scholarly journals Chapter 4: Organized Action: Agency, (In)capabilities and Means

2021 ◽  
pp. 103-127
Keyword(s):  
Organized Action

Resilient privatization: the puzzling case of for-profit welfare providers in Sweden

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 745-765 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Svallfors ◽  
Anna Tyllström
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
For Profit ◽  
The Face ◽  
Organized Action ◽  
Influence Perceptions ◽  
The Welfare State

Abstract In this article, we analyse the striking resilience of for-profit care and service provision in what has often been seen as the archetypical social democratic welfare state: Sweden. We focus on the strategic discursive activities of private companies and their business organizations as they try to influence perceptions, organize actors and facilitate communication to defend profit-making in the welfare sector in the face of increasing conflict and opposition. We argue that taking such organized action into account changes dominant perceptions about the characteristics of the Swedish political economy, and carries important lessons for analyses of changes in the organization of the welfare state in general.

Mobilization without Movement: How the Chinese State “Fixed” Labor Insurgency

ILR Review ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (5) ◽  
pp. 1029-1052 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Chen ◽  
Mary Gallagher
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Labor Disputes ◽  
Movement Theory ◽  
Labor Legislation ◽  
Chinese State ◽  
Organized Action

Drawing on a qualitative analysis of two recent labor disputes in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, this article asks: Why has a broad-based labor movement failed to emerge in contemporary China? Both pro-labor legislation and the existence of movement-oriented labor NGOs appear to provide opportunities and resources for workers to engage in organized action to expand workers’ rights. Two political mechanisms, however, help explain why a strong labor movement has not developed: 1) legislation and courtroom procedures and 2) official institutions that monopolize the space for representation—specifically the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU). We call these two mechanisms “political fixes” and discuss how they interact to engender a feedback between the fragmentation of collective action during labor conflict and the continuous uptick in labor insurgency. This article contributes to labor movement theory: It puts greater emphasis on the institutional mechanisms that constrain labor, as opposed to sheer repression or economic factors.

The Urban Exploration Imaginary: Mediatization, Commodification, and Affect

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 372-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maja Klausen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Dual Process ◽  
Alternative Form ◽  
Visual Material ◽  
Urban Citizenship ◽  
Urban Exploration ◽  
Organized Action

Using George E. Marcus’ concept of the “activist imaginary” this article focuses on the imaginary of urban exploration (UE), an alternative form of organized action. The UE imaginary is investigated through visual material, produced and shared on social media by the Copenhagen-based UE duo CphCph. Grasping UE as an assemblage, the article suggests that the imaginary undergoes a dual process of mediatization and commodification. Through a discourse analytical and aesthetic-affective approach, it is argued that CphCph strategically uses the visually mediated explorer body as an effective tool on social media to both commodify the imaginary and create “spreadability” as well as to channel followers’ engagement in urban space. In keeping with Roopali Mukherjee and Sarah Banet-Weiser’s approach to contemporary, neoliberal modes of resistance the UE imaginary is understood both as a commodity produced by entrepreneurial explorers and as an imagined geography sparking participation and enabling practices of urban citizenship.

Organized Action: Management Advisory Councils

JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 196 (12) ◽  
pp. 1062
Author(s):  
John M. Danielson
Keyword(s):  
Advisory Councils ◽  
Organized Action ◽  
Management Advisory

scholarly journals NLP Methods Of Motivation: Metaprograms and Reframing

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-138
Author(s):  
Bogdan - Alexandru Furduescu
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
General Term ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Broad Concept ◽  
Organized Action

Abstract People are the most important asset category that an organization can use; none of them can exist without the human resources that make it up. However, paradoxically, they are also the only asset that can act against the goals of the organisation. From the same perspective, now, people can choose where to work or leave if they feel no pleasure anymore. Those who want to improve their living standards and reach a balance in their professional life will decide to leave their job if it is no longer satisfactory. a very important issue in the day-to-day activity of man is the motivation he/she feels for what he/she is doing. Motivation is a general term that describes the process of initiation, orientation and maintenance of physical and psychological activities, is a broad concept that includes a series of internal mechanisms, such as: the preference given to one activity over other activities, the enthusiasm and the force of a person’s reactions, the persistence of some organized action patterns (models) to achieve relevant objectives.

scholarly journals Anton Korošec in slovenska manjšina na Primorskem med obema vojnama

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2021) (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Egon Pelikan
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Social Organisation ◽  
The Political ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
Material Support ◽  
The World ◽  
Organized Action ◽  
National Defence

In this article, the author presents the role and importance of Anton Korošec between the world wars, in maintaining the national consciousness of Slovene and Croatian minorities in Venezia Giulia. Based on the material from the archive of Engelbert Besednjak, the author presents organized action of the Secret Christian Social Organisation and the activities of the Slovene Clergy from the Primorska region between the world wars. A crucial role in the political and especially material support for the Slovene minority was played by Anton Korošec, who took care of an ongoing funding of anti-fascist and national defence initiatives of the Secret Christian Social Organisation and the Slovene Clergy from the Primorska region. He has also cooperated with Engelbert Besednjak and other representatives of Slovenes from the Primorska region.

scholarly journals The Promise of Interreligious Dialogue for a World in Conflict

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael L. Fitzgerald
Keyword(s):  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
40Th Anniversary ◽  
The Past ◽  
Boston College ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Arab States ◽  
Jewish Learning ◽  
Organized Action

Archbishop Michael L. Fitzgerald, M.Afr. until recently served as the president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue in the Vatican. In February 2006 he was appointed by Pope Bendedict XVI to be the apostolic nuncio to Egypt and the Holy See's delegate to the League of Arab States. This address was delivered at the conference "In Our Time: Interreligious Relations in a Divided World," co-sponsored by the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College and Brandeis University to mark the 40th anniversary of Nostra Aetate. It was given at Boston College on March 16, 2006. After reviewing regions of conflict in the world, Archbishop Fitzgerald first discusses what interreligious dialogue cannot do. He then explores the Catholic Church's understanding of dialogue as reflected in Nostra Aetate. He considers how a history of past conflicts can be overcome by (1) forgetting the past; (2) achieving mutual understanding; and (3)collaborating. Finally, he examines how dialogues can be encouraged through good neighborliness, through organized action, with intellectual backing, and with spiritual backing.

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