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3 The Challenge of Strategic Research: A Critical Engagement with the Power Resources Approach

Abstract

If we take the normative foundation of global labour studies seriously, the aim is to produce knowledge that is strategically relevant for workers. Consequently, it makes sense to focus on their collective agency, that is, on their capacity to actively shape the social world through joint action. The strike weapon is risky to use but forceful. Workers across the entire globe are resorting to it time and again – and have done so since labour movements emerged in the context of early industrialization. As such, it is of high strategic relevance – and ideally suited as a research object for global labour scholars. But the question remains what kind of categories are needed to analyse it systematically. An obvious choice for this endeavour is the PRA. It represents the most elaborate attempt to date in the field to develop a research framework that can be used to produce strategically relevant knowledge. Furthermore, it is a low-threshold approach. It works with clearly defined, parsimonious categories and thus is easy to use. The use value of the PRA is reflected in a plethora of studies based on it, which are usually aimed at identifying strategies for labour revitalization. A significant number of students in German GLU programme, most of whom are union officials or labour practitioners, employ it in their coursework and dissertations.

Abstract

If we take the normative foundation of global labour studies seriously, the aim is to produce knowledge that is strategically relevant for workers. Consequently, it makes sense to focus on their collective agency, that is, on their capacity to actively shape the social world through joint action. The strike weapon is risky to use but forceful. Workers across the entire globe are resorting to it time and again – and have done so since labour movements emerged in the context of early industrialization. As such, it is of high strategic relevance – and ideally suited as a research object for global labour scholars. But the question remains what kind of categories are needed to analyse it systematically. An obvious choice for this endeavour is the PRA. It represents the most elaborate attempt to date in the field to develop a research framework that can be used to produce strategically relevant knowledge. Furthermore, it is a low-threshold approach. It works with clearly defined, parsimonious categories and thus is easy to use. The use value of the PRA is reflected in a plethora of studies based on it, which are usually aimed at identifying strategies for labour revitalization. A significant number of students in German GLU programme, most of whom are union officials or labour practitioners, employ it in their coursework and dissertations.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents iii
  3. List of Tables iv
  4. List of Abbreviations v
  5. Acknowledgements vi
  6. Preface ix
  7. Introduction 1
  8. Global Labour Studies: Conducting Research on the Side of Workers
  9. Being on the Side of Workers: On the Normative Foundations of Global Labour Studies 21
  10. From Organic Intellectuals to Academic Workers: How Knowledge Handlers Connect with Organized Labour 45
  11. The Challenge of Strategic Research: A Critical Engagement with the Power Resources Approach 73
  12. Class Theory: Relations of Production, Antagonism and Social Domination
  13. The Ontology of Class: Moving beyond Inequality and Identity 87
  14. The Constitution of Class in Capitalism: From the Relations of Production to Collective Agency 101
  15. Making, Unmaking, Remaking: Working-Class Forces in Formation 124
  16. Between Representation and Intermediation: The Double Character of Workers’ Mass Organizations 148
  17. Afterword 162
  18. References 165
  19. Index 185
Exiting the Factory (Volume 1)
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https://doi.org/10.56687/9781529212129-008

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents iii
  3. List of Tables iv
  4. List of Abbreviations v
  5. Acknowledgements vi
  6. Preface ix
  7. Introduction 1
  8. Global Labour Studies: Conducting Research on the Side of Workers
  9. Being on the Side of Workers: On the Normative Foundations of Global Labour Studies 21
  10. From Organic Intellectuals to Academic Workers: How Knowledge Handlers Connect with Organized Labour 45
  11. The Challenge of Strategic Research: A Critical Engagement with the Power Resources Approach 73
  12. Class Theory: Relations of Production, Antagonism and Social Domination
  13. The Ontology of Class: Moving beyond Inequality and Identity 87
  14. The Constitution of Class in Capitalism: From the Relations of Production to Collective Agency 101
  15. Making, Unmaking, Remaking: Working-Class Forces in Formation 124
  16. Between Representation and Intermediation: The Double Character of Workers’ Mass Organizations 148
  17. Afterword 162
  18. References 165
  19. Index 185
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