Digital activism and the political culture of trade unionism

Dencik, Lina; Wilkin, Peter

doi:10.1080/1369118x.2019.1631371

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“…As a potentially decisive factor for trade union revitalization and for the reversal of several setbacks -such as membership loss, the dismantlement of representation structures, or the weakening of mobilization capacity, especially among atypical and young workers -the influence of social media is witnessed through distinctive but complementary (and interconnected) perspectives. These include organization, participation, and union democracy (Dencik and Wilkin, 2020;Greene et al, 2003;Hodder and Houghton, 2019;Kerr and Waddington, 2014); renewal of collective action repertoires and building bridges between labor market insiders and outsiders (Murray, 2017); union membership improvement (Bryson et al, 2010); transnational forms of labor solidarity (Geelan and Hodder, 2017;Lee, 2018), external coalitions between trade unions and other social movements (Ibsen and Tapia, 2017;Tattersall, 2010); challenges posed to the collective voice of workers and the impact of flexibility and adaptability of collective bargaining structures (Prassl, 2018).…”

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Digital unionism as a renewal strategy? Social media use by trade union confederations

Carneiro

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2020

Journal of Industrial Relations

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Traditional actors such as trade unions are inevitably challenged by digital technologies, not only from the perspective of labor relations, but also in relation to outreach and communications strategies. In fact, as online and offline realities become increasingly intertwined, the presence of organized labor institutions within the Internet’s current networked environment is unavoidable. This article debates digital trade unionism as a strategy for trade union renewal, particularly the implications of using social media platforms to connect and interact with a broader audience beyond the labor movement. Through a comprehensive comparative analysis of the Facebook pages of six trade union confederations from Brazil, Canada, Portugal, and the UK, we find that despite the possibilities for horizontal dialogue enabled by the new digital communication and information technologies, trade union confederations maintain an outdated ‘one-way’ model of communication, hindering opportunities to reach and engage with both union and non-union actors.

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Digital unionism as a renewal strategy? Social media use by trade union confederations

Carneiro

Costa

2020

Journal of Industrial Relations

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“…Although trade unions have used newsletters, film, and radio for generations to organise workers, shape public opinion, and conduct union education (Taylor 2010), digital media are presenting organisers with new opportunities and challenges (Geelan 2021). For instance, Dencik and Wilkin (2020) argued that networked media have created new organisational forms within the labour movement and have altered the political culture of unions. Specifically, these tools magnify a long-standing tension within the labour movement: the reformist versus revolutionary approaches to union organising.…”

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Networked Unionism: Reframing the Labour Movement and Starbucks Workers United’s Hybrid Organising Practices

Canella

2023

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Union organising is surging in the United States, especially among younger workers in the service industries. This article examines this uptick in labour organising through a case study of Starbucks Workers United (SBWU). I studied this campaign from March to December 2022 using a variety of online and offline methods: conducting twenty-three in-depth interviews with SBWU organisers; attending strikes, direct actions, and planning meetings; and following these groups on social media. This study addresses two main questions: How are SBWU organisers communicating unionisation with their co-workers and to broader publics? And, how are social media influencing workers’ organising practices? Despite claims that social media are “a great radicalier”, this study demonstrates how workers were politicised by their material conditions in an industrialising workplace. While media helped organisers amplify their messages and recruit new members, the social relationships among organisers were central to SBWU’s early growth. By detailing how organisers navigated the contradictions within networked media, this study shows how worker-led campaigns like SBWU are reshaping the structure and composition of the US labour movement.

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“…Important conceptual ideas and empirically-based positions in investigating political culture, political values and preferences, social attitudes of society are presented in the studies of O. Kutsenko (2017), D. Tong (2018, N. Reis (2019), E. Ordukhanyan (2019), R. Motta (2018), L. Dencik and P. Wilkin (2020) et al The development of the behavioural concept within the political culture is most clearly presented in the study of G. Almond and S. Verba (2015) "The civic culture: Political attitudes and democracy in five nations". The researchers identified several types of political culture, the main criterion to measure citizens' participation in political life.…”

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Political Culture and Identity Politics in the Ukrainian Society

HOROBETS

MARTYINOV

2022

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The development of the political culture among students is a process that is influenced by various historical, social, economic, and political factors. In order to streamline this process, to deprive it of spontaneity, it is important to outline the purposes and tasks that the Ukrainian society sets for itself to build a democratic rule of law state. The study is aimed at analysing the political culture of the Ukrainian population and identifying changes in the Ukrainian political culture. The methodological basis of the research is a set of philosophical, general, and specialised research methods. The study proves that the key element of identity policy is the implementation, maintenance, and adjustment of symbolic boundaries between people. The authors analyse the relationship between social boundaries and symbolic boundaries, examine the role of symbolic boundaries in the political sphere and their place in symbolic politics, show how symbolic boundaries are used in various forms and areas of identity politics. The study analyses the specific features of Ukrainian internal political development, the fluctuations occurring in the country

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Digital activism and the political culture of trade unionism

Cited by 10 publications

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Digital unionism as a renewal strategy? Social media use by trade union confederations

Digital unionism as a renewal strategy? Social media use by trade union confederations

Networked Unionism: Reframing the Labour Movement and Starbucks Workers United’s Hybrid Organising Practices

Political Culture and Identity Politics in the Ukrainian Society

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