Israel's recent unionizing drives: the broader social context

Preminger, Jonathan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0731-5737 2018. Israel's recent unionizing drives: the broader social context. Israel Studies Review 33 (1) , pp. 23-41. 10.3167/isr.2018.330103

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Abstract

In light of the labor movement’s prominence in Israel’s history, the recent resurgence of unionizing activity after some 30 years of organized labor’s decline has caused much scholarly debate. However, scholars have paid insufficient attention to political ‘climate’, the wider social context, and the ‘battle of ideas’. This article therefore discusses the status of organized labor in media discourse, the rhetoric against the labor courts, liberalization in legal reasoning, and how organized labor is construed by the courts, as well as the conceptual differentiation between ‘workers’ and ‘the public’. It concludes that both organized labor and vestigial corporatist institutions are facing delegitimizing rhetoric and proposes that, for a fuller assessment of union revitalization, we should pay attention to labor struggles on three planes: the frontal struggle in the workplace, the institutional struggle to shore up the institutions crucial to collective labor relations, and the ideological struggle against the narrative of delegitimation.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Publisher:	Berghahn Journals
ISSN:	2159-0370
Last Modified:	26 Oct 2022 07:48
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/125853

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