Unions And Divisions

Author : Paul Srodecki,Norbert Kersken,Rimvydas Petrauskas
Publisher : Themes in Medieval and Early Modern History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09
Category : Europe
ISBN : 1032057505

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Unions and Divisions by Paul Srodecki,Norbert Kersken,Rimvydas Petrauskas Pdf

Introduction : Medieval and Renaissance personal unions : main debates, new approaches / Paul Srodecki -- Unions as a structural element : preconditions, intentions, and realisations / Ludwig Steindorff -- Dynasties and dynastic rule between elite reproduction and state building in Europe / Frederik Buylaert, Thalia Brero and Erika Graham-Goering -- Dynastic Unions and the development of stable and extensive Christian polities in Iberia, c. 1100-c. 1300 / Luis García-Guijarro -- The "Angevin Empire" (1150-1204) : a twelfth-century union / S.D. Church -- The emergence of the Polish-Lithuanian union / Rimvydas Petrauskas -- Bishop, administrator, guardian : Albert of Hoya and his reign in Minden, Osnabrück and Hoya / Frederieke Maria Schnack -- The title rex Galiciae between ambitions and reality (c. 1100-c. 1400) / Márta Font -- The union between Hungary and Croatia : myths as reality / Neven Budak -- The Lusatias in personal union with Brandenburg and Bohemia / Norbert Kersken -- The foreign policy of the last Přemyslids : a first attempt at unifying Central Europe? / Robert Antonín -- How did the grand masters of the Teutonic Order interpret their dependency on the Polish Crown (1466-97)? / Adam Szweda -- An autonomous dependency : the unstable relationship between Royal Prussia and the Polish Crown, 1466-1569 / Beata Możejko -- Enfeoffment as a tool in the safeguarding of power? : Dithmarschen between Holsatian and archiepiscopal power claims / Stefan Brenner -- Wenceslas II Přemyslid and Louis I of Anjou : two personal unions of the Polish Kingdom in the fourteenth century / Andrzej Marzec -- Mary and Maximilian, Burgundy and Habsburg : the rise of an empire / Jan Hirschbiegel -- Albert II of Habsburg's composite monarchy (1437-39) and its significance for Central Europe / Julia Burkhardt -- King Ladislas II Jogaila of Poland, Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania and the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Church union / Darius Baronas -- The unions between Sleswick, Holsatia and Denmark in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and their Nordic precursors / Oliver Auge -- The Nordic union wars, 1451-1523 / Jens E. Olesen -- Policies for and from the dynastic union : the crowns of Castile and Aragon in the fifteenth century / María Bonet Donato -- Corona regni bohemiae : the integration of Central Europe as conceived by the Luxemburgs and their successors / Lenka Bobková -- The path towards the "Danube Monarchy"? : the political legacy of Emperor Sigismund and his "executors" in the fifteenth century / Přemysl Bar -- In search of a Jagiellonian Europe : internal and external perceptions of the dynasty and its legacy in East-Central and Eastern Europe / Paul Srodecki.

Author : Paul Srodecki,Norbert Kersken,Rimvydas Petrauskas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000685589

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Unions and Divisions by Paul Srodecki,Norbert Kersken,Rimvydas Petrauskas Pdf

