Exiting the Factory (Volume 2)

Strikes and Class Formation beyond the Industrial Sector

Alexander Gallas (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

292 Seiten

2024
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-4222-5 (ISBN)

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Drawing on case studies from Germany, Britain and Spain, this book offers a novel assessment of post-industrial action. Gallas explores key issues around union activities, class relations and struggles around unwaged work and brings class theory back to labour studies with a class-sensitive analysis of capitalism.

In this important book, Gallas asks what strikes in non-industrial sectors mean for class formation, a critical question which has been largely unaddressed by the current literature on global labour unrest.

A mapping of strikes around the world and case studies from Germany, Britain and Spain cast new light on class relations, struggles around waged and unwaged work and labour movements in contemporary capitalism to bring class theory back to labour studies.

This is a valuable resource for academics and students of employment relations, sociology and politics.

This second volume focuses on empirical strike research.

Alexander Gallas teaches in the Department of Political Science at the University of Kassel in Germany.

PART I: Strike Research from a Global Angle: Collective Action in Response to the Crisis of Neoliberalism

1. Beyond Methodological Fordism: The Case for Incorporated Comparisons

2. A Catastrophic Disequilibrium: Neoliberal Capitalism in Crisis

3. Shifting Conditions of Struggle: The Service and Public Sectors in the Age of Neoliberalism

4. Outside the Factory Gates: Strikes in Non-Industrial Workplaces around the World

PART II: Strike Research from a Western European Angle: Class Formation in Non-Industrial Settings

5. Deindustrialization and Dwindling Union Density: Labour in Western Europe

6. Union Competition and Militancy: The Railway Strikes in Germany

7. Adsorption and the Struggle against Austerity: The Junior Doctors’ Dispute in Britain

8. Changing Terrains: The General and Feminist General Strikes in Spain

Conclusion

Appendix A: Mapping

Appendix B: Background Interviews

Erscheinungsdatum	12.07.2024
Zusatzinfo	8 Tables, black and white; 12 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Technik
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	1-5292-4222-3 / 1529242223
ISBN-13	978-1-5292-4222-5 / 9781529242225
Zustand	Neuware