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This article considers the issue of resistance to austerity in recent years in Ireland and focuses specifically on the Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed (INOU). The article notes that the Irish Government’s post-2008 austerity policies had devastating effects on unemployed people, but that the INOU’s stance and responses to such policies were timid and cautious. The argument is that the INOU’s position is the result of long-established relations of dependency with respect to the state and to the trade union movement which contributed strongly to reduce its militancy in general and facilitated its caution and ambiguous responses to austerity in the post-2008 period in particular. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we examine the different layers of the relative surplus population in Argentina and the development of the Argentinian piquetero movement, which tried to establish an alliance between employed and unemployed workers. We highlight the potentialities and the limits of this initiative, especially regarding the organisation and integration of the different layers of the relative surplus population. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper presents the results of a research-action project conducted from 2009 to 2011 along with the Unemployed Workers' Movement (MTD, acronym in Portuguese), in five districts of Pelotas city, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It aims to contribute to this organization so that it continues the educational process and the organization aiming at more effective solutions to the issue of unemployment. To achieve this goal, the theoretical framework of this paper involves authors who have debated the relationship between work and education, such as Marx, Fernandes, Frigotto, Antunes and Saviani. Its theoretical contribution comprises the following: (a) the categories of dependent capitalism and unequal and combined development; (b) the relationship between work and education. At the end of the analysis of the categories that emerged throughout this study, it is concluded that the Movement should strengthen an educational process via work and organization, taking into consideration the public sphere at its three levels, in order to change the space and site conditions: housing, sanitation and health, and ultimately the relationship between work and education. This line of action should be strong and permanent. The workers' organization in cooperatives, associations and production groups is essential for them to resist the widespread problem of unemployment in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I intend to reconstruct, from an ethnographic perspective, a number of situations lived in an urban organization of unemployed workers at the city and the suburbs of Buenos Aires, Argentina. On one side, I describe and analyze how a certain complementarity of tasks takes place in the ways women and men participate. On the other, I show how the existence of an Espacio de Mujeres (Women's Space) in this organization strains the outlines and limits of those ways of participation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Based on the study of Argentinean Unemployed Workers Organizations (UWO) experience, this article treats the relation between popular classes and the democratization of the access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The article analyzes the new technologies incorporation, socialization and signification process and the social representation and more frequent uses between the studied actors. What do UWO do in order to get equipment, construct technical skills and produce a self communication? As a conclusion, the article reflects on the priorities that public policies should take into account in order to favor popular appropriation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]