By Ricca Edmondson, Hans Keman
The learn of social and renowned hobbies keeps to draw nice curiosity, yet little is understood of political job which occurs outdoor of conventional political buildings. Tnis quantity seems at casual political motion which arises while traditional frameworks, akin to these supplied by means of welfare states, are in hindrance or decline. At such occasions the standard expectancies approximately politcal motion would possibly not observe, so what truly is going on?Greatly increasing the scope for examine into collective motion, this quantity might be of significant curiosity to scholars and researchers of politics and sociology attracted to this significant region.
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Women Against Pit Closures is an excellent case for assessing the relationship between women’s location and women’s standing in a social movement. WOMEN AGAINST PIT CLOSURES Women Against Pit Closures (WAPC) is an organisation of working-class women, established during the 1984–5 British Coal strike, for the purpose of providing strike The political context of collective action 8 support to the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). Organised as a national confederation, WAPC regional groups have considerable autonomy, and activities and strategies are planned on a regional, even a pit-by-pit, basis.
Women Against Pit Closures is an excellent case for assessing the relationship between women’s location and women’s standing in a social movement. WOMEN AGAINST PIT CLOSURES Women Against Pit Closures (WAPC) is an organisation of working-class women, established during the 1984–5 British Coal strike, for the purpose of providing strike The political context of collective action 8 support to the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). Organised as a national confederation, WAPC regional groups have considerable autonomy, and activities and strategies are planned on a regional, even a pit-by-pit, basis.
The content and form of their political standing construction enabled them to undertake actions during the course of the anti-pit-closure campaign that no other actors were positioned to undertake or capable of executing. The internal structure of the NUM constrained the union’s capacity to undertake collective action on short notice, as well as its ability to discipline and coordinate its own confederated regional groups. It was similarly incapacitated in its ability to discipline, to direct, or to coordinate WAPC activities.