Great Bombay Textile Strike The Great Bombay Textile Strike was a textile strike called on 18 January 1982 by the mill workers of Bombay (currently Mumbai) under trade union leader Dutta Samant. The purpose of the strike was to obtain bonus and wage increases. Nearly 250‚000 workers and more than 50 textile mills went on strike in Bombay.[1] History of Mills in Bombay | | Built in 1887‚ Swadeshi was Bombay’s first textile mill‚ the first of the factories that spread over Girangaon‚
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Government Employees and Right to Strike – right to strike – At present‚ in the absence of any legislation in government employees the right to strike‚ recognizing their right to do so‚ or regulating the exercise of such right‚ they are prohibited from striking by express prohibition of MC No. 6 and as implied in EO 180. The 1987 Constitution‚ in the Article on Social Justice and Human Rights‚ provides that the State "shall guarantee the rights of all workers to self-organization‚ collective
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A friend of mine owns a bird who cannot fly. She had adopted the bird as their first pet bird‚ having no previous experience as an owner. After doing some research on the internet‚ she decided to keep the bird flighted‚ because she’d read several articles stating that it was morally wrong to clip an animal that was created for flight. She loved the bird immensely‚ it meant everything to her. Then‚ one day‚ while flying around the house‚ the bird hit a window‚ breaking its wing. The owner rushed to
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Terri Simmons Online Class The Pullman Strike George Pullman started out with humble beginnings and although he denied having dreams; he had vision. The vision was to make travel in rail cars more comfortable which would benefit not just the avid traveler but himself as well.
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I chose to write about the "Reach for a LUCKY instead of a sweet" ad created by Lucky Strike cigarettes and how they appealed to the average American woman of the 1920 ’s. We ’ll be going over what the average American woman of the 20 ’s was as well as why they were so fascinated with smoking cigarettes. Didn ’t they know that cigarettes cause cancer? Didn ’t they know that they could die‚ and leave their loved ones behind because of cancer? Did they truly believe that cigarettes were the miracle
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Furthermore‚ the growth of unions increased by about 20 percent from 1933 to 1945 because there were new and different strategies such as sit-down strikes for workers driven by their need for respect. Instead of using the standard strike of standing outside and chanting‚ workers had come up with different forms of techniques that caught the attention of people‚ not in unions. The success of these new strategies is very helpful in creating new and improved unions. For instance‚ craft unions who had
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Strike as a social problem can first be traced to the disfunctioning of the society when looking at it from the functionalist perspective. Functionalism which is one of the perspectives of studying the society was developed in the 19th century‚ it’s a framework for building theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. This approach looks at society through a macro-level orientation‚ which is a broad focus on the social structures that
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THE WHITE BIRD John Berger From time to time I have been invited by institutions--mostly American--to speak about aesthetics. On one occasion I considered accepting and I thought of taking with me a bird made of white wood. But I didn’t go. The problem is that you can’t talk about aesthetics without talking about the principle of hope and the existence of evil. During the long winters the peasants in certain parts of the Haute Savoie used to make wooden birds to hang in their kitchens and perhaps
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Strike refers to an act of abstinence from work for sometime in order to protest against some injustice or exploitation. It is a joint activity of a group of persons having a common goal to achieve. Originally‚ it was a major instrument in the hands of the labour union for establishing their demands to the proprietor of the concern. The labourers used to interrupt the work indefinitely until their demands were paid heed to. The causes of this strike were generally demand for a hike in the wage rate
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Strikes When the employees felt that their problems were not being addressed‚ they organized themselves into groups. The groups were aimed at ensuring that they resisted everything that the management set or wanted to be enforced. The employs would not go to the workplace unless their demands were met (Ushistory.org‚ 2015). The Pullman strike of 1890 and the Coal strike of 1900-1902 was the example of the major strikes that hit the organizations in the US. Both strikes were attributed to the poor
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