Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] workers ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must include stronger protection for workers ' health and safety , so that industrial modernisation is not pursued in ways which damage the working environment . |
| 2 | Does the Minister recall that when we discussed these matters during the passage of the Finance Bill the then Financial Secretary , now Chancellor of the Exchequer , expressed passionate enthusiasm for workers ' control ? |
| 3 | However that may have been , there is no doubting that at plant level and in two cases ( the Scottish Daily News and KME ) an ideological perception of workers ' control precluded the effective delegation of executive authority to management . |
| 4 | A rise of between 17 and 20 per cent was agreed , amounting to £64 a week , a dramatic demonstration of workers ' power . |
| 5 | To begin with , the level on which conflict occurs can be based on actions taken by individuals , action taken by work groups , and action at the level of workers ' organisation , namely the trade union . |
| 6 | Others emphasize capitalism 's success in raising the majority of workers ' living standards , as the most famous early Marxist revisionist , Eduard Bernstein ( 1961 ) , contended . |
| 7 | The Labour Conference , which described itself as a body uniting all forms of workers ' struggle for their rights , called for a national warning strike which would create local bodies which could participate in the struggle against the current government and its reforms . |
| 8 | They had wrested factory management from the hands of the very right-wing Congress of Mining Industrialists which had disallowed even neutral forms of workers ' control in 1917 . |
| 9 | The ‘ council movement ’ was especially vigorous , and was widely debated among socialists in the years immediately preceding and following the First World War ( Renner , 1921 ; Pribicevic , 1959 ) ; and more recently it again aroused growing interest as a result of the experience of workers ' self-management in Yugoslavia , some tentative steps in that direction in other East European countries during the 1970s , and the formulation of ideas about ‘ participatory democracy ’ that arose from the new social movements of the late 1960s . |
| 10 | ‘ There is no third way for Poland , ’ says Mr Jan Litynski , a former member of KOR , the pre-Solidarity Committee for Workers ' Defence . |
| 11 | Old-style movements for workers ' control are no longer feasible in a world of transnationals and global production and semi-skilled labour . |
| 12 | Most initiatives arose from the ‘ movement left ’ — that amorphous network of local groupings , cultural ventures and autonomous campaigns that was the legacy of the libertarian revolts of the late 1960s and early 1970s — rather than from within the existing labour movement ( apart from the Institute for Workers ' Control , which in the mid-1970s looked as though it might become a major national forum for the newer movements of the 1970s and the earlier generation of intellectuals and trade unionists who had quit the Communist Party after 1956 ) . |
| 13 | Thus the project wishes to focus on additiorial areas of injury including , managerial strategies , that is , the methods used to communicate the goals of the enterprise to the workforce ; the work process , that is , the distribution of power and authority in the workplace and the divisions of the workers on the basis of income and status ; migration , that is , the study of worker satisfaction , in as much as a stable working population is an indication of employee loyalty ; ethnic and religious divisions , that is , whether religion and nationality was used to divide workers by allocating jobs on the basis of these factors ; and , lastly , women and trade unionism , that is , the degree of workers ' identification with an alternative loyalty structure to that of the enterprise . |
| 14 | Romania has many joint party-state organizations such as the Supreme Council for Economic Development , the Central Council of Workers ' Control of Economic and Social Activity , the Defence Council and the Council for Socialist Culture and Education : ‘ These organizations provide an infrastructure for blending party and state activities ’ ( Szajkowski 1981 , p. 47 ) . |
| 15 | Councillor Rodgers said , ‘ They are interfering with the democratic process in this by-election and seeking to buy political influence with what amounts to bribes ’ , and noted the offer was personally embarrassing for him as he negotiated as a union official with the companies over workers ' pay and conditions . |
| 16 | Dismissal therapy … the use of drug tests has lead to a US legal battle over workers ' privacy rights PHOTOGRAPH : N. SAGANSKY |
| 17 | In addition , they control resources which can be withdrawn or redeployed at their discretion , and are of vital importance for workers ' livelihood and the revenue base of state expenditure . |
| 18 | In a 1952 revolution they overthrew a military regime and won nationalization of the large mines under workers ' co-management . |
| 19 | Of course the government did not ‘ challenge capitalism ’ outright in the sense , for instance , of attempting massive nationalisation under workers ' control . |
| 20 | Active leadership of this programme was taken by Truong Chinh , Secretary-General of the Lao Dong , the cover name for Workers ' Party , which the Communists now used . |
| 21 | From 1903 to 1909 Sophy Sanger worked with Mary Reid Macarthur ( later Anderson ) and Margaret Bondfield [ qq.v. ] for the Women 's Trade Union League , setting up its legal advice bureau while studying labour law at University College London , mastering insurance regulations for workers ' compensation , and interviewing women factory inspectors on conditions in the workplace . |
| 22 | But , even in defeat , the unions had succeeded in imprinting the notion of workers ' power on the minds of the public . |
| 23 | That regime must reverse the process by which the resources of workers ' radicalism have been accumulated , and neutralize the discontent of the petty bourgeoisie and peasants . |
| 24 | Democracy in the work-place with firms under workers ' control is also important . |
| 25 | As in 1926 , so in 1985 the old legend of the impact of workers ' solidarity and union power had been exploded . |
| 26 | It is particularly notable that neither in the mines nor in the other industries nationalised at that time was there any substantial movement towards workers ' control . |
| 27 | Discussions on workers ' control and the general strike to stop war also showed that an important section of the trade unions had reacted against gradualism , at least in words , and was returning to the syndicalist notions fashionable some ten years before . |
| 28 | We then move on , in Chapter 4 , to examine in detail the various arguments put forward about the likely effects of technical change on workers ' experience of their jobs . |
| 29 | He said he would also like to see progress on workers ' safety and health , with the adoption of the directives on pregnant women and working time . |
| 30 | to the music of Workers ' Playtime . |