Beyond ‘political economism
New identities for unions in Western Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7706579 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Graham Taylor (University of the West of England), Graham K Taylor (0000-0001-8289-755X, University of the West of England, corresponding author), Andrew Mathers (0000-0002-9046-3441, University of the West of England, corresponding author), Martin Upchurch (0000-0001-9143-993X, Middlesex University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 17-34 |
| Publication date | 2012-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Capital & Class (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-8168 • E-ISSN: 2041-0980 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0309816811428664 |
| OpenAlex | W2054047188 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 53 |
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 that developments in European unionism can be conceptualised adequately through an analysis of the development and crisis of ‘political economism’: a dominant union identity that Hyman aligns with the development and crisis of Fordism. An alternative model for understanding the reorientation of European unions is presented based on a critical and dialectical conceptualisation of the relationship between unions and capitalist development. This is used to construct a model of contemporary union reorientation along the dimensions of ‘accommodation’ and ‘opposition’ to neoliberalism and to ‘national’ and ‘international’ modes of organisation and mobilisation
Accommodation · Dialectic · Economics · Epistemology · European integration · European union · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · European Union Policy and Governance · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2018 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |