Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] workers ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had wrested factory management from the hands of the very right-wing Congress of Mining Industrialists which had disallowed even neutral forms of workers ' control in 1917 . |
| 2 | The Labour Conference , which described itself as a body uniting all forms of workers ' struggle for their rights , called for a national warning strike which would create local bodies which could participate in the struggle against the current government and its reforms . |
| 3 | Old-style movements for workers ' control are no longer feasible in a world of transnationals and global production and semi-skilled labour . |
| 4 | Article 2 , which sets out the general areas of workers ' rights , simply spells out many rights that already exist in law , or have been present in well-unionised work places for years before Thatcherism . |
| 5 | Councillor Rodgers said , ‘ They are interfering with the democratic process in this by-election and seeking to buy political influence with what amounts to bribes ’ , and noted the offer was personally embarrassing for him as he negotiated as a union official with the companies over workers ' pay and conditions . |
| 6 | Jordan , Egypt and Turkey had earned substantial revenues from workers ' remittances and trade with Iraq and Kuwait ; some middle-income countries such as India relied heavily on oil imports from Iraq and also benefited from sizeable remittance flows ; and for some low-income countries , including Pakistan , Sri Lanka , Bangladesh and the Philippines , the loss of remittances and the rising cost of oil imports were expected to slow growth rates to an average of around 1.5 per cent by 1991 and add some $3,000 million to annual Third-World debt interest payments . |
| 7 | In a 1952 revolution they overthrew a military regime and won nationalization of the large mines under workers ' co-management . |
| 8 | From 1903 to 1909 Sophy Sanger worked with Mary Reid Macarthur ( later Anderson ) and Margaret Bondfield [ qq.v. ] for the Women 's Trade Union League , setting up its legal advice bureau while studying labour law at University College London , mastering insurance regulations for workers ' compensation , and interviewing women factory inspectors on conditions in the workplace . |
| 9 | That regime must reverse the process by which the resources of workers ' radicalism have been accumulated , and neutralize the discontent of the petty bourgeoisie and peasants . |
| 10 | While all the studies used for this paper do not attain this ideal , the effort to articulate material that is not readily available through more conventional studies of workers ' images of society , for instance , may serve to make some point in the social landscape between the ‘ centres ’ of workers ' and managers ' worlds and that of social scientists . |
| 11 | We also thought perhaps erm looking at things like workers ' cooperatives as well . |
| 12 | Democracy in the work-place with firms under workers ' control is also important . |
| 13 | A mile and a half to the south of the town , on the west bank of the River Kent at Helsington , are two rubble-stone mills with workers ' cottages . |
| 14 | Discussions on workers ' control and the general strike to stop war also showed that an important section of the trade unions had reacted against gradualism , at least in words , and was returning to the syndicalist notions fashionable some ten years before . |
| 15 | Similarly , a good deal of attention has been directed to the important and topical issues of workers ' participation in enterprise decision-making , along with ‘ international ’ studies concerned with the operation and labour relations implications of multinational corporations . |
| 16 | There has been considerable interest in recent years in the idea of motivating increased labour productivity and improved economic performance through various schemes for workers ' participation such as profit-sharing and employee stock-ownership plans . |
| 17 | But the CGT technicians ' section came out in support of the students for workers ' control . |
| 18 | There was also a reluctance to attempt the transformation of the unions which would have been required to turn them into instruments of workers ' control , since this would clearly have introduced an element of responsibility which was foreign to the previous practice of trade unionism , and would have meant taking on board the awkward problem of reconciling , within a reconstructed union framework , the interests of workers in the given nationalised industry and the interests of working people as a whole , as regards the running of that industry . |
| 19 | The ‘ home front ’ had similar needs , met by shows like Workers ' Playtime . |
| 20 | Oakley compared housewives ' feelings about the various domestic tasks with workers ' feelings about their jobs as revealed in Goldthorpe et al. 's ( 1968a ) study . |
| 21 | A major feature of Suharto 's budget speech was a call for private companies to offer up to 25 per cent of their shares to workers ' co-operatives , and to facilitate this by providing soft loans . |
| 22 | There was a wave of factory seizures by workers ' committees , very often on a local and fragmentary basis . |