Abstract
The case of unemployed organizations in Naples shows that groups of resource-deprived people can organize themselves and make successful claims, overcoming their stigmatized identity. Furthermore, they are able to reverse the stigma and to organize the process that Elias (1994) defines as “counterstigmatization.” How did they achieve this? This chapter shows that this has been achieved by taking advantage of the availability of small and big political opportunities (Gamson and Meyer 1996) offered to collective action by local and national political powers, through a wise use of “compensatory” resources, as suggested by recent literature (Maurer 2000), as well as by their capability of establishing viable organizations and links and practices of cooperation with groups devoted to other issues, and finally by an important activity of “framing” (Cress and Snow 2000; Snow 2004).
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Baglioni, S. (2012). The Mobilization of the Unemployed in Italy: The Case of Naples. In: Chabanet, D., Faniel, J. (eds) The Mobilization of the Unemployed in Europe. Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137011862_6
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