Essays about: "Labour protest"

Found 5 essays containing the words Labour protest.

  1. 1. Protests in Europe: Is violence the answer? : A comparative case study on protest violence and success in democracies

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

    Author : Catrin Andersson; [2022]
    Keywords : Protests; Protest violence; Democracy; Europe; Concession;

    Abstract : This thesis has empirically investigated the relationship between violent protest and concession in democracies. Previous research has focused on maximalist movements that aim to overthrow sitting governments using violent methods. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Limerick Soviet : Workers' motivations for the general strike in Limerick, 1919

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

    Author : Martha Dunster; [2021]
    Keywords : Labour unions; syndicalism; strikes; Limerick; Irish republicanism;

    Abstract : In April 1919, the Trades and Labour Council of Limerick County, Ireland, declared a general strike in response to the increasingly militarised policing of the region by the British authorities. A Strike Committee, consisting of local activists, assumed governance of Limerick for two weeks. READ MORE

  4. 3. Resistance under repression. The political mobilisation of female migrant domestic workers in Lebanon

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Eva-Maria Hochreuther; [2019]
    Keywords : Migrant domestic workers; Domestic work; Lebanon; Political mobilisation; Labour protest; Free spaces;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to understand how the political mobilisation of migrant domestic workers (MDWs) employed in Lebanon started and continued. It also tries to comprehend how some of them could found a politically active collective of MDWs, the Alliance of Domestic Workers in Lebanon (Alliance), by analysing what factors enabled and restrained the open political activism of MDWs from their first steps as activists until now. READ MORE

  5. 4. Transnational Corporations and the Development of Labour Movements: The case of the salmon industry workers in Puerto Montt and Chiloé

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Global Studies; Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Leonardo Salinas; [2011]
    Keywords : Labour Flexibility; Labour Movement; Transnationalisation; Chile; Salmon Industry; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The purpose of my thesis is to understand in what ways economic and productive transnationalisation affects political and social participation in the local level. Particularly, what I wish to explore are the effects of integration into the global economy over labour movements in peripheral regions. READ MORE

  6. 5. CSR and Sweatshops - A study of the reasoning of the Others

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Daniel Krondahl; [2009]
    Keywords : The Others; CSR;

    Abstract : The author of this thesis applies the theoretical perspectives of postcolonialism and black feminism to be able to see how the picture of the others has been created.Through the creation of the others, the colonising, and developed, world have been able to have a significant influence on the developing world, by grouping the people of the developing world together into the oppressed group of the others. READ MORE