Union Campaigns as Countermovements: Mobilizing Immigrant Workers in France and the United Kingdom
Union Campaigns as Countermovements: Mobilizing Immigrant Workers in France and the United Kingdom
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作为反运动的工会运动：动员法国和英国的移民工人
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2013
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Lowell Turner
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M. Tapia;Lowell Turner
在这篇文章中，我们比较了最近的创新工会运动：法国的“无纸”运动和英国的“清洁工正义”运动，两者都是基于对移民工人的持续基层动员。我们的跨国比较没有关注“通常可疑”的解释因素，如对比鲜明的国家背景、工会权力结构或传统，而是强调了工会对日益不稳定的移民劳动力的战略反应的重要潜在相似性。由于没有既定的代表渠道，这两个工会决定像争取社会保障的社会运动那样行事。使用波兰尼的框架，我们认为这两个案例研究的例子，对全球自由化水平的提高和不稳定的就业的反作用。
In this article, we compare recent innovative union campaigns: the ‘sans papiers’ campaign in France and the ‘Justice for Cleaners’ campaign in the United Kingdom, both based on a sustained grass‐roots mobilization of immigrant workers. Rather than focusing on the ‘usual suspect’ explanatory factors, such as contrasting national settings, union power structures or traditions, our cross‐national comparison highlights important underlying similarities in unions' strategic responses to a growing precarious immigrant workforce. In the absence of established channels of representation, both unions decided to act like social movements fighting for social protection. Using Polanyi's framework, we view both case studies as examples of countermovements against heightened levels of global liberalization and precarious employment.