Seminar: Transnational social movements and cross-border organisations
Prof. Dr. Sabrina Zajak
10 - 12 Uhr,
Dienstag
| Veranstaltungs-Nr. | 080360 |
| Ort | GBCF 04/255 |
| Beginn | 20.10.2015 |
This seminar looks into the relationship between social movements and trade unions. The rise of protest movements in the 68ies marked a separation between the now called "old" labor movement and the "new" social movements (e.g. environmental, peace, women's, student movement). Until today research on social movements and labor relations remains disparate and disintegrated. The seminar is bridging this divide and goes beyond the boundaries of the established disciplines by looking into different examples where social movements and trade unions mobilize together and form alliances. We also look at discrepancies between these different forms of collective action, instances of disagreement and competition. After the introduction of key theories in social movement studies and sociology of work, the seminar looks at differences and similarities in the underlying motives of movements and unions, the levels and scales where they collaborate (in Germany, Europe and internationally) and the organization and formalization of cooperation. Special attention is given to joint forms of collective action after the crisis such as mobilization against austerity politics or against the transatlantic trade and investment partnership (TTIP).
Einführende Lektüre:
- Jürgen R. Grote and Claudius Wagemann (Eds.) Social Movements and Organized Labour. Passions and Interests. Ashgate Publishers (forthcoming 2016)
- Frege, Carola; Heerey, Edmund; Turner, Lowell (2004): The new solidarity?: trade unions and coalition building in five countries: Oxford University Press
- Van Dyke, Nella and Holly J. McCammon (eds.) 2010. Strategic Alliances. Coalition Building and Social Movements. University of Minnesota Press