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Trade Union Powers
This book analyses trade unions’ capacities of resistance following the period of austerity and “bailout crisis” in Portugal (2011-2015). Considering the destructive impacts of those policies on the working class and their unions, it explores three case studies in three productive sectors: the metal sector (Autoeuropa/VW); the telecommunications sector (PT-Telecom/Altice); and the transport sector (TAP – Air Portugal). In order to gather empirical information, the study uses qualitative methods, such as in-depth interviews and focus groups. The book shows that social dumping, brutal unemployment growth, increasing poverty levels, spreading precariousness, wage cuts and labour rights suppression were some of the consequences of this period on the working class and trade unions. Drawing on the “power resources” theoretical approach, it shows how trade unions were able to react and “reinvent” themselves in terms of certain forms of power, while others “imploded” or were relegated to a marginal role.
Trade Union Powers
This book analyses trade unionsâ (TM) capacities of resistance following the period of austerity and â oebailout crisisâ in Portugal (2011-2015). Considering the destructive impacts of those policies on the working class and their unions, it explores three case studies in three productive sectors: the metal sector (Autoeuropa/VW); the telecommunications sector (PT-Telecom/Altice); and the transport sector (TAP â " Air Portugal). In order to gather empirical information, the study uses qualitative methods, such as in-depth interviews and focus groups. The book shows that social dumping, brutal unemployment growth, increasing poverty levels, spreading precariousness, wage cuts and labour rights suppression were some of the consequences of this period on the working class and trade unions. Drawing on the â oepower resourcesâ theoretical approach, it shows how trade unions were able to react and â oereinventâ themselves in terms of certain forms of power, while others â oeimplodedâ or were relegated to a marginal role.
Social Class in Europe
Mapping the class divisions that run throughout Europe Over the last ten years - especially with the 'no' votes in the French and Dutch referendums in 2010, and the victory for Brexit in 2016 - the issue of Europe has been placed at the centre of major political conflicts. Each of these crises has revealed profound splits in society, which are represented in terms of an opposition between those countries on the losing and those on the winning sides of globalisation. Inequalities beyond those between nations are critically absent from the debate. Based on major European statistical surveys, the new research in this work presents a map of social classes inspired by Pierre Bourdieu's sociology. It reveals the common features of the working class, the intermediate class and the privileged class in Europe. National features combine with social inequalities, through an account of the social distance between specific groups in nations in the North and in the countries of the South and East of Europe. The book ends with a reflection on the conditions that would be required for the emergence of a Europe-wide social movement.
Middle Class Identities and Social Crisis
This book explores the dynamics of the "middle-class global rebellion" born of the frustration at declining living standards. Addressing narratives constructed by different social and political agents and groups, it examines contexts of social crisis in Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania, understanding the middle classes as a set of complex and conflicting political relationships. With attention to the manner in which people create "situated habits", consolidating new expectations and desires through a concrete biography, it analyzes continuities and changes in classed self-perceptions based on performative use. With new perspectives, including historical and intersectional approaches, Middle Class Identities and Social Crisis transcends disciplinary boundaries to explore the hybridity of research methods and techniques and challenge established analytical frameworks. It will therefore appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in class and questions of class identity.
Social Movement Studies in Europe
Bringing together over forty established and emerging scholars, this landmark volume is the first to comprehensively examine the evolution and current practice of social movement studies in a specifically European context. While its first half offers comparative approaches to an array of significant issues and movements, its second half assembles focused national studies that include most major European states. Throughout, these contributions are guided by a shared set of historical and social-scientific questions with a particular emphasis on political sociology, thus offering a bold and uncommonly unified survey that will be essential for scholars and students of European social movements.
O Sindicalismo Português e a Nova Questão Social - Crise ou Renovação?
Fruto de uma conjugação de preocupações sobre o mundo do trabalho, partilhadas no campo académico e no seio do movimento sindical, este livro discute com frontalidade os problemas e desafios do sindicalismo do nosso tempo, as suas fraquezas e potencialidades, as suas perplexidades e estratégias de acção e renovação. Num primeiro momento, recuperam-se algumas abordagens teóricas e transformações sociais do sindicalismo, quer como forma de situar a relevância de conceitos, definições e tipologias, quer como meio de pensar respostas concretas e desenhar novos desafios no actual contexto de crise, nacional e internacional. Num segundo momento, concede-se espaço particular às pe...
Late Neoliberalism and its Discontents in the Economic Crisis
This book analyses protests against the Great Recession in the European periphery. While social movements have long been considered as children of affluent times - or at least of times of opening opportunities - these protests defy such expectations, developing instead in moments of diminishing opportunities in both the economic and the political realms. Can social movement studies still be useful to understanding these movements of troubled times? The authors offer a positive answer to this question, although specify the need to bridge contentious politics with other fields, including political economy. They highlight differences in the social movements’ strength and breadth and attempt to understand them in terms of three sets of dimensions: a) the specific characteristics of the socio-economic crisis and its consequences in terms of mobilization potential; b) the political reactions to it, in what we can define as political opportunities and threats; and c) the social movement cultures and structures that characterize each country. The book discusses these topics through a contextualized analysis of anti-austerity protest in the European periphery.
Disciplined agency
This book introduces the concept of disciplined agency as a valuable explanatory tool vis-a-vis new forms of labour exploitation in service realms of production and the material and moral insecurities of capitalism under neoliberal governance.
A Classe Média: Ascensão e Declínio
A classe média é um segmento social que suscitou inúmeras polémicas e que, no actual quadro de austeridade, se encontra em risco de empobrecimento compulsivo (sobretudo nos países periféricos da Europa, como Portugal). A noção é, ela própria, controversa. Quer em termos teóricos, porque não corresponde, verdadeiramente, a uma «classe» enquanto sujeito ou actor colectivo dotado de uma identidade própria, quer no plano concreto, na medida em que se trata de um conjunto plural que reúne diversas camadas sociais situadas nas posições intermédias da estratificação social, esta é uma categoria social de múltiplas conotações e muito heterogénea. O presente ensaio pretende contribuir para uma reflexão sociológica – ampla e crítica – em torno deste tema, mostrando a pluralidade de abordagens e concepções sobre o assunto, e ao mesmo tempo apontando exemplos, discutindo tendências e partilhando perplexidades que se apresentam hoje à sociedade portuguesa e à sua classe média.
