Numar de credite: 8

Cod: AMR3046

Predare: curs 2h, seminar 1 h

Limba de predare: Română

Tip: obligatoriu, semestru 2, Master Muncă și transformări sociale

Curs  

1.      Introducere

2.      Muncă și sindicalizare în capitalismul tarziu

3.      Greva și refuzul muncii (Italia, 1960-70)

4.      Sociologia muncii: metodologii politice

5.      Forme și metamorfoze ale sindicalismului

6.      Cultura sindicatelor. Artele solidarității (Argentina)

7.      Sindicalizarea în Romania

8.      Externalizare, migrație și globalizarea muncii. Studii de caz

9.      Genul sindicatelor. Munca feminină

10.  Sindicate vs platforme digitale

11.  Studiu de caz: sindicatul SITT

12.  Alianțe transversale. Viitorul sindicatelor

13.  Emanciparea prin muncă, emanciparea de muncă

14.  Discuție finală

Nota bene! Studenții sunt rugați să verifice săptămânal conținutul syllabus-ului și textele propuse pentru lectură; este posibil să survină modificări în tematica abordată pe parcursul semestrului, în funcție de interesele mai particulare ale studenților și de cercetările în derulare ale cadrului didactic. Orice schimbare sau ajustare va fi comunicată în timp util, atât la curs cât și pe canalele de comunicare on-line cu studenții.

Seminariile vor urma tematica și bibliografia cursurilor.

Obligatorie

Adascalitei, Dragos & Aurelian Muntean. 2019. Trade union strategies in the age of austerity: The Romanian public sector in comparative perspective. European Journal of Industrial Relations 25(2). 113–128. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959680118783588

Alberti Gabriella & Devi Sacchetto. 2024. The politics of migrant labor: Exit, voice and social reproduction. Bristol UP.

Almeida Paul & Amalia Perez Martin (2022), Collective Resistance to Neoliberalism, Cambridge UP.

Ashraf, H., Prentice, R. (2019) Beyond factory safety: labor unions, militant protest, and the accelerated ambitions of Bangladesh’s export garment industry. Dialectical Anthropology 43, 93–107. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-018-9539-0

Anner Mark (2015) Labor control regimes and worker resistance in global supply chains, Labor History, 56:3, 292-307, DOI: 10.1080/0023656X.2015.1042771

Blanc, Eric. 2025. We are the union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big. University of California Press.

Borio, Guido, Pozzi, Francesca and Roggero, Gigi. „Conricerca as Political Action”. Utopian Pedagogy: Radical Experiments Against Neoliberal Globalization, edited by Mark Cote, Day, Richard J.F. and de Peuter, Greig, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007, pp. 163-85. 

Burawoy, Michael, 1985, The Politics of Production: Factory Regimes under Capitalism and Socialism. Verso.

Chan, C., & Hui, E. (2014). The Development of Collective Bargaining in China: From “Collective Bargaining by Riot” to “Party State-led Wage Bargaining”. The China Quarterly, 217, 221-242. doi:10.1017/S0305741013001409

Cornfield, D. 2023. The new labor activism, a new labor sociology. Work and Occupations 50 (3). https://doi.org/10.1177/073088842311680

Doellgast, Virginia, Nathan Lillie, and Valeria Pulignano (eds). 2018. Reconstructing Solidarity: Labour Unions, Precarious Work, and the Politics of Institutional Change in Europe. Oxford UP.

Edwards, Paul, 1990, “Understanding Conflict in the Labour Process: The Logic and Autonomy of Struggle”, in David Knights and Hugh Willmott (eds), Labour Process Theory. Macmillan.

Hughes, Lydia & Jaime Woodcock. 2023. Troublemaking: why you should organize your workplace. Verso.

International Labour Organisation. 2022. Trade Union Revitalization: organizing new forms of work including platform workers. International Journal of Labour Research 11(1-2).

Kaika Maria & Luca Ruggiero. 2025. “Italy’s Stalingrad” and the “Years of Lead”: Radicalizing Social Claims over Industrial Land (1945–Early 1970s). In Class Meets Land, pp. 81-105. University of California Press.

