This book explores the building of alliances and joint activities between two groups of social movement actors. Offering both theoretical and empirical accounts of the political, social and economic catalysts behind joint collective action, the authors focus on the actors themselves, who transcend clear-cut social camps. The book examines the values and motives of actors, as well as the structural and strategic properties of inter-organizational relations and networks, thus offering a fresh account of the incompatibilities and commonalities of movements and unions, and of the prospects that exist for inter-organizational learning.…mehr
This book explores the building of alliances and joint activities between two groups of social movement actors. Offering both theoretical and empirical accounts of the political, social and economic catalysts behind joint collective action, the authors focus on the actors themselves, who transcend clear-cut social camps. The book examines the values and motives of actors, as well as the structural and strategic properties of inter-organizational relations and networks, thus offering a fresh account of the incompatibilities and commonalities of movements and unions, and of the prospects that exist for inter-organizational learning.
Jürgen R. Grote has been Senior Research Fellow at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and coordinator of an international network on Labour Relations in Context. He has held the Marie Curie Chair in Public Policy at Charles University in Prague and has worked as Associate Professor, Lecturer and Research Fellow at the MZES-Mannheim; the EUI-Florence; and the Universities of Konstanz, Darmstadt, Potsdam, Jena and Osnabrück. His main research interests include topics such as forms of organized collective action by both capital and labour, European integration, critical governance and relational analysis, on which he has published and co-edited many articles and several books. Claudius Wagemann is Professor of Qualitative Empirical Social Science Methods at the Goethe University Frankfurt, where he served as Dean of Studies and as director of the inter-faculty Methods Centre. Before this he worked as a scholar at the then Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane (SUM), as Research Associate at the EUI Florence and as an Adjunct Professor at New York University's and Stanford University's study abroad programmes. He has extensively worked on set-theoretic methods, above all Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Fuzzy Sets, where he has co-authored a leading textbook in the field (Cambridge University Press, 2012). His interests extend to topics of the mobilization of right-wing extremists, the quality of democracy and interest group research in general.
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List of figures and tables Acronyms Preface 1 Passions, interests and the need to survive Jürgen R. Grote and Claudius Wagemann 2 Social movement theory and trade union organising Andy Mathers, Martin Upchurch and Graham Taylor 3 Unions as social movements or unions in social movements? Mario Diani 4 Interests and types of solidarity in union-community alliances Amanda Tattersall 5 Social movements and trade unions in cross-movement countermobilization: a Polanyian view on social movement and trade union cooperation Sabrina Zajak 6 Social movement unionism: a toolkit of tactics or a strategic orientation? A critical assessment in the field of migrant workers campaigns Maite Tapia and Gabriella Alberti 7 Social movement unionism in Spain? Holm-Detlev Köhler and José Pablo Calleja Jiménez 8 Trade unions and social movements at the crossroads: a Portuguese view Hermes Augusto Costa and Elísio Estanque 9 Conflict, competition and collaboration in the realm of labour: trade unions and precarious workers in Italy Alice Mattoni 10 Trade unions in Greece: protest and social movements in the context of austerity politics Markos Vogiatzoglou 11 Countermovement formation in times of radical change Claudius Wagemann and Jürgen R. Grote Notes on contributors Index
List of figures and tables Acronyms Preface 1 Passions, interests and the need to survive Jürgen R. Grote and Claudius Wagemann 2 Social movement theory and trade union organising Andy Mathers, Martin Upchurch and Graham Taylor 3 Unions as social movements or unions in social movements? Mario Diani 4 Interests and types of solidarity in union-community alliances Amanda Tattersall 5 Social movements and trade unions in cross-movement countermobilization: a Polanyian view on social movement and trade union cooperation Sabrina Zajak 6 Social movement unionism: a toolkit of tactics or a strategic orientation? A critical assessment in the field of migrant workers campaigns Maite Tapia and Gabriella Alberti 7 Social movement unionism in Spain? Holm-Detlev Köhler and José Pablo Calleja Jiménez 8 Trade unions and social movements at the crossroads: a Portuguese view Hermes Augusto Costa and Elísio Estanque 9 Conflict, competition and collaboration in the realm of labour: trade unions and precarious workers in Italy Alice Mattoni 10 Trade unions in Greece: protest and social movements in the context of austerity politics Markos Vogiatzoglou 11 Countermovement formation in times of radical change Claudius Wagemann and Jürgen R. Grote Notes on contributors Index
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