Andrew Carnegie and J.P. Morgan had to consider at least the existence of a working class willing to strike over a dollar's difference in weekly pay.
The existence of a works council is associated with a lesser demand for externally skilled staff with IVET qualification and a greater demand for university-trained workers.
Our experience from previous projects shows that successul applications of e-Research infrastructures depend not just on more usable technologies but also crucially on the existence of a working division of labour that supports researchers and allows technological offerings to be adopted, appropriated and tailored to the specific needs of a research project [6].
Arguing that a works council is a crucial institution to perform this function might explain the insignificant coefficient of the existence of a works council on the demand for new apprentices and the highly negative significant effect on the demand for already-qualified workers with IVET qualifications.
Finally, explicit information with regard to a worker's coverage by a collective bargaining agreement is only available in the SOEP data for 1995, while respondents have been asked about the existence of a works council in 2001, 2006 and 2011.
Questions deal, among other things, with the number of workers, the composition of the workforce, the plant's commitment to collective agreements at the sector or plant level, the existence of a works council, the plant's exporting activity, and its production technology.
The status of further in-company training activities (Bellmann et al., [2010]) and – because of the particular institutional conditions for dual-system IVET – the company's affiliation to collective agreements and the existence of a works council may also be significant.
And it is one of the few series even to acknowledge the existence of a working class, let alone the poor, whom it regards without judgment or sentimentality.
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Higher education serves many purposes, from fostering individual growth and democratic values to ensuring the existence of a highly skilled work force.
