We Have Two Engines, and We Must Keep Them Both Running
The Combination of Institutional and Symbolic Resources in the "Socio-Emotional Organizing" of Solo Self-Employed Workers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2365752 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrea Bottalico (0000-0002-1916-473X, Department of Social Sciences, University of Naples “Federico II,” Naples, Italy, corresponding author), Annalisa Murgia (0000-0002-9740-4532, University of Milan) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 689-720 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-2416 • E-ISSN: 1552-5414 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/08912416241269990 |
| OpenAlex | W4401592212 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 50 |
The rise of solo self-employment has led to the emergence of increasingly broad categories of workers in search of collective representation, who find no support either in trade unions or in employer organizations. Based on the case of Redacta, an informal group founded in Italy and composed of solo self-employed (SSE) workers in the publishing industry, the article contributes to the debate on Resource Mobilization Theory and New Social Movements by showing that, along with other resources typically available to social movements and activist groups, it is mainly through the combination of institutional and symbolic-performative resources that a process of grassroots organizing-that we call socio-emotional organizing-can be successfully triggered, especially in the case of particularly underrepresented groups of workers, such as the SSE
Aesthetics · Collective identity · Community organizing · Emotional labor · Grassroots · Mobilization · Performative utterance · Political science · Politics · Process (computing · Public relations · Representation (politics · Resource (disambiguation · Resource mobilization · Social movement · Social science · Sociology · Symbolic interactionism · The Symbolic · Computer Science · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |