Protest Struggles and Trade Unionism: The “Work for Emancipation” of Women in Employment
Le Quentrec, Yannick
Protest Struggles and Trade Unionism: The “Work for Emancipation” of Women in Employment - 2014.
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While many sociological analyses focus exclusively on capitalist exploitation and on domination, and therefore consider employees to be powerless and resigned, the present article aims to examine how women who work also to emancipate themselves at the intersection of class, gender and race. After first showing what issues are involved for feminism in acknowledging the existence of spaces of freedom in work and in trade unionism, I use several scenarios of women’s struggles to then highlight and discuss three aspects of women’s work for emancipation: collective self-nomination, emancipatory praxis and the sisterhood along class and race.
Protest Struggles and Trade Unionism: The “Work for Emancipation” of Women in Employment - 2014.
99
While many sociological analyses focus exclusively on capitalist exploitation and on domination, and therefore consider employees to be powerless and resigned, the present article aims to examine how women who work also to emancipate themselves at the intersection of class, gender and race. After first showing what issues are involved for feminism in acknowledging the existence of spaces of freedom in work and in trade unionism, I use several scenarios of women’s struggles to then highlight and discuss three aspects of women’s work for emancipation: collective self-nomination, emancipatory praxis and the sisterhood along class and race.
Réseaux sociaux