Patterns of Labour Solidarity Towards Precarious Workers and the Unemployed in Critical Times in Greece, Poland, and the UK

Christina Karakioulafi, Kostas Kanellopoulos, Janina Petelczyc, Tom Montgomery and Simone Baglioni
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Christina Karakioulafi: University of Crete, Greece
Kostas Kanellopoulos: University of Crete, Greece
Janina Petelczyc: Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie, Poland
Tom Montgomery: Glasgow Caledonian University, UK
Simone Baglioni: University of Parma, Italy

Sociological Research Online, 2021, vol. 26, issue 3, 739-758

Abstract: The purpose of this article is to examine whether and by what means traditional unions and other labour-oriented organisations engage in solidarity activities in favour of precarious workers and the unemployed. Our findings derive from qualitative data analysed from 10 in-depth interviews per country conducted as part of a large collaborative project with participants sampled from trade unions and other labour-oriented solidarity organisations based in three European national contexts: Greece, Poland, and the UK. Our aim here is to discern common features and differences in the strategies and answers given, within the three national contexts. To this end, we examine the actors engaged in labour solidarity; the value frames upon which these actions draw; the beneficiaries of their solidarity actions; the type of activities adopted mainly in favour of precarious workers and the unemployed; and their engagement in transnational labour solidarity activities.

Keywords: labour organisations; precarious workers; solidarity; unemployed; unions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1177/1360780420980464

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