Providing a comprehensive and engaging account of personal unions, composite monarchies and multiple rule in premodern Europe: Unions and Divisions. New Forms of Rule in Medieval and Renaissance Europe uses a comparative approach to examine the phenomena of the medieval and renaissance unions in a pan-European overview. In the later Middle Ages, genealogical coincidences led to caesuras in various dynastic successions. Solutions to these were found, above all, in new constellations which saw one political entity becoming co-managed by the ruler of another in the form of a personal union. In the premodern period, such solutions were characterised by two factors in particular: on the one hand, the entry of two countries into a union did not constitute a military annexation — even though claims to the throne were all too often imposed by force; on the other hand, the new unitarian constellation retained, at least de jure, the independence of its respective components. The twenty-four essays, ranging in scope from Scandinavia to Iberia, from England and France to Central and Eastern Europe, examine whether the respective unions were the result of careful planning and deliberations in the face of a long-foreseen succession crisis or whether they emerged from dynamic developments that were largely reactive and dependent upon various random factors and circumstances. Each union is assessed to provide an understanding, for students and researchers, of the political and social forces involved in the respective countries and investigates how the unions were reflected in contemporary literature (pamphlets, memoranda, chronicles, diaries etc.), propaganda and in legal and historical discourses. This volume is essential reading for students and researchers interested in the history of monarchy, political history and social and cultural histories in premodern Europe.

Author : Joe Burns
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781642596816

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Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns Pdf

For those who want to build a fighting labor movement, there are many questions to answer. How to relate to the union establishment which often does not want to fight? Whether to work in the rank and file of unions or staff jobs? How much to prioritize broader class demands versus shop floor struggle? How to relate to foundation-funded worker centers and alternative union efforts? And most critically, how can we revive militancy and union power in the face of corporate power and a legal system set up against us? Class struggle unionism is the belief that our union struggle exists within a larger struggle between an exploiting billionaire class and the working class which actually produces the goods and services in society. Class struggle unionism looks at the employment transaction as inherently exploitative. While workers create all wealth in society, the outcome of the wage employment transaction is to separate workers from that wealth and create the billionaire class. From that simple proposition flows a powerful and radical form of unionism. Historically, class struggle unionists placed their workplace fights squarely within this larger fight between workers and the owning class. Viewing unionism in this way produces a particular type of unionism which both fights for broader class issues but is also rooted in workplace-based militancy. Drawing on years of labor activism and study of labor tradition Joe Burns outlines the key set of ideas common to class struggle unionism and shows how these ideas can create a more militant, democtractic and fighting labor movement.

Author : Virginia Lee Doellgast,Nathan Lillie,Valeria Pulignano
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198791843

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Reconstructing Solidarity by Virginia Lee Doellgast,Nathan Lillie,Valeria Pulignano Pdf

"Work is widely thought to have become more precarious. Many people feel that unions represent the interests of protected workers in good jobs at the expense of workers with insecure employment, low pay, and less generous benefits. Reconstructing Solidarity: Labour Unions, Precarious Work, and the Politics of Institutional Change in Europe argues the opposite: that unions try to represent precarious workers using a variety of creative campaigning and organizational tactics.00Where unions can limit employers' ability to 'exit' labour market institutions and collective agreements and build solidarity across different groups of workers, this results in a virtuous circle, establishing union control over the labour market. Where they fail to do so, it sets in motion a vicious circle of expanding precarity based on institutional evasion by employers. Exploring the struggle of the unions against the expansion of precarious work in Europe, Reconstructing Solidarity explains the importance of how unions build, or fail to build, inclusive worker solidarity. It uses a diverse range of comparative case studies to describe the struggles of workers and unions in industries such as local government, music, metalworking, chemicals, meat-packing, and logistics, to argue against the thesis that unions act primarily to protect labour market insiders at the expense of outsiders."--Back cover.

Author : Richard Kreitner
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780316510592

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Break It Up by Richard Kreitner Pdf

