Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1967. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D. in History)--University of California, Berkeley, 1979. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 537-551).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Cornell University, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 429-449).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2003. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 505-531).

The commercial fisheries of British Columbia, operating along the province's 750-mile winding coastline and out into the North Pacific, are extremely diverse. Each of the many different species of fish requires its own technique of catching and method of processing and marketing. Processors are concentrated into a few firms, handling all products. Fishermen are a specialized, but nonetheless competing, labour force, divided by a variety of gears used and wage payments received, and further split historically into various language and racial groups, often isolated in close-knit communities. Characteristic of the industry is its uncertainty of operation and income. Lack of control of the supply of fish has been further accentuated by variations in conservation measures designed to perpetuate the fisheries. These rigid government controls have, in part, determined the nature of the fierce competition and rapid technological changes which have occurred when fishermen and companies have attempted to increase their share of the fish. Another uncertainty has been fluctuating market demand, especially in those export markets which take the bulk of the catch. Focus of the tensions produced has been disputes between fishermen and companies over the price of raw fish. Fish prices were the cause of the first strikes and attempts at unionism in the years 1893 to 1914. In this period, while the companies organized a tight employers' organization, antagonism between fishermen, especially whites and Indians on the one hand, and Japanese on the other hand, often defeated their aims. Unions that did survive were restricted to a single area, type of gear or language group. In the second phase of unionism, much stress was laid on legislative action to restrict fishing licences, especially to Japanese fishermen. Rapid changes in technology have dominated the last two decades. Mergers and consolidations have concentrated processing into a few multiphase plants. The fishing fleet has become highly mobile, adaptable to many fisheries and increasingly owned by individual fishermen, though often with company financing. Local isolation has broken down, competition between groups has increased, and fishermen face an increasing need for co-operation to cut insecurity and risk. Out of the struggles against depression conditions in the 1930's, scattered fishermen's unions were welded into a coast-wide organization. Joined with more recently stabilized unions of shoreworkers, it forms one industry-wide union, enrolling the bulk of the labour force. The other attempted solution to these problems has been producers1 co-operatives which have had a limited success in enlisting independent fishermen from some fisheries and areas. The industry today is highly organized with collective agreements all processing operations and practically all fisheries. One major union negotiates with a single employers association, with independent vessel owners and co-operatives playing a subsidiary role. Basic insecurities which produced past industrial disputes have not been eliminated, and the prospect is for continued conflict, coupled with displacement of fishermen and shoreworkers from the industry as productivity and capital costs rise. / Arts, Faculty of / Vancouver School of Economics / Graduate

Submitted by Caroline Falcao (caroline.rfalcao@ufpe.br) on 2017-06-19T16:59:25Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) 2012-Dissertação-Rafael-Ferreira.pdf: 33190071 bytes, checksum: 5b52b0020dab7e891215a4b69ff039b4 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-19T16:59:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) 2012-Dissertação-Rafael-Ferreira.pdf: 33190071 bytes, checksum: 5b52b0020dab7e891215a4b69ff039b4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-02-28 / Através da leitura da bibliografia referente ao “Novo sindicalismo” no Brasil, percebemos a ausência de “estudos regionais” e o enorme privilégio dado aos eventos ocorridos no eixo RJ-SP. A partir desta constatação, apresentamos este trabalho que tem como objetivo analisar o (res)surgimento do movimento sindical urbano, em Pernambuco, durante os anos finais do regime civil-militar (1979-1984), identificando, em seu processo de constituição, os elementos de mudanças e de permanências em relação às atividades sindicais anteriores. Nesta pesquisa, procuramos mostrar que a retomada do movimento grevista não foi exclusividade do eixo RJ-SP. No Estado de Pernambuco, por exemplo, foram deflagradas inúmeras greves em diversas categorias (médicos, professores, motoristas, eletricitários e metalúrgicos). Essas paralisações, ao enfrentarem o governo e/ou patrões, foram extremamente importantes para a luta dos trabalhadores pernambucanos nesses anos, pois, ao romperem o cerco montado pela ditadura, iniciaram uma profunda luta contra o arrocho salarial, pilar fundamental do projeto econômico conservador e autoritário do regime civil-militar. / Through the reading of the literature about “New Unionism” in Brazil, we realize the absence of “regional studies”, because the events that happened in Rio de Janeiro-Sao Paulo are in the spotlight. From this observation, we present this text, which aims to analyze the emergence of the union urban movement, in Pernambuco, during the final years of the civil-military regime (1979-1984), recognizing in its process of constitution, the elements of changes and permanence relative to previous union activities. In this research, we intend to show that the retaking of the strike movement didn’t happen only in RJ-SP. In Pernambuco, for example, was triggered numerous strikes in various categories (doctors, teachers, drivers, electricians and metallurgical). By going against the government and / or employers, the movements were extremely important to the workers struggle of Pernambuco in these years, because when they broke the siege made up by the military dictatorship, they began a deep struggle against wage squeeze, fundamental pillar of the economic project of the conservative and authoritarian military-civilian regime.

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Thesis (M.Com. (Accounting))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, School of Accountancy, 2012. / The recent spate of strikes in the mining sector in South Africa has created a perceived nervousness amongst shareholders. Within the mining sector in South Africa, gold mining is of significance historically and economically. This study aims to assess the impact of strikes on shareholder value in the gold mining industry during the period beginning January 2007 and December 2012, and uses the popular event study methodology developed by Ball and Brown (1968). The effect of the announcement and duration of the strike on the share price was tested. Significant negative cumulative abnormal returns were observed during the announcement of the strike. The impact of the announcement of protected strikes compared to unprotected strikes on the share price was compared. Although both types of strikes had a negative impact on shareholder value, an unprotected strike had less of an impact on shareholder value compared to a protected strike. This observation is of particular significance given the recent increase in unprotected strikes. Strikes with a duration of 15 days or longer resulted in smaller negative cumulative abnormal returns as opposed to strikes which lasted for less than 15 days.

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