City, Space and Trade Unionism

The Spatiality of Labour in the Metal Industry

AvBeltrán Roca

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

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 Cádiz have used radical methods to challenge measures that threaten their income and industry.Adopting a spatial approach to labour and social movements, Beltrán 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-09-04
Mått:156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:426 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Understanding Work and Employment Relations
Antal sidor:182
Förlag:Bristol University Press
ISBN:9781529249743

Utforska kategorier

Arbetsmarknaden inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Geografi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Beltrán Roca is Professor of Sociology at the University of Cádiz.

Recensioner i media

“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

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction1. City, Place and Space in Social and Labour Movements2. The Terrain of the Struggle: Work, Labour and Society in the Bay of Cádiz, 1958-20083. Changes in the Economic Landscape: The Restructuring of the Cádiz Shipbuilding Industry4. Place and the Making of the Working Class: Labour Identities, Collective Memory, Carnival and Union Struggle5. Exploring New Spaces: Trade Union Conflict and Renewal From the 2008 Crisis to the Pandemic6. Unravelling Workers’ Spatial Agency and the Future of Trade Unionism