When: Wednesday, 19 March 2025, 16:45 - 18:15
Where: Konferenzraum, Department of Political Science, NIG, 2nd floor, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna
For online participation via Zoom please send an email to: lina.ehrich@univie.ac.at
Speaker: Imre Szabó (Central European University, Vienna)
Discussion: Dorothee Bohle (Department of Political Science, University of Vienna)
Moderation: Visnja Vukov (Department of Political Science, University of Vienna)
Abstract
The Transformation of Discontent (Routledge, 2025) shows that far from disappearing from the workplaces of Europe, labor protest has merely changed character and now focuses on healthcare and education, with nurses, teachers and medical doctors clashing with employers over wages, working conditions, and professional autonomy. Based on in-depth case studies of protest campaigns in four countries – Denmark, Germany, Hungary, and Ireland – this book explores how these employee groups 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. The volume considers the impact of public sector unions on the labor movement and their role in renewing labor’s power resources.
