scholarly journals Apuntes Antropológicos sobre Debates Actuales: Clases trabajadoras y economía popular en la Argentina

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (52) ◽  
Author(s):  
Guadalupe Hindi
Keyword(s):  
Trade Union ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
Anthropology Of Work ◽  
Popular Economy ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
The Way

Resumen: El siguiente artículo se inscribe en el análisis de los procesos recientes de organización de trabajadores en torno a la economía popular en la Argentina, particularmente el caso de la Confederación de Trabajadores de la Economía Popular (CTEP).Nos proponemos desarrollar aquí el modo en que ciertas características y reivindicaciones de dicho espacio sindical nos permiten poner en tensión una serie de debates teóricos vinculados con el alcance, sentido y validez del trabajo como organizador de la vida. A partir del análisis del proceso de demanda por el reconocimiento como actor sindical de la CTEP buscaremos echar luz sobre los aportes de la antropología en general, y la antropología del trabajo en particular, para dar cuenta de dichas reivindicaciones en el marco de una trama más compleja y de larga duración.Palabras clave: Trabajo. Economía popular. Sindicatos ANTHROPOLOGICAL NOTES ON CURRENT DISCUSSIONS: WORKING CLASSES AND POPULAR ECONOMY IN ARGENTINA Abstract: The following article is part of the analysis of recent worker organization processes around the popular economy in Argentina, particularly the case of the Confederation of Workers of the Popular Economy (CTEP).We intend to develop here the way in which certain characteristics and demands of said trade union space allow us to stress a series of theoretical debates related to the scope, meaning and validity of work as an organizer of life. From the analysis of the demand process for the recognition as a trade union actor of the CTEP we will seek to shed light on the contributions of anthropology in general, and anthropology of work in particular, to account for these claims in the framework of a plot complex and long lasting.Keywords: Work. Popular economy. Trade unions

scholarly journals The International Trade-Union Movement and the Founding of the International Labour Organization

2005 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 399-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reiner Tosstorff
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
International Labour Organization ◽  
High Expectations ◽  
Trade Union Movement ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
Union Movement

Accounts of the founding of the International Labour Organization (ILO) usually emphasize the role of social-reformist intellectuals and politicians. Despite the indisputable role of these actors, however, the international labour movement was the actual initiator of this process. Over the course of World War I, the international labour movement proposed a comprehensive programme of protection for the working classes, which, conceived as compensation for its support of the war, was supposed to become an international agreement after the war. In 1919, politicians took up this programme in order to give social stability to the postwar order. However, the way in which the programme was instituted disappointed the high expectations of trade unions regarding the fulfilment of their demands. Instead, politicians offered them an institution that could be used, at best, to realize trade-union demands. Despite open disappointment and sharp critique, however, the revived International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU) very quickly adapted itself to this mechanism. The IFTU now increasingly oriented its international activities around the lobby work of the ILO.

Trade Union Responses to Immigration in Europe

2019 ◽  
pp. 134-155
Author(s):  
Heather Connolly ◽  
Stefania Marino ◽  
Miguel Martínez Lucio
Keyword(s):  
Trade Union ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
European Level ◽  
Trade Unionism ◽  
Common Framework ◽  
European Trade ◽  
Union Policy ◽  
The Way

This chapter explores the challenges of developing trade union responses to immigration at the European level. The issue of immigration is exacerbated at the European level by the search for a common framework of meaning and initiatives in the context of different national experiences and responses. This chapter draws on interviews with trade union officials at the European level and participant observation of initiatives around immigration to consider the way in which trade union policy on immigration has developed. Our research demonstrated that initiatives in European trade unionism were mainly aimed at increasing awareness of the issues surrounding immigration and to share and develop 'good practice' responses in trade unions and to benchmark these responses. One initiative that we document, ETUC's Workplace Europe project.

Understanding and Framing the Questions of Trade Union Responses to Immigration and Social Inclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Heather Connolly ◽  
Stefania Marino ◽  
Miguel Martínez Lucio
Keyword(s):  
Trade Union ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Immigrant Workers ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

This chapter provides an overview of the challenges of studying and trying to understand the impact of new forms of immigration on labour and employment relations, considering questions of context and the diverse meanings and strategies of solidarity and inclusion. Having outlined the debates, we then turn our attention to the specific challenges that emerge when we begin to compare the way trade union-immigrant relations have evolved in different national contexts. We argue that this comparative dimension allows us to explain the way different sets of relationships and strategic links between the actors involved may emerge. We put forward an analytical framework for mapping the current and evolving responses of trade unions to immigrant workers, which identifies three trade union logics of action: class, race/ethnicity, and social rights.

