Labour and Other Social Movements: Collective Elaboration and Collective Actions in the Evolution of the Modern Age
RC44 Labor Movements
Language: English
The joint session aims to reflect on the different relationships, from coalitions to competition, between labour and other social movements, especially in the creation of knowledge and in the framing of social conflicts.
Movements try to counteract the dominant actors’ cultural orientations by alternative point views of modernity (Touraine), counter-movements to commodification (Polanyi), or even counter-hegemony (Gramsci).
These struggles are relevant in the academic and public debate (Burawoy) around key concepts, as just transition, digitalization, dignity of work, social justice, democracy and so on.
Labour and social movements try to produce their collective elaborations also in collaboration with the scientific community and mutual intersectional learning. This cultural production has an epistemological relevance to address the challenges of today’s social complexity (Morin).
This session will gather empirical and theoretical contributions, encouraging a multidisciplinary approach to the debate, with attention to the following questions.
How labour and social movements produce and share knowledge?
What are the practices, actors and methodologies?
What are the relations between collective elaborations and collective actions?
What is the role of the scientific community and, in particular, of sociology?
What are main opportunities, problems and struggles for knowledge and collective actions?
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