{"id":733,"date":"2015-05-01T19:57:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T19:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/?p=733"},"modified":"2015-10-13T18:58:17","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T18:58:17","slug":"may-day-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/2015\/05\/01\/may-day-part-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"May Day Part III: Social &#038; Political Movements"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_734\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-734\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/asGQyc\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-734\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/files\/2015\/05\/6209407627_4eda3f03b2_o.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by blulaces. Click for original.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/files\/2015\/05\/6209407627_4eda3f03b2_o.jpg 640w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/files\/2015\/05\/6209407627_4eda3f03b2_o-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-734\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by blulaces. Click for original.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5>In addition to current labor activism, movements for economic justice have also emerged from students, retirees, consumers, and other communities outside traditional unions and leftist political parties. Today\u2019s mass movements range from the Indignados movement in Spain to Occupy in the U.S. to anti-austerity protests in Greece to massive student demonstrations in Chile. Protestors are contesting the inevitability of privatization, cuts to public spending, and rising inequality, among other issues worldwide.<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strath.ac.uk\/humanities\/courses\/politics\/staff\/rudigwolfgangdr\/\">Wolfgang Rudig<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gla.ac.uk\/schools\/socialpolitical\/staff\/georgioskaryotis\/\">Georgios Karyotis<\/a>. 2013. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilization.sdsu.edu\/articleabstracts\/183RudigKaryotis.html\">Beyond The Usual Suspects? New Participants In Anti-Austerity Protests In Greece<\/a>.\u201d <em>Mobilization: An International Journal<\/em> 18(3):313\u201330.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruthmilkman.info\/#!\">Ruth Milkman<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/sps.cuny.edu\/whoweare\/bio\/53\">Penny Lewis<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/sps.cuny.edu\/whoweare\/bio\/143\">Stephanie Luce<\/a>. 2013. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/tsq.12016\/abstract\">The Genie\u2019s out of the Bottle: Insiders\u2019 Perspectives on Occupy Wall Street<\/a>.\u201d <em>The Sociological Quarterly<\/em> 54(2):194\u201398.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fu-berlin.de\/en\/sites\/cas\/forschung\/cas-postdocs\/Cesar_Guzman_Concha\/index.html\">Cesar Guzman-Concha<\/a>. 2012. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/14742837.2012.710748?queryID=%24%7BresultBean.queryID%7D\">The Students\u2019 Rebellion in Chile: Occupy Protest or Classic Social Movement?<\/a>\u201d <em>Social Movement Studies<\/em> 11(3-4):408\u201315.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ernestocastaneda.com\/\">Ernesto Casta\u00f1eda<\/a>. 2012. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/14742837.2012.708830?journalCode=csms20\">The Indignados of Spain: A Precedent to Occupy Wall Street<\/a>.\u201d <em>Social Movement Studies<\/em> 11(3-4):309\u201319.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Read Part I (<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/2015\/04\/30\/may-day-part-i\/\">The U.S. &amp; Inequality<\/a>) and Part II (<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/2015\/05\/01\/may-day-part-ii-global-labor\/\">Global Labor<\/a>).<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to current labor activism, movements for economic justice have also emerged from students, retirees, consumers, and other communities outside traditional unions and leftist political parties. Today\u2019s mass movements range from the Indignados movement in Spain to Occupy in the U.S. to anti-austerity protests in Greece to massive student demonstrations in Chile. Protestors are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2000,"featured_media":734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,85],"tags":[1399,22011,143,24892,12306,12609,12324,781,45,24889],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inequality","category-politics","tag-global","tag-indignados","tag-labor","tag-labor-unions","tag-occupy","tag-occupy-wall-street","tag-ows","tag-protest","tag-social-movements","tag-unionization"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/files\/2015\/05\/6209407627_4eda3f03b2_o.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":735,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}