Far-right parties have been increasingly spreading throughout Europe since 1980s; they have attracted the attention of many voters, especially the youth and the workers by campaigning against immigration and multiculturalism. Through an anti-establishment approach, these parties have become mainly mistrustful of the mainstream politics articulating themselves as the true voice of the people and...

Final offer arbitration (FOA) and conventional arbitration (ARE) are compared as mechanisms for settling labor disputes. It is recognized that the parties can manipulate their final offers under FOA in order to achieve a more desirable outcome, and the equilibrium pair of final offers is derived as a function of the uncertainty about the arbitrator's award and the relative risk preferences of t...

The mid-1970's marked a turning point in Italy's industrial relations system . At that time, the system appeared to be a case of pluralism, recognized and supported by the statute of workers' rights (Act 300/1970). The main aspects and institutions of industrial relations remained outside the legal regulation . In fact, trade unions and employers' associations exercised joint power. Trade union...

Inclement weather on election day is widely seen to benefit certain political parties at the expense of others. Empirical evidence for this weather-vote share hypothesis is sparse however. We examine the effects of rainfall and temperature on share of the votes of eight political parties that participated in 13 national parliament elections, held in the Netherlands from 1971 to 2010. This paper...

Inclement weather on election day is widely seen to benefit certain political parties at the expense of others. Empirical evidence for this weather-vote share hypothesis is sparse however. We examine the effects of rainfall and temperature on share of the votes of eight political parties that participated in 13 national parliament elections, held in the Netherlands from 1971 to 2010. This paper...

During the last decade, scholarly criticism of sweatshops has grown increasingly sophisticated. This article reviews the new moral and economic foundations of these criticisms and argues that they are flawed. It seeks to advance the debate over sweatshops by noting the extent to which the case for sweatshops does, and does not, depend on the existence of competitive markets. It attempts to more...

specific labor organizations and leftist parties. Yet he emphasized the need to move beyond mobilizing around local, firm-specific, “economic” concerns to create “a political movement that is to say, a movement of the class, with the object of enforcing its interests in a general form, in a form possessing general, socially coercive force” (Tucker 1978:520). Marx fully appreciated that formal o...

This article provides a comparative legal analysis of the labor legislation CIS countries in terms termination employment contracts due to circumstances beyond control parties. When developing Labor Codes countries, attention was paid their economic model. In development Code Republic Uzbekistan, role “Uzbek model” chosen by Uzbekistan for phased transition market economy particular importance....

This paper presents an argument that rejects the conception of labor as a unitary political actor and the identification of social democratic governments as those that will promote the interests of labor. I divide labor into insiders, who enjoy employment protection, and outsiders, who do not, and reconceptualize electorally influential groups and their main policy interests accordingly. I firs...

The collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh on April 24, 2013, was recorded as worst industrial accident ever. This killed at least 1,132 and injured more than 2,500. incident made world aware poor working conditions Bangladesh's garment industry sector. In addition, many workers do not even get their rights, so there are actions or demonstrations carried out by workers, demanding rig...