Géographie et cartographie fictionnelles dans l’Utopie (1516) de Thomas More

Moreana ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 47 (Number 181- (3-4) ◽  
pp. 9-68
Author(s):  
Jean Du Verger
Keyword(s):  
Complex Network ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
The Third ◽  
Editio Princeps ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
The Way

The philosophical and political aspects of Utopia have often shadowed the geographical and cartographical dimension of More’s work. Thus, I will try to shed light on this aspect of the book in order to lay emphasis on the links fostered between knowledge and space during the Renaissance. I shall try to show how More’s opusculum aureum, which is fraught with cartographical references, reifies what Germain Marc’hadour terms a “fictional archipelago” (“The Catalan World Atlas” (c. 1375) by Abraham Cresques ; Zuane Pizzigano’s portolano chart (1423); Martin Benhaim’s globe (1492); Martin Waldseemüller’s Cosmographiae Introductio (1507); Claudius Ptolemy’s Geographia (1513) ; Benedetto Bordone’s Isolario (1528) ; Diogo Ribeiro’s world map (1529) ; the Grand Insulaire et Pilotage (c.1586) by André Thevet). I will, therefore, uncover the narrative strategies used by Thomas More in a text which lies on a complex network of geographical and cartographical references. Finally, I will examine the way in which the frontispiece of the editio princeps of 1516, as well as the frontispiece of the third edition published by Froben at Basle in 1518, clearly highlight the geographical and cartographical aspect of More’s narrative.

Abdullah Quilliam

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Siddique Seddon
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
Political Influences ◽  
Union Movement ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Conversion To Islam ◽  
Class Struggles ◽  
Legal Advisor ◽  
Shed Light

This chapter explores the religious and political influences that shaped Abdullah Quilliam’s Muslim missionary activities, philanthropic work and scholarly writings in an attempt to shed light on his particular political convictions as manifest through his unique religiopolitical endeavors. It focuses especially on Quilliam’s Methodist upbringing in Liverpool and his support of the working classes. It argues that Quilliam’s religious and political activism, although primarily inspired by his conversion to Islam, was also shaped and influenced by the then newly emerging proletariat, revolutionary socialism. Quilliam’s continued commitment to the burgeoning working-class trades union movement, both as a leading member representative and legal advisor, coupled with his reputation as the "poor man’s lawyer" because of his frequent fee-free representations for the impoverished, demonstrates his empathetic proximity to working-class struggles.

Legal Expertise: A Critical Resource for Trade Unionists? Insights into the Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cécile Guillaume
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Institutional Power ◽  
Collective Redress ◽  
Critical Resource ◽  
The Law ◽  
Legal Expertise

Abstract Based on in-depth qualitative research conducted in one of the major French trade unions (the CFDT), this article explores to what extent and under what conditions trade unions adopt different legal practices to further their members’ interests. In particular, it investigates how ‘legal framing’ has taken an increasingly pervasive place in trade union work, in increasingly decentralised industrial relations contexts, such as France. This article therefore argues that the use of the law has become a multifaceted and embedded repertoire of action for the CFDT in its attempt to consolidate its institutional power through various strategies, including collective redress and the use of legal expertise in collective bargaining and representation work.

Trade Unions and the Welfare of Rural-Urban Migrant Workers in China

ILR Review ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 001979392110044
Author(s):  
Alison Booth ◽  
Richard Freeman ◽  
Xin Meng ◽  
Jilu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
Monthly Income ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Urban Migrant

Using a panel survey, the authors investigate how the welfare of rural-urban migrant workers in China is affected by trade union presence at the workplace. Controlling for individual fixed effects, they find the following. Relative to workers from workplaces without union presence or with inactive unions, both union-covered non-members and union members in workplaces with active unions earn higher monthly income, are more likely to have a written contract, be covered by social insurances, receive fringe benefits, express work-related grievances through official channels, feel more satisfied with their lives, and are less likely to have mental health problems.

scholarly journals Becoming a Crorepati: From Glocal TV Game to Grobal Fiction

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 497-520
Author(s):  
Nicola Pozza
Keyword(s):  
Effective Means ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Slumdog Millionaire ◽  
Interactive Nature ◽  
Tv Show ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
The Way

AbstractNumerous studies have dealt with the process of globalization and its various cultural products. Three such cultural products illustrate this process: Vikas Swarup’s novel Q and A (2005), the TV quiz show Kaun banega crorepati? (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?), and Danny Boyle’s film Slumdog Millionaire (2008). The novel, the TV show and the film have so far been studied separately. Juxtaposing and comparing Q and A, Kaun banega crorepati, and Slumdog Millionaire provides an effective means to shed light on the dialogic and interactive nature of the process of globalization. It is argued through this case study that an analysis of their place of production, language and content, helps clarify the derivative concepts of “glocalization” and “grobalization” with regard to the way(s) contemporary cultural products respond to globalization.

Ethnic Minorities and Equal Treatment: The Impact of Gender, Equal Opportunities Policies and Trade Unions

2001 ◽  
Vol 176 ◽  
pp. 105-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Noon ◽  
Kim Hoque
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Equal Treatment ◽  
Equal Opportunities ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Non Union ◽  
Minority Men ◽  
The Impact

The article examines whether ethnic minority employees report poorer treatment at work than white employees, and evaluates the impact of three key features — gender differences, formal equal opportunities policies and trade union recognition. The analysis reveals that ethnic minority men and women receive poorer treatment than their white counterparts. In addition, there is evidence to suggest that ethnic minority women receive poorer treatment than ethnic minority men. Equal opportunities policies are effective in ensuring equal treatment, but the presence of a recognised trade union is not. White men and women in unionised workplaces enjoy better treatment than their white counterparts in non-union workplaces, but the same is not true for ethnic minorities. By contrast, there is very little evidence of unequal treatment in non-union workplaces.

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