Reconstructing Solidarity

Author : Virginia Lee Doellgast,Nathan Lillie,Valeria Pulignano
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198791843

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Reconstructing Solidarity by Virginia Lee Doellgast,Nathan Lillie,Valeria Pulignano Pdf

"Work is widely thought to have become more precarious. Many people feel that unions represent the interests of protected workers in good jobs at the expense of workers with insecure employment, low pay, and less generous benefits. Reconstructing Solidarity: Labour Unions, Precarious Work, and the Politics of Institutional Change in Europe argues the opposite: that unions try to represent precarious workers using a variety of creative campaigning and organizational tactics.00Where unions can limit employers' ability to 'exit' labour market institutions and collective agreements and build solidarity across different groups of workers, this results in a virtuous circle, establishing union control over the labour market. Where they fail to do so, it sets in motion a vicious circle of expanding precarity based on institutional evasion by employers. Exploring the struggle of the unions against the expansion of precarious work in Europe, Reconstructing Solidarity explains the importance of how unions build, or fail to build, inclusive worker solidarity. It uses a diverse range of comparative case studies to describe the struggles of workers and unions in industries such as local government, music, metalworking, chemicals, meat-packing, and logistics, to argue against the thesis that unions act primarily to protect labour market insiders at the expense of outsiders."--Back cover.

Author : Virginia Doellgast,Nathan Lillie,Valeria Pulignano
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780192509642

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Reconstructing Solidarity by Virginia Doellgast,Nathan Lillie,Valeria Pulignano Pdf

Work is widely thought to have become more precarious. Many people feel that unions represent the interests of protected workers in good jobs at the expense of workers with insecure employment, low pay, and less generous benefits. Reconstructing Solidarity: Labour Unions, Precarious Work, and the Politics of Institutional Change in Europe argues the opposite: that unions try to represent precarious workers using a variety of creative campaigning and organizing tactics. Where unions can limit employers' ability to 'exit' labour market institutions and collective agreements, and build solidarity across different groups of workers, this results in a virtuous circle, establishing union control over the labour market. Where they fail to do so, it sets in motion a vicious circle of expanding precarity based on institutional evasion by employers. Ieconstructing Solidarity examines how unions build, or fail to build, inclusive worker solidarity to challenge this vicious circle and to re-regulate increasingly precarious jobs. Comparative case studies from fourteen European countries describe the struggles of workers and unions in industries such as local government, retail, music, metalworking, chemicals, meat packing, and logistics. Their findings argue against the thesis that unions act primarily to protect labour market insiders at the expense of outsiders.

Author : Philip Rathgeb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1226119653

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Virginia Doellgast, Nathan Lillie, Valeria Pulignano (eds): Reconstructing Solidarity by Philip Rathgeb Pdf

Author : Joseph M. Schwartz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135944537

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The Future Of Democratic Equality by Joseph M. Schwartz Pdf

2011 David Easton Award, presented for the best book by the Foundations of Political Theory section of APSA: "The Future of Democratic Equality, by Joseph Schwartz, takes on three tasks, and accomplishes all brilliantly. Any one of these tasks well fulfilled would have been a laudable achievement. First, Schwartz argues for the centrality of the question of equality to democratic politics. Second, he critically analyzes and explains the shocking rise in inequality in the United States over the last three decades. This he does with conceptual clarity, rich interdisciplinary analysis, and a thorough examination of hard socioeconomic data. Third, he assails the near absence of concern for this soaring inequality among contemporary political theorists, and offers a cogent, and stinging, explanation that takes to task the discipline’s preoccupation with difference and identity severed from the pragmatics of democratic equality. The Future of Democratic Equality is a courageous and disciplined effort to tackle a hugely important political problem and intellectual puzzle. It well embodies the spirit of the Easton Book Award by providing well-grounded normative theory targeted to an urgent matter of contemporary concern. It is a must read for anyone who cares about democracy." - Respectfully submitted by Leslie Paul Thiele, University of Florida (chair) and Cary J. Nederman, Texas A&M University Why has contemporary radical political theory remained virtually silent about the stunning rise in inequality in the United States over the past thirty years? Schwartz contends that since the 1980s, most radical theorists shifted their focus away from interrogating social inequality to criticizing the liberal and radical tradition for being inattentive to the role of difference and identity within social life. This critique brought more awareness of the relative autonomy of gender, racial, and sexual oppression. But, as Schwartz argues, it also led many theorists to forget that if difference is institutionalized on a terrain of radical economic inequality, unjust inequalities in social and political power will inevitably persist. Schwartz cautions against a new radical theoretical orthodoxy: that "universal" norms such as equality and solidarity are inherently repressive and homogenizing, whereas particular norms and identities are truly emancipatory. Reducing inequality among Americans, as well as globally, will take a high level of social solidarity--a level far from today's fragmented politics. In focusing the left's attention on the need to reconstruct a governing model that speaks to the aspirations of the majority, Schwartz provocatively applies this vision to such real world political issues as welfare reform, race relations, childcare, and the democratic regulation of the global economy.

