The Mobilization of the Unemployed in Europe

From Acquiescence to Protest?

D. Chabanet, J. Faniel, D. Chabanet, J. Faniel

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9780230619395
• eBook ISBN:
  9781137011862
• Topic: Política y relaciones internacionales
• Subtopic: Políticas europeas

In the face of high unemployment in Europe for the past thirty years, the unemployed have organized themselves and mobilized at levels ranging from the local to the transnational. This work explores why, when, and how the unemployed move from acquiescence to protest.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• List of Contributors
• Introduction: The Mobilization of the Unemployed in a Comparative Perspective
• 1 The Long History of a New Cause: The Mobilization of the Unemployed in France
• 2 The Mobilization of the Unemployed in Germany (1998–2004)
• 3 Inside or Outside Trade Unions? The Mobilization of the Unemployed in Belgium
• 4 The Movement of the Unemployed in Finland
• 5 The Mobilization of the Unemployed in Italy: The Case of Naples
• 6 The Organization of the Unemployed in Spain: Local and Fragmented Dynamics
• 7 Contention over Unemployment in Britain: Unemployment Politics versus the Politics of the Unemployed
• 8 Organizing the Unemployed in Ireland
• 9 Political Opportunities and the Mobilization of the Unemployed in Switzerland
• 10 The Mobilization That was Not: Explaining the Weak Politicization of the Issue of Unemployment in Poland
• Index