IV ISA Forum of Sociology (February 23-28, 2021)

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Precarity, Subjectivity and Collective Actions

Abstract Submissions Closed

RC47 Social Classes and Social Movements (host committee)

Language: English

Session Type: Oral

Flexibilization, fragmentation and digitalization are the main drivers of the world of work with non-unique impacts. Contemporary age offers new opportunities for the individuals in relation to their working experiences, considering the increasing importance given to autonomy, cooperation, knowledge and creativity in the working life. On the other side, there are many challenges due to the commodification and exploitation of humans and environmental life. At global level, logic of market seems to impose itself on the individual’s dignity and rights as worker and citizen, leading to a crisis of democracy and of the subjective affirmation. In this scenario, there are many paths of self-affirmation and many forms of collective actions, in order to deal with the processes of fragmentation, flexibility, inequality and precariousness of the daily life and of the social contexts. What are the processes of subjectivation and desubjectivation in relation to the working experiences in the contemporary age? What are the workers’ collective actions to cope with these processes and how the individuals are involved? This panel will gather empirical and theoretical contributions, encouraging a multidisciplinary approach to the debate. Main attention will be given on the issues of workers’ dignity, class formation, the networks of collective actions, the meaning of the workers movements in relation to the wide social movements, the comparative analysis.