Full Description
In Migrant Organising: Community Unionism, Solidarity and Bricolage, Emma Martín-Díaz and Beltrán Roca explore recent developments in community unionism and solidarity networks among migrant workers in a post-Fordist context characterised by transnationalism and global chains.
The contributions in this edited book describe different types of trade union strategies toward migrant workers and the rise of solidarity and bricolage initiatives in situations in which conventional union organising cannot succeed. Cases from Germany, Spain, Italy and Argentina reveal that the transformation of work, the rise of global chains and the intensification of international migrations are the basis of new forms of union and extra-union intervention.
Contributors include: Beltrán Roca, Emma Martín-Díaz, Simone Castellani, Mark Bergfeld, Juan Pablo Aris-Escarcena, Giulia Borraccino, Paula Dinorah Salgado, Alicia Reigada, Giuseppe D'Onofrio and Jon Las Heras.
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Post-Fordism, Transnationalism and Global Chains as a Context for Community Unionism and Solidarity Networks
Beltrán Roca and Emma Martín-Díaz
1 Labour Activism and Organisational Bricolage among Spanish and Italian Emigrants in Germany
Simone Castellani and Beltrán Roca
2 Community through Corporatisation? The Case of Spanish Nurses in the German Care Industry
Mark Bergfeld
3 Cross-Border Domestic Work in Ceuta: Challenges and Alternative Organisations
Emma Martín Díaz and Juan Pablo Aris Escarcena
4 Organising Migrant Porters of the Logistic Sector: The Italian Case of SI Cobas
Giulia Borraccino
5 Migrant Worker Organisations and Overexploitation in the Garment Industry in Argentina
Paula Dinorah Salgado
6 Collective Action, Experience and Identity in Global Agrarian Enclaves: The Case of Andalusia, Spain
Alicia Reigada
7 Transforming Labour Law or Recurring to Grass-Root Mobilisation? The Struggles over the Empowerment of Tomato-picking Migrant Workers in Southern Italy
Giuseppe D'Onofrio and Jon Las Heras
8 Putting the Pieces Together: Post-Fordist Migrations, Community Unionism, Solidarity Networks and Bricolage
Beltrán Roca and Emma Martín-Díaz
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