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... unions with a tradition of neo-corporatism will be best positioned to demand just transitions for their mem bers. This article provides two comparative case studies of coal miners’ unions in areas where environmental reform threatens coal workers’ livelihoods. Workers in Germany’s IG Bergbau, Chemie...

... to these developments have been varied on the part of campus administrators, faculty, and students?' tacit support for oil and gas development (via leasing of mineral rights or university land for oil and gas operations) within IHE raises important questions regarding faculty roles and engagement, campus governance...

.... Part of a tradition of the working classes, the miners have always been a symbolic powerful force that has historically struggled for state concessions and labour rights.lo Miners have had the strength to negotiate wages with Ceausescu and were called upon as "informal" guardians of Iliescu's...

..., the Chamber of Mines assiduously recruited miners from the borderland states (especially Lesotho, Mozambique and Swaziland) and further afield from Zambia, Angola and Malawi. For many years, Malawi was second only to Mozambique as a country of origin for miners on the Rand, including those from South Africa...

... true in the context of coal because the union that represents coal miners (United Mine Workers of America) has often been at odds with anti-coal activists. In some ways, Berg reveals this tension to have its origins in the growing precarity of the industry itself, which once drove union leaders...

... taxes on foreign-born miners and lobbied heavily to exclude Chinese immigrants to the United States - through the mid-1990s, when the state passed a series of laws that were racially divisive and restricted immigrant access to various benefits. From its very founding, California had an uneasy...

.... That species might have become extinct before people discovered this property had not the spotted owl controversy delayed the logging of the remaining old-growth forests of the northwest. The United States is depleting some of its nonrenewable natural resources. It already imports most of its mineral...

...) stated that the conflict erupted after the miners responsible for killing several members of the Cinta Larga nation last year returned to the reserve7 Unlike the massacre of the Paya and Pucuro elders, this incident was reported widely in the media the world over.s Tragic as it was, miners' deaths...

... response, as was legally mandated. A large regional strike followed, which would last for months. Tens of thousands of miners sought to control of the undamaged pit-heads and keep production shut down. A number of houses in Lieven were wrecked, including that belonging to the director of the owners...

.... Above all, Thatcherism was a project to right the wrongs of the 1970s, when the miners brought down Edward Heath, when Jack Jones and Hugh Scanlon "held the nation at ransom," when Johnny Rotten & the Sex Pistols sang a very different version of "God Save the Queen" during the Silver Jubilee ("it's...

... of that mine, which was the most up-to-date and profitable of its kind in Europe, by the Treuhand in the interest of the IG Farben successor Badische Anilin und Soda-Fabrik (BASF) roused not only the determined resistance of the potassium miners but developed into the first major East German industrial strife...

... construction and food production by a few armies, for the most part Third World military establishments-like their counterparts in the North-are primarily consumers of petroleum, minerals, chemicals and other vital resources such as textiles and foodstuffs. In a real sense they are competing with civilian...

... nonmarketist, quasi-corporatist Michael Heseltine and, backed by the Prime Minister and Cabinet, he faced down the quite remarkable, although short-lived and sociologically sentimental, middle class protest against this anti-miner policy. An elaborate exercise in apparent government compromise was undertaken...

... to the city, but they did so on the American Association's terms, for it maintained control in key factors of production. It owned the land and minerals, which it would lease but would not sell; and also the railroads, upon which distribution of the products depended. More often than not the mines were owned...

... donors, especially those in the extraction industry. Capturing the allure of Charlie's Catholic social justice background, Lindsay weaves these themes of empathy for the downtrodden throughout the film, juxtaposing families struggling to make ends meet with those benefiting from oil and mineral interests...

... ecological populism as an analytic category allows us to single out ecological grievances for populist politics for analysis and, at least on my assessment, normative praise. The ecological populist can appeal to an Appalachian coal miner on the basis of grievances related to ecological degradation without...

... from Bennite socialism of the 1970s and early 1980s to leftwing unions, such as the Transport and General workers Union and the Miners of the early 1980s. The fundamentalist vision aims to advance working class power by means of collective ownership, state management of the economy (including controls...

... have not only made revenue streams available to fund faculty research, but also have actively pursued mineral rights leases for the purposes of resource extraction under college campuses.53 Bridging Academy and Community in the Era of Trump Despite what constitutes a bleak state of affairs for teacher...

... to Baudrillard, he went to find: astral America, not social and cultural America, but the America of the empty, absolute freedom of the freeways, not the deep America of mores and mentalities, but the America of desert speed, of motels and mineral surfaces. I looked for it in the speed of the screenplay...

... its tropical nature. In addition, tl1e rivers and lakes provide ample opportunity for fish protein, and the forests can supply timber. It is also the case that the continent provides one-seventh of the world's minerals, with new discoveries announced every now and then. Because of this fact...