Lazar Sian (2017), The Social Life of Politics. Ethics, Kinship and Union Activism in Argentina, Stanford University Press

Lazar Sian (2023), How We Struggle. A Political Anthropology of Labour, Pluto Press.

Loomis Eric (2020), A History of America in Ten Strikes, The New Press.

Manzano, Virgina. 2017. Dilemmas of trade unionism and the movement of the unemployed under neoliberal and progressive regimes in Argentina. In Sian Lazar (Ed), Where are the unions? Workers and social movements in Latin America, the Middle East and Europe, pp. 87-106. Zed Books.

Peano, Irene. 2017. Migrants’ struggles. Rethinking citizenship, anti-racism, labor precarity through migrant policies in Italy. In Sian Lazar (Ed), Where are the unions? Workers and social movements in Latin America, the Middle East and Europe, pp. 87-106. Zed Books.

Pun, N., Andrijasevic, R., & Sacchetto, D. (2020). Transgressing North–South Divide: Foxconn Production Regimes in China and the Czech Republic. Critical Sociology, 46(2), 307-322.

Rathzel, Nora. 2021. Trade union perceptions of the labour – nature relationship. Environmental Sociology 7(4): 267-78.

Streeck, W. 2005. The sociology of markets and trade unions. In Handbook of Economic Sociology. Princeton UP.

Marvin Surkin & Dan Georgakas (2012), Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution, Haymarket Books.

Yeung Bernice (2020), In a Day’s Work. The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers, The New Press.

Suplimentară:

Adams, Z. (2023). TRADE UNIONS AND THE LAW: A MATERIALIST PERSPECTIVE. The Cambridge Law Journal, 82(1), 30-57. doi:10.1017/S0008197322000927

Adascalitei, D. and Guga, S. (2018) International actors and trade unions during postsocialism and after: the case of Romania. Employee Relations, 40 (4). pp. 692-708. ISSN 0142-5455

Atzeni, M.; Ghigliani, P. (2008). Nature and limits of trade unions’ mobilisations in contemporary Argentina. LabourAgain. En Memoria Académica. http://www.memoria.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/art_revistas/pr.11640/pr.11640.pdf

James T. Bennett, Bruce E. Kaufman

(2002), The Future of Private Sector Unionism in the United States, New York: Routledge.

Braverman, Harry, 1974, Labour and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century (Monthly Review Press).

Burawoy, Michael, 1979, Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism (University of Chicago Press).

Galimberti, Jacopo. 2022. Images of Class: Operaismo, Autonomia and the Visual Arts, 1962–1988.Verso.

Hyman, R. 2012. Understanding European Trade-Unionism: Between Market, Class and Society. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446217139

McAlevey, Jane (2020), A Collective Bargain. Unions, Organising and the Fight for Democracy, Ecco Press.

Moore Kate (2018), The Radium Girls. The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women, Sourcebooks

Ponce del Castillo, Aida (ed). 2024. Artificial intelligence, labour and society. European Trade Union Institute.

Roscigno, V. J., & Hodson, R. (2004). The Organizational and Social Foundations of Worker Resistance. American Sociological Review, 69(1), 14-39. https://doi.org/10.1177/000312240406900103.

Sacchetto, Devi. 2014. Migrant farmworkers in Southern Italy: ghettoes, caporalato and collective action. Workers of the World 1(5).

Woodcock, Jaime. 2014. The workers’ inquiry from Trotskyism to Operaismo: A political methodology for investigating the workplace. Ephemera 14(3).

Wright, Steve. 2017. Quaderni Rossi and the Workers’ Enquiry. In Storming Heaven: Class composition and struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism. Pluto Press. 

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Obiectivul general al disciplinei

–     Familiarizarea cu cele mai importante dezbateri contemporane privind sindicalizarea și formele contemporane alternative de organizare și rezistență colectivă

–     Analiza comparativă a sindicalizării și a formelor de rezistență și negociere colectivă a muncii într-un context global/regional

Obiectivele specifice

–     Intelegerea diversitatii sociale, culturale, politice a fenomenului sindicalizării

–     Analiza istoric-comparativă a practicilor de organizare și contestare la nivel regional și global

–     Investigarea conflictelor de muncă în funcție de particularitatea diverselor sectoare ale pieței muncii