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Workers' Opposition The Workers' Opposition () was a faction of the Russian Communist Party that emerged in 1920 as a response to the perceived over-bureaucratisation that was occurring in Soviet Russia. It was led by Alexander Shlyapnikov, who was also chairman of the Russian Metalworkers' Union, and it consisted of trade union leaders and industrial administrators who had formerly been industrial workers.
Workers' Party Workers' Party is a name used by a number of political parties throughout the world. It is perhaps one of the few standard party names that does not have an association with any particular ideology, having been used by a wide range of groups - both left and right - in various places at various times:
Workers' Party (Algeria) The Workers' Party (French: Parti des Travailleurs, Arabic Hizb al-Ummal حزب العمال) is a Trotskyist political party in Algeria, closely linked with the Workers' Party of France. The party is led by Louisa Hanoune.
Workers' Party (Brazil) The Partido dos Trabalhadores (Portuguese for Workers' Party) is a left-wing political party in Brazil. It was officially founded by a group of intellectuals and workers in February, 10, 1980 at Colégio Sion (Sion High School) in São Paulo.
Workers' Party (France) The Workers' Party (French: Parti des Travailleurs, PT) is a French Trotskyist party. It was formed by the Trotskyist Internationalist Communist Party (PCI) led by Pierre Boussel, better known under his pseudonym Pierre Lambert (many Trotskyists adopt pseudonyms, and the internal workings of the PT have traditionally been concealed from outsiders).
Workers' Party (Spain) Workers Party (in Spanish: Partido de los Trabajadores) was a communist political party in Spain. It was founded in 1979 through the merger of the Party of Labour of Spain (PTE) and the Workers Revolutionary Organisation (ORT).
Workers' Party (Turkey) Workers' Party (Turkey) (in Turkish: İşçi Partisi) is a Maoist political party in Turkey led by Doğu Perinçek (tr). İP has its roots in the Revolutionary Workers and Peasants Party of Turkey (TİİKP) and Workers and Peasants Party of Turkey (TİKP).
Workers' Party for Socialism The Workers' Party for Socialism (Spanish: Partido de Trabajadores por er Socialismo) is a Trotskyist political party in Argentina. Founded in 1988, as a schism of Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), another trotskist party.
Workers' Party of Marxist Unification The Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM, Spanish: Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista; Catalan: Partit Obrer d'Unificació Marxista) was a Spanish communist political party formed during the Second Republic, and mainly active around the time of the Spanish Civil War. It was formed by the fusion of the Trotskyist Communist Left of Spain (Izquierda Comunista de España, ICE) and the Workers' and Peasants Bloc (BOC, affiliated with the Right Opposition) against the will of Leon Trotsky, with whom the former broke.
Workers' Party of Singapore The Workers' Party of Singapore (abbrev: WP; Chinese: 新加坡工人党) is one of the largest opposition parties in Singapore, with 1 of the 84 elected seats in the current session of Parliament of Singapore. Low Thia Khiang, its Secretary-General holds the single seat for the electoral division of Hougang.
Workers' Party of the United States The Workers' Party of the United States was a Marxist party founded in December 1934 by the merger of the American Workers Party, which had been founded as the Conference for Progressive Political Action by A.J.
Workers' Power (Germany) Workers' Power (German: Arbeitermacht) is a the German section of the Troskyist League for the Fifth International. It publishes two periodicals: the monthly newspaper Neue Internationale and the theoretical organ Revolutionärer Marxismus.
Workers' Power (UK) Workers Power is a Trotskyist group, affiliated to the League for the Fifth International, which it was a prime mover in founding. The group in the UK publish a newspaper, also named Workers Power and print the L5I's quarterly English language journal, Fifth International.
Workers' Revolutionary Organisation The Workers' Revolutionary Organisation (in Spanish: OrganizaciĂłn Revolucionaria de los Trabajadores) was a communist and Maoist organisation in Spain. ORT was founded in 1969, emerging out of the left-wing Catholic Workers' Trade Union Action (AcciĂłn Sindical de Trabajadores).
Workers' Revolutionary Party (Mexico) The Workers' Revolutionary Party (in Spanish: Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores, PRT) was a Trotskyist political party in Mexico. It was founded in 1976 by the merger of two Trotskyist groups: the International Communist League, associated with the United Secretariat of the Fourth International and the Mexican Morenists.
