Between inclusion and disconnection: LGBTQ Workers and the challenge of union renewal [0.03%]
包容与隔离之间:LGBTQ工人的挑战及工会改革
Suzanne Mills,William Foley,Noah Yang
Suzanne Mills
Over the past three decades, unions have played a critical role in advancing the rights and equality of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people and other equity-seeking groups within and outside of unions. Accordingly,...
A strike in the time of COVID-19 pandemic: The 2020 health workers' dispute in Hong Kong [0.03%]
新冠肺炎疫情下的罢工行动——香港医护界的争议(2020年)
Bill Wk Taylor,Ming Yui Issac Chan
Bill Wk Taylor
A short health workers' strike held in early 2020 in Hong Kong at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic demonstrates the importance of democratic framing of social movement unionism. A trade union was established during a period of massive civ...
Converging economies of care? Immigrant women workers across 17 countries and four care regimes [0.03%]
趋同的关怀经济?跨越17个国家和四种护理制度的移民女性工人
Naomi Lightman
Naomi Lightman
This study analyses 17 care economies using 2016 Luxembourg Income Study data to contribute to extant debate regarding the ongoing utility of care regimes as a classificatory schema for cross-national comparison. Examining similarities and ...
Liminal and invisible long-term care labour: Precarity in the face of austerity [0.03%]
临界状态和隐形的长期照护劳动:紧缩政策下的不稳定性
Tamara Daly,Pat Armstrong
Tamara Daly
Using feminist political economy, this article argues that companions hired privately by families to care for residents in publicly funded long-term care facilities (nursing homes) are a liminal and invisible labour force. A care gap, creat...