Event in the Kepler Salon in Linz: “Rightwing populism in Europe, desolidarization and the role of trade unions”

16 September 2024

A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of rightwing populism. In many countries rightwing populist parties celebrate success, including in Austria. Whereas these parties had a neoliberal orientation in the 1990s, they reinvented themselves as “worker parties” in the 2000s. This development is a challenge for trade unions in particular. Desolidarization and labour market divisions put concepts such as inclusive solidarity and collective worker rights to the test. At this event we discuss with international experts, how the trade union movement in Austria and elsewhere can respond to these challenges.

Hans-Jürgen Bieling (Professor for Political Sciences at Tübingen University

Matthias Specht-Prebanda (Labour market expert at the Chamber of Labour Upper Austria

Torben Krings (Host, Institute of Sociology, JKU Linz)

Where? Kepler Salon, Rathausgasse 5, 4020 Linz

Where? Kepler Salon, Rathausgasse 5, 4020 Linz

An event organised by the Institute of Sociology and the Research Group Social Partnership in cooperation with the Kepler Salon in Linz.