All Outputs (18)

Engaging sociologists: An A-Level tutoring and mentoring outreach project with 2nd year undergraduate students (2017)
Journal Article
Waller, R., Mathers, A., Savidge, P., Flook, G., & Hamm, D. (2017). Engaging sociologists: An A-Level tutoring and mentoring outreach project with 2nd year undergraduate students

This article is a collaborative piece of work co-written by two university academic staff (AM and RW), an FE college lecturer (PS), and two undergraduate students (GF and DH) who recently participated in the tutor/mentor scheme. The university academ... Read More about Engaging sociologists: An A-Level tutoring and mentoring outreach project with 2nd year undergraduate students.

Membership, influence and voice: A discussion of trade union renewal in the french context (2013)
Journal Article
Milner, S., & Mathers, A. (2013). Membership, influence and voice: A discussion of trade union renewal in the french context. Industrial Relations Journal, 44(2), 122-138. https://doi.org/10.1111/irj.12010

Union density in France has fallen to exceptionally low levels, yet unions are able to mobilise millions of supporters against government austerity measures. Some authors therefore argue that the union revitalisation literature overemphasises density... Read More about Membership, influence and voice: A discussion of trade union renewal in the french context.

Neoliberal Globalization and Trade Unionism: Toward Radical Political Unionism? (2012)
Journal Article
Upchurch, M., & Mathers, A. (2012). Neoliberal Globalization and Trade Unionism: Toward Radical Political Unionism?. Critical Sociology, 38(2), 265-280. https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920510396384

This article revisits the question of changing forms of trade unionism within the context of neoliberal globalization. While broadly accepting the argument that globalization might encourage the development of more radical forms of unionism as surviv... Read More about Neoliberal Globalization and Trade Unionism: Toward Radical Political Unionism?.

Beyond 'political economism': New identities for unions in Western Europe? (2012)
Journal Article
Taylor, G., Mathers, A., & Upchurch, M. (2012). Beyond 'political economism': New identities for unions in Western Europe?. Capital and Class, 36(1), 17-34. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309816811428664

This article engages critically with Richard Hyman's work on union identity and European integration. It includes a sympathetic review of Hyman's contribution to the debate on these topics over the past two decades, alongside a critique of Hyman's ap... Read More about Beyond 'political economism': New identities for unions in Western Europe?.

Beyond the chains that bind: The political crisis of unions in Western Europe (2011)
Journal Article
Taylor, G., Mathers, A., & Upchurch, M. (2011). Beyond the chains that bind: The political crisis of unions in Western Europe. Labor History, 52(3), 287-305. https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2011.600541

The dynamics of neo-liberal restructuring have generated serious tensions in the institutional alignments between social democratic political parties and labor unions in Western Europe. This article explores the origins,development and consequences o... Read More about Beyond the chains that bind: The political crisis of unions in Western Europe.

Learning across borders: A European way? (2010)
Book Chapter
Mathers, A. (2010). Learning across borders: A European way?. In M. Novelli, & A. Ferus-Comelo (Eds.), Globalization, Knowlege and Labour (155-181). London: Routledge

The crisis of "social democratic" unionism: The "opening up" of civil society and the prospects for union renewal in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany (2009)
Journal Article
Upchurch, M., Taylor, G., & Mathers, A. (2009). The crisis of "social democratic" unionism: The "opening up" of civil society and the prospects for union renewal in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. Labor Studies Journal, 34(4), 519-542. https://doi.org/10.1177/0160449X08324739

This article defines and explores the crisis of social democratic trade unionism in three countries in western Europe. The authors contend that a particularized form of postwar trade union orientation was socially constructed in Britain, Germany, and... Read More about The crisis of "social democratic" unionism: The "opening up" of civil society and the prospects for union renewal in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany.

