From social conflict to social dialogue: counter-mobilization on the European waterfront

Turnbull, Peter John 2010. From social conflict to social dialogue: counter-mobilization on the European waterfront. European Journal of Industrial Relations 16 (4) , pp. 333-349. 10.1177/0959680110384835

Full text not available from this repository.

Abstract

Can trade unions organize internationally and ensure common standards of employment to prevent capital flight, social dumping and an international ‘race-to-the-bottom’? The experience of European dockworkers suggests that trade unions need to frame domestic conflicts in a global context and respond to foreign or international pressures within domestic politics before they can shift the scale of contention from the national to the European level. The campaigns against proposed Port Services Directives demonstrate that if social actors can project their domestic claims vertically onto international institutions and/or foreign actors they can divert the course of EU policy-making. In particular, if they can co-operate with other social actors through horizontal networks across different countries with similar claims, they can use both conflict and dialogue to protect their interests.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > HX Socialism. Communism. Anarchism J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	EU port reform ; International trade unionism ; Neoliberalization ; Transnational activism
Publisher:	Sage
ISSN:	0959-6801
Last Modified:	19 Mar 2016 22:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/18487

Citation Data

Cited 9 times in Scopus. View in Scopus. Powered By Scopus® Data

Actions (repository staff only)

Edit Item