Social solidarity for all? Trade union strategies, labor market dualization, and the welfare state in italy and south korea

TY - JOUR

T1 - Social solidarity for all? Trade union strategies, labor market dualization, and the welfare state in italy and south korea

AU - Durazzi, Niccolo

AU - Fleckenstein, Timo

AU - Lee, Soohyun Christine

PY - 2018/6/1

Y1 - 2018/6/1

N2 - Challenging the new political-economic “mainstream” that considers trade unions to be “complicit” in labor market dualization, this article’s analysis of union strategies in Italy and South Korea, most-different union movements perceived as unlikely cases for the pursuit of broader social solidarity, shows that in both countries unions have successively moved away from insider-focused strategies and toward “solidarity for all” in the industrial relations arena as well as in their social policy preferences. Furthermore, unions explored new avenues of political agency, often in alliance with civil society organizations. This convergent trend toward a social model of unionism is ascribed to a response of unions to a “double crisis”: that is, a socioeconomic crisis, which takes the form of a growing periphery of the labor market associated with growing social exclusion, and a sociopolitical crisis, which takes the form of an increasing marginalization of the unions from the political process.

AB - Challenging the new political-economic “mainstream” that considers trade unions to be “complicit” in labor market dualization, this article’s analysis of union strategies in Italy and South Korea, most-different union movements perceived as unlikely cases for the pursuit of broader social solidarity, shows that in both countries unions have successively moved away from insider-focused strategies and toward “solidarity for all” in the industrial relations arena as well as in their social policy preferences. Furthermore, unions explored new avenues of political agency, often in alliance with civil society organizations. This convergent trend toward a social model of unionism is ascribed to a response of unions to a “double crisis”: that is, a socioeconomic crisis, which takes the form of a growing periphery of the labor market associated with growing social exclusion, and a sociopolitical crisis, which takes the form of an increasing marginalization of the unions from the political process.

KW - Dualization

KW - Italy

KW - South Korea

KW - Trade unions

KW - Welfare state

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85047601262&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1177/0032329218773712

DO - 10.1177/0032329218773712

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85047601262

SN - 0032-3292

VL - 46

SP - 205

EP - 233

JO - Politics & Society

JF - Politics & Society

IS - 2

ER -