How Local Unions Are Rethinking Their Relationship with(in) the City: The Case of a Place-Based Mobilization in Bordeaux

Autor: Deborah Galimberti, Guillaume Gourgues
Přispěvatelé: Centre Émile Durkheim (CED), Sciences Po Bordeaux - Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux (IEP Bordeaux)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence (UniFI), Triangle : action, discours, pensée politique et économique (TRIANGLE), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-Sciences Po Lyon - Institut d'études politiques de Lyon (IEP Lyon), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Territory, Politics, Governance
Territory, Politics, Governance, 2022, Published
ISSN: 2162-2671
2162-268X
DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2022.2038256⟩
Popis: International audience; The aim of this study is to advance understanding of the relationships between trade unions and the city by drawing on the burgeoning literature at the intersection of labour and urban politics research. We analysed the attempts of local unions in France to develop urban-based mobilizations, notably through an in-depth qualitative case study of the Bordeaux area, examining different ways union activists frame their relationships to place. Despite an unfavourable institutional legacy, we found the clear emergence of an urban-based union strategy that takes on board the specificities of place while advancing a working-class agenda. However, the case study also showed that urban-based union activism is not universally recognized by trade union activists as a strategy of revitalization, and can raise dilemmas, particularly in terms of the reproduction of class collective identity.
Databáze: OpenAIRE