Author : Helle Krunke,Hanne Petersen,Ian Manners
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108487368

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Transnational Solidarity by Helle Krunke,Hanne Petersen,Ian Manners Pdf

This book analyses the concept and conditions of transnational solidarity, the challenges and the opportunities, from an interdisciplinary global perspective.

Author : Clare Land
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783601752

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Decolonizing Solidarity by Clare Land Pdf

In this highly original and much-needed book, Clare Land interrogates the often fraught endeavours of activists from colonial backgrounds seeking to be politically supportive of Indigenous struggles. Blending key theoretical and practical questions, Land argues that the predominant impulses which drive middle-class settler activists to support Indigenous people cannot lead to successful alliances and meaningful social change unless they are significantly transformed through a process of both public political action and critical self-reflection. Based on a wealth of in-depth, original research, and focussing in particular on Australia, where – despite strident challenges – the vestiges of British law and cultural power have restrained the nation's emergence out of colonizing dynamics, Decolonizing Solidarity provides a vital resource for those involved in Indigenous activism and scholarship.

Author : William Rehg
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520919174

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Insight and Solidarity by William Rehg Pdf

Discourse ethics represents an exciting new development in neo-Kantian moral theory. William Rehg offers an insightful introduction to its complex theorization by its major proponent, Jürgen Habermas, and demonstrates how discourse ethics allows one to overcome the principal criticisms that have been leveled against neo-Kantianism. Addressing both "commun-itarian" critics who argue that universalist conceptions of justice sever moral deliberation from community traditions, and feminist advocates of the "ethics of care" who stress the moral significance of caring for other individuals, Rehg shows that discourse ethics combines impartiality with solidarity. He provides the first systematic reconstruction of Habermas's theory and explores its relationship to the work of such contemporary philosophers as Charles Taylor. His book articulates a bold alternative to the split between the "right" and the "good" in moral theory and will greatly interest philosophers, social and legal scholars, and political theorists.

Author : Jeffrey L. Gould
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108419192

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Solidarity Under Siege by Jeffrey L. Gould Pdf

Depicts the rise and fall of the militant labor movement in modern El Salvador.

Author : Rachel Sharples
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789207170

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Spaces of Solidarity by Rachel Sharples Pdf

Exploring notions of activism and space as narrated by Karen displaced persons and refugees in the Thai-Burma borderlands, this book looks beyond refugees as passive victims or a ‘humanitarian case’. Instead, the book examines the active engagement the Karen have with their persecution and displacement and their subsequent emplacement in the borderlands. A key focus of the book is to look at this engagement in terms of spaces of solidarity – constructed through patterns of activism, paths of connectivity and processes of cultural recovery. The book also studies the spatial configuration of borderlands, examining the impact of cross-border activities and their inter-related nature.

