An Analysis of Defensive Strikes

Naples, Michele I.

doi:10.1111/j.1468-232x.1987.tb00696.x

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“…Regarding the workers’ agency, Naples (1987) found that in an expansive cycle, strikers are more offensive in their demands, and their strikes are more frequent; however, in a recessive cycle, strikers become more defensive and their strikes are less recurrent. In other words, in the face of disadvantageous economic conditions, companies seem to harden their resistance, and workers lose their force to impose their demands on employers, due to the risk of losing wages or even jobs 2 .…”

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What tactical repertoire to use in strikes and when to use it? Strategies of workers and their mobilization power in Chile (2010–2018)

Velásquez

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2021

Brit J Industrial Rel

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This research analyses workers’ mobilization power in Chile through the joint‐cost model, suggesting that wider tactical repertoires, and especially transgressive ones, tend to result in shorter strikes, as a proxy of relative success against the employers. Using the Labor Strike Observatory's original dataset, we study this relation in the Chilean case, where neoliberalism has weakened unions and constrained the occurrence of strikes at the workplace level. We advanced two quantitative methods of analysis. First, using latent class analysis, we identify the tactical repertoires used by strikers. Second, following an event history methodology, we estimate the contribution of each repertoire to the risk of ending the strike. This paper analyses the strategies and milestones of strikers’ actions, shows the greater power of violent tactics compared to peaceful ones at the beginning of the conflict and finally discusses some limitations of the joint‐cost model in the capital–labour relation.

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Section: Joint‐cost Model: a Relationship Between Duration And Tactics On Strikesmentioning

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What tactical repertoire to use in strikes and when to use it? Strategies of workers and their mobilization power in Chile (2010–2018)

Velásquez

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2021

Brit J Industrial Rel

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“…The sociological frameworks of defensive versus offensive action and reactive versus proactive action have informed scholars’ conceptualisations of labour protests in the United States (Martin and Dixon, 2010; Naples, 1987), Canada (Brym et al, 2013), France (Perrot, 1974), Italy (Snyder and Kelly, 1976) and Vietnam (Clarke et al, 2007). Influenced by this tradition, some scholars studying labour activism in China have distinguished between defensive and offensive strikes (Elfstrom and Kuruvilla, 2014; Yang and Chen, 2020) and similarly between rights-based and interest-based protests (Chan, 2011).…”

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From production to reproduction: Pension strikes and changing characteristics of workers’ collective action in China

Hui

Chan

2021

Journal of Industrial Relations

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Workers in the global South are becoming increasingly sensitive to their pension rights. In recent years, rural migrant workers in China have staged a series of protests to fight for pension protection. Drawing from two in-depth case studies conducted in the Pearl River Delta, we explain why workers staged pension strikes, what these protests looked like, how the employers and the government responded, and how these protests differed from previous strikes. Building upon insights from the sociology of collective action and labour process theory, we formulate a new framework for examining labour protests. In addition to seeing workers’ collective action as defensive or offensive, this framework helps us interpret these actions in relation to the spheres of production and reproduction. It classifies pension strikes in China as defensive actions located in the sphere of reproduction, which are distinct from previous strikes that were either defensive or offensive actions situated in the sphere of production. This synthesised framework assists us in theorising that workers’ protest activities, especially in the global South, are not restricted to the traditional production sphere but can also be found in the reproduction sphere.

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Relative deprivation and labour conflict during Spain’s industrialization: the Bilbao estuary, 1914–1936

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2013

Cliometrica

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An Analysis of Defensive Strikes

Cited by 6 publications

References 6 publications

What tactical repertoire to use in strikes and when to use it? Strategies of workers and their mobilization power in Chile (2010–2018)

What tactical repertoire to use in strikes and when to use it? Strategies of workers and their mobilization power in Chile (2010–2018)

From production to reproduction: Pension strikes and changing characteristics of workers’ collective action in China

Relative deprivation and labour conflict during Spain’s industrialization: the Bilbao estuary, 1914–1936

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