Solidarity has not died, despite laments about the loss of community and the wide decline of mass actions; it can be mobilised in new ways through developing networks of plural transient relations.

Charles Heckscher is the director of the Center for Workplace Transformation at Rutgers University.

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Transient Solidarities: commitment and collective action in post-industrial societies (pdf)

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