Social Movements and Organized Labour: Passions and Interests

245 Pages·2016·3.6 MB·English

by  Jürgen Grote, Claudius Wagemann

Social Movements and Organized
Labour
This book is about the building of alliances and about joint activities between two
groups of social movement actors ascribed increasing relevance for the function-
ing 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 con-
tributors 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 incom-
patibilities and the commonalities of movements and unions, and of prospects for
inter-organizational learning.
Jürgen R. Grote has been Senior Research Fellow at the Hertie School of Govern-
ance 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 Uni-
versity in Prague and has worked as Associate Professor, Lecturer and Research
Fellow at the MZES-Mannheim; the EUI-Florence; and the Universities of Kon-
stanz, Darmstadt, Potsdam, Jena and Osnabrück. His main research interests in-
clude 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.
The Mobilization Series on Social Movements,
Protest, and Culture
Professor Hank Johnston, San Diego State University, USA.
Published in conjunction with Mobilization: An International Quarterly,
the premier research journal in the field, this series publishes a broad range
of research in social movements, protest and contentious politics. This is
a growing field of social science research that spans sociology and polit-
ical science as well as anthropology, geography, communications and
social psychology. Enjoying a broad remit, the series welcome works on the
following topics: social movement networks; social movements in the global
South; social movements, protest, and culture; personalist politics, such as
living environmentalism, guerrilla gardens, anticonsumerist communities,
anarchist-punk collectives; and emergent repertoires of contention.
Series editor:
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Radical Left Movements in Europe
Edited by Magnus Wennerhag, Christian Fröhlich and Grzegorz Piotrowski
Crisis and Social Mobilization in Contemporary Spain
The 15M Movement
Edited by Benjamín Tejerina and Ignacia Perugorría
Social Movements and Political Activism in Contemporary Japan
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Passions and Interests
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Social Movements and
Organized Labour
Passions and Interests
Edited by Jürgen R. Grote and
Claudius Wagemann
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Names: Grote, Jürgen R., editor. | Wagemann, Claudius, editor.
Title: Social movements and organised labour: passions and
interests / edited by Jürgen R. Grote and Claudius Wagemann.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2019. |
Series: The mobilization series on social movements, protest, and culture |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018014847 | ISBN 9781472472045 (hbk) |
ISBN 9781315609553 (ebk)
Subjects: LCSH: Labor movement. | Social movements. |
Labor unions—Political activity.
Classification: LCC HD4851 .S63 2019 | DDC 306.3/4—dc23
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Contents
List of figures and tables vii
Acronyms viii
Preface x
1 Passions, interests and the need to survive 1
JüRGEN R. GROTE AND CLAUDIUS WAGEMANN
2 Social movement theory and trade union organising 22
ANDY MATHERS, MARTIN UPCHURCH AND GRAHAM TAYLOR
3 Unions as social movements or unions in social movements? 43
MARIO DIANI
4 Interests and types of solidarity in union-community alliances 66
AMANDA TATTERSALL
5 Social movements and trade unions in cross-movement counter-
mobilization: a Polanyian view on social movement and trade
union cooperation 82
SABRINA ZAJAK
6 Social movement unionism: a toolkit of tactics or a strategic
orientation? A critical assessment in the field of migrant
workers campaigns 109
MAITE TAPIA AND GABRIELLA ALBERTI
7 Social movement unionism in Spain? 128
HOLM-DETLEv KöHLER AND JOSé PABLO CALLEJA JIMéNEZ
vi Contents
8 Trade unions and social movements at the crossroads:
a Portuguese view 149
HERMES AUGUSTO COSTA AND ELíSIO ESTANQUE
9 Conflict, competition and collaboration in the realm of labour :
trade unions and precarious workers in Italy 171
ALICE MATTONI
10 Trade unions in Greece: protest and social movements in the
context of austerity politics 193
MARKOS vOGIATZOGLOU
11 Countermovement formation in times of radical change 211
CLAUDIUS WAGEMANN AND JüRGEN R. GROTE
Notes on contributors 223
Index 227
Figures and tables
Figures
3.1 Organizational mode of coordination 48
3.2 Social movement mode of coordination 49
3.3 Coalitional mode of coordination 54
3.4 Subcultural/communitarian mode of coordination 56
7.1 Alternative trade union futures 144
10.1 The vicious circle 197
Tables
4.1 Solidarity in Coalitions 70
5.1 The Concept of Embeddedness 88
5.2 Comparing Cross-Movement Alliances 98
10.1 Political composition of the Greek General Confederation
of Trade Unions 195
Acronyms
ACP-PI Associação de Combate à Precariedade - Precários Inflexíveis
ACORN Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
ADSE Direção-Geral de Protecção Social aos Funcionários e
Agentes da Administração Pública
ADL Agenzie della Democrazia Locale
ADEDY Anótati Diíkosi Enóseon Dimosíon Ypallílon
AFL American Federation of Labor
AFL-CIO American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial
Organizations
ANC African National Congress
ATTAC Association pour une Taxation des Transactions Financières
pour l’Aide aux Citoyens
CCA Collaboratori e Consulenti Associati
CCOO Commissiones Obreras
CFDT Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail
CGIL Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro
CGT Confédération Générale du Travail
CGTP Confederação General dos Trabalhadores Portugueses
CIO Congress of Industrial Relations
CIS Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas
CISL Confederazione Italiana Sindacati Lavoratori
CMCM Cross-Movement Counter Mobilization
CME Coordinated Market Economies
CSR Corporate Social Responsibility
CUPE Canadian Union of Public Employees
DGAEP Directorate-General for Administration and Public
DGB Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (German Trade Union
Confederation)
DPUN Dominant Party-Union Nexus
ECB European Central Bank
ECvT Encuesta de Calidad de vida en el Trabajo
EP European Parliament
EU European Union
ETA Euskadi Ta Askatasuna
Acronyms ix
FERvE Fartos d’Estes Recibos verdes
FIOM Federazione Impiegati Operai Metallurgici
GJM Global Justice Movement
GSEE Greek General Confederation of Trade Unions
IAF Industrial Areas Foundation
IMF International Monetary Fund
KWS Keynesian Welfare State
LME Liberal Market Economies
MEP Member of the European Parliament
MoC Modes of Coordination
MoU Memorandum of Understanding
ND Nea Dimokratia
NIDIL Nuove Identità di Lavoro
NUMSA National Union of Metalworkers in South Africa
NSM New Social Movement
NSWTF New South Wales Teachers’ Federation
NSW New South Wales
OHC Ontario Health Coalition
PASOK Panellinio Sosialistiko Kinima
PCS Public and Commercial Services Union
PEKOP Union of Cleaners and Domestic Workers
PI Precários Inflexíveis
POS Political Opportunity Structure
PP Popular Party
PSOE Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party
PWUs Precarious Workers’ Unions
RMT National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers
RPU Radical Political Unionism
SEIU Service Employees International Union
SETIP IT Workers’ Trade Union
SLC Sindacato Lavoratori Comunicazioni
SMU Social Movement Unionism
SUD Solidaires, Unitaires, Démocratiques
SUC Spazio Ufficio Condiviso
SYRIZA Synaspismos Rizospastikis Aristeras
TTIP Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
TUC Trade Union Congress
UFCW United Food and Commercial Workers
UGT Unión General de Trabajadores
UIL Unione Italiana del Lavoro
vOC varieties of Capitalism
WCNS Nea Smyrni Workers’ Club
WSI Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut der
Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
WTO World Trade Organization