The Geometry of Trade Union Responses to Immigration and the Politics of Inclusion

Abstract

In this concluding chapter we argue that there is no clear path to renewal and inclusion - and hence solidarity. It may be that political narratives underpinning developments are important, and how they help frame common responses, but the idea of a uniform, standard response or apolitical solution around a particular view of organising is not the way forward. We need to look much more closely at how the nature of the state and projects of social inclusion are framing responses and in terms of facilitating trade union roles in relation to immigration or creating new views and points of development through agitation or radical approaches.