Theorizing collective action—Instrumental collectivism as a key concept for explaining workplace collective action
本文讨论工作场所集体行动，认为工人主要受工具性动机驱动，即追求特定结果，并利用艾伦·福克斯的工具性集体主义概念来解释集体行动，识别出六个促进条件，为理解工人集体行动提供了更细致的理论框架。
Abstract This article addresses workplace collective action. Through a discussion of instrumental and norm‐driven motivations for workers' collective action, it is argued that most workers are driven mainly by instrumental motivations—meaning, that they aim to achieve certain outcomes. Consequently, the theoretical concept of instrumental collectivism from Alan Fox is utilized to explain and understand collective action. Finally, six conditions facilitating workplace collective action, including an ideational and hence constructivist element, are identified and discussed providing a more nuanced theoretical framework of workers' collective action that allows for workers' agency and refutes that instrumentalism per se leads to individualized behavior.