...Abdullahi Ali Ibrahim The emerging view in the scholarship about the Sudanese Women's Union (SWU) is that it was basically the creation of the patriarchal Sudanese Communist Party (SCP). On the contrary, this essay will argue that it was the product of the party's women's cadre. To this effect, the...

...Stanley Aronowitz This essay is an assessment of the current fiscal and crisis in the public sector and the role of unions within it. The main claim is that for more than a half century, both public sector and private sector unions have relied, in the main, on legal and electoral strategies for...

...Bettina Wagner; Anke Hassel This article analyzes the challenges of labor migration for both capital and labor within the European Union (EU). It asks how, in a country with traditionally strong unions and employers’ associations, it has been possible to create and maintain a segment in the labor...

... a spiritual level (Plato). But the church fathers taught that they must rise above intellectual contemplation to union with God through perfected desire. However, we cannot reach this union through our own efforts; God must reach graciously down to us. But when he does so, he reaches down into our...

...Dale T. McKinley The decision by the National Union of Metalworkers (NUMSA) in late 2013 to break its long-standing alliance with the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and its political partner, the South African Communist Party (SACP), represents a watershed moment for left and progressive...

...Maria Tumarkin This essay explores the death of the seventeen-year-old Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, the first woman during World War II to be named a Hero of the Soviet Union, as one of the foundational narratives of Soviet necropedagogy. Far from claiming the Soviet case study as historically singular...

... strain on the metaphor is identified in the growing perception of social and religious disunity in early modern political thought, which called into question the social and political union integral to the metaphor. The result was that early modern European political thinkers groped for less organic and...

... the various mechanisms of political and social domination enabled the massive participation of thousands of men and women—organized in their communities, their unions, their local councils, their confederations and coalitions— to disrupt and change a whole set of oppressive and unjust social relations...

... paradigm-shifting work has the potential to provide a critical opening for this discussion to take place. Like their husbands, fathers, and brothers, enslaved women who engaged the crisis of the Union as an opportunity to secure their freedom risked as much. The Emancipation Proclamation opened a...

... union in its traditional form. It argues that although experiences of collective action in the aftermath of the Marikana massacre hold the potential for a radical reconfiguration of politics in South Africa, there is also the danger that they will be unable to escape the old frameworks and sutures of...

...Antonio Negri The soviets (or workers’ councils) served as a democratic form of political organization in the years preceding and in the course of the Bolshevik Revolution. These democratic forms were eventually subordinated in the Soviet Union but they remain today an effective model for imagining...

..., at the Union building, and on major highways. Yet, the true rupture presented by the unified activism of students and workers was in the critique they presented of a neoliberalized university, hierarchical bureaucratic structures, institutional culture still defined by whiteness and dominant...

...Michael Hardt Rebellion in the Heartland: Union Organizing after Wisconsin Michael Hardt, Editor © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 A G A I N S T the D A Y Rebellion in the Heartland: Union Organizing after Wisconsin Michael Hardt, Editor A G A I...

... Mass Strike, the Political Party, and the Trade Unions .” In The Rosa Luxemburg Reader , edited by Hudis Peter Anderson Kevin , 168 – 99 . Monárrez Julia . 2004 . “Elementos de análisis del feminicidio sexual sistémico en Ciudad Juárez para su viabilidad jurídica” (“Elements for...

... trajectory to pursue collective interests. This movement in the making has demonstrated a capacity to overcome spatial divisions and may even challenge neoliberal globalization itself. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 References All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) . 2011 . “ Chinese...

... the motto Rebellion to Tyrants, Democ- racy for Workers leapt out in white block letters. For me, a labor historian, this banner evoked the one carried by the Philadelphia bricklayers’ union, leading the 1788 parade celebrating the ratification of the US constitution: Both Buildings and...

... contrast to its current malaise. Sudan once had one of the best organized and most dynamic labor movements in Africa and the Middle East. Sudanese labor unions formed the core of a broad movement...

... slaveholders sought the kind of future for human slavery and republican government no longer possible within the original union. The Confederacy was a huge gamble on the future of slavery. With secession they went all in. But the history of the CSA was not just shaped by conditions in the...

... remains divided along lines of nationality, with people preferring to take advantage of opportunities in the workplace independently. The role of the trade union remains marginal Sacchetto and Andrijasevic • Foxconn’s Assembly Plants in Europe  219 because it acts mainly on a local...

...- stand the history of the formation of the Russian empire, its translation into the Soviet Union and its demise and the formation of Russian Federa- tion today?—the history of Russian and Soviet Union...