Workers' Revolutionary Party (Mexico, 1999) The Workers' Revolutionary Party (Spanish: Partido Revolucionario de los y las Trabajadores, PRT) is a minor Trotskyist political group in Mexico. In 1999 it split off from the older Workers' Revolutionary Party, which is now known as Socialist Convergence.
Workers' self-management Worker Self-Management is a form of workplace decision-making in which the employees themselves agree on choices (for issues like customer care, general production methods, scheduling, division of labour etc.) instead of the traditional authoritative supervisor telling workers what to do, how to do it and where to do it.
Workers' Socialist League The Workers Socialist League (WSL) was a Trotskyist political party in the United Kingdom. The group was formed by Alan Thornett and other members of the Workers Revolutionary Party (WRP) after their expulsion from that group in 1974.
Workers' Socialist Movement (Argentina) The Workers' Socialist Movement (MST – Movimiento Socialista de los Trabajadores) is a Trotskyist political party in Argentina. The MST was founded in 1992 as a split from another Trotskyist group, the Movement Toward Socialism (see Nahuel Moreno).
Workers' Struggle Workers' Struggle (Lutte Ouvrière) is the usual name under which the Communist Union (Trotskyist) (Union Communiste (Trotskyste)), a French Trotskyist political party, is known (technically, it is the name of the weekly paper edited by the party). Arlette Laguiller has been its spokeswoman since 1973 and has run in each presidential election, but Robert Barcia (Hardy) is its founder and considered as its real leader.
Workers' Union of Ireland The Workers' Union of Ireland was an Irish trade union formed in 1924. In 1990, it merged with the Irish Transport and General Workers Union to form the Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union (SIPTU).
Workers' Youth League (Norway) Arbeidernes Ungdomsfylking (Workers' Youth League) is the youth wing of the Norwegian Labour Party. AUF was formed in April 1927, following the merger of Left Communist Youth League and Socialist Youth League of Norway.
Workers' Youth Theatre Workers' Youth Theatre, also known as TRAM (the Russian acronym for "Teatr RAbochey Molodyozhi") was a Soviet proletarian youth theatre of the late 1920s and early 1930s. It was established by Mikhail Sokolovsky in a converted cinema on Liteiny Prospekt, Leningrad.
Workflow Workflow at its simplest is the movement of documents and/or tasks through a work process. More specifically, workflow is the operational aspect of a work procedure: how tasks are structured, who performs them, what their relative order is, how they are synchronized, how information flows to support the tasks and how tasks are being tracked.
Workflow patterns A workflow pattern is a specialized form of a design pattern as defined in the area of software engineering. Workflow patterns refer specifically to recurrent problems and proven solutions related to the development of workflow applications in particular, and more broadly, process-oriented applications.
Workforce housing Workforce housing is a relatively new term that is increasingly popular among planners, government administrators and housing activists, and is gaining cachet with home builders, developers and lenders. "Workforce housing" can refer to almost any housing, but always refers to "affordable housing".
Workforce management Workforce Management (WFM) encompasses all the responsibilities for maintaining a productive and happy workforce. Sometimes referred to as HRMS systems, or even the larger ERP systems (Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP).
Workforce planning Strategic Workforce Planning involves analyzing and forecasting the talent that companies need to execute their business strategy, proactively rather then reactively, it is a critical strategic activity, enabling the organization to identify, develop and sustain the workforce skills it needs to successfully accomplish its strategic intent whilst balancing career and lifestyle goals of its employees.
Workforce Skills Qualifications The Singapore Workforce Skills Qualifications (WSQ) system is a national continuing education and training system designed for adult workers which complements the formal education system for students. WSQ training is accessible to all workers and does not require academic pre-requisites.
Workgroup Server 9150 The Apple Workgroup Server 9150 is not directly based on a Power Macintosh. It featured an 80 MHz (speed bumped to 120 MHz in April 1995) PowerPC 601 board in a Quadra 950 style case Workgroup Server 9150 at Low End Mac and apple-history.
Workgroup Support Systems Workgroup support systems, (WSS) are elaborate online systems designed solely to improve the performance and collaboration of teams. WSS supports the sharing and flow of information by creating more efficient and effective means in which work groups can collaborate and communicate ideas and opinions to one another.
WorkgroupMail WorkgroupMail is a commercial mail server developed by Softalk Ltd, designed for the Microsoft Windows operating system. WorkgroupMail was originally based on the Workgroup Internet Gateway MAPI transport provider, that provided users of Exchange Client (the predecessor of Microsoft Outlook) with centralised SMTP/POP3 connectivity.
