How useful is the concept of a ‘people’s war’ for explaining the Labour Party’s election victory? The Labour Party’s election victory in 1945 is often regarded as a watershed moment in terms of British political history. The establishment of a welfare state‚ as a result of socialist reforms that were introduced by the newly elected Labour government‚ saw‚ what can arguably be described as a radical overhaul of British politics and society. Labour’s unprecedented landslide victory is commonly attributed
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Response Paper: The Labour Day Movement in Canada Labour Day‚ a day of celebration and collection for workers‚ their families‚ and communities. This movement started as a response to demands from the skilled workforce for public recognition of organized labour and its crucial role in society. Labour Day started as an important day of celebration for the vast variety of skilled workers‚ but because of the economic changes in Canada and the negative effects of the second industrial revolution its
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The labour theory of value can be traced back to writings in 1662‚ Treatise of Taxes written by Sir William Petty. However it seems to be Karl Marx who has expanded these ideas and made it a well-known theory. Marx argues that labour equals power (<http//enwikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_theory_of_value>‚ March 2012). A commodity gains its value from labour power. This value is the ‘socially necessary labour time needed to produce it’. The value on top of this is known as ‘surplus value’ also known
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During the 1800s‚ Great Britain was making great new changes to its nation new advances in technology‚ and a rapid growth in the population‚ especially‚ in urban areas of the country which resulted the increase of supply and demand. Factory owners only had one problem they didn’t have enough workers‚ and didn’t want to take lots of money out of their pockets to provide new employees. The solution was finally found they found people who could be paid the cheapest wages‚ work long hours‚ and are fast
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Labour Law and Industrial Relations 1. Describe and analyze the main characteristics of the Bi-partite Collective Negotiation‚ by making special reference to the social partners‚ the unions‚ the collective agreements‚ the industrial relations code and the role of the Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance. The Bi-partite Collective Negotiation involves the two parts of labour industry; employers and employees. This Negotiation contains the collective agreement. This is an association between
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REVIEW OF LITERATURE Labour Relations in Colonial PNG A country’s fundamental features of industrial relations whether in whole or segment‚ according to the late Dunlop‚ one of foremost American labour relations scholars‚depended on three factors: the effect of chronological period‚ the pattern of social change and the process of economic development (1958:38). Jackson (1924)‚ Parr (1974) and Nelson (1976) described it as incomprehensible and strange to most labourers in the Wau-Bulolo gold
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Child Labour Child Labour in the Industrial Revolution was the employment of children as workers for textile industries‚ mining industries‚ milling industries and many more. In 1788‚ more than 60% of the workforce were children employed in textile factories. Children aged as young as 5 or 6 would work for more than 12 hours a day‚ for 6 days a week. Families sent their children to work in factories‚ mills and mines because they needed the money. The average working class child in the period 1791-1850
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British Labour Party I would like to start by explaining The British Labour Party. The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom‚ and one of the two main British political parties along with the Conservative Party. In 1997‚ Tony Blair led this political party and he tried to change the environmental policy. Blair criticized other governments for not doing enough to solve global climate change. In a 1997 visit to the United States‚ he made a comment on "great industrialized
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Poverty in the Victorian Era. Child Labour During the Industrial Revolution‚ children as young as four were employed in production factories with dangerous‚ and often fatal‚ working conditions. Based on this understanding of the use of children as laborers‚ it is now considered by wealthy countries to be a human rights violation‚ and is outlawed‚ while some poorer countries may allow or tolerate child labour. Child labour can also be defined as the full-time employment of children who are under
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the list with the highest number of child labourers in the world. The 2001 national Census of India estimated the total number of child labour‚ aged 5-14‚ to be at 12.6 million.[1] Out of the 12.6 million ‚0.12 million engages in hazardous job. However‚ according to informal labour force statistics‚ the problem seems to be more severe than reflected. Child labour is estimated to be as large as 60 million in India‚ as many children are "hidden workers" working in homes or in the underground economy
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