Intersectional approaches to discrimination and conflict at work

How do the most precarious and discriminated against workers resist in the workplace? Drawing on a variety of fields and sectors of activity – logistics, cleaning, the merchant navy and the wives of strikers – this dossier explores the forms of conflict that emerge outside traditional trade union frameworks. Using an intersectional approach, the contributions highlight the links between social relations of gender, class and race in the making of ordinary resistance at work. They show that struggles are also rooted in the reproductive sphere, community solidarity and individual trajectories. Led by researchers whose investigations are part of a reflexive and committed stance, this work renews the analysis of collective mobilisations by decentring the gaze and exploring the margins as places of political expression. It’s an invitation to think differently about workplace conflict, in all its social complexity.