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

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Karakioulafi C, Kanellopoulos K, Petelczyc J, Montgomery T & Baglioni S (2021) Patterns of Labour Solidarity Towards Precarious Workers and the Unemployed in Critical Times in Greece, Poland, and the UK. Sociological Research Online, 26 (3), pp. 739-758. https://doi.org/10.1177/1360780420980464

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

Journal
Sociological Research Online: Volume 26, Issue 3

StatusPublished
Funders
Publication date30/09/2021
Publication date online17/12/2020
Date accepted by journal06/10/2020
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PublisherSAGE Publications
eISSN1360-7804

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Dr Tom Montgomery

Dr Tom Montgomery

Lecturer in Work & Organisations, Management, Work and Organisation