Workhaven Workhaven is a North American term which is a concatenation of the words 'work' as in employment and 'haven' as in harbor or retreat. It is often used to indicate either the home working environment (home office) or the ideal job.
Workhorse Workhorse is an expression that refers to the draft horse common in agricultural societies. The expression can refer to a machine, one that performs dependably under heavy, prolonged use, or a person, who works tirelessly at difficult, time-consuming tasks.
Workhouse In British history, a workhouse was a place where people who were unable to support themselves could go to live and work. The earliest recorded example of a workhouse dates to 1652 in Exeter although there is some written evidence that workhouses existed before this date.
Workhouse Test Act The Workhouse Test Act also known as the General Act or Knatchbull's Act was poor relief legislation passed by the British government by Sir Edward Knatchbull in 1723. The 'workhouse test' was that a person who wanted to receive poor relief had to enter a workhouse and undertake a set amount of work.
WorkChoices "WorkChoices" is the collective name of a series of amendments to Australian labour law made by the Howard Government in 2005. The legislation is the most comprehensive change to industrial relations in Australia for almost a century and is a matter of controversy.
Workin' Overtime Workin' Overtime is a 1989 album released by American soul singer Diana Ross, released on the Motown label. It was Ross' first Motown album since 1980's diana after Ross left the label for a then-record breaking $20 million deal with RCA.
Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet is an album recorded in 1956 by Miles Davis. Two sessions on the 11th of May 1956 and the 26th of October in the same year resulted in four albums - this one, Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet, Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet and Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet.
Working (musical) Working is a stage musical adapted by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso from the book Working by Studs Terkel. The songs are by Craig Carnelia, Micki Grant, Mary Rodgers, Susan Birkhead, Stephen Schwartz, and James Taylor.
Working America Working America is an allied organization of the AFL-CIO which works to build alliances among non-union working people. Working American is a nonpartisan, non-profit organization which provides workers who are not union members input into the policies, goals, and legislative efforts of the AFL-CIO.
Working Assets Working Assets is a socially responsible American wireless and long distance phone service, and credit card company based in San Francisco, California. It is also the publisher of the best-selling book How Would a Patriot Act?
Working capital Working capital is a valuation metric that is calculated as current assets minus current liabilities. Also known as operating capital, it represents the amount of day-by-day operating liquidity available to a business.
Working class Working class is a term used both in academic sociology as well as in ordinary conversation. In common with other terms relevant to social class, it is defined and used in many different ways depending on context and speaker, and incorporates references to education, occupation, culture, and income.
Working class culture Working class culture is a range of cultures created by or popular among working class people. The cultures can be contrasted with high culture and folk culture and are sometimes equated with popular culture and low culture (the counterpart of high culture).
Working Class Hero "Working Class Hero" is a song from John Lennon's first post-Beatles solo album, 1970's John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. Regarded as one of Lennon's most caustic and overtly political songs, it explores themes of alienation and social status from childhood to adulthood.
Working directory The working directory of a process is the directory of a hierarchical file system, if any,Operating systems exist that support a hierarchical file system but no concept of "working directory"; an example is Texas Instruments' DX10, used for the TI-990 series. which is implicitly used to determine the file referenced to by the process with a file name only, or with a relative path (as opposed to files referenced by full pathnames —see file name resolution).
Working Designs Working Designs was a US-based video game publisher that specialized in the localization of Japan-native RPGs, strategy games, and top-down shooters for various video game platforms. Though the company had published many 'cult hits', it was known best to fans as the long-time exclusive US publisher of Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete.
Working for America Institute The Working for America Institute (WAI) is a nonpartisan, non-profit organization that is an allied organization of the AFL-CIO. It promotes economic development, develops new economic polices, and lobbies Congress on economic policy.
Working for the Weekend "Working for the Weekend" was a song released in 1981 on the now famous rock band Loverboy's second album Get Lucky. The song contained more of a pop feel than the other songs that the band produced, but this new sound proved to generate a lot of success, as the song reached #9 on the charts in January 1982.
Working Families Party The Working Families Party (WFP) is a minor political party in the United States founded in New York in 1998. The party also has a wing in Connecticut, and is working towards establishing itself in Massachusetts, Oregon and CaliforniaCalifornia Secretary of State - Parties Attempting to Qualify for June 2008 Primary Election.