From journalist and historian Richard Kreitner, a "powerful revisionist account"of the most persistent idea in American history: these supposedly United States should be broken up (Eric Foner). The novel and fiery thesis of Break It Up is simple: The United States has never lived up to its name—and never will. The disunionist impulse may have found its greatest expression in the Civil War, but as Break It Up shows, the seduction of secession wasn’t limited to the South or the nineteenth century. It was there at our founding and has never gone away. With a scholar’s command and a journalist’s curiosity, Richard Kreitner takes readers on a revolutionary journey through American history, revealing the power and persistence of disunion movements in every era and region. Each New England town after Plymouth was a secession from another; the thirteen colonies viewed their Union as a means to the end of securing independence, not an end in itself; George Washington feared separatism west of the Alleghenies; Aaron Burr schemed to set up a new empire; John Quincy Adams brought a Massachusetts town’s petition for dissolving the United States to the floor of Congress; and abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison denounced the Constitution as a pro-slavery pact with the devil. From the “cold civil war” that pits partisans against one another to the modern secession movements in California and Texas, the divisions that threaten to tear America apart today have centuries-old roots in the earliest days of our Republic. Richly researched and persuasively argued, Break It Up will help readers make fresh sense of our fractured age.

Author : Johannes Kiess,Martin Seeliger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Collective bargaining
ISBN : 0367188856

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Trade Unions and European Integration by Johannes Kiess,Martin Seeliger Pdf

Introduction: trade unions under the pressure of European integration. a question of optimism and pessimism? / Martin Seeliger and Johannes Kiess -- Trade unions in the European crisis : a social movement perspective / Donatella della Porta -- Comment on Della Porta / Wolfgang Streeck -- Conceptualising the development of European industrial relations from a neo-Gramscian perspective / Andreas Bieler and Hans-Jürgen Bieling -- Self-intimidation : comment on bieler/bieling / Georg Vobruba -- The Europeanisation of wage bargaining coordination / Susanne Pernicka and Vera Glassner -- The coordination paradox : a comparative political economy perspective on transnational wage coordination / Martin Höpner -- Ambiguities of social europe : political agenda setting among trade unionists from Central and Eastern Europe and Western Europe / Martin Seeliger -- Comment on Seeliger / Guglielmo Meardi -- EWC : ineffective bureaucratic body or institutionalising labour regulation at European company level? / Ludger Pries -- The European works council : not an effective means against site-competition and multiscalar social fragmentation / Stefanie Hürtgen -- The long and winding road to pan-European co-determination rights / Sara Lafuente Hernández -- Europe is not the answer. some remarks on the future of worker co-determination in Europe / Benjamin Werner -- European economic governance, autonomy of collective bargaining and democratic capitalism / Daniel Seikel -- Going beyond institutional restrictions : conflict as a challenge / Johannes Kiess -- Contention in times of crisis : British and German social actors and the quest of framing capitalism / Johannes Kiess -- Comment on "contention in times of crisis" / Oliver Nachtwey -- A constant tug of war : neoliberalism and social unrest in (post)-crisis Europe / Madelaine Moore and Anne Engelhardt -- Comment on "a constant tug of war" / Roland Erne -- Index.

Author : Andrew J.R. Stevens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135118686

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Call Centers and the Global Division of Labor by Andrew J.R. Stevens Pdf

Call centers have come, in the last three decades, to define the interaction between corporations, governments, and other institutions and their respective customers, citizens, and members. The offshoring and outsourcing of call center employment, part of the larger information technology and information-technology-enabled services sectors, continues to be a growing practice amongst governments and corporations in their attempts at controlling costs and providing new services. While incredible advances in technology have permitted the use of distant and "offshore" labor forces, the grander reshaping of an international political economy of communications has allowed for the acceleration of these processes. New and established labor unions have responded to these changes in the global regimes of work by seeking to organize call center workers. These efforts have been assisted by a range of forces, not least of which is the condition of work itself, but also attempts by global union federations to build a bridge between international unionism and local organizing campaigns in the Global South and Global North. Through an examination of trade union interventions in the call center industries located in Canada and India, this book contributes to research on post-industrial employment by using political economy as a juncture between development studies, the sociology of work, and labor studies.

Author : Doreen Massey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349240593

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Spatial Divisions of Labour by Doreen Massey Pdf

The first edition of Spatial Divisions of Labour rapidly became a classic. It had enormous influence on thinking about uneven development, the nature of economic space, and the conceptualisation of place arguing for an approach embedding all these issues in a notion of spatialised social relations. This second edition includes a new first chapter and an extensive additional concluding essay addressing key issues in the debates and controversies which followed initial publication.

