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Political Equality and First Amendment Challenges to Labor Law

compelling state interest in reducing economic inequality’s transmission into political inequality. The Article makes two principal contributions. First, it updates criticisms of the Supreme Court’s campaign ... political equality throughout the country. And the decision’s mode of First Amendment analysis threatens other laws that strengthen both public and private sector unions’ ability to do so. In Janus the Court

Walking the Tightrope: The President's Council, P.W. Botha and the Rhetoric of Reform

investigate and make recommendations regarding reform in the socio-economic and political spheres, which were undermining apartheid ideology of racial segregation. Comprising five committees with delegates ... was now recognised as racial discrimination. This Act was a product of 'the ideological-political philosophy of the Government' during the early years of apartheid.66 As such, the Planning Committee

Populism and Transparency: The Political Core of an Administrative Norm

the relationship between an administrative norm and a political movement and style, and what democracy’s current state portends for transparency’s future. ... developed and provided support for the claim that information disclosure can help solve political and social problems,4 while nongovernmental organizations advocate nationally and transnationally on

Authority, Obedience, and Justification

the justification of law’s claims to authority and our obedience to those claims. This Article is an exercise in analytic legal philosophy. It clarifies the nature of authority, obedience, and ... version of Wolff’s philosophical anarchism, see Matthew Smith, Political Obligation and the Self, 86 PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH, 2, 384 ( 2011 ). Thankfully, however, we need not resolve the

'For our self-sufficiency and autonomy': International Worker Solidarity and the Global Networks of FOSATU in the Democratic Struggle in South Africa

apartheid, the focus tends to emphasise what has been called political or social movement unionism. However, one labour centre, the Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU), pursuing a workerist ... , created and extended tentacles of democracy during apartheid, outside the ambit and influence of political parties and the nationalist movement. FOSATU also created global networks and outreach in search of

Political Discrimination by Private Employers

PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS 6 (rev. ed. 1996). An opposed epistemic vice might involve, for example, a knowing indulgence of one’s own confirmation bias in seeking and assessing evidence on political questions

An organisational and political history

, 1992, pp 1-14; G Sartori, "The Sociology of Parties A Critical Review", Committee on Political Sociology of the International Sociological Association, Party Systems, Party Organizations, and the ... Memorial Trust The Political Economy of Social Change in South Africa University of the Western Cape, 1-2 April 1997; S Trapido, "Political Institutions and Afrikaner Social Structures in the Republic of

Ideological movements that inspire the possibility of a radically different future

radical in their political outlook. He traces the rise and decline of the young student left from the end of Belgian colonialism in the 1950s until Joseph Mobutu's increased authoritarian rule at the ... authoritarian rule at the beginning of the 1970s. This period in Congolese history was defined by significant political turmoil and great youthful energy. While university students formed a small social group in

Hunger and power: Politics, food (in)security and the development of small grains in Zimbabwe, 2000-2010

millet - offered a panacea to looming starvation and civil unrest. Yet, as we argue in this article, its access became rooted increasingly within political contestations between the ruling ZANU PF ... citizens. Using the story of small grains -sorghum and millet - between 2000 and 2010, we trace how food (in)security took a political form, stirring a pot of sometimes violent clashes between political and

The Development of Christian Care Aid in Zimbabwe: The Case of Matabeleland Region, 1967-c.1990

The organisation, Christian Care, was formed during Zimbabwe's liberation war in 1967 to disburse emergency aid to victims of the war and political repression. From 1967 to about 1990, it provided ... Christian Care, I argue, provided assistance to victims of political repression and marginalisation in the context of the liberation war and post-war Gukurahundi2massacres as well as victims of natural

John Vorster and the Extension of University Education Act, 1959

leadership position in the National Party was strengthened. The debates provided an early stepping-stone in his political career, that launched him on his way to becoming Minister of Justice, prime minister ... sabotage in protest against the Smuts government's war policy, but was nevertheless arrested and interned at Koffiefontein for fourteen months.5 Vorster's political opponents later alleged that his

Marshalling a Splintered Society: Censorship, Publicity and Propaganda in South Africa During the Second World War

government of General J.C. Smuts lacked broad-based support and contested opposition which was shaped by Nazi influences. Latent South African socio-political friction surfaced, and anti-war violence ensued ... policy. The article focuses on subversive Nazi efforts within South Africa before and during the war, and on the impact of these on internal political divisions. These are significant because they formed

'Liberal crusader': Zach de Beer, apartheid and liberalism 1950-1990

Zach de Beer's political career began in 1950 when as a student leader and a member of the Civil Rights League he addressed a public meeting in the Cape Town City Hall to protest the banning of the ... parliamentary seat in the 1961 general election and led to years in the political wilderness. Outside of parliament, as a prominent figure in the financial world, he continued to encourage constitutional and

"Fascist or opportunist?": The political career of Oswald Pirow, 1915-1943

Oswald Pirow's established place in South African historiography is that of a confirmed fascist, but in reality he was an opportunist. Raw ambition was the underlying motive for every political ... action he took and he had a ruthless ability to adjust his sails to prevailing political winds. He hitched his ambitions to the political momentum of influential persons such as Tielman Roos and J.B.M

Creation and Preservation of Business History: The Selection Trust and Anglo-American Corporation Archives in Zambia's Copperbelt

administrative efficiency, these documents eventually became publicly available because of Zambia's political independence and the nationalisation of the mining industry in the 1960s. In the early 1970s, the ... 2000 the identity of mining archives reverted to private entities. This article provides new and significant insights into the power and role of regional and local political-economic shifts in

Local Right-to-Work Ordinances: Why § 14(b) of the National Labor Relations Act Preempts Political Subdivisions from Regulating Union-Security Agreements

LABOR RELATIONS ACT PREEMPTS POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS FROM REGULATING UNION-SECURITY AGREEMENTS Michael Soder I. INTRODUCTION “Right-to-work laws” are a bit of a misnomer. Rather than referring to laws ... right-to-work laws but 912 UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI LAW REVIEW [VOL. 88 is silent regarding whether political subdivisions of a state, such as cities, municipalities, counties, or townships, have the

"Fascist or opportunist?": The political career of Oswald Pirow, 1915-1943

Oswald Pirow's established place in South African historiography is that of a confirmed fascist, but in reality he was an opportunist. Raw ambition was the underlying motive for every political ... action he took and he had a ruthless ability to adjust his sails to prevailing political winds. He hitched his ambitions to the political momentum of influential persons such as Tielman Roos and J.B.M

Turn Up the Volume: The Connick Pickering Test as a Remedy for Quiet Quitting and the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Critical Private Employment Issues

, social, and political crises faced by the private employment sector is application of the public sector test created by the combined holdings of Connick v. Myers10 and Pickering v. Board of Education11 to ... its functions.88 Thus, her interests in speaking about political policies outweighed her public employer’s concerns about successfully performing its services.89 3. Snyder and the Definition of a

"Pulpit power

political change. It then moves on to chronicle David Gitari's sermons as a case in point to demonstrate that his political sermons promoted a culture of defiance in the country and marked the genesis of the ... true love, unity and peace evaporated into political hatred, disunity and betrayal, making Moi out to be the main pillar of nyayo philosophy.21Similarly, Franz Fanon contended that "single party states

"Pulpit power

political change. It then moves on to chronicle David Gitari's sermons as a case in point to demonstrate that his political sermons promoted a culture of defiance in the country and marked the genesis of the ... true love, unity and peace evaporated into political hatred, disunity and betrayal, making Moi out to be the main pillar of nyayo philosophy.21Similarly, Franz Fanon contended that "single party states