Work & Trade Unions
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Why the Conservatives' Bond with Business is Weaker than Ever
The Conservatives' strategy is to build on Brexit by reaching for nationalistic excuses in the face of economic disruption, leaving its traditional allies in the business community fuming.
- Conservative Party
- Immigration
- Work & Trade Unions
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- Work & Trade Unions
- Labour Party
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Inequity in the Government’s Coronavirus Response May be Inevitable, But we Should Still Challenge It
If the current coronavirus crisis is to bring an enduring advance in social solidarity, we should seek broader and more robust principles for both contributing to and drawing from the common pool of fiscal resources.
- Work & Trade Unions
- Covid-19
- Health, Education & Welfare
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Is it Really Possible to Resurrect Sectoral Collective Bargaining and Restore Trade Union Power?
Since 2017 the Labour party has proposed mandatory sectoral collective bargaining as a comprehensive strategy to rebuild the trade union voice. But how feasible is this approach?
- Work & Trade Unions
- Trade
- Labour Party
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Post-Work Politics – Why the Tipping Point Thesis is Wrong
The problem with tipping point arguments is that they are not empirically sustainable.
- Work & Trade Unions
- Trade
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Making the Case for Collective Voice at Work
What do employers and employees gain when they participate in mechanisms of collective voice? This question matters because work is changing.
- Work & Trade Unions
- Trade
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- Work & Trade Unions
- Trade
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- Work & Trade Unions
- Health, Education & Welfare
- Sport
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Political Aspects of Full Employment: A Reassessment of Kalecki
Michal Kalecki’s 1943 article “Political Aspects of Full Employment” suggested a possible ambivalence of business interests in capitalist economies to the maintenance of full employment.
- Work & Trade Unions
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Inflation, Collective Bargaining and Public Opinion
Depreciating the currency by enforcing pay claims is a senseless process at best, but Governments have not been able to stop it. Public opinion will not let them. Why?
- Work & Trade Unions
- Trade
