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Once more on the rank and file – union bureaucracy interplay: Mining unionism in Australia’s Pilbara region 再谈基层员工与工会官僚机构之间的相互作用：澳大利亚皮尔巴拉地区的矿业工会主义

Capital & Class Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI: 10.1177/03098168241240462

Alexis Vassiley

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Promoting social justice in the capitalist academy? Health equity and the Johns Hopkins University Michael Bloomberg School of Public Health 在资本主义学院中促进社会公正？健康公平与约翰霍普金斯大学迈克尔-布隆伯格公共卫生学院

Capital & Class Pub Date : 2024-03-15 DOI: 10.1177/03098168241234304

Stella Medvedyuk, Dennis Raphael

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On Motley feminism: A Decolonising Marxism for a thesis 14 of Marxism-feminism 论莫特利女权主义：马克思主义-女性主义论文 14 的非殖民化马克思主义

Capital & Class Pub Date : 2024-03-12 DOI: 10.1177/03098168241234112

A. Dinerstein

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Analytical utility of periodizing capitalist history: Neoliberalism, social welfare spending, and income inequality in the United States 资本主义历史分期的分析作用：美国的新自由主义、社会福利支出和收入不平等

Capital & Class Pub Date : 2024-03-08 DOI: 10.1177/03098168241232383

Ridhiman Balaji

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Idealism and biologism in social reproduction theory: A materialist critique 社会再生产理论中的理想主义和生物主义：唯物主义批判

Capital & Class Pub Date : 2024-03-04 DOI: 10.1177/03098168241234101

Jule Goikoetxea