Working Families Party of Oregon The Working Families Party of Oregon (WFPO) is a minor political party modeled after the national Working Families Party, but is organized locally and is autonomous. It is recognized by the Oregon State Elections Division as a statewide nominating party.
Working Girl Working Girl is an Academy Award nominee for Best Picture and an Academy Award winner for Best Song ("Let the River Run" by Carly Simon), which tells the story of a Staten Island-raised secretary, Tess McGill, working in the mergers & acquisitions department of a Wall Street investment bank. When her boss, Katharine Parker, breaks her leg, Tess poses as Katharine in order to put forward her own bank deal ideas.
Working Girls Working Girls is a 1986 independent film, written, produced and directed by Lizzie Borden, depicting a day in the life of upper class prostitutes in a small Manhattan bordello. It is considered a subtly feminist portrayal, focusing on strong women characters, and depicting prostitution as neither glamorous nor repellant, but rather an ordinary, if exhausting, job.
Working Group for 14-19 Reform The Working Group for 14-19 Reform was chaired by Mike Tomlinson, former Chief Inspector of Schools at Ofsted. It was formed in Spring 2003 in response to allegations that A-Level grades had been manipulated by some exam boards in order to maintain a consistent standard in the face of changes to the A-Level system.
Working Group on Indigenous Populations The Working Group on Indigenous Populations (WGIP) is a subsidiary body within the structure of the United Nations. It was established in 1982, and is one of the six working groups overseen by the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights.
Working Group on Internet Governance The Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) was a United Nations multistakeholder Working group set up after the 2003 World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) first phase Summit in Geneva to agree on the future of Internet governance. The first phase of World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) agreed to pursue the dialogue on Internet Governance in the Declaration of Principles and Action Plan adopted on 12 December 2003, with a view to preparing the ground for a decision at the second phase of the WSIS in Tunis in November 2005.
Working Holiday Program The Working Holiday Program is a system of granting special temporary (1 year to 18 months) residence visas to young people (20 to 25 or 30) to the participating nation, which allows them to work in order to supplement their extended travel and cultural activities in the host country.
Working in layers Working in layers is a system for creating artistic painting that has been employed by many schools of art over many centuries. For example, Cennino D'Andrea Cennini gives specific examples of how to paint in layers in the egg tempera medium.
Working language A working language (also procedural language) is a language that is given a unique legal status in a supra-national company, society, state or other body or organization as its primal mean of communication. It is primarily the language of the daily correspondence and conversation, since the organization usually has members with various differing language backgrounds.
Working memory Working Memory is a theoretical framework within cognitive psychology that refers to the structures and processes used for temporarily storing and manipulating information. There are numerous theories as to both the theoretical structure of working memory (i.
Working men's club Working Men's Clubs are a formally organized type of private social club (Also see C&IU). They were initially founded in the nineteenth century in industrial areas of Great Britain, particularly the North of England with the aim of providing recreation and education for working class men and their families.
Working Men's Club and Institute Union The Working Men's Club and Institute Union (CIU or C&IU) is a voluntary association of private members' clubs in Great Britain, with about 3,000 associate clubs. Most social clubs are affiliated to the CIU.
Working paper A working paper is a preliminary scientific or technical paper. Often, authors will release working papers to share ideas about a topic or to elicit feedback before submitting to a peer reviewed conference or journal.
Working poor Working poor is a term used to describe individuals and families who maintain regular employment but remain in relative poverty due to low levels of pay and dependent expenses. Officially, in the United States, the working poor are defined as individuals who spent at least 27 weeks in the labor force (working or looking for work), but whose incomes fell below the official poverty level.
Working People's Vanguard Party Working People's Vanguard Party (WPVP) was a small, Maoist political party in Guyana. Led by Brindley Benn, it joined the Working People's Alliance as a pressure group in 1974 and dissolved when the WPA became a party in 1979.
Working President The head of the executive committee - the Congress Working Committee of the Congress Party in India is known as the 'Working President' of Congress. For some of Congress's history over the past century, especially under Indira Gandhi, this office has been combined with that of President of the All India Congress Committee, or Congress President, but the duties are different, with the Working President often being a person of great influence within the organisational structure of the party rather than of great political popularity.
Working range Each instrument used in analytical chemistry has a useful working range. This is the range of concentration (or mass) that can be adequately determined by the instrument, where the instrument provides a useful signal that can be related to the concentration of the analyte.
