Collective Mobilization in Changing Conditions Worker Collectivity
This book presents the first published account in English of Sverre Lysgaard's theory of the ‘worker collectivity’ – a theory of an informal protective organisation among subordinate employees, which so far has been
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Collective Mobilization in Changing Conditions
Jonas Axelsson · Jan Ch. Karlsson · Egil J. Skorstad
Collective Mobilization in Changing Conditions Worker Collectivity in a Turbulent Age
Jonas Axelsson Karlstad University Karlstad, Sweden
Jan Ch. Karlsson Østfold University College Halden, Norway
Egil J. Skorstad Østfold University College Halden, Norway
ISBN 978-3-030-19189-4 ISBN 978-3-030-19190-0 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19190-0 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Preface
Sometimes we have met the view among students, even Ph.D. students, that old theories are uninteresting and not applicable to studies of today. And ‘old’ often means that the theories were formulated more than five years ago. Like most academic teachers, we try to explain that theory is the prime form of scientific knowledge about the world, systematised through relations between concepts. Some of those concepts and relations between them are in fact relevant today even if the theory has been around for more than five years. It can even be more than 2000 years old and social researchers still apply them in their work as in the case of Aristotle. The theory this book honours is not quite that old. It was first published in 1961 by the Norwegian sociologist Sverre Lysgaard. Still, it is largely unknown outside the Scandinavian countries, as the book in question only exists in Norwegian. One of our ambitions, then, is to make up for this shortcoming by presenting Lysgaard’s theoretical framework to a wider, international audience. We also discuss some modifications of it, and by doing this we hope
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