Feminist Co-Research: The case of retail workers in Slovenia

by Ana Cvelfar, Živa Šketa, Marja Zakelšek // Three members of CEDRA (Centre for Social Research) outline their experiments with feminist co-research and worker organising in Slovenia's retail sector

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Unions Without Strikes

You can spend a lifetime studying the rich history of the labor movement. While you are doing that, new union battles and campaigns will constantly arise. Laws will change, the economy will change, industries will rise and fall. New technologies will challenge workers in previously unimagined ways. Yet the fact remains that the more you study all of the complexities of the past, present, and future, you are left with one central truth: The power of organized labor is the power of the strike. Without the strike, the labor movement’s claim to power falls apart.