The Solidarity Dilemma

Author : Clare Land
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Lorne Mitchell Sossin,Lorne Sossin,Jean-Francois Gaudreault-Desbiens,Sujit Choudhry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-12-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015066890255

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Dilemmas of Solidarity by Lorne Mitchell Sossin,Lorne Sossin,Jean-Francois Gaudreault-Desbiens,Sujit Choudhry Pdf

Since the rise of the Canadian welfare state in the aftermath of the Second World War, the politics of social policy and fiscal federalism have been at the centre of federal-provincial relations. Recent events have given impetus for scholars to re-examine these issues. In 2002, the Quebec Commission on Fiscal Imbalance released its report, which introduced the term 'vertical fiscal imbalance' into the vocabulary of Canadian politics. Essentially, the commission determined that a disjunction between revenue-raising capacity and expenditures involving different orders of government - vertical fiscal imbalance - was an urgent problem that must be addressed. Dilemmas of Solidarity is both a reflection on and response to that finding. Editors Sujit Choudhry, Jean-Francois Graudreault-Desbiens, and Lorne Sossin bring together an array of respected legal and political scholars to reflect on the Quebec Commission's findings. The contributors to this volume illustrate how recent debates surrounding Canada's equalization program suggest alternative ways to approach the issue. The goal of Dilemmas of Solidarity is to stand back from the particulars of different policy debates, to enable scholars to reflect on basic questions regarding redistribution. This fascinating collection will undoubtedly inform a more nuanced and wide-ranging debate both among academics and policy practitioners than has occurred in this past. Contributors: Paul Boothe Katherine Boothe Sujit Choudhry David Duff Jean-Francois Gaudreault-DesBiens Andree Lajoie Alain Noel Peter H. Russell Richard Simeon Lorne Sossin François Vaillancourt Daniel Weinstock.

Author : Jürgen Hoffman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UIUC:30112065433887

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The Solidarity Dilemma by Jürgen Hoffman Pdf

Author : Avery Kolers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198769781

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A Moral Theory of Solidarity by Avery Kolers Pdf

This volume analyses important debates about political responsibility, conscience, loyalty, collective action, moral agency, and the individual in society. Through these debates the volume advances a novel theory of solidarity and provides a major original contribution to a field of growing interest.

Author : Sally J. Scholz
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271047218

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Political Solidarity by Sally J. Scholz Pdf

Author : Traci C. West
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781479885046

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Solidarity and Defiant Spirituality by Traci C. West Pdf

How activists in Ghana, South Africa, and Brazil provide inspiration and strategies for combating the gender violence epidemic in the United States How can the U.S. learn from the perspectives of anti-gender violence activists in South America and Africa as we seek to end intimate violence in this country? The U.S. has consistently positioned itself as a moral exemplar, seeking to export its philosophy and values to other societies. Yet in this book, Traci C. West argues that the U.S. has much to learn from other countries when it comes to addressing gender-based violence. West traveled to Ghana, South Africa, and Brazil to interview activists involved in the struggle against gender violence. In each of these places, as in the United States, Christianity and anti-black racism have been implicated in violence against women. In Ghana and Brazil, in particular, their Christian colonial and trans-Atlantic slave trade histories directly connect with the socioeconomic development of the Americas and historic incidents of rape of black slave women. With a transnational focus on religion and racism, West brings a new perspective to efforts to systemically combat gender violence. Calling attention to forms of violence in the U.S. and international settings, such as marital rape, sex trafficking of women and girls, domestic violence, and the targeting of lesbians, the book offers an expansive and nuanced view of how to form activist solidarity in tackling this violence. It features bold and inspiring approaches by black women leaders working in each setting to uproot the myriad forms of violence against women and girls. Ultimately, West calls for us to learn from the lessons of Africana activists, drawing on a defiant Africana spirituality as an invaluable resource in the quest to combat the seemingly chronic problem of gender-based violence.

Author : David Ost
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1991-08-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0877229007

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Solidarity and the Politics of Anti-Politics by David Ost Pdf

Based on extensive use of primary sources, this book provides an analysis of Solidarity, from its ideological origins in the Polish "new left," through the dramatic revolutionary months of 1980-81, and up to the union?s remarkable resurgence in 1988-89, when it sat down with the government to negotiate Poland?s future. David Ost focuses on what Solidarity is trying to accomplish and why it is likely that the movement will succeed. He traces the conflict between the ruling Communist Party and the opposition, Solidarity?s response to it, and the resulting reforms. Noting that Poland is the one country in the world where "radicals of ?68" came to be in a position to negotiate with a government about the nature of the political system, Ost asks what Poland tells us about the possibility for realizing a "new left" theory of democracy in the modern world. As a Fulbright Fellow at Warsaw University and Polish correspondent for the weekly newspaper In These Times during the Solidarity uprising and a frequent visitor to Poland since then, David Ost has had access to a great deal of unpublished material on the labor movement. Without dwelling on the familiar history of August 1980, he offers some of the unfamiliar subtleties?such as the significance of the Szczecin as opposed to the Gdansk Accord?and shows how they shaped the budding union?s understanding of the conflicts ahead. Unique in its attention to the critical, formative period following August 1980, this study is the most current and comprehensive analysis of a movement that continues to transform the nature of East European society.

