Andrew Mathers
Biographic Data
| ID | 90485 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Mathers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Mathers |
| SIGNATURE | MATHERS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West of England |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9046-3441 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Renters Rising! Extending the analysis of housing activism in Europe to the UK
The material effects of austerity in the United Kingdom (UK) have generated a resurgence of activist initiatives in the field of housing central to which is ACORN that has developed into a federated organisation contesting housing practices and policies at both local and national levels. ACORN is used to expand the examination of housing activism in Europe beyond the cases in Spain and Germany to the UK (Ordonez et al, 2015). This article also ut…
We make our own history. Marxism and social movements in the twilight of neoliberalism
We make our own history. Marxism and social movements in the twilight of neoliberalism." Social Movement Studies, 15(3), pp. 339–340
Beyond ‘political economism: New identities for unions in Western Europe
This article engages critically with Richard Hyman’s work on union identity and European integration. It includes a sympathetic review of Hyman’s contribution to the debate on these topics over the past two decades, alongside a critique of Hyman’s approach that highlights certain weaknesses and contradictions resulting from his uncritical use of a range of categories and concepts taken from regulation theory. The authors question Hyman’s argument…
Beyond the chains that bind: The political crisis of unions in Western Europe
The dynamics of neo-liberal restructuring have generated serious tensions in the institutional alignments between social democratic political parties and labor unions in Western Europe. This article explores the origins, development and consequences of the resulting political crisis through a detailed analysis of the institutional alignment of parties and unions in Sweden, Germany, UK and France. The authors reject the argument that the changing …
The Crisis of “Social Democratic” Unionism: The “Opening up” of Civil Society and the Prospects for Union Renewal in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany
This article defines and explores the crisis of social democratic trade unionism in three countries in western Europe. The authors contend that a particularized form of postwar trade union orientation was socially constructed in Britain, Germany, and France in which a party union nexus gave special privileges to unions in return for compliance with state policies in the national interest. This arrangement has broken down in recent years under the…
Un metodo aperto di coordinamento nella mobilitazione sociale transnazionale: La governance multilivello e la lotta per un'Europa sociale
This article explores the way that Multi-Level Governance (Mlg) has, or has not, opened up a new Political Opportunity Structure within the European Union which transnational social and political actors can utilise to advance the project for a "Social Europe". It focuses specifically on the ‘European Marches against Unemployment, Job Insecurity and Exclusions' which has emerged to challenge the labour market and welfare state restructuring which …
Urban Outcasts - By Loïc Wacquant
Researching Resistance to Neoliberal Globalization: Engaged Ethnography as Solidarity and Praxis
In this paper we investigate the process of carrying out ethnographic studies of organized resistance to neoliberal globalization. We do so by drawing upon the critical and public social science of Bourdieu and Santos, two highly influential opponents of neoliberalism, and by utilizing Burawoy's ‘extended case method’ for the investigation of two instances of resistance. The first is of a trade union, Sintraemcali, that has been engaged in a long…
Wage Setting, Social Pacts and the Euro: A New Role for the State – By A. Hassel
Contemporary struggle in Europe: Anti-power’ or counter-power
As soon as you abandon the idea of the state merely as an institution, as a function, and begin to recognise it as a form of social relations, a completely new way of struggle opens up. It is possible to see many courses of action that cart challenge the form of the state's processes whilst we stay within the state. That is the point: such actions cannot be taken from outside the state, only from within. (London-Edinburgh Weekend Return Group [LE…
Social Partner or Social Movement? European Integration and Trade Union Renewal in Europe
This paper outlines recent examples of labor movement renewal in Europe in the context of European integration and globalization. It highlights an increasing tension between the strategy of social partnership pursued by official labor organizations and grassroots "social movement unionism." The paper demonstrates that the prospects for successful renewal involves linking workplace mobi lization and organization with wider popular struggles to for…
Social Partner or Social Movement? European Integration and Trade Union Renewal in Europe
This paper outlines recent examples of labor movement renewal in Europe in the context of European integration and globalization. It highlights an increasing tension between the strategy of social partnership pursued by official labor organizations and grassroots "social movement unionism." The paper demonstrates that the prospects for successful renewal involves linking workplace mobi lization and organization with wider popular struggles to for…
The Crisis of “Social Democratic” Unionism: The “Opening up” of Civil Society and the Prospects for Union Renewal in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany
This article defines and explores the crisis of social democratic trade unionism in three countries in western Europe. The authors contend that a particularized form of postwar trade union orientation was socially constructed in Britain, Germany, and France in which a party union nexus gave special privileges to unions in return for compliance with state policies in the national interest. This arrangement has broken down in recent years under the…
Researching Resistance to Neoliberal Globalization: Engaged Ethnography as Solidarity and Praxis
