Example sentences of "[noun] of workers ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However that may have been , there is no doubting that at plant level and in two cases ( the Scottish Daily News and KME ) an ideological perception of workers ' control precluded the effective delegation of executive authority to management . |
| 2 | A rise of between 17 and 20 per cent was agreed , amounting to £64 a week , a dramatic demonstration of workers ' power . |
| 3 | To begin with , the level on which conflict occurs can be based on actions taken by individuals , action taken by work groups , and action at the level of workers ' organisation , namely the trade union . |
| 4 | Others emphasize capitalism 's success in raising the majority of workers ' living standards , as the most famous early Marxist revisionist , Eduard Bernstein ( 1961 ) , contended . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The ‘ council movement ’ was especially vigorous , and was widely debated among socialists in the years immediately preceding and following the First World War ( Renner , 1921 ; Pribicevic , 1959 ) ; and more recently it again aroused growing interest as a result of the experience of workers ' self-management in Yugoslavia , some tentative steps in that direction in other East European countries during the 1970s , and the formulation of ideas about ‘ participatory democracy ’ that arose from the new social movements of the late 1960s . |
| 8 | Thus the project wishes to focus on additiorial areas of injury including , managerial strategies , that is , the methods used to communicate the goals of the enterprise to the workforce ; the work process , that is , the distribution of power and authority in the workplace and the divisions of the workers on the basis of income and status ; migration , that is , the study of worker satisfaction , in as much as a stable working population is an indication of employee loyalty ; ethnic and religious divisions , that is , whether religion and nationality was used to divide workers by allocating jobs on the basis of these factors ; and , lastly , women and trade unionism , that is , the degree of workers ' identification with an alternative loyalty structure to that of the enterprise . |
| 9 | Romania has many joint party-state organizations such as the Supreme Council for Economic Development , the Central Council of Workers ' Control of Economic and Social Activity , the Defence Council and the Council for Socialist Culture and Education : ‘ These organizations provide an infrastructure for blending party and state activities ’ ( Szajkowski 1981 , p. 47 ) . |
| 10 | But , even in defeat , the unions had succeeded in imprinting the notion of workers ' power on the minds of the public . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As in 1926 , so in 1985 the old legend of the impact of workers ' solidarity and union power had been exploded . |
| 13 | to the music of Workers ' Playtime . |
| 14 | Dame Margaret Cole , for instance , suggested that the General Strike killed off the ‘ romantic vision of workers ' control ’ . |
| 15 | A second important moderating factor is the strength of workers ' need to ‘ grow ’ in the job . |
| 16 | In many ways it was a sad ending for a tutor who had given some twenty years to the cause of workers ' education in the county and perhaps the most sincere and apposite appreciation of her many qualities came most appropriately from a member of the Kettering branch : |
| 17 | By the time Smith wrote in 1776 , some form of workers ' organisation approximating to trade unionism has been found among many groups including hatters , wool combers , tailors , weavers , cabinet makers , wheelwrights , curriers , carpenters , bricklayers , masons and calico printers . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In the long history of workers ' education the role of the RBs has an important place : from the early days of University Extension , through the founding of the WEA , and the development of Trade Union education , the idea of ‘ education for citizenship ’ to enable a genuinely participative and egalitarian democracy to emerge , has been central . |
| 20 | Of the Scottish Daily News , the study finds that it was inadequately financed from the outset ; was poorly equipped ; so applied the principle of workers ' control as to make ‘ executive decision taking impossible if not farcical ’ ; and produced an unacceptable product . |
| 21 | But precisely how this power was to be used to reach what appears to be the ultimate goal of workers ' control is not conceptualised . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Our report emphasised the rationality of workers ' behaviour in relation to their own goals and working situation . |
| 24 | The enterprise-based bargaining structure is closely intertwined with the structure of workers ' trade unions . |
| 25 | An international comparison of union attitudes to work organisation found that British unions adopted a neutral position on this subject.8 Many of the experiments in work organisation in this country have been conducted without the involvement of workers ' trade union representatives . |
| 26 | On the contrary , with the exception of Yugoslavia , where the system of workers ' self-management did something to diffuse responsibility for decision making , there has been a tendency towards increasingly centralized and bureaucratic administration in economic and other spheres of social life . |
| 27 | The point has been made more generally by Eldridge in his historical survey of workers ' resistance ( 1971 , pp.45–64 ) . |
| 28 | In the context of the mobilisation and assertiveness of organised labour under Heath 's government , the industrial policy proposals became charged with a stronger element of workers ' control which was seen as an essential component of the ‘ planning agreements ’ to be made with large enterprises , and vital to their enforcement . |
| 29 | On the more negative side , however , the social purpose tradition of workers ' education has been concentrated overwhelmingly on the white , male , manual , working-class trade unionist , to the virtual exclusion of other sections of the working class . |