This conversation reflects on the importance of transnational Black solidarity in a global moment where COVID-19 pandemic has exposed structural inequalities that sustain death and movement for lives focussed attention anti-Blackness. We reflect legacies past contemporary Black, Indigenous, People Colour activism role this played strengthening efforts to deal with colonialism, imperialism patri...

Drawing on the literature of social movements and emotions, this article analyses a case union-led movement against outsourcing in UK. Our focus is emotional processes collective identity formation culture new grassroot unions, addressing themes culture, political solidarity. Data consists participant observations, interviews, additional website media material. The results show that unions char...

The latest encampments in public spaces, such as Occupy Wall Street, Taksim Square and Syntagma Square, have highlighted the significance of space shaping social, economic political s...

Abstract This article explores a case of feminist solidarity and wage politics—namely, social movement claiming equal pay for early education teachers. In 2018, the Finnish media revealed that several municipalities in capital area had secretly agreed not to compete with each other by paying higher wages teachers even though there was severe shortage labor. The revelation resulted public outrag...

Solidarity is akin to community. “Community,” of course, is a slippery notion that may be used in several different senses. It can name simply any collectivity— workers at Wal-Mart, sociologists, and students and faculty at a university. I will use it in a more restricted sense to mean a collectivity animated by a “sense of community” among its members. In this sense, both community and solidar...

sociology for his groundbreaking work in social theory, methodology, and substantive areas such as suicide, religion, and labor. In the following selection from his first book, The Division of Labor in Society, Durkheim explores the notion of social solidarity, that is, how individuals and society are bound together. Durkheim asserts that modern societies maintain their cohesion through depende...