Author : K. Bayertz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999-02-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 0792354753

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Solidarity by K. Bayertz Pdf

Finding the phenomenon of solidarity an erratic block in the midst of the moral landscape of the modern age, scientists from philosophy, sociology, history, law, psychology, and biology met in the Autumn of 1994 at the University of Bielefeld, Germany, to ponder the concept, its history, and its significance. Those presentations are here augmented by others to expand the coverage. Among the topics are four uses of solidarity, fraternity and justice, the bonds and bounds of solidarity, theoretical perspectives for empirical research, institutional and social concepts of solidarity in 19th-century western Europe, constitutional law, citizenship, and post-modern perspectives. The labor movement is even mentioned a few times. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Bill Fletcher,Fernando Gapasin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780520261563

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Solidarity Divided by Bill Fletcher,Fernando Gapasin Pdf

The US trade union movement finds itself on a global battlefield filled with landmines and littered with the bodies of various social movements and struggles. Candid, incisive, and accessible, this text is a critical examination of labour's crisis and a plan for a bold way forward into the 21st century.

Author : Andreas Bieler,Ingemar Lindberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136905803

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Global Restructuring, Labour and the Challenges for Transnational Solidarity by Andreas Bieler,Ingemar Lindberg Pdf

This volume examines the possibilities and obstacles to transnational solidarity in a period of global restructuring. It brings together a range of international and transnational case studies, examining successful and failed transnational solidarity covering inter-trade union co-operation as well as co-operation between trade unions and social movements within the formal and informal economy, and the public and private sector.

Author : Charles Postel
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429946926

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Equality by Charles Postel Pdf

An in-depth study of American social movements after the Civil War and their lessons for today by a prizewinning historian The Civil War unleashed a torrent of claims for equality—in the chaotic years following the war, former slaves, women’s rights activists, farmhands, and factory workers all engaged in the pursuit of the meaning of equality in America. This contest resulted in experiments in collective action, as millions joined leagues and unions. In Equality: An American Dilemma, 1866–1886, Charles Postel demonstrates how taking stock of these movements forces us to rethink some of the central myths of American history. Despite a nationwide push for equality, egalitarian impulses oftentimes clashed with one another. These dynamics get to the heart of the great paradox of the fifty years following the Civil War and of American history at large: Waves of agricultural, labor, and women’s rights movements were accompanied by the deepening of racial discrimination and oppression. Herculean efforts to overcome the economic inequality of the first Gilded Age and the sexual inequality of the late-Victorian social order emerged alongside Native American dispossession, Chinese exclusion, Jim Crow segregation, and lynch law. Now, as Postel argues, the twenty-first century has ushered in a second Gilded Age of savage socioeconomic inequalities. Convincing and learned, Equality explores the roots of these social fissures and speaks urgently to the need for expansive strides toward equality to meet our contemporary crisis.

Author : Barbara J. Falk
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9786155211164

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The Dilemmas of Dissidence in East-Central Europe by Barbara J. Falk Pdf

Discusses one of the major currents leading to the fall of communism. Falk examines the intellectual dissident movements in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary from the late 1960s through to 1989. In spite of its historic significance, no other comprehensive survey has appeared on the subject. In addition to the huge list of written sources from samizdat works to recent essays, Falks sources include interviews with many personalities of those events as well as videos and films (including Oscar winners).

Author : Katarzyna Gajewska
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134018376

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Transnational Labour Solidarity by Katarzyna Gajewska Pdf

The book examines the integration of European trade union movement and explores the prospects for European or transnational solidarity among workers. Contrary to much existing research and despite national differences, Gajewska examines how trade unions cooperate and the forms in which this cooperation take place. Drawing on four case studies illustrating experiences of Polish, German, British, Latvian and Swedish trade unions in various sectors and workers’ representatives at a multinational company, this book investigates the conditions under which trade unions and workers formulate their interests in non-national / regional terms, and analyzes the character, limits and potentials of solidarity in a transnational context. Seeking to generate a new theory of European integration of labour and to contribute to sociological approaches on the European integration and Europeanization of society, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of European politics, European integration, labour/industrial relations, trade unionism and sociology.

Author : Jodi Dean
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520301597

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Solidarity of Strangers by Jodi Dean Pdf

Solidarity of Strangers is a crucial intervention in feminist, multicultural, and legal debates that will ignite a rethinking of the meaning of difference, community, and participatory democracy. Arguing for a solidarity rooted in a respect for difference, Dean offers a broad vision of the shape of postmodern democracies that moves beyond the limitations and dangers of identity politics. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.

Author : John D. Márquez
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780292753877

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Black-Brown Solidarity by John D. Márquez Pdf

"The first scholarly study of Black-Latino solidarity and coalition in response to a Latino population boom in the Gulf South"--