This book offers the first comparative study of far-right messaging and organizing efforts at the workplace level as well as responses by established trade unions, encompassing six European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland). Drawing on semi-structured interviews with workers and trade union actors with a focus on the automobile industry, the volume develops a classification of far-right strategies and trade union counter-strategies in comparative perspective. Based on a research project in cooperation with trade unions, the book is situated at the interface of comparative politics, industrial sociology, political economy, and political sociology.

First book-length account of populism in the Visegrad Four (V4) countries - Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. Covers the whole of the post-1989 period and uses primary sources in their original language. Advances a post-foundational approach to populism based on Ernesto Laclau's theory.

This book offers the first comparative study of far-right messaging and organizing efforts at the workplace level as well as responses by established trade unions, encompassing six European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland). Drawing on semi-structured interviews with workers and trade union actors with a focus on the automobile industry, the volume develops a classification of far-right strategies and trade union counter-strategies in comparative perspective. Based on a research project in cooperation with trade unions, the book is situated at the interface of comparative politics, industrial sociology, political economy, and political sociology.

Dieses Buch ist die erste vergleichende Studie uber rechte Kommunikations- und Organisierungsbestrebungen auf betrieblicher Ebene sowie gewerkschaftliche Gegenreaktionen. Im Rahmen eines europaischen Sechs-Lander-Vergleichs (Belgien, Deutschland, Frankreich, Italien, Polen, Ungarn), der auch eine Betriebsfallstudie fur jedes Land umfasst, wird eine Klassifikation rechter Aktivitaten und gewerkschaftlicher Reaktionen herausgearbeitet. Der Band beruht auf einem in Zusammenarbeit mit Gewerkschaften durchgefuhrten Forschungsprojekt und damit auf einem Theorie-Praxis-Dialog zu diesem hochaktuellen Thema.