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Ripamonti, Silvio Carlo, Benozzo, Angelo, Watson, David 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7199-2866, Scaratti, Giuseppe and Galuppo, Laura
(2021)
Trade unions in neo-liberal times: Discourse variations on emerging identities.
TPM-Testing Psychometrics Methodology in Applied Psychology, 28 (1).
pp. 129-142.
ISSN 1972-6325
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Abstract
This paper focuses on how trade unions are redefining their organisational identity in response to the neoliberal changes that have affected the labour market, mainly as a result of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. Such changes brought about a profound crisis of representation among workers in various sectors. Trade unions have had to redesign their identities to meet new demands from workers. Based on 30 interviews with unionists from one of Italy’s major unions, the study identifies four discursive variations and as many potential evolutions in the identity of trade unions. The respective positionings generated by these four discourses for the union and its members are examined. The study also highlights certain contradictions in these discursive variations, which may either encourage a redefinition of the union’s strategic objectives or, on the contrary, act as regulating mechanism that hampers change.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | discourse analysis,organizational identity,neoliberalism,trade unions,qualitative research,sdg 8 - decent work and economic growth ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/decent_work_and_economic_growth |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Dec 2020 00:48 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Sep 2024 15:11 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/77878 |
| DOI: | 10.4473/TPM28.1.9 |
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