Paradoxes of Anti‐austerity Protest
Matters of Neoliberalism, Gender, and Subjectivity in a Case of Collective Resignation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12309802 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Magnus Granberg (0000-0002-5065-8973, Mid Sweden University, corresponding author), Katarina Giritli Nygren (0000-0002-5337-3287, Mid Sweden University) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 56-68 |
| Publication date | 2016-11-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Gender Work and Organization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0968-6673 • E-ISSN: 1468-0432 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/gwao.12155 |
| OpenAlex | W2550328063 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 23 |
This article analyses an episode of collective resignation. Carried out mainly by specialist nurses, this is a proliferating form of worker protest in Sweden that poses a challenge to austerity policy and emerges in a specific industrial‐relations context. Mobilizing for collective resignation, activist nurses navigate terrains of neoliberal governance, marketization and flexible labour‐market dynamics. The collective resignation is also a form of action underpinned by a discourse of gender equality. Our analysis, which attends to the co‐emergence of gendering and subject formation in the narratives of a group of activists and to the use of gender‐equality rhetoric in framing collective action, shows how opportunities for collective action arise that also restrain the exercise of agency. In this case, subject formation included contrasting nursing to tropes of archetypical militant workers and negotiating tensions between care and collective action. This involved reproducing and challenging established forms of gendering
Austerity · Collective action · Epistemology · Framing (construction · Industrial action · Marketization · Narrative · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Subjectivity · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US
Cultures of Solidarity
Working the Spaces of Power
Rethinking Industrial Relations
Forces of Labor
Transformations of the Swedish Welfare State
Sampling and Choosing Cases in Qualitative Research
Femininity at Work
A Stain on the White Uniform — The Discursive Construction of Nurses' Industrial Action in the Media
In Our Hands is Placed a Power
Making Feminist Politics
Good Women and Good Nurses' Conflicting Identities in the Victorian Nurses Strikes, 1985-86
The Glass Escalator
Engendering Social Movements
Positive feedback in collective mobilization
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |