Abstract
This article analyses the new forms of mobilisation that, especially after the global crisis of 2008, have been called “strikes”, with the aim of clarifying their nature and understanding their relationship with traditional labour and trade union strikes, which are a typical form of class conflict in mature capitalist societies. The cases examined will be the climate strike and the feminist strike: these, in fact, share not only their recent emergence but also some of their characteristics and their global dimension. Specifically, we will examine whether these phenomena, regardless of the semantic element, present elements that allow them to be traced back to the concept of strike. In particular, the focus will be on examining the theoretical frameworks and concrete practices adopted to measure the distance and novelty of the new forms of strike compared to traditional ones, but the composition of the new strikes and the characteristics of their respective promoters will also be considered. The examination will be supported by the analysis of documents produced by the promoters of these new forms of strike, compared with several interviews conducted with activists involved in associations and trade unions.
Keywords
Social strike Social conflict Feminist strike Climate strike Social Movement Social transformation