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| Titre : | "We Were the Ones Really Doing Something About It" : Gender and Mobilisation against Factory Closure (2019) |
| Auteurs : | Margaret Robertson ; Andy Clark |
| Type de document : | Article : document électronique |
| Dans : | Work, employment and society (vol. 33, n° 2, April 2019) |
| Article en page(s) : | pp. 336–344 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Catégories : |
Thésaurus CEREQ FEMME ; INDUSTRIE MANUFACTURIERE ; RECONVERSION INDUSTRIELLE ; CONFLIT DU TRAVAIL ; ORGANISATION SYNDICALE ; ROYAUME UNI ; GENRE ; ETUDE DE CAS |
| Résumé : | Current understandings of worker mobilisation against factory closure and capital migration in Britain are dominated by the perspectives of male industrial workers. […]. There is considerably less understanding of the response of female manufacturing workers to these processes and the ways in which women mobilised in opposition to the free movement of capital. This article presents the testimony of Margaret Robertson, shop steward at the Lee Jeans factory in Greenock, Scotland, where the predominantly female workforce conducted a successful seven-month occupation in opposition to proposed closure beginning in February 1981. The contribution highlights the specific gendered challenges encountered by women workers. The occupation occurred in a period of accelerated factory closure in Britain, yet supporting female unionists resisting job loss was not a priority for the male-dominated union executive.(source: article) |
| Document Céreq : | Non |
| En ligne : | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0950017018785861 |
