@article{2020:dinev:the_dynami,
title = {The dynamics of class mobilisations: evidence from protest event analysis in Bulgaria and Slovenia},
year = {2020},
note = {Following the recent interest of bringing capitalism back into social
movement studies, this article contributes to the debate with the
application of new techniques for examining the dynamics of social
class in protest politics. Questioning the declining importance of
labour mobilisation in the recent anti-austerity cycles of protest in
eastern Europe, I draw on a unique protest event dataset to propose a
new way of exploring the relations between social class, repertoires
and claimmaking. I show that this innovation can bring greater clarity
to a systematic analysis of social class politics in the protest
arena. The empirical exploration highlights that more than one-third
of the protest events in Bulgaria and Slovenia in the aftermath of the
financial crisis were driven by specific social class actors. The
article suggests that, contrary to individual-level data, social class
can be observed through the basic conceptions of workers and
independents; and then through site and sector: production; services;
and socio-cultural. These typologies help in understanding where
mobilisations arise, under what conditions and for what demands.},
journal = {SEER Journal for Labour and Social Affairs in Eastern Europe},
pages = {245--266},
author = {Dinev, Ivaylo},
volume = {23},
number = {2}
}