In this paper we investigate the process of carrying out ethnographic studies of organized resistance to neoliberal globalization. We do so by drawing upon the critical and public social science of Bourdieu and Santos, two highly influential opponents of neoliberalism, and by utilizing Burawoy's ‘extended case method’ for the investigation of two instances of resistance. The first is of a trade union, Sintraemcali, that has been engaged in a long…
Beyond ‘political economism: New identities for unions in Western Europe
This article engages critically with Richard Hyman’s work on union identity and European integration. It includes a sympathetic review of Hyman’s contribution to the debate on these topics over the past two decades, alongside a critique of Hyman’s approach that highlights certain weaknesses and contradictions resulting from his uncritical use of a range of categories and concepts taken from regulation theory. The authors question Hyman’s argument…
Contemporary struggle in Europe: Anti-power’ or counter-power
As soon as you abandon the idea of the state merely as an institution, as a function, and begin to recognise it as a form of social relations, a completely new way of struggle opens up. It is possible to see many courses of action that cart challenge the form of the state's processes whilst we stay within the state. That is the point: such actions cannot be taken from outside the state, only from within. (London-Edinburgh Weekend Return Group [LE…
Social Partner or Social Movement? European Integration and Trade Union Renewal in Europe
This paper outlines recent examples of labor movement renewal in Europe in the context of European integration and globalization. It highlights an increasing tension between the strategy of social partnership pursued by official labor organizations and grassroots "social movement unionism." The paper demonstrates that the prospects for successful renewal involves linking workplace mobi lization and organization with wider popular struggles to for…
Contemporary struggle in Europe: Anti-power’ or counter-power
As soon as you abandon the idea of the state merely as an institution, as a function, and begin to recognise it as a form of social relations, a completely new way of struggle opens up. It is possible to see many courses of action that cart challenge the form of the state's processes whilst we stay within the state. That is the point: such actions cannot be taken from outside the state, only from within. (London-Edinburgh Weekend Return Group [LE…
Researching Resistance to Neoliberal Globalization: Engaged Ethnography as Solidarity and Praxis
In this paper we investigate the process of carrying out ethnographic studies of organized resistance to neoliberal globalization. We do so by drawing upon the critical and public social science of Bourdieu and Santos, two highly influential opponents of neoliberalism, and by utilizing Burawoy's ‘extended case method’ for the investigation of two instances of resistance. The first is of a trade union, Sintraemcali, that has been engaged in a long…
Wage Setting, Social Pacts and the Euro: A New Role for the State – By A. Hassel
The Crisis of “Social Democratic” Unionism: The “Opening up” of Civil Society and the Prospects for Union Renewal in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany
This article defines and explores the crisis of social democratic trade unionism in three countries in western Europe. The authors contend that a particularized form of postwar trade union orientation was socially constructed in Britain, Germany, and France in which a party union nexus gave special privileges to unions in return for compliance with state policies in the national interest. This arrangement has broken down in recent years under the…
Un metodo aperto di coordinamento nella mobilitazione sociale transnazionale: La governance multilivello e la lotta per un'Europa sociale
This article explores the way that Multi-Level Governance (Mlg) has, or has not, opened up a new Political Opportunity Structure within the European Union which transnational social and political actors can utilise to advance the project for a "Social Europe". It focuses specifically on the ‘European Marches against Unemployment, Job Insecurity and Exclusions' which has emerged to challenge the labour market and welfare state restructuring which …
Urban Outcasts - By Loïc Wacquant
Beyond the chains that bind: The political crisis of unions in Western Europe
The dynamics of neo-liberal restructuring have generated serious tensions in the institutional alignments between social democratic political parties and labor unions in Western Europe. This article explores the origins, development and consequences of the resulting political crisis through a detailed analysis of the institutional alignment of parties and unions in Sweden, Germany, UK and France. The authors reject the argument that the changing …
Beyond ‘political economism: New identities for unions in Western Europe
This article engages critically with Richard Hyman’s work on union identity and European integration. It includes a sympathetic review of Hyman’s contribution to the debate on these topics over the past two decades, alongside a critique of Hyman’s approach that highlights certain weaknesses and contradictions resulting from his uncritical use of a range of categories and concepts taken from regulation theory. The authors question Hyman’s argument…
We make our own history. Marxism and social movements in the twilight of neoliberalism
We make our own history. Marxism and social movements in the twilight of neoliberalism." Social Movement Studies, 15(3), pp. 339–340
Renters Rising! Extending the analysis of housing activism in Europe to the UK
The material effects of austerity in the United Kingdom (UK) have generated a resurgence of activist initiatives in the field of housing central to which is ACORN that has developed into a federated organisation contesting housing practices and policies at both local and national levels. ACORN is used to expand the examination of housing activism in Europe beyond the cases in Spain and Germany to the UK (Ordonez et al, 2015). This article also ut…
Political science (10 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (7 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political and Economic history of UK and US (4 works)