Working Ranch Cowboys Association The Working Ranch Cowboys Association (WRCA) was established in 1995 in Amarillo, Texas as a professional association for ranch owners, foremen, and cowboys. One of their stated goals was to keep the western heritage, ideals, and work ethics alive.
Working tax credit Working tax credit, or WTC, is a component of the current tax credits system in the United Kingdom - the related component being the Child tax credit, or CTC - which have both been in their current form since April 2003. Previously WTC was combined with CTC in a single payment for low-income family and single-parent households called the Working families tax credit, or WFTC, which operated from April 1999 until March 2003.
Working terrier A working terrier is a terrier that goes to ground in a natural earth against formidable quarry (as opposed to the artificial earths used at American earthdog trials). Terriers that rat or bush rabbits or work wild game in brush piles or barns are not working terriers, but "sporting terriers" — a term that encompasses a wide variety of work not done underground.
Working the Web Working the Web was a short lived 30 minute American television program on ZDTV (later TechTV) that aired from 2000 to 2001. The show, filmed in San Francisco, California, was hosted by Gary Bolles with David Stevenson and David Spark as correspondents.
Working title A working title is the temporary name of a product or project used during its development. Although a working title may be kept as the final title, the assumption is that a working title will be changed before the actual release of the project.
Working Time Directive The Working Time Directive of the European Union (Council Directive 93/104/EC of 23 November 1993 concerning certain aspects of the organization of working time, Official Journal L 307, 13/12/1993 pages 0018–0024; amended by Directive 2000/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 June 2000) is a collection of regulations concerning hours of work, designed to protect the health and safety of workers. Key features are the limiting of the maximum length of a working week to 48 hours in 7 days, and a minimum rest period of 11 hours in each 24 hours.
Working women in Japan After World War II, the fixed image of the Japanese woman has been that of the office lady, who becomes a housewife and a kyoiku mama after marriage. But a new generation of educated women is emerging, that is seeking a career as a working woman.
Workingman's Party The Workingman's Party was a California labor organization led by Dennis Kearney in the 1870s. The party took particular aim against Chinese immigrant labor and the Central Pacific Railroad which employed them.
WorkingUSA WorkingUSA is an inter-disciplinary social science journal focusing on capitalism, labor relations, the working class and the labor unions. Although primarily focusing on the United States, the journal occasionally publishes articles focusing on the role of the American economy and labor movement in an international perspective.
WorkIX Hamburg WorkIX Hamburg is an Internet Exchange Point founded in 2002 by a local Internet Service Provider in Hamburg, Germany. Its intention is to shorten the distances that data between different providers' networks have to travel within Hamburg.
Worklight In theater, a worklight is a high-intensity lamp which is used to illuminate the stage for the benefit of technicians. Worklights are not designed to light the stage in an aesthetically pleasing way, but rather to be efficient in terms of space and heat; however they may occasionally be used to emphasize plot elements during a show.
Workmanship Workmanship is an EP by Joy Electric released exclusively as a 7" vinyl record album through Republic of Texas Recordings. Workmanship was completely written and recorded by Ronnie Martin on a Minimoog Voyager synthesizer.
Workmen's village Workmen's village are a collective term applied to settlements of workers, foremen’s, scribes, architects, etc. usually located in the area of a major ancient site in Egypt, and mostly connected to the construction and decoration of tombs.
Workmen's Village, Amarna Located in the desert east of the ancient city of Akhetaten, the Workmen's village at Amarna closely resembles in many respects that much more ancient worker's village at Lahun or at Deir el-Medina, and was intended for the artisans who worked on the nearby Tombs of Nobles and the Royal Wadi. At the height of the Amarna Period, the population was 310.
Workplace bullying Workplace bullying, like childhood bullying, is the tendency of individuals or groups to use aggressive or unreasonable behavior to achieve their ends. Unlike the more physical form of schoolyard bullying, workplace bullies often operate within the established rules and policies of their organization and their society.
Workplace democracy Workplace democracy is the application of democracy in all its forms (including voting systems, debates, democratic structuring, due process, adversarial process, systems of appeal, and so on) to the workplace.
Workplace OS Workplace OS was born in 1991 as an ambitious plan by IBM to create a new computer operating system. The goal of Workplace OS was to improve software portability and reduce maintenance costs of IBM's software by using a common microkernel base for all of IBM's operating systems.
