Workers Movements in Ytime of Transformations and Crisis

Abstract

Due to recent labour market transformations and the current economic crisis, the literature on workers movements faces new challenges. The very research focus, namely workers movements across the Global North and the Global South, is changing and so are: the political arenas of contention in which they act, the material and immaterial claims they formulate; and the forms of collective action they undertake. This is especially true with regard to mobilizations of vulnerable, precarious and temporary workers in a variety of labour market sectors worldwide, as well as unemployed people. But, this is also true with regard to mobilization of full-time and open-ended workers, whose working places are no more secure as they were in the past decades due to the current economic crisis and delocalization processes. This panel intends to contribute to reflections related to movements addressing the topic of work in times of transition and crisis, with a focus on contemporary local, regional, national and transnational struggles related to the labour realm. The aim of this panel is to bring together papers based on empirical analysis and which focus on the repertoire of action, organizational patterns, framing activities and/or the mobilizations of resources with regard to collective actions involving people facing labour market transformations and the current economic crisis worldwide. Paper employing both qualitative and quantitative methods are welcome and a comparative perspective will be particularly appreciated.

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