Social protection: What workers and trade unions should know
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Trade :union:s, trade :union: movement, trade :union:s, political sphere of Iran
The research, which is written using the approach of historical sociology and descriptive and analytical methods, examines the interactions of trade unions after the Islamic Revolution. The examinations show that the first trade unions or trade unions emerged in England in the early eighteenth century. In Iran, too, the tendency towards trade unions is related to the years before the Constituti...
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