A Sacred Duty: Nationalist and Anti-Imperial Activisms in Buenos Aires, 1916-1930

The Southern Atlantic city of Buenos Aires emerged a critical hub of radical political activism between 1916 and 1930 at a time when the influence of anarchist activists waned and organized labor often worked with the Radical Civic Union presidents. Whether based in or passing through this city, activists and exiles, partisans, and pretenders pursued various strategies to achieve revolutionary change, raise funds for causes, assure sovereignty, control the public narrative, and network with like-minded individuals and groups. These agitators created webs of associations throughout the Atlantic world in the process. These networks were vital in fashioning enduring transnational connections, strategies of resistance, shared discourses, and symbolic registers that framed how nationalist and anti-imperial interactions were understood. This article focuses on Irish republicans, Catalan nationalists, and Arab anti-colonialists and their interactions with Argentine agitators, sympathizers, and various state actors to more fully understand the importance of Buenos Aires in this period and the consequences on sociopolitical life in this Atlantic port city up to the global depression of 1930.

The Socialization of New Teachers into Teacher Unions

Using interview data collected from local teacher-union presidents in ten districts, this study identified the key mechanisms and content of union-sponsored new-teacher socialization efforts. Using a framework of union attachment, the utility of these socialization efforts was evaluated and implications for future research and union-leader practice were offered. Based on the analysis of the findings, the impact of new-teacher socialization on union attachment is often minimal due to the short duration and limited focus of socialization efforts. Therefore calls for sustained socialization within a context of a supportive union culture at the school-level may be warranted.

Canadian National Union Presidents: An Empirical Study

This study examines personal and organizational factors affecting the rise to office of presidents of Canadian national unions.

An Analysis of Annual Turnover Rates for Canadian Union Presidents

This paper re-examines the common views that presidential turnover occurs infrequently, is often the result of political forces and provides an adequate measure of union democracy. Moreover, the authors try to determine to what extent environmental factors influence annual presidential turnover rates among Canadian national unions.