Mobilizing Against All Odds

Building Labour Power in the Logistic Sector
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-5292-6210-0
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Understanding Work and Employment Relations

This book offers a compelling, empirically rich account of how workers in the logistics sector build power against the odds. Focusing on a large furniture retailer in Italy, it traces how initially small, scattered episodes of resistance among precarious, often migrant workers evolved over a decade into a powerful protest chain.

Set against a backdrop of outsourcing and fragmentation, the book shows how labour mobilisation takes root even under intense exploitation and repression. Through diffusion, shared memories and evolving union ecologies, the authors reveal how workers with limited formal resources can forge collective strength and achieve meaningful concessions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

della Porta, Donatella

Antonelli, Marco

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Gewerkschaften, Industrielle Beziehungen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen
• Rechtswissenschaften Arbeitsrecht Betriebsverfassung, Personalvertretung, Mitbestimmungsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

2. Labour Under Constraint and Extreme Forms of Exploitation

3. Process of Diffusion Across Time and Space

4. Territory As Power Resource

5. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

della Porta, Donatella
Donatella Della Porta is the Founding Dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, the Director of the Center on Social Movement Studies (Cosmos) and the coordinator of the PhD program in Political Science and Sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence.

Donatella Della Porta is Professor of Political Science and Dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore.

Marco Antonelli is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Political Science at the Scuola Normale Superiore.