There are many ways that the Solidarity Fund used its position as an institutional investor to try to influence Gildan Active wears Inc. For example the solidarity funds of the Quebec Workers Federation: a collective tool in service of the community. The Mutual aid funds MAF was created in 1983 at the instigation of the Quebec Trade Union‚ the Quebec Workers Federation (QWF) and the government of Quebec. The creation of the Funds is carried out in a context of power change between the social agents
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Profile • Company Name- Gildan Activewear‚ Inc • Market- Gildans has over 60% market share in the wholesale T-shirt category compared to less than 10% it had in 1998. The market size in North America is around $2.25 billion‚ while an international market the company is currently penetrating offers the same or greater market potential than the United States. • Where it is based- Founded in 1984 and it is headquartered in Montreal‚ Canada. (Covestor‚ 2010) Gildan Activewear‚ Inc engages in the manufacture
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Cold War began with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and President Reagan’s reference to the Soviet Union as “that evil empire”. Then‚ at the end of the 1980’s‚ the USSR started to lose control of its satellite countries due to factors such as Solidarity in Poland‚ where they wanted greater freedom. The strikes brought the country to a halt and even Gorbachev was encouraging greater freedoms in the USSR and satellite countries. By nineteen ninety one‚ the USSR had disintegrated and the Cold War
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Introduction Societies are subjected to different solidarities that define and describe the kind of the society they are. Emile Durkheim plays an important role in the classification of mainly two kinds of solidarities that can be found in societies namely‚ Organic solidarity and Mechanical solidarity. Firstly it would of academic importance to define the two kinds of solidarities found in different kinds of societies. These two societies can be identified by morphological features‚ demographic
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With Calamity‚ Comes Solidarity A week after crazy Yolanda’s rage‚ I went home to Leyte for the sole purpose of bone crushing my entire family with the biggest hug my outstretched arms could make. Even after knowing they’re all fine‚ I couldn’t settle my nerves with mere words coming out from someone’s mouth telling me that everyone is safe. I longed to see for myself that my family is okay so I bought a ticket and sailed home. As the boat neared the port of Ormoc City‚ the once green and lush
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`Solidarity and its effect on the fall of European Communist Regimes The rise of the Polish Solidarity Trade Union in the 1980’s was historically significant because of its continued persistency for social change. Solidarity’s ability to develop and persevere through years of political oppression led to substantial changes within the Polish Government and its influence led to the eventual collapse of Eastern European Communist regimes. Although Hungary‚ Czechoslovakia‚ and East Germany would receive
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The Solidarity movement in Poland was one of the most dramatic developments in Eastern Europe during the Cold War. It was not a movement that began in 1980‚ but rather a continuation of a working class and Polish intelligentsia movement that began in 1956‚ and continued in two other risings‚ in 1970 and 1976. The most significant of these risings began in the shipyards of the ’Triple City’‚ Gdansk‚ Sopot and Gdynia in 1970. The first and by far the most violent and bloody of the workers revolts came
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Mechanical and organic solidarity From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Mechanical Solidarity and Organic Solidarity refer to the concepts of solidarity as developed by Émile Durkheim. They are used in the context of differentiating between mechanical and organic societies. According to Durkheim‚ the types of social solidarity correlate with types of society. Durkheim introduced the terms "mechanical" and "organic solidarity" as part of his theory of the development of societies in The Division
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Poland and the Role of Solidarity Marisa Saldana and Sofia Venegas Overview What is Solidarity? (August 14‚ 1980) ● Independent self-governing trading union ● It was a broad anti-communist social movement ● Used the methods of civil resistance to advance the causes of workers’ rights and create social change. ● Contributed to the fall of communism and sparked the later Revolutions of 1989 Critical figures Lech Walesa ● ● ● ● ● Most prominent leader of the Solidarity movement Persistent activism
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Possible Reasons That Could Cause an Individual in Society to Choose to Deal Drugs With Regards to Durkheim’s Ideas of Organic Solidarity Throughout all societies there are common trends; laws‚ relationships‚ hierarchies and among other things‚ crime. There is no society in existence where individuals obey every rule that the society has set for them. The law is an external form of social control that is broken often but not penalized nearly as much as it is broken. This means that there is the
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