Making Cultures Of Solidarity

Author : Diarmaid Kelliher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000382877
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Cultures of Solidarity written by Diarmaid Kelliher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines radical history, critical geography, and political theory in an innovative history of the solidarity campaign in London during the 1984-5 miners’ strike. Thousands of people collected food and money, joined picket lines and demonstrations, organised meetings, travelled to mining areas, and hosted coalfield activists in their homes during the strike. The support campaign encompassed longstanding elements of the British labour movement as well as autonomously organised Black, lesbian and gay, and feminist support groups. This book shows how the solidarity of 1984-5 was rooted in the development of mutual relationships of support between the coalfields and the capital since the late 1960s. It argues that a culture of solidarity was developed through industrial and political struggles that brought together diverse activists from mining communities and London. The book also takes the story forward, exploring the aftermath of the miners’ strike and the complex legacies of the support movement up to the present day. This rich history provides a compelling example of how solidarity can cross geographical and social boundaries. This book is essential reading for students, scholars, and activists with an interest in left-wing politics and history.

Author : Lyn Spillman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226769569
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solidarity in Strategy written by Lyn Spillman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular conceptions hold that capitalism is driven almost entirely by the pursuit of profit and self-interest. Challenging that assumption, this major new study of American business associations shows how market and non-market relations are actually profoundly entwined at the heart of capitalism. In Solidarity in Strategy, Lyn Spillman draws on rich documentary archives and a comprehensive data set of more than four thousand trade associations from diverse and obscure corners of commercial life to reveal a busy and often surprising arena of American economic activity. From the Intelligent Transportation Society to the American Gem Trade Association, Spillman explains how business associations are more collegial than cutthroat, and how they make capitalist action meaningful not only by developing shared ideas about collective interests but also by articulating a disinterested solidarity that transcends those interests. Deeply grounded in both economic and cultural sociology, Solidarity in Strategy provides rich, lively, and often surprising insights into the world of business, and leads us to question some of our most fundamental assumptions about economic life and how cultural context influences economic.

Author : Scott H. Boyd
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443857424
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Difference and Social Solidarity written by Scott H. Boyd and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Difference and Social Solidarity: Solidarities and Social Function explores solidarity as a social function bringing to the fore the critical value of the concept of solidarity in understanding contemporary societies. The first part of the book (Solidarities) provides different theoretical approaches to the conception and exploration of solidarity that depart from the traditional and dominant perspectives within which debates about solidarity take place. This part includes chapters on the origins of the concept of solidarity in French social thought in the nineteenth century; a critical discussion of the later Foucault’s augmentation of his concerns with a critical politics of difference with a politics of parrhesia; Theodor Adorno and the identitarian logic that underpins reconciliation between difference and solidarity in initiatives such as multiculturalism; Alisdair MacIntyre and his rearticulation of Aristotelian virtue ethics to explore the value of solidarity ingrained in the practice of politics as a means of developing solidarity; and a transitional chapter that explores the social function of postcolonial theory. The second part of the book (Social Function) seeks to explore particular cases in which solidarity is constituted. The cases are diverse in global location, level of association, focus on cultural, political and policy contexts, and different approaches to analysis. As such, they provide a set of cases from which different aspects of the problems of making and remaking solidarity can be explored. These chapters include a case study in Israel exploring solidarity and social cohesion through migration, globalisation, and modernising processes; a case study of the African Village Market in Sydney, Australia; an example of the complexities of solidarity and identity in the Slovene context; and an exploration of how state action in Turkey dissolves solidarity in a community through urban housing policies.

Author : Christine E. Sleeter
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807771066
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating Solidarity Across Diverse Communities written by Christine E. Sleeter and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important book, experts from around the globe come together to examine what solidarity in multicultural societies might mean and how it might be built. With a variety of analytical perspectives and findings, the authors present original research conducted in the United States, New Zealand, Spain, France, Chile, Mexico, and India. Educators will recognize relationships between issues discussed in the book and their own places of work, helping them to better understand issues of diversity and take steps toward building solidarity in their own schools and communities. This book demonstrates the commonality of purpose across the globe to connect schools and teachers with the communities they serve, and suggests avenues for bringing diverse understandings together to bridge antagonism and fear. Contributors: Isabelle Aliaga, Gilberto Arriaza, Andrés Calderón, Maria Antonia Casanova, Juan Francisco Contreras, Dolores Delgado Bernalis, Gina E. DeShera, Martine Dreyfus, Judith Flores Carmona, Anne Hynds, Verónica López, Mahendra Kumar Mishra, Carmen Montecinos, José Luis Ramos, José Ignacio Rodríguez, and Alice Wagner. Christine E. Sleeter is professor emerita in the College of Professional Studies at California State University Monterey Bay, and President of the National Association for Multicultural Education. Her recent books include Teaching with Vision (with Catherine Cornbleth). Encarnación Soriano is professor of research methods in education at the University of Almería, Spain. “Whether educators are working with student populations perceived as diverse or homogeneous, Creating Solidarity Across Diverse Communities provides profound insights into strategies for building consensus, efficacy, and reducing prejudice and conflict. This is a well-researched volume on complex theories and diverse practices for building solidarity to effect educational change.” —Merry M. Merryfield, School of Teaching and Learning, The Ohio State University

Author : Richard Jules Oestreicher
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252061202
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solidarity and Fragmentation written by Richard Jules Oestreicher and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1989-12 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the interplay between class and ethnicity play out within the working class during the Gilded Age? Richard Jules Oestreicher illuminates the immigrant communities, radical politics, worker-employer relationships, and the multiple meanings of workers' affiliations in Detroit at the end of the nineteenth century.

Author : George Vasilev
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 147440510X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solidarity Across Divides written by George Vasilev and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What divides and what unites an ethnically diverse citizenry? Do multicultural policies cause ethnic conflict or do they form the basis for wider loyalties? George Vasilev addresses these vexed questions. He argues against critics who claim that group representative measures are incompatible with solidarity. Instead, he explains how they provide the incentive structure needed for inter-ethnic cooperation. By looking beyond the representative institutions of the nation state, Vasilev shows us how NGOs, international institutions and opinion leaders are becoming increasingly important in cultivating interethnic openness.

Author : Sally J. Scholz
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271047216
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Solidarity written by Sally J. Scholz and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rick Fantasia
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520909674
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultures of Solidarity written by Rick Fantasia and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989-08-18 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A commonplace assumption about American workers is that they lack class consciousness. This perception has baffled social scientists, demoralized activists, and generated a significant literature on American exceptionalism. In this provocative book, a young sociologist takes the prevailing assumptions to task and sheds new light upon this very important issue. In three vivid case studies Fantasia explores the complicated, multi-faceted dynamics of American working-class consciousness and collective action.

Author : Bill Fletcher
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520261569
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solidarity Divided written by Bill Fletcher and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-10-19 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The US trade union movement finds itself on a global battlefield filled with landmines and littered with the bodies of various social movements and struggles. Candid, incisive, and accessible, this text is a critical examination of labour's crisis and a plan for a bold way forward into the 21st century.

Author : John D. Márquez
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 029275387X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black-Brown Solidarity written by John D. Márquez and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first scholarly study of Black-Latino solidarity and coalition in response to a Latino population boom in the Gulf South"--