Following the rapid growth of unions around the time of the First World War, the Russian Revolution and the setting up of the ILO-industrial conflict began to increase and over 1, 000 strikes were recorded between 1920 and 1924.
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The postwar years, however, saw renewed industrial conflict, culminating in the 1949 elections and the beginning of the long rule at a Federal level of Robert Menzies, a politician from Victoria, of the newly founded Liberal Party of Australia.
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:see also : " Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers'Associations 1965-68 ", appendix 6, pp . 340-1, and Knowles, K . G . J . C . ( 1952 ) . " Strikes; a study in industrial conflict, with special reference to British experience between 1911 and 1947 ."
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The mice, she suggests, can be viewed as representatives of the various rebellions of the working classes against working conditions of England and the growing local political and industrial conflicts revolving around issues such as the recognition of new unionism, working conditions, minimum wages, an 8-hour day, and the closed shop.
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In his latest study on conflict, " A History of Warfare " ( Vintage paperback, 432 pages, $ 14 ), the 60-year-old Keegan reaches well past the techno-triumph of Operation Desert Storm, the 50-year-old nuclear impasse of the Cold War and the two great industrial conflicts of the 20th century to prove his thesis.
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In modern times, business leaders are often very concerned with total quality management in production, which has become the object of scientific studies, as well as a new source of industrial conflict, since attempts are made to integrate " everything " a worker is and does ( both his creative potential and how he relates to others ) in the battle for improved quality.
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Nelson Lichtenstein has written that Widick " was a synthesizer more than a truly original thinker, " but that " his authority as writer and teacher was rightly enhanced by his rich engagement with a generation of shop militants and union leaders, which he deployed to frame and popularize for postwar labor-liberals key issues facing the unions in an era of racial tension, industrial conflict and urban decline ."