Workplace Relations Act 1996 The Workplace Relations Act 1996 is an Australian law passed by the Howard Government shortly after coming into power in 1996. It completely replace the previous Labor Government's Industrial Relations Act 1988.
Workplace Religious Freedom Act The bipartisan Workplace Religious Freedom Act (WRFA) was introduced in the United States Senate by Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pennsylvania) and Senator John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) on March 17 2005, and in the House of Representatives by Representatives Mark Souder (R-IN), Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), Bobby Jindal (R-LA), and Anthony Weiner (D-NY). If passed, this legislation would require employers to make reasonable accommodation for an employee's religious practice or observance, such as holy days (e.
Workplace wellness The workplace wellness program is offered by some employers as a combination of educational, organizational, and environmental activities designed to support behavior conducive to the health of employees in a business and their families. It consists of health education, screening, and interventions designed to change employees' behavior in order to achieve better health and reduce the associated health risks.
Workplace wellness program Workplace wellness programs are work-sponsored programs located on-site or off-site, with the intention of improving or preserving physical and psychological well-being through the implementation of interventions such as nutritional, fitness, stress management, physiological testing, and/or smoking cessation programs. The main purpose of these types of interventions are to help lower health insurance costs (for companies that offer a health care package), reduce rates of obesity (which is linked to health problems such as heart disease, certain types of cancers, stroke, diabetes, and musculoskeletal problems), lower depression, reduce stress, and improve overall health.
Workprint A workprint is a rough version of a motion picture, used by the film editor(s) during the editing process. Such copies generally contain original recorded sound that will later be re-dubbed, stock footage as placeholders for missing shots or special effects, and animation tests for in-production animated shots or sequences.
Workrate (professional wrestling) In professional wrestling, a wrestler's workrate is somewhat synoymous with his talent level. This term comes from the fact that most of the action in pro wrestling is a work, a creation designed to play to the audience, or "work" the crowd.
Workrave Workrave is a software application intended to prevent computer users from developing or aggravating occupational diseases such as carpal tunnel syndrome and repetitive strain injuries. The software periodically locks the screen while an anime character walks the user through various stretching exercises and urges them to take a coffee break.
Works and Days Works and Days (in ancient Greek / Érga kaì Hêmérai) is a Greek poem of some 800 verses written by Hesiod (around 700 BCE). The poem revolves around two general truths: labour is the universal lot of Man, but he who is willing to work will get by.
Works and Hydraulics Industrial Workers Union The Works and Hydraulics Industrial Workers Union was a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago that merged in 1957 with the Government Farm and Nursery Workers Trade Union and the Industrial and Railway Employees Trade Union to form the National Union of Government Employees
Works and Undertakings In Canada, the Local Works and Undertakings clause under section 92(10) of the Constitution Act, 1867 divides communication and transportation-related matters between both the federal and provincial governments. Section 92(10) itself gives a residual power over "local works and undertakings" to the exception of subject matters enumerated in section 92(10)(a), (b), and (c).
Works by Thomas Aquinas The works of Thomas Aquinas are tremendous both in number and in philosophical and theological depth. It has been said that few philosophers or theologians have written so much of high quality in the amount of time used by St.
Works cited Within the context of a document composed as per some style guide, a works cited page lists all content used during the formation of a certain work. It includes the author(s), the publisher (if from a book), the year published, and the name of article or book.
Works council A works council is a "shop-floor" organization representing workers, which functions as local/firm-level complement to national labour negotiations. Works councils exist with different names in a variety of related forms in a number of European countries, including Germany (Betriebsrat), the Netherlands and Belgium (Ondernemingsraad), France (Comité d'Entreprise), Belgium (Conseil d'Entreprise) and Spain (Comité de empresa).
Works for keyboard by J.S. Bach The keyboard works of the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach, originally written for organ, clavichord, and harpsichord, are among the most important and well-known of his compositions. Widely varied and ranging over the entire span of his lifetime, they are a central part of the modern repertoire for keyboard.
Works in Progress Kansas' sixth compilation album, Works in Progress is a combination CD/DVD release from the band Kansas, bringing together songs from the last ten years (1992-2002) of the band's career, featuring music from Live at the Whisky, Freaks of Nature, and Device-Voice-Drum. In addition, the companion DVD collects a number of live performances originally featured on Live at the Whisky and Device-Voice-Drum.

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