Solidarity among workers is constructed through shared struggle rather than pre-existing.
Evidence
Cultures of solidarity are thus to be considered social constructs that come into existence during the course of workers’ struggles. In our analysis, we examine how different forms of mobilization among two groups of workers have impacted on their own definition of solidarity. — Donatella della Porta et al., Mobilizing Against the Odds, 31
Categorization
- DEFINE: Frames ‘cultures of solidarity’ as emergent social constructs arising through struggles, not given identities.
- XREF: Connects to Fantasia’s ‘cultures of solidarity’ concept and the reader’s overarching question on how platform work re-aggregates workers. — connects to: Solidarity means mutual recognition of belonging, forged through struggle. — Michelle I. Gawerc, Coalition-building and the forging of…, 80; Workers can demand their own exclusionary privileges that fragment solidarity — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 811; Oppositional workers’ organizations mirror capitalist structure and thereby absorb class struggle (+15 more)
Broader Connections
- Solidarity means mutual recognition of belonging, forged through struggle.
#expands(0.95) — Michelle I. Gawerc, Coalition-building and the forging of…, 80 - Workers mobilized against class enemies rather than for abstract justice
#exemplifies(0.86) - Structurally different racial labor positions invalidate calls to unite and fight
#complicates(0.85) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 601 - Solidarity arises in action as protests define distinct symbolic boundaries
#corroborates(0.84) — Donatella della Porta et al., Mobilizing Against the Odds, 121 - Resistance-based solidarity leaves common meanings unexamined and imported from outside
#complicates(0.83) — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 930 - Workers can demand their own exclusionary privileges that fragment solidarity
#complicates(0.82) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 811 - Industrial solidarity is a learned skill requiring favorable conditions to emerge
#qualifies(0.80) - Solidarity arises from how groups culturally cultivate their relation to powerlessness
#qualifies(0.78) — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”, 85 - Group solidarity can form through shared bodily practice, not shared ideas
#qualifies(0.76) — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 686 - Oppositional workers’ organizations mirror capitalist structure and thereby absorb class struggle
#complicates(0.75) - Postwar labor unrest aimed at revolution, not just wages.
#exemplifies(0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 375 - Anticipated depression fragmented unions from socialist solidarity into defensive postures
#complicates(0.74) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 412 - Group solidarity persists only as long as grievance-driven mobilization continues
#qualifies(0.73) — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 833 - Street protest evacuates rather than supplants the organized workplace struggle the left once waged
#complicates(0.72) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 156 - Anger fuels collective action that challenges structural inequality.
#expands(0.72) — Johanna Ray Vollhardt and Michelle Sinayobye Twali, Emotion-Based Reconciliation Requires…, 62