Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] workers ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others emphasize capitalism 's success in raising the majority of workers ' living standards , as the most famous early Marxist revisionist , Eduard Bernstein ( 1961 ) , contended . |
| 2 | Some trade unions argued that free time was as important as perhaps even more important than — money in the struggle for workers ' rights . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Any fluctuations in measured unemployment which may , from time to time , be observed is the result of workers ' fluctuating preferences between work and leisure . |
| 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 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Most initiatives arose from the ‘ movement left ’ — that amorphous network of local groupings , cultural ventures and autonomous campaigns that was the legacy of the libertarian revolts of the late 1960s and early 1970s — rather than from within the existing labour movement ( apart from the Institute for Workers ' Control , which in the mid-1970s looked as though it might become a major national forum for the newer movements of the 1970s and the earlier generation of intellectuals and trade unionists who had quit the Communist Party after 1956 ) . |
| 12 | By the end of the year the UDC , which in the summer had fully backed Leeds and urged its local branches to support the establishment of Workers ' and Soldiers Councils , had come round to full support for the Labour Party . |
| 13 | The failure of the Leeds Convention 's call for the establishment of Workers ' and Soldiers ' Councils reflected the inappropriate nature of the proposed organizational structures , not the absence of popular support for peace agitation as such . |
| 14 | We talked yesterday about a lot about Europe about the importance of workers ' rights in Europe , but here we can expand upon this . |
| 15 | Twelve members of the European Community moved towards the standardization of workers ' rights as contained in the Social Chapter of the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But , even in defeat , the unions had succeeded in imprinting the notion of workers ' power on the minds of the public . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The latter would work as before , but under the control of workers ' institutions . |
| 21 | As in 1926 , so in 1985 the old legend of the impact of workers ' solidarity and union power had been exploded . |
| 22 | to the music of Workers ' Playtime . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | 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 : |
| 25 | A second important moderating factor is the strength of workers ' need to ‘ grow ’ in the job . |
| 26 | These developments were to influence the form of workers ' struggles once full employment was achieved ( chapter 12 ) . |
| 27 | The reason for companies ' single-minded loyalty to their workers is fading , as is the reason for workers ' loyalty to their firms . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Our report emphasised the rationality of workers ' behaviour in relation to their own goals and working situation . |
| 30 | The enterprise-based bargaining structure is closely intertwined with the structure of workers ' trade unions . |