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Social movement unionism

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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Economic and Political Strikes: A Social Movement Unionism Hypothesis

Socialism and Democracy, 2022
The article i devoted to explain the new form of labour conflict and the relationship between unions and social labour movement in mobilizing workers in Italy since the 2008 economic ...
PERRA, MARGHERITA SABRINA, PILATI, KATIA
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Social movement unionism

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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Social Actors — Trade Unions and Social Movements

2009
The 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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Trade unions (ism), social movements and the community: connections and politics

2023
The subjects of social movements and community/non-workplace forms of activism have entered the current discussion about work and employment in recent years although to some extent they have always been relevant. The concepts of trade union 'renewal' or 'revitalization' have been coupled with, and integrated to, these 'external' dimensions within ...
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From Social-Movement Unionism to Economic Unionism

2014
The imposition of martial law in 1949 was originally an emergency measure of regime survival when facing the prospect of annihilation in a civil war. Over the years, the martial-law regime grew to encompass a plethora of restrictions that effectively outlawed political opposition, free press, demonstrations, and strikes.
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Neoliberal Restructuring and U.S. Unions: Toward Social Movement Unionism?

Critical Sociology, 2000
This 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, 1995
Based 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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“We are the Union”: Care Work, Unions, and Social Movements

Humanity & Society, 2010
This article explores the potential confluences between the labor movement and calls for a “care movement.” Scholars of care work focus on the paid and unpaid labor that provides for the health, education, and well-being of a society—including taking care of children as well as those who are ill or elderly.
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A ‘New’ Social Movement: US Labor and the Trends of Social Movement Unionism

Sociology Compass, 2012
Abstract “Social movement unionism” (SMU) is frequently understood as the antithesis to business unionism. While business unionism, often characterized as bureaucratic and hierarchical, dominated most of the second half of the 20th century, “SMU” showed resurgence in the 1990s.
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