The Debate on Globalization and International Revitalization of Labor. A Critical Review

Fleming, Daniel; Søborg, Henrik

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“…Studies tracing the cause of the trade union crisis indicate that structural changes in the economy and in the labour force have played significant roles. Above all, such analyses reveal that globalization is at the core of the situation, resulting in innumerable studies on how globalization has changed labour standards, strengthened the bargaining power of employers, contributed to changed employment contracts and made labour global while unions remain national (Bieler and Lindberg 2011;Fleming and Søborg 2014;Kim and Kim 2003;Williams et al 2013). Government politics and unions' poor choice of strategies to mobilize workers are two other explanations that have been suggested by research mapping the decline in organized labour (Verma and Kochan 2004, pp.…”

Section: Why Focus On Trade Union Revitalizationmentioning

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Trade Unions on YouTube

Jansson

Uba

2019

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Section: Why Focus On Trade Union Revitalizationmentioning

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Trade Unions on YouTube

Jansson

Uba

2019

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“…Studies tracing the cause of the trade union crisis indicate that structural changes in the economy and in the labour force have played significant roles. Above all, such analyses reveal that globalization is at the core of the situation, resulting in innumerable studies on how globalization has changed labour standards, strengthened the bargaining power of employers, contributed to changed employment contracts and made labour global while unions remain national (Bieler and Lindberg 2011;Fleming and Søborg 2014;Gumbrell-McCormick and Hyman 2014;Kim and Kim 2003;Standing 2011;Williams et al 2013). Government politics and unions' poor choice of strategies to mobilize workers are two other explanations that have been suggested by research mapping the decline in organized labour (Verma and Kochan 2004, pp.…”

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Introduction

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Uba²

2019

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This chapter briefly describes the goal and general argument of the book, along with its theoretical framework and data collection, and introduces the Swedish case. First, we set the discussion of labour movements' trade union revitalization and usage of social media-and particularly of YouTube-into the broader context of scholarly literature. Second, we introduce the Swedish case and compare the videos uploaded by Swedish trade unions with those uploaded by trade union confederations in other European countries. We also explain why we are investigating trade unions representing different social classes-namely, the working class, middle class and upper middle class. Third, we briefly describe the data collection and coding process and explain the methods of analysis used in this book: the rough metadata-based analysis of all videos uploaded by Swedish trade unions to YouTube during the period 2007-2017 (a total of 4535 videos), the detailed qualitative content analysis of 624 randomly selected videos and a qualitative analysis of 60 videos. Keywords Revitalization • Trade unions • Social classes • YouTube • Metadata 'What does a woman need to do to get a raise?' This question, posed in a YouTube video produced by the Swedish Municipal Workers'

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“…As to the studies of working life, the classic choice is the standpoint of the working class. More recently it has been complemented with other groups defined by central divisions in society: women (Korvajärvi 1998;Meriläinen 2001), racially or ethnically defined groups (Kamp & Hagedorn-Rasmussen 2004;Trux 2010), groups that are 'disabled' in particular respects (Hillborg et al 2010), or excluded from privileges for various reasons, like the unemployed or the precariat (Fleming & Søborg 2014;Therborn 1986). These literatures discuss explicitly the political relevance of research, but are usually more concerned with collective categories than concrete individuals.…”

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Fire and water combined: Understanding the Relevance of Working Life Studies through a Concept of Practical Activity

Räsänen

2015

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When I presented the basic ideas of this paper at a conference, a Swedish colleague commented: ‘you manage to combine water and fire.’ I understood his kind comment to mean that he used water and fire as metaphors for practice and theory. The comment puzzled me for a while. Water and fire obviously destroy each other, or at least radically transform each other. Then I realized that humans have actually managed to combine water and fire in several ways. One solution is the kettle. It makes possible to use fire in a controlled way for the human purpose of boiling water. Thus, this paper can be taken as an attempt at offering a kettle-like vehicle for bringing together practicetheoretical concepts and vocational practice. My kettle is a concept of practical activity. I am trying to boil up an answer to the following question: in what senses a study of work can be practically relevant to those who are doing the work being studied?

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The Debate on Globalization and International Revitalization of Labor. A Critical Review

Abstract: This article discusses some alternative or critical theoretical contributions regarding globalization and labor. The main question in this discussion

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