Author : Leo Panitch
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 18,96 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
The authors have succintly documented and analyzed the end of the era of free collective bargaining. This new edition also contains new chapters covering the Mulroney record from 1984 to 1992 and provincial governments' legislation over the same period. An entire chapter, comprising the first major analysis of the NDP governments elected in the 1990s, concentrates on the Rae government's "Social Contract" legislation.
Author : Leo Panitch
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 21,34 MB
Release : 2008-08-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781442600966
Published Under the Garamond Imprint From Consent to Coercion addresses several of the key issues about the future of unions and social democratic policies in Canada.
Author : Angeliki E. Laiou
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 34,39 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780884022626
This collection of essays addresses a number of questions regarding the role of consent in marriage and in sexual relations outside of marriage in ancient and medieval societies. Ranging from ancient Greece and Rome to the Byzantine Empire and Western Medieval Europe, the contributors examine rape, seduction, and the role of consent in establishing the punishment of one or both parties; the issue of marital debt and spousal rape; and the central question of what is perceived as coercion and what may be the validity or value of coerced consent. Other concepts, such as honor and shame, are also investigated. Because of the wide range--in time and place--of societies studied, the reader is able to see many different approaches to the question of consent and coercion as well as a certain evolution, in which Christianity plays an important role.
Author : Arthur P. Monahan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 28,49 MB
Release : 1987-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0773564063
In addition, he deals with the development of these concepts in Roman and canon law and in the practices of the emerging states of France and England and the Italian city-states, as well as considering works in legal and administrative theory and constitutional documents. In each case his interpretations are placed in the wider contexts of developments in law, church, and administrative reform. The result is the first complete study of these three crucial terms as used in the Middle Ages, as well as an excellent summary of work done in a number of specialized fields over the last twenty-five years. The book is of considerable importance not only to medieval studies but to the history of political theory and to political theory itself. It brings together and explains the relevance of a vast amount of material previously known only to a few specialists, documenting Monahan's argument that later political thought has been significantly influenced by medieval formulations of the concepts of consent, coercion, and limit.
Author : Robert Gellately
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 38,97 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192802910
The Nazis never won a majority in free elections, but soon after Hitler took power most people turned away from democracy and backed the Nazi regime. Hitler won growing support even as he established the secret police (Gestapo) and concentration camps. What has been in dispute for over fifty years is what the Germans knew about these camps, and in what ways were they involved in the persecution of 'race enemies', slave workers, and social outsiders.To answer these questions, and to explore the public sides of Nazi persecution, Robert Gellately has consulted an array of primary documents. He argues that the Nazis did not cloak their radical approaches to 'law and order' in utter secrecy, but played them up in the press and loudly proclaimed the superiority of their system over all others. They publicized their views by drawing on popular images, cherished German ideals, and long held phobias, and were able to win over converts to their cause. The author traces the story from 1933, and shows how war and especially the prospect of defeat radicalized Nazism. As the country spiralled toward defeat, Germans for the most part held on stubbornly. For anyone who contemplated surrender or resistance, terror became the order of the day.
Author : Leo Panitch
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 24,67 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Appendices list legislation affecting trade union rights, including the right to strike.
Author : Sharon Block
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 18,38 MB
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807838934
In a comprehensive examination of rape and its prosecution in British America between 1700 and 1820, Sharon Block exposes the dynamics of sexual power on which colonial and early republican Anglo-American society was based. Block analyzes the legal, social, and cultural implications of more than nine hundred documented incidents of sexual coercion and hundreds more extralegal commentaries found in almanacs, newspapers, broadsides, and other print and manuscript sources. Highlighting the gap between reports of coerced sex and incidents that were publicly classified as rape, Block demonstrates that public definitions of rape were based less on what actually happened than on who was involved. She challenges conventional narratives that claim sexual relations between white women and black men became racially charged only in the late nineteenth century. Her analysis extends racial ties to rape back into the colonial period and beyond the boundaries of the southern slave-labor system. Early Americans' treatment of rape, Block argues, both enacted and helped to sustain the social, racial, gender, and political hierarchies of a New World and a new nation.
Author : Alan Wertheimer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 18,25 MB
Release : 2003-09-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521536110
An important discussion of philosophical issues surrounding consent to sexual relations.
Author : Robert J. Steinfeld
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,50 MB
Release : 2001-02-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521774000
This book presents a fundamental reassessment of the nature of wage labor in the nineteenth century, focusing on the common use of penal sanctions in England to enforce wage labor agreements. Professor Steinfeld argues that wage workers were not employees at will but were often bound to their employment by enforceable labor agreements, which employers used whenever available to manage their labor costs and supply. In the northern United States, where employers normally could not use penal sanctions, the common law made other contract remedies available, also placing employers in a position to enforce labor agreements. Modern free wage labor only came into being late in the nineteenth century, as a result of reform legislation that restricted the contract remedies employers could legally use.
Author : Erin Hatton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 23,68 MB
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520973402
What do prisoner laborers, graduate students, welfare workers, and college athletes have in common? According to sociologist Erin Hatton, they are all part of a growing workforce of coerced laborers. Coerced explores this world of coerced labor through an unexpected and compelling comparison of these four groups of workers, for whom a different definition of "employment" reigns supreme—one where workplace protections do not apply and employers wield expansive punitive power, far beyond the ability to hire and fire. Because such arrangements are common across the economy, Hatton argues that coercion—as well as precarity—is a defining feature of work in America today. Theoretically forceful yet vivid and gripping to read, Coerced compels the reader to reevaluate contemporary dynamics of work, pushing beyond concepts like "career" and "gig work." Through this bold analysis, Hatton offers a trenchant window into this world of work from the perspective of those who toil within it—and who are developing the tools needed to push back against it.
