Published by Acratie, this 284-page book is the result of several years
of workers' research conducted on the Opal Coast, the Lille region,Brittany, and many other places... ---- To purchase the book from the
publisher:
Editions Acratie: https://editionsacratie.com
To purchase it in Boulogne-sur-mer:
- Librairie L'Horizon: 6 boulevard de Clocheville
- Le Petit Cargo: 32 Place de la résistance
- Fnac: 65-67 rue Faidherbe
- Librairies-café À la ligne: 47 rue Victor Hugo
Or, order it from us: La Mouette Enragée BP 403, 62206 Boulogne-sur-mer
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- And everywhere else from your bookseller...
Before traveling the world, take a tour of the workshop...
Workers' Survey - Testimonies - Reflections
2017-2023
In truth, this is a maxim that still teaches us about the real causes of
our defeats; just as it questions us about the resources we must
mobilize to reverse the balance of power in our favor.
Those who still hold the class struggle as one of the essential keys to
understanding the world today know how exploited labor remains the major
issue in this confrontation. And if the question is at the heart of the
media spectacle at the height of mass mobilizations, it is in the
anonymity of daily exploitation that we must seek the thousand and one
small gestures of individual and collective resistance that forge the
alloy of struggles that transcend them.
It is therefore by exhuming and reappropriating in our own way this old
tool of the historical class movement, the workers' inquiry, that we set
out to encounter a world that some claim has disappeared, but is
nevertheless very much alive: the working class of today.
Extraordinary to any theoretical sophistication as well as to the canons
of specialized and scientific research, it is exclusively as members of
this working class that we addressed our own people: workers in
industrial production and services, logistics, healthcare, etc.
This modest experiment, conducted collectively in a few select
locations, allowed us to shed light on a fragmented reality that is too
often silenced and ignored. It now demands to be continued and enriched
by others and in other places.
Contents
By way of foreword
Chapter 1: The Workers' Survey
1.1 What remains of the Workers' Survey?
1.2. The Workers' Survey... the class!
1.3. The Survey, the company, and political centrality
1.4. Why conduct the survey now?
Notes on Chapter 1
Chapter 2. The Medical Sector - The Cash Drawers of Health
2.1. Strike in Nursing Homes: It's About Time! - Account of a Collective
Experience in Boulogne-sur-Mer
2.2. Strike Again - "The State Turns a Deaf Ear, No Matter, We'll Stand Up"
2.3. When an epidemic crisis serves as a revelation - Daily life in a
nursing home during lockdown
2.4. Struggle in private healthcare facilities
2.5. A look at the midwives' strike that began in June 2021
2.6. Mechanical bandage or the tribulations of a paramedic
2.7. In the blind spot of the investigation or the return of the ambulance
Notes for Chapter 2
Chapter 3: Uberization or the return of the old piecework
3.1. Towards the Uber stage of capitalism?
3.2. Reflections on the Uber Eats delivery strike in Boulogne-sur-Mer
Notes for Chapter 3
Chapter 4: Logistics
4.1. By way of introduction
4.2. Three examples of logistics companies: Amazon, La Redoute, and
Vertbaudet
4.3. Working for Vertbaudet
4.4. Working for La Redoute
4.5. Working for Amazon
4.6. What about delivery?
4.7. The fight against Pinault at La Redoute in 2014
4.8. The fight against Vertbaudet in 2023
4.9. Logistics, the new banner of capitalism?
Notes to Chapter 4
Chapter 5: Call Centers
5.1. The Call Center, Paragon of the Liberal Counteroffensive
Box: The Robotization of Call Centers
5.2. Call Center Employees Speak Out
Notes to Chapter 5
Chapter 6: Managerial Control
6.1. Management: An Ideological Fraud with Scientific Pretensions
6.2. The Eugenic Strain of Neoliberal Management
Notes to Chapter 6
Chapter 7: Agri-Food Production
7.1. From Douarnenez to Boulogne-sur-Mer, in the agri-food factories
7.2. Sardine farms in Douarnenez: the industry continues for decades!
7.3. On the production lines of a Breton agri-food cooperative
7.4. Working in Capécure...
7.5. At the heart of an SME in the Capécure area
7.6. Old machines and fresh sweat
Notes to Chapter 7
Chapter 8: SMEs and Temporary Employment
8.1. SMEs and Temporary Employment: An Account of a Typical Business
8.2. Work in Question
Notes to Chapter 8
Appendices
1- 2013: Solidarity Actions with the PSA Aulnay Workers on Strike
2- Letter from Henri Simon about the Workers' Survey
3- The Survey Questionnaire
4- For a Worker Mapping Project
Bibliography
Boulogne-sur-mer, 12/09/2023
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