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#research: As a relatively young industry, high rates of labour turnover are identified as a key characteristic
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / December 5, 2016As a relatively young industry, high rates of labour turnover are identified as a key characteristic 3 (Taylor and Bain, 1999; Bain and Taylor, 2000) and general perceptions of call centre work are fa...
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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: Originally sparked by the Haymarket Massacre of 1886
By feimineach / in #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / April 15, 2016Originally sparked by the Haymarket Massacre of 1886, when police cracked down on peaceful protestors rallying for an eight-hour work day in Chicago, International Workers’ Day has enjoyed a bit of a ...
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#todayin: labor history: January 3, 1931
By feimineach / in #quickhits / January 3, 2016todayinlaborhistory: Today in labor history, January 3, 1931: Drought and the Great Depression causes hundreds of angry farmers to converge on the town of England, Arkansas, demanding that the Red Cr...
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#todayin: labor history: December 30, 1936
By feimineach / in #quickhits / December 30, 2015todayinlaborhistory:Today in labor history, December 30, 1936: Autoworkers at the General Motors Fisher Body No. 1 plant in Flint, Michigan, occupy the factory and begin a sit-down strike that lasts 4...
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#todayin: labor history: October 4, 1936
By feimineach / in #quickhits / October 28, 2015todayinlaborhistory:Today in labor history, October 4, 1936: An estimated crowd of more than 100,000 trade unionists, anti-fascist activists, and local residents barricade streets leading into London’...
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#todayin: labor history: June 18, 1984
By feimineach / in #feminism, #quickhits / June 18, 2015todayinlaborhistory: Today in labor history, June 18, 1984: During picketing of the Orgreave Coking Plant in South Yorkshire, England, police attack striking miners, arresting nearly one hundred peop...
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