This paper focuses on the de-legitimation strategies used by union critical voices in debates about union actions against Belgian austerity politics in 2014 and 2016. Based on a discourse theoretical analysis of union critical discourse in three mainstream Flemish newspapers, six sets of de-legitimation strategies that share a series of family resemblances are distinguished. These are: (1) strategies that depict unions as conservative anachronisms that are out of sync with the realities of our times; (2) strategies that psychologize and individualize unions as self-centred, irresponsible and child-like actors; (3) criminalization strategies that depict unions and unionists as vandals, as hostage takers and/or as terrorists; (4) a collection...
The paper is interested in how the repositioning of organized labour in Europe in the last 20 years ...
This article contributes to developing a management and organisation studies perspective on politica...
The economic conditions and austerity policies in southern Europe have produced a hegemonic crisis o...
This paper focuses on the delegitimation strategies used by union critical voices in recent debates ...
This paper focuses on the de-legitimation strategies used by union critical voices in debates about ...
This paper focuses on the way union activism has been de-legitimized by union critical voices during...
Trade unions have been the object of sustained critique coming from across the political spectrum fo...
5th International Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences, 25-26 September, 2015, Rome, ItalyTh...
This paper investigates the ‘critical discursive interventions’ (CDI) of Flemish intellectuals in th...
This paper re-thinks the notion of articulation as a trans-disciplinary concept for discourse studie...
While scholars have examined how micro-textual argumentative strategies are used to (de)legitimize c...
European trade unions play a major role in democratic interest intermediation. This role is currentl...
European trade unions play a major role in democratic interest intermediation. This role is currentl...
This paper presents a framework for the analysis of activism as a discursive self-technique through ...
Identity and framing processes play an important role in understanding the dynamics of social moveme...
The paper is interested in how the repositioning of organized labour in Europe in the last 20 years ...
This article contributes to developing a management and organisation studies perspective on politica...
The economic conditions and austerity policies in southern Europe have produced a hegemonic crisis o...
This paper focuses on the delegitimation strategies used by union critical voices in recent debates ...
This paper focuses on the de-legitimation strategies used by union critical voices in debates about ...
This paper focuses on the way union activism has been de-legitimized by union critical voices during...
Trade unions have been the object of sustained critique coming from across the political spectrum fo...
5th International Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences, 25-26 September, 2015, Rome, ItalyTh...
This paper investigates the ‘critical discursive interventions’ (CDI) of Flemish intellectuals in th...
This paper re-thinks the notion of articulation as a trans-disciplinary concept for discourse studie...
While scholars have examined how micro-textual argumentative strategies are used to (de)legitimize c...
European trade unions play a major role in democratic interest intermediation. This role is currentl...
European trade unions play a major role in democratic interest intermediation. This role is currentl...
This paper presents a framework for the analysis of activism as a discursive self-technique through ...
Identity and framing processes play an important role in understanding the dynamics of social moveme...
The paper is interested in how the repositioning of organized labour in Europe in the last 20 years ...
This article contributes to developing a management and organisation studies perspective on politica...
The economic conditions and austerity policies in southern Europe have produced a hegemonic crisis o...