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Renters rising! Extending the analysis of housing activism in Europe to the UK (2021)
Journal Article
Mathers, A. (2021). Renters rising! Extending the analysis of housing activism in Europe to the UK. Araucaria, 23(46), 147-171. https://doi.org/10.12795/araucaria.2021.i46.08

The material effects of austerity in the United Kingdom (UK) have generated a resurgence of activist initiatives in the field of housing central to which is ACORN that has developed into a federated organisation contesting housing practices and polic... Read More about Renters rising! Extending the analysis of housing activism in Europe to the UK.

Nonviolent resistance: A radically alternative mental health nursing practice? (2018)
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Batterham, M., Cousins, L., Wilson, R., & Mathers, A. (2018). Nonviolent resistance: A radically alternative mental health nursing practice?

This article is focussed on working with parents and carers to develop nonviolent resistance (NVR) as a means of addressing controlling and self-destructive behaviours exhibited by their children. This practice is discussed as an alternative form of... Read More about Nonviolent resistance: A radically alternative mental health nursing practice?.

Book review: Jodi Dean, Crowds and Party; Donatella della Porta et al, Movement Parties against Austerity; Richard Seymour, Corbyn (2017)
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Mathers, A. (2017). Book review: Jodi Dean, Crowds and Party; Donatella della Porta et al, Movement Parties against Austerity; Richard Seymour, Corbyn. Interface, 9(2), 389-444

The crisis of neoliberalism and the associated austerity politics generated a global wave of protests which in turn has produced a renewed interest amongst activists and academics for political parties as means of expressing social movements and addr... Read More about Book review: Jodi Dean, Crowds and Party; Donatella della Porta et al, Movement Parties against Austerity; Richard Seymour, Corbyn.

Engaging sociologists: An A-Level tutoring and mentoring outreach project with 2nd year undergraduate students (2017)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Researching resistance to neoliberal globalization: Engaged ethnography as solidarity and praxis (2007)
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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.

State restructuring and trade union realignment: The pensions struggle in France (2004)
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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 politics of European integration: A European labour movement in the making? (2002)
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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?.