Author : Idesbald Goddeeris
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780739150702

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Solidarity with Solidarity by Idesbald Goddeeris Pdf

The Polish crisis in the early 1980s provoked a great deal of reaction in the West. Not only governments, but social movements were also touched by the establishment of the Independent Trade Union Solidarnosc in the summer of 1980, the proclamation of martial law in December 1981, and Solidarnosc's underground activity in the subsequent years. In many countries, campaigns were set up in order to spread information, raise funds, and provide the Polish opposition with humanitarian relief and technical assistance. Labor movements especially stepped into the limelight. A number of Western European unions were concerned about the new international tension following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the new hard-line policy of the US and saw Solidarnosc as a political instrument of clerical and neo-conservative cold warriors. This book analyzes reaction to Solidarnosc in nine Western European countries and within the international trade union confederations. It argues that Western solidarity with Solidarnosc was highly determined by its instrumental value within the national context. Trade unions openly sided with Solidarnosc when they had an interest in doing so, namely when Solidarnosc could strengthen their own program or position. But this book also reveals that reaction in allegedly reluctant countries was massive, albeit discreet, pragmatic, and humanitarian, rather than vocal, emotional, and political.

Author : Daniel DiSalvo
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199990740

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Government Against Itself by Daniel DiSalvo Pdf

"Daniel DiSalvo contends that the power of public sector unions is too often inimical to the public interest"--

Author : John Grant
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Labor unions
ISBN : 0297812386

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Blood Brothers by John Grant Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555101474

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Reports from Commissioners by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Pdf

Author : J. Visser,Bernard Ebbinghaus
Publisher : Springer
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349655113

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Trade Unions in Western Europe since 1945 by J. Visser,Bernard Ebbinghaus Pdf

The Societies of Europe is an 8-title series of historical data handbooks and accompanying CD-ROM sets, on the development of Europe from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. The series is a product of the Mannheim Centre for Social research, a body dedicated to comparative research on Europe and one of the leading social research institutes in the world. It is a collection of datasets giving a clear and systematic study of long term developments in European society. The data is presented statistically and is clearly comparative. The Societies of Europe is the most comprehensive data series available on Western European social issues. Each book is accompanied by a CD-ROM containing data sets not included in the text enabling users to manipulate the data as wanted. Information is available in different programmes (Excel, SPSS and SAS) and in data structures for analysis, viewing and building time series. This comparative data handbook offers an empirical base to a long-term and comparative understanding of changes and variations in European union movements. It provides information on the context and history of union development, the changes in the structure of post-war unionism until today, the long-term trends in union membership and union density, and the shifts in the cross-sectional composition of union membership. This book and CD-ROM are the result of many years of research by the authors in collaboration with an international research team, and provides an original source for comparative and national studies or individual enquiries. The country and comparative tables offer cross-checked and often newly-calculated statistics on national union organizations and their membership series. The CD-ROM includes selected tables from the handbook and provides additional databases with organizational data and membership series of major national and European union organizations.

Author : Dax Dasilva
Publisher : Anteism Books
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781926968513

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Age of Union by Dax Dasilva Pdf

Age of Union is a compelling guide for igniting today's changemaker—those ready to take action for our planet and its inhabitants. We have seen growing divisions between people on either side of gender, religious, political and cultural borders for too long. Meanwhile, global health crises, environmental degradation, and human-accelerated climate change pose immense challenges to our future that we must now face quickly and cooperatively. Separation has to be confronted head-on. We can do this each and every day with meaningful, impactful acts of union. There is a greater need for unity than ever before. Dax Dasilva presents a guide to take simple measures to promote our collective well-being and union. Grounded in four pillars—leadership, culture, spirituality, and nature—the book advocates that the time for change is now and that our choices are the catalyst. We are all in this together, so let us move toward an Age of Union. May it strengthen your resolve to start building a kinder, greener and more livable world where everyone and everything can thrive. You are the changemaker. For more information visit www.ageofunion.com Reviews "A compassionate call for the cultural revolution needed to take care of each other and our planet." —Marika Anthony-Shaw, Founder & CEO of Plus1.org “Humans are finally evolving and are becoming more aware of the fact that saving the world is a priority for everyone today.’ —Carmen Busquets, WWF Council Member, Humanitarian and FashionTech Entrepreneur (Net-a-Porter, Moda Operandi, FarFetched, and BoF) “This book is a lens that helps focus on what really matters. We get so wrapped up in our daily lives that we forget how our actions affect our environment daily. This book is very relevant today, as it’s time for everyone to become leaders of change and inspire others to do the same. Dax Dasilva portrays that an Age of Union is here and empowers others to rise to the occasion.” —Ekaterina Sky, Wildlife Conservation Artist “Age of Union is the much needed call to action our world needs right now. Dax Dasilva speaks to the inherent leader in every one of us and provides a guide so that the future changemakers of tomorrow can get started today.” —Jonathan Kanevsky MD “The first of its kind, Age of Union brings readers along an intimate journey that perfectly balances spiritual, entrepreneurial, and environmental guidance, all of which got me wanting to take action now.” —Shira Laza, on-air personality and founder, What’s Trending "Now more then ever we need to be more connected and share ideas to collectively save the planet. This book is a great starting point and guide while trying to shift to this new paradigm”. —Seth Troxler, International DJ “Age of Union is a well rounded read for anyone who wants to explore the subject of growth, change and connectedness. Especially in times like these, it gives hope and helps to understand how we can make a difference by transforming our relationship with ourselves and the world around us.“ —Annette & Daniela Fedler, Sustainable Luxury Design Consultants & Eco Friendly Fashion Designers "In Age of Union, Dax Dasilva shares with us a manifesto for the guiding principles that makes him a true leader in the ecological transition and the social evolution for a kinder world that will take us to the next phase of humanity. Age of Union is a mirror to be held for us to become leaders in that transition as well." —Damian Siqueiros, MFA, Artist and Activist

Author : Alexis N. Walker
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812296662

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Divided Unions by Alexis N. Walker Pdf

A comparative history of public and private sector unions from the Wagner Act of 1935 until today The 2011 battle in Wisconsin over public sector employees' collective bargaining rights occasioned the largest protests in the state since the Vietnam War. Protestors occupied the state capitol building for days and staged massive rallies in downtown Madison, receiving international news coverage. Despite an unprecedented effort to oppose Governor Scott Walker's bill, Act 10 was signed into law on March 11, 2011, stripping public sector employees of many of their collective bargaining rights and hobbling government unions in Wisconsin. By situating the events of 2011 within the larger history of public sector unionism, Alexis N. Walker demonstrates how the passage of Act 10 in Wisconsin was not an exceptional moment, but rather the culmination of events that began over eighty years ago with the passage of the Wagner Act in 1935. Although explicitly about government unions, Walker's book argues that the fates of public and private sector unions are inextricably linked. She contends that the exclusion of public sector employees from the foundation of private sector labor law, the Wagner Act, firmly situated private sector law at the national level, while relegating public sector employees' efforts to gain collective bargaining rights to the state and local levels. She shows how private sector unions benefited tremendously from the national-level protections in the law while, in contrast, public sector employees' efforts progressed slowly, were limited to union-friendly states, and the collective bargaining rights that they finally did obtain were highly unequal and vulnerable to retrenchment. As a result, public and private sector unions peaked at different times, preventing a large, unified labor movement. The legacy of the Wagner Act, according to Walker, is that labor remains geographically concentrated, divided by sector, and hobbled in its efforts to represent working Americans politically in today's era of rising economic inequality.