Social Movements and Organized Labour : Passions and Interests / by Jürgen R. Grote and Claudius Wagemann.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Tables and Figures -- Acronyms -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Passions, Interests, and the Need to Survive (Jrgen 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 Counter Mobilization. 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 Khler and Jos Pablo Calleja Jimnez) -- 8. Trade Unions and Social Movements at the Crossroads: A Portuguese View (Hermes Augusto Costa and Elisio 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 Jrgen R. Grote) -- References -- Contributors -- Index.

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.

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