Example sentences of "[noun] of workers ' [noun] " 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 | Economic consequences were particularly severe for countries which were forced to bear the costs of accommodating large numbers of refugees , such as Jordan [ see p. 37639 ] and Turkey [ see p. 37641 ] , or suffer the loss of workers ' remittances , such as Egypt , Pakistan , India , Bangladesh and the Philippines . |
| 3 | A report in Le Monde of Sept. 20 disclosed that India faced the loss of workers ' remittances from Iraq and Kuwait totalling $400 million , and would lose exports to Iraq and Kuwait worth around $185 million , while an oil price increase of $3.00 per barrel would add $1,700 million to its oil import bill . |
| 4 | A rise of between 17 and 20 per cent was agreed , amounting to £64 a week , a dramatic demonstration of workers ' power . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Proposals on the minimum wage and protection of workers ' rights ( through endorsement of the EC 's Social Chapter for example ) if implemented might have helped prevent exploitation of the " peripheral " workforce although the market advantage of the knowledge workers would continue . |
| 7 | It issued a strike threat in support of demands for rises in pensions and wages , a programme for dealing with unemployment and in defence of workers ' interests in the context of privatization . |
| 8 | Others emphasize capitalism 's success in raising the majority of workers ' living standards , as the most famous early Marxist revisionist , Eduard Bernstein ( 1961 ) , contended . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The issue of workers ' rights found expression in a Community Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers ( pp. 36668 ; 36985 ) which was resolutely opposed by the United Kingdom alone , but which received , in a modified form , the assent of all other heads of state at the Strasbourg summit on Dec. 8-9 , 1989 ( see pp. 37132-33 ) . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | I also think , on er sort of workers ' rights , I mean if you know the person that 's made it , like a local butcher , I would trust more to make I would trust more than . |
| 17 | Twelve members of the European Community moved towards the standardization of workers ' rights as contained in the Social Chapter of the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 18 | We talked yesterday about a lot about Europe about the importance of workers ' rights in Europe , but here we can expand upon this . |
| 19 | But , even in defeat , the unions had succeeded in imprinting the notion of workers ' power on the minds of the public . |
| 20 | From the 1880s thousands of activists began to establish direct contact with workers on the factory floor and acquired detailed knowledge of workers ' conditions and grievances . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The growing level of investment prevented a fall in the rate of growth of output despite a tendency in the decade from the mid-fifties for the share of workers ' savings to rise — a development which restrained consumption growth . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | By a nearly three-to-one majority the congress on June 15 passed a resolution declaring that the CPSU could no longer be considered the champion of workers ' rights , and was losing its authority . |
| 25 | As in 1926 , so in 1985 the old legend of the impact of workers ' solidarity and union power had been exploded . |
| 26 | The latter would work as before , but under the control of workers ' institutions . |
| 27 | But despite last night 's developments , Mrs Thatcher is still likely to be in a minority of one — both on completion date for monetary union and on her continued opposition to the European Social Charter of workers ' rights . |
| 28 | She had already found herself in isolation over progress to monetary union and the endorsement of a social charter of workers ' rights , and it became clear that the new European Community order would be built on an even closer alliance of France and West Germany . |
| 29 | ‘ True ’ workers ' control will never spring into existence in fully fledged form and socialists must fight , within the present society , for democratic measures which can help to ‘ de-mystify ’ management and raise radical questions concerning the organisation of work and the goals of production , whether these measures involve the accountability of managerial agents or the promotion of workers ' plans . |
| 30 | In February 1990 the National Federation of Workers ' Unions of Benin ( Union nationale des syndicats des travailleurs du Bénin — UNSTB ) was weakened by the decision of the postal and telecommunications workers ' union to split from the UNSTB and declare itself autonomous ( the second defection after that of the Higher Education Union in August 1989 ) . |