The use of new ICTs in trade union protests – five European cases

Raquel Rego, Wim Sprenger, Vassil Kirov, Greg Thomson and Daniele Di Nunzio
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Raquel Rego: University of Lisbon, Institute of Social Sciences, Portugal
Vassil Kirov: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria; University Evry-Val-d’Essone, France; ETUI, Belgium
Greg Thomson: UNISON, UK
Daniele Di Nunzio: Fondazione Di Vittorio, Italy

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 2016, vol. 22, issue 3, 315-329

Abstract: Despite the interest in the use of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) by trade unions, little is known about how new ICTs have changed trade union protest. In a period of austerity, in which new groups – including labour-related ones – have shown impressive mobilization using social media, we focus on a cross-country approach, looking at the impact of trade union strikes and protest in the public sector. Our findings show that new ICTs are being used at all stages of strike action and union protests in general, but do not allow us to assert that unions have changed the way they act in a fundamental way.

Keywords: Internet; trade unions; union protest; national cases; public sector; Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1177/1024258916655761

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