@article{2014:dribbusch:voraussetz,
title = {Voraussetzungen internationaler Solidarität: Zur Diskussion um einen europäischen Generalstreik},
year = {2014},
note = {The extent of economic and social disruptions in Europe since the
outbreak of the crisis has awakened numerous expectations that the
employee organisations in European countries should organise common
counter measures. International union solidarity and transnational
mobilisation, including a ‘European general strike’ have been up
for discussion. The actual activities themselves have been way behind
the discussion. This article examines the question of why
transnational action is so difficult to organise.        Starting from
some discussion on the concept and basis for particular union
solidarity and based on new approaches in trade union research,
preconditions for successful mobilisation are explored. These
pre-considerations turn out to be useful in the application to the
Europe-wide campaign against the guideline for the deregulation of
dock work and the protest against the Bolkestein Directive. At the
same time, the successful examples serve as a point of reference, to
reveal the lack of indispensable preconditions for transnational
mobilisation in the Euro crisis. Some less demanding protest forms
remain as a perspective for European union solidarity.},
journal = {WSI-Mitteilungen},
pages = {337--344},
author = {Dribbusch, Heiner},
volume = {67},
number = {5}
}