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102 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 5,401 Labor Movements and Unions papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • Another limitation of this study is replicability. In terms of the study’s limitations, the findings reported are limited to the specific dynamics of X and lack a cross-platform approach that would enable a deeper understanding of the strategic framing and narratives of the trade unions on various platforms. Although authors have emphasized the instrumental nature of social media for trade unions (Wood 2020; Greene and Kirton 2003), more attention should be paid to the Digital content framing for unionism 16 external factors influencing the implementation and success of those strategies, as they remain understudied in the current literature. This dual-method approach provides empirical evidence to the revitalization debate, offering insights from a weaker institutional context that has been underexplored in the literature.

    Digital content framing for unionism: A conceptual model on the influence of context on Chilean labour confederations’ social media content · 2026 · DOI

  • Grounded in an interdisciplinary conceptual framework that draws on both social movements and labour studies, this article explores one understudied aspect of these emerging forms of labour mobilisations, namely, the appeal that the participatory organising typical of this unionism has to its participants.

    Migrant workers’ representation and the appeal of independent grassroots unionism: insights from Britain and Italy · 2025 · DOI

  • The findings indicate union strength at the workplace has a more significant impact on unions' role in digitalisation in Norway, where there are strong institutional supports, than in the UK where these are lacking.

    Digitalisation, unions and ‘country-effect’: does union strength at the workplace matter? · 2025 · DOI

  • Through the investigation of two professional unions, which despite their vitality remain under-researched, the study offers an investigation of the interactions between formal and informal partnership arrangements at the workplace level, the ways in which they intersect with the professional nature of the union context, and the deterioration of working conditions.

    ‘Walking a fine line’: Union perspectives on partnership in nursing and midwifery workplaces · 2022 · DOI

  • Nevertheless, little is known about the overall characteristics of TLA campaigns in general, in part because the full population of cases remains unknown.

    The Transnational Labor Alliances Database Project: Methods, Problems, and Progress · 2022 · DOI

  • The article attempts to answer the question whether the economic freedom of the employer is not blindly limited by the model of trade unions, which do not conform to the modern economic reality, which, in the light of the principle of self-governance, often abuse their dominant position in the labor market.

    THE STATUTE OF TRADE UNIONS AS A LIMIT OF ABUSES AGAINST EMPLOYERS – SELECTED ISSUES · 2021 · DOI

  • Abstract Although trade union density is the most influential and most commonly used indicator to map trade union strength, comparing between countries and time, the author argues that trade union density is lacking both specificity and comparability.

    Rethinking trade union density: A new index for measuring union strength · 2021 · DOI

  • This article addresses that gap in knowledge by investigating how the self-image of a major Swedish public-sector trade union, the SKTF/Vision, changed after a thorough revitalization process took place.

    Re-inventing the self: Implications of trade union revitalization · 2020 · DOI

  • The focus of the article on the Trade Union Modernisation Fund provides unique insights into the relatively underexplored ‘inner workings’ of unions, and allows an examination of the types of modernization projects that may advance women’s interests within unions and the types of challenges such initiatives face.

    Women and the Modernization of British Trade Unions: Meanings, Dimensions and the Challenge of Change · 2013 · DOI

  • Although empirical studies have combined economic and institutional explanations, important problems remain: A conceptual framework which links economic to institutional factors is lacking; the focus on labour power ignores the relational character of power; endogeneity problems are neglected; quantitative studies covering a larger number of institutional variables are merely cross-sectional, whereas TSCS analyses examine only a few of them.

    Labour Conflicts: A Cross-national Analysis of Economic and Institutional Determinants, 1971-2002 · 2009 · DOI

  • Situated between the end of World War II and the Chicano movement, the Tex-Son strike represents an important, transitional form of Mexican and Mexican American women's activism not yet fully explored by historians.