Author : Donald G. Reid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 1032731710

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Rebuilding Community Solidarity and Pluralism by Donald G. Reid Pdf

This book critiques the traditional practice of community organization, change and development, and concludes that the present practice of Community Development (CD) and Social Policy and Planning (SP&P) is no longer capable of meeting the current challenges at the local or national level. The aim of this book is to identify the underlying motivations for the individual aggressive and collective antisocial behaviour that we witness in democratic society today and offer changes to the orientation of the current community change practice in order to build a system that can better address the present needs of society. This work identifies the factors that are moving society toward extremism and authoritarianism focusing particularly on the community level. Given the turmoil in communities that is degrading democracy and leading to authoritarianism today, the issues of Community Solidarity and Pluralism (CS&P) must be attended to before the traditional political, economic, and material issues that are regularly addressed by CD and SP&P practice can become the focus for change and development once again. This book will have widespread appeal to academics, researchers, and postgraduate students throughout the social sciences including sociology, social work, political science, economics, philosophy, environmental studies, and international and community development studies. It is also intended for the general reader who is interested in understanding the authoritarian forces that are attempting to infiltrate the democratic process.

Author : Sidney A. Rothstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197612873

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Recoding Power by Sidney A. Rothstein Pdf

Digital transformation increasingly drives economic growth in the rich capitalist democracies, but orienting production around digital technologies is associated with rising inequality and spreading precarity. In Recoding Power, Rothstein outlines three tactics that workers can use to build power in the current episode of economic transition, where they otherwise lack access to traditional power-resources like unions and institutions for social protection. Drawing on four in-depth case studies of workers responding to mass layoffs at tech firms in the United States and Germany, Rothstein shows.

Author : Shana Penn
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0472031961

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Solidarity's Secret by Shana Penn Pdf

The first book to document women's crucial role in the fall of Poland's communist regime

Author : Sally J. Scholz
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271047218

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Political Solidarity by Sally J. Scholz Pdf

Author : Charles Taylor,Patrizia Nanz,Madeleine Beaubien Taylor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674246638

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Reconstructing Democracy by Charles Taylor,Patrizia Nanz,Madeleine Beaubien Taylor Pdf

“An urgent manifesto for the reconstruction of democratic belonging in our troubled times.” —Davide Panagia Across the world, democracies are suffering from a disconnect between the people and political elites. In communities where jobs and industry are scarce, many feel the government is incapable of understanding their needs or addressing their problems. The resulting frustration has fueled the success of destabilizing demagogues. To reverse this pattern and restore responsible government, we need to reinvigorate democracy at the local level. But what does that mean? Drawing on examples of successful community building in cities large and small, from a shrinking village in rural Austria to a neglected section of San Diego, Reconstructing Democracy makes a powerful case for re-engaging citizens. It highlights innovative grassroots projects and shows how local activists can form alliances and discover their own power to solve problems.

Author : Tamás Krausz
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781583674611

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Reconstructing Lenin by Tamás Krausz Pdf

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is among the most enigmatic and influential figures of the twentieth century. While his life and work are crucial to any understanding of modern history and the socialist movement, generations of writers on the left and the right have seen fit to embalm him endlessly with superficial analysis or dreary dogma. Now, after the fall of the Soviet Union and “actually-existing” socialism, it is possible to consider Lenin afresh, with sober senses trained on his historical context and how it shaped his theoretical and political contributions. Reconstructing Lenin, four decades in the making and now available in English for the first time, is an attempt to do just that. Tamás Krausz, an esteemed Hungarian scholar writing in the tradition of György Lukács, Ferenc Tokei, and István Mészáros, makes a major contribution to a growing field of contemporary Lenin studies. This rich and penetrating account reveals Lenin busy at the work of revolution, his thought shaped by immediate political events but never straying far from a coherent theoretical perspective. Krausz balances detailed descriptions of Lenin’s time and place with lucid explications of his intellectual development, covering a range of topics like war and revolution, dictatorship and democracy, socialism and utopianism.Reconstructing Lenin will change the way you look at a man and a movement; it will also introduce the English-speaking world to a profound radical scholar.