A New Political Generation: Post-2008 U.S. Social Movements and The Revival Of Union Activism
Journal title SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO
Author/s Ruth Milkman
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2024/170
Language Italian Pages 23 P. 59-81 File size 177 KB
DOI 10.3280/SL2024-170005
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This article analyses the emergence of a new political generation of progressive activists in the U.S. since 2008, and documents their growing engagement in labor organizing. It is argue that this development has inverted the dynamic Alain Touraine wrote about in the 1980s: rather than the new social movements learning from the traditional workers’ movement, activists with experience in those movements are building on those political experiences to revitalize and transform the labor movement. I also suggest that this new political generation may embody the ‘return of the actor’ that Touraine envisioned in the 1980s.
Questo articolo analizza l'emergere di una nuova generazione politica di attivisti progressisti negli Stati Uniti a partire dal 2008 e documenta il loro crescente impegno nell'attivismo sindacale. Si sostiene che questo sviluppo abbia invertito la dinamica di cui scriveva Alain Touraine negli anni Ottanta: piuttosto che i nuovi movimenti sociali imparino dal movimento operaio tradizionale, gli attivisti con esperienza in quei movimenti stanno facendo tesoro di quelle esperienze politiche per rivitalizzare e trasformare il movimento sindacale. Si suggerisce inoltre che questa nuova generazione politica possa incarnare il “ritorno dell'attore” previsto da Touraine, sempre negli anni Ottanta.
Keywords: labor activism; political generations; social movements; United States.
Ruth Milkman, A New Political Generation: Post-2008 U.S. Social Movements and The Revival Of Union Activism in "SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO " 170/2024, pp 59-81, DOI: 10.3280/SL2024-170005