... that the ordinary public engages with legalized commitments in ways that support the international legal system. It also introduces two complementary studies. The first set of studies uses survey experiments and focuses on the real-world policy debate over drone strikes, while the second set moves beyond...

...This chapter examines developments at Cornell University under Frank H. T. Rhodes, who served as president from 1977 to 1995. Given the multiple constituencies and multiplicity of views in Cornell's multiversity, the Rhodes administration had its share of conflicts and critics: strikes by service...

... politics,” members of food co-ops participate in union strikes, boycotts, petitions, and other forms of protests. The chapter explains the book's aims to revitalize a discussion about the economic and democratic ideals of foods. It illustrates the changes in this history of food cooperatives by examining...

... a renewed willingness by workers make use of their most powerful defensive tools, such as walk-outs, wildcat strikes, and other direct actions. The chapter highlights the continuous trend toward increased labor activism, noting how the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 exposed existing repression and angered more...

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...Presenting an in-depth and empirically rich analysis of various recent labor campaigns and strikes, particularly those of the junior doctors, railway workers, university cleaners and social workers, Chapter 2 is the first of five chapters which address the first sphere, union democracy...

... demands. The chapter shows how competitive product and labor markets have made it more difficult for workers to go on strike in India. Some workers responded to this fact by becoming quiescent, other workers by engaging in higher levels of militancy to force the employer's hand, and still others...

... Janata Party worker rights India labor law labor policy third-party mediation economic performance industrial relations strikes India needs to reform its absurdly restrictive labour laws, which hold back the expansion of manufacturing particularly. —Economist magazine, “India...

...This chapter looks at how unions respond to particular instances of worker resistance and how these responses evolved in the period 2007–10. It compares two strikes that in many ways were similar—the little-known Ascendant Elevator strike and the famous Nanhai Honda strike—but produced very...

..., and others, this grassroots coalition defeated Wall Street's money and showed the power of social justice organizing. Fifteen months later, in spring 2018, a string of strikes in red states showed that educators in many places have both the inclination and the capacity to fight, even where teacher strikes...

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...This chapter details the political landscape in Manila after World War II and the declaration of martial law. It notes the mounting social anger over the years, referencing the eruption of student strikes that eventually resulted in all the universities in the university belt having been shut down...

...This chapter analyzes the hidden dynamics of labor activism on military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan. It focuses on three strategies: protests, strikes, and “jumping” from one company to another. This chapter describes the motivations of workers who engage in these actions, as well as the risks...

... not center on Iraqi regime change. In 1990, Saddam and his lieutenants held their own unconventional weapons in reserve and discounted an American nuclear strike because of the high strategic costs that such a strike would impose on the United States. They also undertook various civil defense measures...

... scrutiny for their involvement in labor unrest, became potentially dangerous internal enemies. Business leaders would use this heightened tension to portray strikes, and the agitators who allegedly fostered them, as threats to national security. Alleged perpetrators became saboteurs and traitors...

... for the nation to enjoy its myriad benefits. Yet at least immediately this was not to be the case. Multiple manifestations of class-based dissent, in the form of strikes, protests, and horrific acts of violence, put the nation on edge. Much of the fervor focused on immigrants, as it had since the onset...

... and divide the broader working class. The introduction contrasts news coverage of transit labor union strikes from the mid- and late-twentieth century to illustrate how America’s working class became invisible. The introduction also describes the author’s working class background and the discovery...

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... simultaneously as the brutal expulsion and expropriation of Germans in Alsace and Lorraine. The chapter notes how Paris' introduction of more democratic labor laws led to a series of strikes after 1919. Alsace Lorraine France French franc German immigrants in Alsace Lorraine Herriot Édouard Poincaré Raymond...