    An Unladylike Strike Fashionably Clothed: Mexicana and Anglo Women Garment Workers Against Tex-Son, 1959–1963 · 2009 · DOI

  • The South African case further highlights both the bounded and institutionally constrained nature of strategy formulation, yet also the willingness of clusters of firms to experiment with alternative strategies, albeit with mixed results: strategy and action represent a product of both setting and real strategic choices.

    Union power and new managerial strategies: the case of South Africa · 2008 · DOI

  • However, the evidence is inconclusive and it has been suggested that performance benefits occur in ESO workplaces only when employees are actually involved in the decision‐making process.

    The impact of employee‐share‐ownership schemes on performance in unionised and non‐unionised workplaces · 2008 · DOI

  • A survey of organizers in 13 Australian unions indicates that, while progress appears to have been made towards more `organizing' approaches to their work, much remains to be done.

    Organizers' Roles Transformed? Australian Union Organizers and Changing Union Strategy · 2007 · DOI

  • Although there have been approximately thirty studies of the I926 general strike in different localities, much work remains to be done if the nature of the dispute at the local level is to be understood.

    THE GENERAL STRIKE OF 1926 IN BERWICK UPON TWEED · 2002 · DOI

  • Among the adversities that union leaders face are pressing organisational problems: membership erosion due to structural changes in the economy and society; unfavourable political and institutional conditions that make organizing even more difficult; and attempts to attract and represent new social groups remain insufficient.

    Trade unions’ changing role: membership erosion, organisational reform, and social partnership in Europe · 2002 · DOI

  • Due to stark differences in capacity and resource mobilisation, however, the functions, activities and even organs of the AU are not understood in the same manner or at the same level in all of the member states.

    The African Union: Problems and Prospects · 2002 · DOI

  • On the other hand, "Chesire Cat" or disappearing union phenomena are likely to be limited by the forward-looking behavior of union members and the sensitivity of union membership to employment.

    Membership, Seniority and Wage-Setting in Democratic Labour Unions · 1990 · DOI

  • Summary Despite an abundance of literature on the Second International relatively little is known about the work of the International Secretariat of National Trade Union Centres (ISNTUC).

    The International Labour Movement and the Limits of Internationalism: the International Secretariat of National Trade Union Centres, 1901–1913 · 1988 · DOI

  • 1 What has not been studied so closely, however, is the emergence of this AngloAmerican front, how it was established in the months preceding the meetings of the Commission.

    The Anglo-American Preliminary Negotiations for a League of Nations · 1974 · DOI

  • The new questions being asked about the history of American workers stem from the assumption that they were not purely economic men but were in every sense members of their local and national communities, and that their efforts to improve their lot should be studied in this community setting. The displacement of detective agencies by the large corporations' own security services in the 1930s and the related alliance of the declining agencies with Right-wing political groups is another phenomenon suggested, but not explored here.

    The conventional wisdom · 1972 · DOI

  • Once again, then, one must bemoan the Commission’s neglect of a vital aspect of its territory, but with the exception chiefly of an admirable chapter on safeguards against unfair dismissal, the “division of labour” between collective bargaining and labour legislation remains unexplored.

    The Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers' Associations* · 1969 · DOI

  • com at The University of Iowa Libraries on June 18, 2015 73 discussed are notable for their lack of precision, and arguments supporting them for their lack of evidence.

    Australian Trade Unions · 1969 · DOI

  • This proposition was doubted by the New York Appeal Board in 194976 and labeled a n open question two years later by the Court of Appeals. There is scarcely a single community in this commonwealth which has not lost industrial prospects to other states because of unemployment compensation.

    THE ESTABLISHMENT CONCEPT IN STRIKE DISQUALIFICATIONS UNDER UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE LAWS · 1966 · DOI

  • 31 May 1834, 7 June 1834, T R A D E S U N I O N 93 It remains to be said that Morrison is not as consistently syndicalist as Beer’s statement would imply. His major individual contribution, in fact, is limited to the invention of a label, the ‘House of Trades’, to describe a truly popular House of Commons.

    The Consolidated Trades' Union of 1834 · 1964 · DOI

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