Outputs (12)

Solidaires, unitaires et démocratiques: social movement unionism and beyond? (2017)
Journal Article

A contribution to a Special Issue on trade union renewal that focuses on this topic in relation to the radical French trade union Solidaires, Unitaires et Démocratiques (SUD).

Membership, influence and voice: A discussion of trade union renewal in the french context (2013)
Journal Article

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

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?.

Learning across borders: A European way? (2010)
Book Chapter

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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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

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

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

Vers un mouvement social européen? (2005)
Book Chapter

The variable geometry of European trade unionism: The case of the European trade union confederation (2004)
Journal Article

State restructuring and trade union realignment: The pensions struggle in France (2004)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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?.