Social Movements and Organized Labour

Passions and Interests

Jürgen R. Grote, Claudius Wagemann, Jürgen Grote

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9781317053675
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

This book is about the building of alliances and about joint activities between two groups of social movement actors ascribed increasing relevance for the functioning and the eventual amendment of democratic capitalism. The chapters provide a well-balanced mix of theoretical and empirical accounts on the political, social and economic catalysts behind the changing motives finding expression in a multitude of novel types of joint collective action and inter-organizational alliances. The contributors to this volume go beyond attempting to place unions, movements, crises, precariousness, protests and coalitions at the centre of the research. Instead, they focus on actors who themselves transcend clear-cut social camps. They look at the values and motives underlying collective action by both types of actors as much as at their structural and strategic properties, and inter-organizational relations and networks. This creates a fresh, genuine and historically valid account of the incompatibilities and the commonalities of movements and unions, and of prospects for inter-organizational learning.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• Acronyms
• Preface
• 1 Passions, Interests and the Need to Survive
• 2 Social Movement Theory and Trade Union Organising
• 3 Unions as Social Movements or Unions in Social Movements?
• 4 Interests and Types of Solidarity in Union-Community Alliances
• 5 Social Movements and Trade Unions in Cross-Movement Counter-Mobilization: A Polanyian View on Social Movement and Trade Union Cooperation
• 6 Social Movement Unionism: A Toolkit of Tactics or a Strategic Orientation? A Critical Assessment in the Field of Migrant Workers Campaigns
• 7 Social Movement Unionism in Spain?
• 8 Trade Unions and Social Movements at the Crossroads: A Portuguese View
• 9 Conflict, Competition and Collaboration in the Realm of Labour: Trade Unions and Precarious Workers in Italy
• 10 Trade Unions in Greece: Protest and Social Movements in the Context of Austerity Politics
• 11 Countermovement Formation in Times of Radical Change
• Notes on Contributors
• Index