Urban China in Transition
In: Studies in Urban and Social Change Ser v.60
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In: Studies in Urban and Social Change Ser v.60
While many studies focus on the impact of social change on younger generations, FGamily Ties deals comprehensively with family relationships over a longer period of the life cycle and reveals misconceptions about grown children caring for their aging parents. Glenna D. Spitze and John R. Logan offer conclusive evidence that relationships between parents and their adult children remain intact and challenge other myths of isolation and neglect of the older generation. The authors reveal that parents are not dependent on help from their grown children, as was previously assume
In: Conflicts In Urban & Regional
In: Yale historical publications
In: Series 1, Studies 21
In: International union rights: journal of the International Centre for Trade Union Rights, Volume 30, Issue 3
ISSN: 2308-5142
In: New labor forum: a journal of ideas, analysis and debate, Volume 32, Issue 1, p. 87-94
ISSN: 1557-2978
In: New labor forum: a journal of ideas, analysis and debate, Volume 31, Issue 3, p. 36-42
ISSN: 1557-2978
In: New labor forum: a journal of ideas, analysis and debate, Volume 30, Issue 3, p. 38-45
ISSN: 1557-2978
In: New labor forum: a journal of ideas, analysis and debate, Volume 29, Issue 1, p. 76-81
ISSN: 1557-2978
In: International union rights: journal of the International Centre for Trade Union Rights, Volume 26, Issue 2, p. 22-23
ISSN: 2308-5142
In September 2011, the author was one of two Federal Court of Australia judges appointed to the Supreme and National Courts of Papua New Guinea (PNG) to sit on civil and commercial appeals. The article provides a personal account of the author's first year as a member of the PNG judiciary. This was an eventful and tumultuous year which saw the PNG Supreme Court order that the Hon. Sir Michael Somare be restored to the office of prime minister; simmering political tensions which followed that decision; the arrest of the Chief Justice, Sir Salamo Injia; a permanent stay of criminal proceedings against the Chief Justice; the enactment of the Judicial Conduct Act 2012 (PNG), which undermined the independence of the judiciary, and subsequent challenge to the validity of that Act; a further sedition charge being laid against the Chief Justice; and a national election. The author explores the impact of these events on the PNG judiciary. He also discusses options relating to the proposed establishment of a permanent Court of Appeal and an ultimate appellate court for PNG . ; AusAID
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In: New labor forum: a journal of ideas, analysis and debate, Volume 23, Issue 1, p. 22-29
ISSN: 1557-2978
In: International union rights: journal of the International Centre for Trade Union Rights, Volume 20, Issue 4, p. 8-9
ISSN: 2308-5142
In: International labor and working class history: ILWCH, Volume 74, Issue 1, p. 171-192
ISSN: 1471-6445
AbstractThis article analyzes the origins and impact of one of the most powerful antiunion weapons used by American employers during the past four decades: the right to use and threaten to use permanent replacement workers during economic strikes. It examines the policy debate over replacements in the 1930s and 1940s, the increasing use of permanent replacements in the 1970s and 1980s, the growth of a powerful and sophisticated "strike management industry," and the unsuccessful efforts of organized labor and its political allies to amend the National Labor Relations Act to outlaw permanent replacements. The article concludes with a brief discussion of the relationship between the "striker replacement doctrine" and declining strike levels in the postwar decades.
In: International labor and working class history: ILWCH, Issue 74, p. 171-192
ISSN: 0147-5479