unveils a cosmic wormhole where Costa meets his DNA double, who is living in a 2025 very different than the one Costa is living in. In this parallel 2025 a global hi-tech uprising, begun in the wake of the collapse of 2008, has birthed a post-capitalist world in which work, money, land, digital networks and politics have been truly democratized. Banks have been eliminated, as well as predatory, data-mining digital monopolies; the gig economy is no more; and the young are free to experiment with different careers and to study ”non-lucrative topics, from Sumerian pottery to astrophysics.” Intoxicated, Costa travels to England to tell Iris, his old comrade, and her neighbor, Eva, a recovering banker turned neoliberal economics professor, of the parallel universe he has discovered. Costa eventually leads them back to his workshop in America where Iris and Eva meet their own doubles, and confront hard truths about themselves and the daunting political challenge that "the Other Now" presents. But, as their obsession with the Other Now deepens, time begins to run out, as the wormhole begins to deteriorate and hackers begin to unleash new attacks on Costa’s technology. The trio have to make a choice: which 2025 do they want to live in? Varoufakis has been claiming for a while that we already live in postcapitalist times. That, since the 2008 crisis, capitalism has been morphing into technofeudalism. Another Now, a riveting work of speculative fiction, shows that there is a realistic, democratic alternative to the technofeudalpostcapitalist dystopia taking shape all around us. It also confronts us with the greatest question: how far are we willing to go to bring it about?

Author : Nick Srnicek,Alex Williams
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781784780975

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Inventing the Future by Nick Srnicek,Alex Williams Pdf

Neoliberalism isn't working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite. Inventing the Future is a bold new manifesto for life after capitalism. Against the confused understanding of our high-tech world by both the right and the left, this book claims that the emancipatory and future-oriented possibilities of our society can be reclaimed. Instead of running from a complex future, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams demand a postcapitalist economy capable of advancing standards, liberating humanity from work and developing technologies that expand our freedoms. This new edition includes a new chapter where they respond to their various critics.

Author : Peter Ackers,Adrian Wilkinson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199240663

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Understanding Work and Employment by Peter Ackers,Adrian Wilkinson Pdf

This collection analyses the contribution of industrial relations to social science understanding.

Author : Branko Milanovic
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674987593

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Capitalism, Alone by Branko Milanovic Pdf

For the first time in history, the globe is dominated by one economic system. Capitalism prevails because it delivers prosperity and meets desires for autonomy. But it also is unstable and morally defective. Surveying the varieties and futures of capitalism, Branko Milanovic offers creative solutions to improve a system that isn’t going anywhere.

Author : Heather Connolly,Lefteris Kretsos,Craig Phelan
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Europe
ISBN : 3034308035

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Radical Unions in Europe and the Future of Collective Interest Representation by Heather Connolly,Lefteris Kretsos,Craig Phelan Pdf

This book analyses contemporary trends in radical unionism in Europe. It contains nine country case-studies that probe the limits and possibilities of trade union renewal and focus on radical activity. It assesses the degree to which we are witnessing the emergence of 'radical political unionism' as an alternative model of European trade unionism.