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Drawing conceptually from feminist, post–development, cultural politics and radical political science literatures, this essay integrally relates differences among contexts (relationally defined) and people. I suggest that prospects for the mobilization of workers across space requires critical thinking about difference, entailing recognition of different work experiences associated with different industrial processes and avenues of exploitation, as well as possible friction among different groups of people across axes of difference. Although frictions of difference related both to economic and non–economic logics may pose complex problems for connecting workers within and across space, I argue that inclusive organizing strategies are critical to achieving pervasive and long–run social change. Tirant ces concepts de documents sur le post–féminisme et le post–développement, et de textes de politique culturelle et de science politique fondamentale, cet essai associe toutes les différences de contextes (définis en termes de relation) et d’individus. Il suggère que mobiliser des salariés à travers l’espace nécessite une réflexion critique sur la différence, ce qui implique la reconnaissance d’expériences professionnelles diverses combinées à des approches et processus industriels d’exploitation différents, ainsi que d’éventuels points de friction entre divers groupes de personnes d’un bout à l’autre des axes de différence. Même si ces points de friction, liés à une logique tant économique que non–économique, sont susceptibles de créer d’importantes difficultés pour relier des salariés dans l’espace, il faut appliquer des stratégies d’organisation globales si l’on veut obtenir un changement social capable de s’imprégner durablement.
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Nancy Ettlinger, 2002.
"The difference that difference makes in the mobilization of workers,"
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 26(4), pages 834-843, December.
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RePEc:bla:ijurrs:v:26:y:2002:i:4:p:834-843
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.00422
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