Eric Tucker

Jan 8, 2025 | digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca | Eric Tucker

Keywordslabour law; strikes; unlawful strikes; political strikes; wildcat strikesAbstractNorth American regimes of industrial legality provide workers with protected rights to organize, bargain collectively and strike. However, they also limit the freedom to strike. Trade unions commonly accept and enforce these limits, but at great cost to solidarity and militancy.

Nov 8, 2024 | digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca | Barry Wright |Susan Binnie |Eric Tucker

State Trials V: World War, Cold War, and Challenges to Sovereignty, 1939-1990Description"The fifth and final volume of the Canadian State Trials series examines political trials and national security measures during the period of1939to1990.

Sep 5, 2024 | kaaltv.com | Eric Tucker |David Klepper

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has charged a Russian-born U.S. citizen and former adviser to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign with working for a sanctioned Russian state television network and laundering the proceeds. Indictments announced Thursday allege that Dimitri Simes and his wife received over $1 million dollars and a personal car and driver in exchange for work they did for Russia’s Channel One since June 2022.

Apr 23, 2024 | digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca | Eric Tucker

KeywordsRentier Capitalism, Labour, Unions, Collective BargainingAbstractThe rise of rentier capitalism in advanced capitalist countries has detrimentally affected large numbers of worker and impaired the efficacy of protective labour and employment laws. However, capitalist rent-seeking is not unique to rentier capitalism, but rather has taken a variety of forms over time. This chapter begins by exploring the evolving meaning of rent and changing practices of capitalist rent-seeking.

Apr 19, 2024 | digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca | Eric Tucker

Keywordslabour law, political economy, worker subordination, self-employment, unfree labourAbstractDebates over worker subordination are central to discussions of the efficacy of protective labour and employment law whose central mission in a capitalist political economy, after all, is to reduce but not eliminate subordination.