Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of workers ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The point has been made more generally by Eldridge in his historical survey of workers ' resistance ( 1971 , pp.45–64 ) . |
| 6 | Without this " attraction " it was hardly to be expected that rural labour markets could clear themselves through falling wages , since they were already so close to the level of subsistence that a further lowering would have reduced the productivity of labour via its depressing effect on the calorific value of workers ' diets which would no longer have sustained the same work effort . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A rise of between 17 and 20 per cent was agreed , amounting to £64 a week , a dramatic demonstration of workers ' power . |
| 13 | Dame Margaret Cole , for instance , suggested that the General Strike killed off the ‘ romantic vision of workers ' control ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But precisely how this power was to be used to reach what appears to be the ultimate goal of workers ' control is not conceptualised . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This creeping destruction of workers ' rights has spread rapidly from journalists to printers , from tanker drivers to docks , telecom managers to mines , and lecturers to insurance staff . |