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Swedish trade unionism: A renewed social movement?
Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2012Claims as to the emergence of a new phase of unionism – social movement unionism – returning to its original ‘counter-cultural roots’, are closely allied with the claims as to a ‘new labour internationalism’ that is a significant break from the influential postwar trend of nation-statist unionism.
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South Korean Trade Union Movement at the Crossroads: A Critique of “Social-Movement” Unionism
Critical Sociology, 2007This paper is a critique of the social movement unionism (SMU) theory. Arguing that characteristics of social movement unions reflect the very contradictory nature of unions under capitalism, it renders a view that the SMU theory romanticizes so-called social movement type unions (the COSATU in South Africa, the CUT in Brazil, and the KCTU in South ...
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Social Movement Unionism or Trade Unions as Social Movements
Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 2008Peter Fairbrother
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This chapter examines the concept and evolution of Social Movement Unionism (SMU), exploring how unions increasingly engage beyond traditional labour concerns to advocate for broader socio-political changes. SMU emerged as a response to the limitations of conventional unionism, aligning union goals with issues like climate change, democratic rights and
Jane Parker, Ozan Alakavuklar
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Jane Parker, Ozan Alakavuklar
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Social Actors — Trade Unions and Social Movements
2009The political economy model put forward by the proponents of privatisation considers the rent-seeking vested interests, that is, the incumbents, as the main opponents to privatisation. In practice, resistance to privatisation has been much more broad based, including a range of social actors: trade unions, social movements, political groupings ...
Miren Etxezarreta, Marica Frangakis
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2017
This chapter explores the role of unions as social movements. To do this, it begins by examining, firstly, the role of social movements more generally, before putting forward three propositions about what social movement unionism should entail. The first of these propositions is that social movement unionism should imply ‘grassroots democracy’, or at ...
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This chapter explores the role of unions as social movements. To do this, it begins by examining, firstly, the role of social movements more generally, before putting forward three propositions about what social movement unionism should entail. The first of these propositions is that social movement unionism should imply ‘grassroots democracy’, or at ...
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Neoliberal Restructuring and U.S. Unions: Toward Social Movement Unionism?
Critical Sociology, 2000This paper identifies three causal pathways by which economic restructuring attributable to neoliberal policies has promoted a shift away from the previously dominant culture of business unionism, and toward social movement unionism, in the U.S. labor movement.
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Old Unions and New Social Movements
Labour / Le Travail, 1995Based on extensive study of union organizations and activists in Greater Vancouver, this article offers a two-fold critique of the thesis that "new social movements" have supplanted the labour movement as the key collective agents of change in late-modern societies.
William K. Carroll, R. S. Ratner
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