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  • n  organizing yourself (especially organizing your own labor union)

  • It ordered the corporation to stop interfering with self-organization of its workers, to disestablish its company unions, to offer reinstatement with back pay to all the .
  • Then, lighting a cigaret, he leaned back and dictated a statement to the public: "This act defines, as a part of our substantive law, the right of self-organization of employes .
  • The relevance of self-organization to biology remains hotly debated.
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  • Is there an invisible tug-of-war behind bad hearts and power outages?
    ( Princeton University ) Researchers from Princeton University and Germany's Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization report the first purely physical experimental evidence that an invisible and chaotic tug-of-war known as a chimera state can occur naturally within any process that relies on spontaneous synchronization, including clock pendulums, power grids and heart valves.
    June 17, 2013 - EurekAlert!
Quotes

  • Robert F Wagner in World Socialist Web Site
    Section 7 of the Wagner Act stated "Employees shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations," and to "bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing."
  • Stuart Kauffman in Scoop.co.nz
    In his book Investigations (2000), Kauffman wrote that "self-organization mingles with natural selection in barely understood ways to yield the magnificence of our teeming biosphere".

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