Rank and file : assessing research quality in Australia

In this paper, the author describes recent developments in the assessment of research activity and publication in Australia. Of particular interest to readers will be the move to rank academic journals. Educational Philosophy and Theory (EPAT) received the highest possible ranking, however, the process is far from complete. Some implications for the field, for this journal and particularly, for the educational foundations are discussed.

The Military history of Ohio : Its border annals, its part in the Indian wars, in the war of 1812, in the Mexican war, and in the war of the rebellion, with a prefix, giving a compendium of the history of the United States ... Special local department in editions by counties, giving a roster of Ohio's rank and file from the county in the war of the rebellion, regimental histories, with histories of its G. A. R. and Ladies' Auxiliary Posts, and Camps of Sons of the Veterans.

Mode of access: Internet.

Las potencialidades políticas de lo gremial y sus límites : Un caso de sindicalismo clasista

En este artículo nos proponemos realizar una indagación sobre el sindicalismo clasista a partir del período político inaugurado por la presidencia de Néstor Kirchner. De esta manera, planteamos una comparación con las primeras experiencias de esta tradición sindical en los años '70. Específicamente, se trata de indagar en torno a la relación entre la dirigencia sindical clasista y el conjunto de los trabajadores por ella representados. Nos preguntamos centralmente por cuál es la naturaleza de la relación entre la dirección gremial y las bases, en esta orientación en particular. Para ello, tomaremos como caso de estudio el sindicalismo desarrollado por la Junta Interna de ATE (Asociación Trabajadores del Estado) en el Hospital Garrahan, en el contexto del nuevo ciclo de relaciones laborales abierto en Argentina a partir de 2003

Las potencialidades políticas de lo gremial y sus límites : Un caso de sindicalismo clasista

En este artículo nos proponemos realizar una indagación sobre el sindicalismo clasista a partir del período político inaugurado por la presidencia de Néstor Kirchner. De esta manera, planteamos una comparación con las primeras experiencias de esta tradición sindical en los años '70. Específicamente, se trata de indagar en torno a la relación entre la dirigencia sindical clasista y el conjunto de los trabajadores por ella representados. Nos preguntamos centralmente por cuál es la naturaleza de la relación entre la dirección gremial y las bases, en esta orientación en particular. Para ello, tomaremos como caso de estudio el sindicalismo desarrollado por la Junta Interna de ATE (Asociación Trabajadores del Estado) en el Hospital Garrahan, en el contexto del nuevo ciclo de relaciones laborales abierto en Argentina a partir de 2003

Las potencialidades políticas de lo gremial y sus límites : Un caso de sindicalismo clasista

En este artículo nos proponemos realizar una indagación sobre el sindicalismo clasista a partir del período político inaugurado por la presidencia de Néstor Kirchner. De esta manera, planteamos una comparación con las primeras experiencias de esta tradición sindical en los años '70. Específicamente, se trata de indagar en torno a la relación entre la dirigencia sindical clasista y el conjunto de los trabajadores por ella representados. Nos preguntamos centralmente por cuál es la naturaleza de la relación entre la dirección gremial y las bases, en esta orientación en particular. Para ello, tomaremos como caso de estudio el sindicalismo desarrollado por la Junta Interna de ATE (Asociación Trabajadores del Estado) en el Hospital Garrahan, en el contexto del nuevo ciclo de relaciones laborales abierto en Argentina a partir de 2003

At a Crossroad: Immigration Reform and American Unionism

"Since the founding days of the Republic, the relationship between American unionism and mass immigration has been contentious. No issue has caused the labor movement more agony and irony. It is no surprise, therefore, that throughout its history the American labor movement has sought to influence U.S. immigration policy."

Tests for Cointegration Rank and the Initial Condition

Many economic events involve initial observations that substantially deviate from long-run steady state. Initial conditions of this type have been found to impact diversely on the power of univariate unit root tests, whereas the impact on multivariate tests is largely unknown. This paper investigates the impact of the initial condition on tests for cointegration rank. We compare the local power of the widely used likelihood ratio (LR) test with the local power of a test based on the eigenvalues of the companion matrix. We find that the power of the LR test is increasing in the magnitude of the initial condition, whereas the power of the other test is decreasing. The behaviour of the tests is investigated in an application to price convergence.

Men, Women and an Integrated History of the Russian Revolutionary Movement

Since its emergence as a discipline in the 1960s, women’s history has had a profound effect on the study of the past. Scholarship on women’s experiences of and contributions to the Russian revolutionary movement has increased exponentially since the publication of a number of biographies of Aleksandra Kollontai in the 1970s and 1980s and a comprehensive picture has emerged of women’s involvement in all the major revolutionary parties, as leading figures as well as rank and file activists. Despite this wealth of historical discovery, remarkably little has found its way into so-called ‘general’ histories of the revolution. An integrated history, which is the ultimate aim of women’s history, has yet to be produced for the Russian revolutionary movement, even though recent prosopographical studies of revolutionary women have made clear the numerous ways in which men and women cooperated and interacted on a daily basis in the underground. This article explores the nature of and reasons for this failure, makes a case for why incorporating women’s experiences into the grand narrative of the Russian revolution is important and discusses how this might be achieved.

The Crowned Harp: Policing Northern Ireland (reprint 2006, 2010)

The Crowned Harp provides a detailed analysis of policing in Northern Ireland. Tracing its history from 1922, Ellison and Smyth portray the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) as an organisation burdened by its past as a colonial police force. They analyse its perceived close relationship with unionism and why, for many nationalists, the RUC embodied the problem of the legitimacy of Northern Ireland, arguing that decisions made on the organisation, composition and ideology of policing in the early years of the state had consequences which went beyond the everyday practice of policing.

The authors provide an extended discussion of policing after the outbreak of civil unrest in 1969, ask why policing was cast in a paramilitary mould, and look at the use of special constabularies and the way in which the police dealt with social unrest which threatened to break down sectarian divisions. Examining the reorganisations of the RUC in the 1970s and 1980s, Ellison and Smyth focus on the various structural, legal and ideological components, the professionalisation of the force and the development of a coherent, if contradictory, ideology. The analysis of the RUC during this period sheds light on the problematic nature of using the police as a counter insurgency force in a divided society. Perceptions of the police, and the opinions of rank and file members are examined and an assessment is made of the various alternative models of policing, such as community policing and local control. This book offers important lessons about the nature of policing in divided societies.