THE COLLECTIVE ACTION OF PRECARIOUS WORKERS: SYMBOLIC PRODUCTION, COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES, THE RELATIONSHIP WITH TRADE UNIONS AND POLITICS. A COMPARISON BETWEEN ITALY AND SPAIN

In the last years, the economic crisis heavily hit all the Southern European States, exacerbating well rooted dynamics of impoverishment and precarizadon. In Italy and Spain, among others, social movements against labour and existential precarity developed and took the streets, receiving a high degree of media attention. In this paper we focus on the movements against precarity in Italy and Spain, in order to analyse their genesis, developments, and future opportunities. In particular, the paper focuses on the movements' claims, their self-representation, the structure of alliances and their strategies of action, highlighting the results of the protests and the repertories of discourse and action.