2. Transnational cigar-makers Cross-border labour markets, strikes, and solidarity at the time of the First International (1864-1873)

2018 ◽  
pp. 69-100
Keyword(s):  
Labour Markets ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Cigar Makers

scholarly journals Transnational Cigar-Makers: Cross-Border Labour Markets, Strikes, and Solidarity at the Time of the First International (1864–1873)

2014 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 409-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ad Knotter
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
International Solidarity ◽  
Cigar Makers ◽  
Migratory Movements

AbstractSeveral authors have argued that one of the main goals of the International Working Men's Association was to control transnational labour markets. In the eyes of trade unionists, especially in Britain, uncontrolled cross-border migratory movements threatened to undermine wage standards and working conditions. Their solution was to organize internationally, both to prevent strike-breaking and wage-cutting by workers from abroad, and to support unions elsewhere to raise wage standards in their home countries. Cigar-makers operated on a cross-border labour market and were very prominent in the First International. In this article I describe the connections between the German, British, Dutch, Belgian, and American cigar-makers as migratory workers, and their actions to stimulate, support, and coordinate trade unions internationally. I argue that the international cooperation of cigar-makers was primarily motivated by a wish to regulate their cross-border labour market, not so much by an abstract ideal of international solidarity.

Migrant Taxes and International Migration Patterns

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saibal Kar
Keyword(s):  
Asymmetric Information ◽  
International Migration ◽  
Migration Pattern ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Tax Structure ◽  
Migration Patterns ◽  
Skill Group ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Symmetric Information ◽  
Regressive Tax

This article investigates the effect of ‘migration taxes’ on the migration pattern for skill types under asymmetric information in cross-border labour markets. In the presence of migration taxes, the top skill group migrating under complete asymmetric information may not be lower than that under symmetric information. We also establish that for the revenue maximizing tax authority, the regressive tax structure across skill types Pareto dominates all other schemes.

The Relationship between Cross-Border Labour Mobility and Diffusion of Eco-Innovations: Case of Ukraine

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nataliya Horin ◽  
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Oleh Risnyy ◽  
Ihor Hrabynskyi ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Labour Markets ◽  
Labour Mobility ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Cross ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
And Diffusion ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation

The paper discusses the relationship between the cross-border labour mobility and diffusion of ecoinnovative technologies. Based on the interview surveys the authors found the main directions of circle impact of cross-border cooperation, eco-innovation and open labour markets. The analysis also showed the most important restrictions fordiffusion of eco-innovations in Ukraine and their effect on cross-border labour mobility.

THE STATE, CHIEFS AND THE CONTROL OF FEMALE MIGRATION IN COLONIAL SWAZILAND, c. 1930s–1950s

2004 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
HAMILTON SIPHO SIMELANE
Keyword(s):  
Southern Africa ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Uneven Development ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Human Migration ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Colonial Administration ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Female Migration

Human migration has played an important role in the construction or dissolution of states in southern Africa. With the coming of the colonial period there was an intensification of the process of migration, mainly for work. Such movements were premised on the uneven development of colonial economies in which some areas became suppliers of labour while others became labour markets. In the case of Swaziland, the migration of labour was dominated by male migrants as the existing labour markets offered more opportunities for men. This view has become a conventional interpretation of the disparity in the mobility of men and women within states or across borders. This article uses the experience of Swaziland to extend the discourse on why men dominated the migration currents in Swaziland during the colonial period. It points out that it is no longer useful to rely on purely economic explanations of why more men were migrating than women in colonial Swaziland. The argument pushes the frontier of analysis beyond economics and argues that a more significant explanation is to be found in the power relations at the homestead level, whereby men had the power to determine if and when women could migrate. The discussion shows that Swazi men, in collaboration with colonial administrators, employed different strategies to control the mobility of women. The intention of the men was to keep women in the rural areas and they used their power in the homestead and their influence on the colonial administration to create barriers against female migration to local and cross-border industrial centres.

scholarly journals In search of global labour markets

2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick ◽  
Richard Hyman
Keyword(s):  
Labour Markets ◽  
Labour Migration ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Introductory Article

In this introductory article, the Guest Editors consider key themes involved in discussion of cross-border labour migration, exploring the ambiguities of some of the main concepts involved. They summarise the six substantive articles which follow, and identify some major topics for further research.

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