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This critical case study looks at the campaign led by Citizens UK and Unison to get the University of East London (UEL) to sign up to the London Living wage (LLW). UEL agreed to pay the LLW after a brief campaign in November 2010 and it was subsequently implemented in August 2011. The study charts the course of the campaign and draws on mobilisation theory and new primary research to account for its success. What our findings suggest is that community organisers and union activists were able to organise and mobilise a largely apolitical group of migrant workers. This, we suggest, can be explained by the successful mobilisation of the community and augurs well for future broad-based campaigns.
Author(s): Lopes A, Hall T
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Industrial Relations Journal
Year: 2015
Volume: 46
Issue: 3
Pages: 208-221
Print publication date: 01/05/2015
Online publication date: 06/05/2015
Acceptance date: 02/03/2015
ISSN (print): 0019-8692
ISSN (electronic): 1468-2338
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/irj.12099
DOI: 10.1111/irj.12099
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