The Transformation of Discontent: Labor Protest in Healthcare and Education Across Europe

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Imre Szabó (University College Dublin, Ireland)

The Transformation of Discontent

Labor Protest in Healthcare and Education Across Europe

Imre Szabó (University College Dublin, Ireland)

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Routledge
15 November 2024

Sociology: work & labour; Demonstrations & protest movements

Series: The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture

The Transformation of Discontent demonstrates that far from disappearing from the workplaces of the Global North, labor protest has merely changed character and now focuses on healthcare and education, with white-collar and white coat employees clashing with employers over wages, working conditions, and professional autonomy.

Based on in-depth case studies of protest campaigns in four European countries – Denmark, Germany, Hungary, and Ireland – this book explores the ways in which teachers, nurses, and medical doctors have developed a new repertoire of contention that unites their power to disrupt services with their duty to care for service users, such as patients, children, and older people.

A study of the changes to labor mobilization including new protagonists and a shift from mass strikes to duty-based protest, this volume considers the impact of public sector unions on the labor movement and their role in renewing labor’s power resources. It will be of interest to sociologists and scholars of political economy, social movements, public services, contentious politics, and employment relations.

By: Imre Szabó (University College Dublin Ireland)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032180359
ISBN 10: 1032180358
Series: The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture
Pages: 166
Publication Date: 15 November 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction - Movements of public service professionals 2. Power resources and labor disputes in public services 3. Exit or care. The resignation campaign of junior doctors in Hungary and its impact 4. Coercive power and professional autonomy in the 2013 Danish school lockout 5. Movements for systemic reform. Striking and lobbying for safe staffing in German hospitals 6. Who gets the blame for a crisis? Protest and patience in Irish public services 2009-2019 Conclusion

Imre G. Szabó is visiting faculty at the Political Science and at the International Relations Department of Central European University, Vienna. He is the author of several peer-reviewed journal articles and co-author of Politicising Commodification: European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisis to the Covid Emergency.