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After a century of growth, trade union membership and influence have begun to decline in most of the economically advanced countries.

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Analyzes the critical factors that have shaped the character of trade unionism in the Commonwealth Caribbean, as well as the challenges that confront trade union practice. Particular emphasis is on the sociological foundations of labour law and the role of the state.

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This book brings together a distinguished panel of leading and emerging scholars in the field, and provides a critical assessment of the current role of trade unions in society. -- .

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Explores the role of trade unions as products of, and agents for, democracy. -- .

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The collapse of Britain's powerful labor movement has been one of the most significant and astonishing stories in political history. In analyzing how an entirely new industrial relations system was constructed after 1979, this work offers a revisionist history of British trade unionism in the twentieth century.

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This book recounts Christiaan De Beukelaer's personal odyssey aboard a sail cargo vessel and offers a compelling insight into the developments the shipping industry is undertaking to cut its carbon emissions

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Investigates the problems that public administrators are facing as they seek to find and train others for government service.

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Drawing upon case studies of firms in the steel industry, authors show that companies competing internationally can pool their strengths to offset their individual weaknesses, enabling them to build economically successful entities more easily than if each company tried to go it alone in competition with rivals.

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This volume, the first to result from the Diebold Institute Information-Based Infrastructure Project, explores the links between business and government in the development of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) technology.

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This volume, the first to result from the Diebold Institute Information-Based Infrastructure Project, explores the links between business and government in the development of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) technology.

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An interdisciplinary collection of essays focusing on the impact of travel and tourism on our lives and our society.

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Steeples provides a geographic, economic, social, political, and business history of Calico.

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How did the American media and entertainment industries decline from their global ascendancy after World War II to their present condition of instability and uncertainty

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A range of organizations is covered, including mass membership organizations, trade associations, cooperatives, unions, public interest groups, think tanks, and policy research organizations, all of which are involved in some manner in the agricultural policy process.

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It is based on the most extensive independent research ever conducted inside the BBC, during which Georgina Born was allowed unprecedented access to employees from all ranks of the organisation and gives an extraordinary portrait of the corporation during the later 1990s, the last years of the regime of the former director general John Birt.

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The term 'fashion communications' refers not only to monthly fashion magazines, but also to every facet of information relating to fashion - from the names of colors at the dye factory, to the reviews posted on fashion Web sites. This book focuses on manufacturing; business; sales and advertising; and representation in the media.

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Beginning with the nationalized British coal industry and then raising more general issues concerning the contemporary state, Joel Krieger studies the day wage structure for face workers (National Power Loading Agreement) introduced by the National Coal Board in 1966, its consequences, and the ways in which earlier work conventions, wage structures

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The present volume considers a wide range of policy questions, analyzed by a variey of experts in the field, and is organized in four parts: a brief introduction considering the current policy climate for unions; and, finally, political strategy and democratic politics.

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This is a broad assessment of the institutional health of the 28 major national unions in the United States.