Magdalena Nowicka and Dennis Ohm (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany) and Łukasz Krzyżowski (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany; AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland) published in Current Sociology Volume 67 Issue 5 (May 2019)
Abstract
The recent massive arrival of war refugees has challenged Europe’s political unity and fanned the flames of anti-Muslim populism.
Both discourses have been framed in terms of ‘shifting solidarity’ between the European Union member states, their citizens and the refugees. At stake, the article argues, is the delineation of the collectivity linked by the obligation of solidarity.
Drawing on insights from research conducted among Polish-born migrants in Germany about their practices and attitudes towards helping the refugees, and critically engaging with social theory, this article offers a new understanding of transnational solidarity.
Transnational solidarity, it argues, needs to embrace the tension between cosmopolitan and particularistic ideas around belonging. The article suggests defining transnational solidarity as an outcome of socio-culturally and spatio-temporally specific interpretations of the norm of solidarity.
As a heuristic device, transnational solidarity helps us to understand the shifting alliances for and against refugees in Europe.
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Wednesday, 24 April 2019
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
The internationalisation of construction capital and labour force formation: Union responses in the transnational enterprise
an article by Stuart Rosewarne (The University of Sydney, Australia) published in The Journal of Industrial Relations Volume 55 Number 2 (April 2013)
Abstract
Throughout much of the advanced industrial world the building and construction industry has been extremely reliant upon migrant workers to meet industry labour force needs.
However, changes to work organisation in this sector, such as extended subcontracting chains and the increased significance of ‘phoenix’ operators, have reinforced greater recourse to migrant workers, especially temporary and undocumented workers.
Considered in the broader context of the widespread embrace of labour market flexibility and state engagement with neoliberal-oriented labour market policies that include less-restrictive labour migration programs, organised labour has been confronted by new and quite different industrial challenges in responding to migrant workers.
This article evaluates the significance of this shifting terrain in the construction sector for unions at the national, international and transnational level in engaging and organising migrant labour.
Abstract
Throughout much of the advanced industrial world the building and construction industry has been extremely reliant upon migrant workers to meet industry labour force needs.
However, changes to work organisation in this sector, such as extended subcontracting chains and the increased significance of ‘phoenix’ operators, have reinforced greater recourse to migrant workers, especially temporary and undocumented workers.
Considered in the broader context of the widespread embrace of labour market flexibility and state engagement with neoliberal-oriented labour market policies that include less-restrictive labour migration programs, organised labour has been confronted by new and quite different industrial challenges in responding to migrant workers.
This article evaluates the significance of this shifting terrain in the construction sector for unions at the national, international and transnational level in engaging and organising migrant labour.
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