From struggle consciousness to collective action: the struggle experience of the National Unemployed Workers Front(2012.6-2014.3)
Date Issued
2015
Date
2015
Author(s)
Lin, Chia-Wei
Abstract
This research is describing the struggle experiences of the National Unemployed Workers Front from 2012 to 2014. These workers were abandoned by the Lien-Fu, Tobishi, Yao-Yuan, Xing-Li, Fu-Zhong, and Tai-Zhong factories among 1996 to 1998. They took many radical means to protest the government, such as lying on the railways, hunger strike and disrupting the national exams. After all, the government promised to give then pensions which should be given by their employers. However, the Council of Labor Affairs claimed these pensions are “Loans”, therefore these workers started to protests again. This research aimed at the cultural perspective of New Marxism. How the struggle consciousness is shaped by the past experiences to intensify the collective actions. From 2000 to 2008, because the ruling party(Democratic Progressive Party ) exercised d their power to lessen the power of social movement on purpose, it was rare to witness massive labor collective actions. The National Unemployed Front using demonstrations, occupying the public space and hunger strike to show their collective struggle wills. In addition, the past protest experiences and the organizing methods play an important role on facing the crisis of disunity to some extent. The agency of actors, social networks which were build by the past factory-occupying experiences, and the interfere of outer groups are the main factors to shape this struggle.
Subjects
National Unemployed Workers Front
New Marxism
Collective actions
struggle consciousness
class consciousness
disunity
occupation
Type
thesis
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