Abstract
In the wake of rising precariousness and unemployment, and declining union density, alternative forms of working class organisation have attracted greater interest (Magdoff & Foster, 2014; Murray, 2017). Community organising is a popular alternative, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom (Fisher & Defilippis, 2015; Taylor, 2011). While domestic interest in community organising is growing as these social trends intensify in Australia, scholarly attention has focussed on the Sydney Alliance example to date. (Holgate, 2018a; Tattersall, 2015). This paper contributes to this embryonic field through a brief examination of a rural Australian experiment in transformative community organising, from the authors’ standpoints as embedded researchers and community volunteers.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of The Australian Sociological Association Conference 2018 |
| Subtitle of host publication | Precarity, rights and resistance |
| Editors | Grazyna Zajdow |
| Place of Publication | Deakin University, Burwood, Vic |
| Publisher | The Australian Sociological Association |
| Pages | 26-32 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780648221012 |
| Publication status | Published - 25 Nov 2018 |
| Event | The Australian Sociological Association Conference 2018: TASA 2018 - Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia Duration: 19 Nov 2018 → 22 Nov 2018 https://conference.tasa.org.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/TASA-2018-Conference-Handbook-WEB.pdf https://conference.tasa.org.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/TASA_2018_Abstracts-3.pdf (abstracts) https://tasa.org.au/tasa-conference/2018-tasa-conference/ (conference website) |
Conference
| Conference | The Australian Sociological Association Conference 2018 |
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| Abbreviated title | Precarity, Rights and Resistance |
| Country/Territory | Australia |
| City | Melbourne |
| Period | 19/11/18 → 22/11/18 |
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