Welfare, Work and the Conditions of Social Solidarity: British Campaigns to Defend Healthcare and Social Security
基于45次定性访谈，比较了2007至2016年间英国捍卫医疗服务和社保福利的运动，发现捍卫针对性福利比普惠性福利更难构建团结，原因包括公众舆论、政治支持以及评估和制裁客户的工作过程引发的冲突。
When the welfare state is under attack from neoliberal reformers, how can trade unionists and other campaigners build solidarity to defend it? Based on 45 qualitative interviews, this article compares campaigns to defend British health services and social security benefits between 2007 and 2016. Building on the macro-insights of comparative welfare-state literature and the more micro-level insights of studies on mobilisation, community unionism and union strategy, it examines the factors that help or hinder the construction of solidarity. This research finds that building solidarity is more difficult when defending targeted benefits than universal ones, not only because of differences in public opinion and political support for services, but also because the labour process associated with targeting benefits, namely the assessing and sanctioning of clients, can generate conflicts among campaigners.