Un metodo aperto di coordinamento nella mobilitazione social transnazionale: la governance multilivello e la lotta per an 'Europa sociale' (2009)
Journal Article
Mathers, A. (2009). Un metodo aperto di coordinamento nella mobilitazione social transnazionale: la governance multilivello e la lotta per an 'Europa sociale'. https://doi.org/10.3280/PACO2009-002003

The crisis of social democratic trade unionism in western Europe: The search for alternatives (2009)
Book
Taylor, G., Upchurch, M., & Mathers, A. (2009). The crisis of social democratic trade unionism in western Europe: The search for alternatives. Ashgate

Researching resistance to neoliberal globalization: Engaged ethnography as solidarity and praxis (2007)
Journal Article
Mathers, A., & Novelli, M. (2007). Researching resistance to neoliberal globalization: Engaged ethnography as solidarity and praxis. Globalizations, 4(2), 229-249. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747730701345259

In this paper we investigate the process of carrying out ethnographic studies of organized resistance to neoliberal globalization. We do so by drawing upon the critical and public social science of Bourdieu and Santos, two highly influential opponent... Read More about Researching resistance to neoliberal globalization: Engaged ethnography as solidarity and praxis.

Struggling for a social Europe: neoliberal globalization, the EU and the birth of a European social movement (2007)
Book
Mathers, A. (2007). Struggling for a social Europe: neoliberal globalization, the EU and the birth of a European social movement. Ashgate

Vers un mouvement social européen? (2005)
Book Chapter
Mathers, A. (2005). Vers un mouvement social européen?. In P. Di Borgo (Ed.), Vues de l’Europe d’en Bas’. Paris: L'Harmattan

Contemporary struggle in Europe: Anti-power or counter-power? (2005)
Journal Article
Mathers, A., & Taylor, G. (2005). Contemporary struggle in Europe: Anti-power or counter-power?. Capital and Class, Spring(85),

State restructuring and trade union realignment: The pensions struggle in France (2004)
Journal Article
Gordon, A., & Mathers, A. (2004). State restructuring and trade union realignment: The pensions struggle in France. Capital and Class, 28(2), 9-18. https://doi.org/10.1177/030981680408300102

May 2003 saw millions of French workers take to the streets over the issue of pensions, in mobilisations that the financial press presented as a peculiarly French summer ritual (Graham, 2003). Yet a look behind the news shows that the fight over pens... Read More about State restructuring and trade union realignment: The pensions struggle in France.

The variable geometry of European trade unionism: The case of the European trade union confederation (2004)
Journal Article
Taylor, G., & Mathers, A. (2004). The variable geometry of European trade unionism: The case of the European trade union confederation. European Journal of Industrial Relations, 10(3), 267-285

Social partner or social movement? European integration and trade union renewal in Europe (2002)
Journal Article
Taylor, G., & Mathers, A. (2002). Social partner or social movement? European integration and trade union renewal in Europe. Labor Studies Journal, 27(1), 93-108. https://doi.org/10.1353/lab.2002.0007

The politics of European integration: A European labour movement in the making? (2002)
Journal Article
Taylor, G., & Mathers, A. (2002). The politics of European integration: A European labour movement in the making?. Capital and Class, 26(3), 39-60. https://doi.org/10.1177/030981680207800103

This paper explores the logical and historical determinants of European integration and reflects on the potential and dangers this presents for labour movement renewal. Through the principle of ‘subsidiarity’ a regulatory gap has been established bet... Read More about The politics of European integration: A European labour movement in the making?.

Working Paper 10. Organsing unions, organising communities? Trades unions councils and community union politics in England and Wales
Working Paper
Taylor, G., & Mathers, A. (2008). Working Paper 10. Organsing unions, organising communities? Trades unions councils and community union politics in England and Wales. Bristol

The division of labour between labour economists and organisation theorists results in there being little or no (epistemic) connection between the disciplines of labour economics and organization theory, and little or no recognition of the (ontic) co... Read More about Working Paper 10. Organsing unions, organising communities? Trades unions councils and community union politics in England and Wales.