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In The Politics of Social Inclusion and Labor Representation,
Heather Connolly, Stefania Marino, and Miguel Martinez Lucio
compare trade union responses to immigration and the related
political and labour market developments in the Netherlands, Spain,
and the United Kingdom. The labor movement is facing significant
challenges as a result of such changes in the modern context. As
such, the authors closely examine the idea of social inclusion and
how trade unions are coping with and adapting to the need to
support immigrant workers and develop various types of engagement
and solidarity strategies in the European context. Traversing the
dramatically shifting immigration patterns since the 1970s, during
which emerged a major crisis of capitalism, the labor market, and
society, and the contingent rise of anti-immigration sentiment and
new forms of xenophobia, the authors assess and map how trade
unions have to varying degrees understood and framed these issues
and immigrant labor. They show how institutional traditions, and
the ways that trade unions historically react to social inclusion
and equality, have played a part in shaping the nature of current
initiatives. The Politics of Social Inclusion and Labor
Representation concludes that we need to appreciate the complexity
of trade-union traditions, established paths to renewal, and
competing trajectories of solidarity. While trade union
organizations remain wedded to specific trajectories, trade union
renewal remains an innovative, if at times, problematic and complex
set of choices and aspirations.
The working classes today are facing a new set of crises around
increasing austerity, authoritarianism, exploitation, and
surveillance. But in many places, and in many ways, they are
resisting. From new forms of workplace organisation, migrant
workers challenging their exploitation, struggles against
digitalised work, and through alternative forms of grassroots
mobilisation, working-class resistance is emerging in new and often
unexpected spaces. Through a range of cases in Europe and from
around the world, this book brings radical voices from sociology,
political economy, labour relations, and media studies to offer an
understanding of the potential of working-class struggles in and
against these 'hard times'. This engaging volume is an attempt to
understand how new, dynamic sites of resistance in and outside the
workplace are central to the different ways in which workers
survive, disrupt, and create new ways of living. The perfect guide
for students and academics looking for a critical and comprehensive
collection dealing with contemporary and global cases of
working-class resistance.
The working classes today are facing a new set of crises around
increasing austerity, authoritarianism, exploitation, and
surveillance. But in many places, and in many ways, they are
resisting. From new forms of workplace organisation, migrant
workers challenging their exploitation, struggles against
digitalised work, and through alternative forms of grassroots
mobilisation, working-class resistance is emerging in new and often
unexpected spaces. Through a range of cases in Europe and from
around the world, this book brings radical voices from sociology,
political economy, labour relations, and media studies to offer an
understanding of the potential of working-class struggles in and
against these 'hard times'. This engaging volume is an attempt to
understand how new, dynamic sites of resistance in and outside the
workplace are central to the different ways in which workers
survive, disrupt, and create new ways of living. The perfect guide
for students and academics looking for a critical and comprehensive
collection dealing with contemporary and global cases of
working-class resistance.
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