How does collective action shape economic landscapes? This book examines the transformation of the workers' movement in Spain's metal sector, one of the country's most unionised industries. Having faced restructuring, delocalization, subcontracting and increasing precarity, metalworkers in Cadiz have used radical methods to challenge measures that threaten their income and industry.
Adopting a spatial approach to labour and social movements, Beltran Roca investigates the spatial strategies employed by unions to navigate these challenges, debating whether to focus on factory-bound action or engage the broader community. In doing so, the book highlights labour militancy as a social process deeply rooted in specific cities and places, and of workers as producers of space through conflict.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"Worker struggles take place in a geographical landscape. They are interrelated in many ways with local communities and spaces - as well as the memories that these dimensions evoke. This book is an original and thoughtful insight into how we need to relate the nature and changes in worker struggles across time with their location and the nature of those spaces. It brings a new dimension to the way we think about work and representation." Miguel Martinez Lucio, Work and Equalities Institute, The University of Manchester "An excellent book that help us reflect on how labour and social struggle are connected through the living fabric of the Bay of Cadiz." Maurizio Atzeni, CEIL-CONICET and Universidad Alberto Hurtado
"A bold theoretical perspective on the spatial politics of labour that beautifully animates the history of Andalusian shipyard workers in the post-Franco, post-Fordist era." Ruth Milkman, City University of New York Graduate Center
"Through a close reading of the history of industrial workers' struggles in Cadiz, Beltran Roca wonderfully demonstrates how the places within which workers live shape their political behaviour and how, in turn, workers remake those places through their activities." Andy Herod, University of Georgia
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Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Produkt-Hinweis
Klebebindung
Gewebe-Einband
Illustrationen
16 s/w Abbildungen, 3 s/w Tabellen
3 Tables, black and white; 16 Illustrations, black and white
Maße
Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-5292-4974-3 (9781529249743)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Beltran Roca is Professor of Sociology at the University of Cadiz.
Autor*in
Universidad de Cadiz
Introduction
1. City, Place and Space in Social and Labour Movements
2. The Terrain of the Struggle: Work, Labour and Society in the Bay of Cadiz, 1958-2008
3. Changes in the Economic Landscape: The Restructuring of the Cadiz Shipbuilding Industry
4. Place and the Making of the Working Class: Labour Identities, Collective Memory, Carnival and Union Struggle
5. Exploring New Spaces: Trade Union Conflict and Renewal From the 2008 Crisis to the Pandemic
6. Unravelling Workers' Spatial Agency and the Future of Trade Unionism
