Kally Forrest (2024) Lydia: An Anthem to the Unity of Women. Johannesburg: Jacana Media. ISBN 9781431434800. 230 pp. ZAR300.00 (paperback); US$ 19.55 (kindle) by Diane Cooper

“…The biography chronicles her journey from her rural childhood, to her life as a trade unionist and a rural land restitution activist, to a member of South Africa’s first democratic parliament. …”
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 Le temps du travail by Luca Rimoldi

“…Thus, in this article I will try, through critical analysis, to show how stories of trade unionists in their work and their involvement in trade union education reveal a continuous exchange between the public and private sphere, individual and collective dimension moreover, I will try to demonstrate how the trade union memory could be used to trace the biography of a place transformed by modernity.…”
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“We can and we must”: The scientificity of trade-union history-writing in the Soviet Union in the 1920s by Roman Gilmintinov

“…Focusing on the case of trade unions, I suggest considering the early Soviet non-academic history-writing as a form of radical citizen science. Even though trade unionists had no special education, they dared to use scientific methods in their research that ended with positive results. …”
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L’anticommunisme, l’autre moteur de Jean-Marie Le Pen by Adrian Thomas

“…Throughout his career, whether in Vietnam or in the Palais Bourbon, Le Pen was convinced that he was fighting Bolshevism and its avatars tooth and nail, be they student trade unionists, Algerian independence fighters or militants of the left-wing union in all its plurality. …”
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Trabalho doméstico: entre o poder simbólico patronal e a luta por reconhecimento jurídico by Attila Magno e Silva Barbosa, Giovanna Iasiniewicz, Maria Emília Valli Büttow

“…Among the methodological procedures used to obtain the data, includes eighteen semi-structured interviews and direct observation conducted at the headquarters of the Domestic Workers’ Union of Pelotas - seeking to understand the perception of domestic workers, employers and trade unionists about the recent changes.…”
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Chine-Malaisie (vue de Malaisie) : menace ou relation consensuelle inscrite dans la continuité ? by Elsa Lafaye de Micheaux

“…Although opposition parties have grown stronger over time, our findings — mostly culled from more than twenty interviews with politicians, public officials, activists, scholars, trade unionists, economists and businessmen — show that an extremely broad political consensus deems China-Malaysia relations advantageous and strategic. …”
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La question du logement social à New York by Catherine Pouzoulet

“…It outlines the separate, conflicting agendas of various actors (such as housing reformers, trade‑unionists, social workers, real estate developers, business groups…), and analyzes how their positions interacted with the struggle for control of the newly created public housing program between the federal and local governments. …”
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