Networked Unionism: Reframing the Labour Movement and Starbucks Workers United’s Hybrid Organising Practices

The TUC and civil alliance building: towards social movement unionism?

British union revival strategies range from recruitment and US-style organising approaches and workplace partnerships through union mergers and restructuring to efforts to (re-)build political and institutional conduits. Social movement unionism (SMU), unionism which extends beyond concern with matters of job regulation to ‘reaching out’ to other groups to emphasise social justice aims, has nev...

Estimation of the Number of Workers Subjected to the Labour Law

Abstract. Employees include a main part of labour force in each country. This group is so important since a long time ago, International Labour Organization has allocated lots of its indicators such as decent work ones to the group. On the other hand, the employees in Iran are subject to the various employment laws that one of them is the labour law. According to the labour law, the Ministry of...

Democratization and Autonomous Unionism in Taiwan: The Case of Petrochemical Workers

In the study of the Taiwanese labor movement, the prevailing consensus holds that democratization empowered the working class in Taiwan, while worker impact on democratization was minimal. While largely agreeing with this consensus, this paper seeks to offer some revisions by analyzing the rise of unionism in the China Petroleum Corporation (CPC). First, this paper argues that grass-roots milit...

Bullying, workers' health, and labour instability.

Unemployment , discouraged workers and female labour supply

We develop and implement a model of female participation, labour supply and employment that incorporates both search unemployment and discouraged workers. We show that in an intertemporal environment with fixed costs, search costs, permanent lay-offs and infrequent job arrivals, an adaptation of the standard (two-stage budgeting) approach to modelling hours for the employed remains appropriate....