"Forward and Not Forgetting" - How do Workers' Memories Impact International Solidarity?

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  • Martin Seeliger Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15173/glj.v7i1.2597

Abstract

Collective remembering in multinational corporations is a field at the intersection of social memory studies and organisational science that has so far been widely neglected within the academic community. Drawing on empirical findings, this article analyses the impact of the organisational memories of South African workers’ representatives in processes of cross-border coordination. What is found is that strong ties of international solidarity, dating from the 1970s and 1980s, serve as an interpretative background against which today’s situation (which is constituted through different frameworks such as the end of apartheid and economic globalisation) is evaluated critically.

Author Biography

Martin Seeliger, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies

MARTIN SEELIGER wrote his PhD on European Trade Unionism at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, where he currently works as a post-doc. After majoring in Social Science at the Ruhr University of Bochum, he was a visiting fellow at the Sociology Department of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, the European Trade Union Institute in Brussels, the Stockholm Center for Organizational Research, and the Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science in Berkeley, where he studied international labour relations from a perspective informed by elements from American Pragmatism and sociological institutionalism.

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2016-01-31

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