Published by Acratie, this book is the restitution of several years of a workers’ investigation carried out on the Côte d’Opale, the Lille region, Brittany and many other places between 2017 and 2023.
To tell the truth, this is a maxim which still teaches us the real causes of our defeats; as much as it questions us about the resources that we must mobilize in order to reverse the balance of power in our favor.
Those who still hold the struggle between classes as one of the essential keys to understanding today’s world know how exploited labor remains the major issue in this confrontation.
And if the question arises at the heart of the media spectacle at the height of mass mobilizations, it is in the anonymity of daily exploitation that we must look for the thousand and one small gestures of individual and collective resistance which forge the alloy of struggles that go beyond them.
It is therefore by exhuming and re-appropriating in our own way this old tool of the historical class movement, the workers’ investigation, that we set out to encounter a world supposedly disappeared according to some, but nevertheless very much alive: the working class today.
Strangers to all 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 ours: workers in industrial production and services, logistics, care…
This modest experiment, carried out collectively in a few selected places, allowed us to shed light on a fragmentary reality that is too often silenced and ignored. It now demands to be continued and enriched by others than us and in other places.
Chapter 1: The workers’ investigation
1.1 What remains of the Workers’ Survey?
1.2. The workers’ survey… class!
1.3. The investigation, the company and political centrality
1.4. Why conduct the investigation today?
Notes chapter 1
Chapter 2. The medical sector – The healthcare cash drawers
2.1. Strike in nursing homes, it’s about time! – Story of a collective experience lived in Boulogne-sur-mer.
2.2. The strike again – “The State is turning a deaf ear, it doesn’t matter, we will put on a strong face”
2.3. When an epidemic crisis serves as a revealer – Daily life in an EHPAD during confinement
2.4. Fight in private health establishments
2.5. A look at the midwives’ strike that began in June 2021
2.6. Mechanical bandage or the tribulations of an ambulance driver
2.7. In the blind spot of the investigation or the return of the ambulance
Notes chapter 2
Chapter 3: Uberization or the return of old work to the task
3.1. Towards the Uber stage of capitalism?
3.2.Reflections on the strike of Uber Eats delivery drivers in Boulogne-sur-mer
Notes chapter 3
Chapter 4: Logistics
4.1. As an introduction
4.2. Three examples of logistics companies: Amazon, la Redoute and Vertbaudet
4.3. Working for Vertbaudet
4.4. Working for the Redoute
4.5. Working for Amazon
4.6. And delivery in all this?
4. 7. The fight at La Redoute against Pinault in 2014
4.8. The fight against Vertbaudet in 2023
4. 9. Logistics, the new standard of capitalism?
Notes chapter 4
Chapter 5: Call centers
5. 1. The call center, paragon of the liberal counter-offensive
Box: Robotization of call centers
5.2. Call center employees speak out
Notes chapter 5
Chapter 6: Managerial influence
6.1. Management: an ideological imposture with scientific pretensions
6.2. The eugenicist strain of neoliberal management
Notes Chapter 6
Chapter 7: Agri-food production
7.1. From Douarnenez to Boulogne-sur-mer, in the food industry factories
7.2. Sardinières in Douarnenez, from decades to decades exploitation continues!
7.3. On the chains of a Breton agri-food cooperative
7.4. Working at Capécure…
7.5. At the heart of an SME in the Capécure area
7.6. Old machines and fresh sweat
Notes chapter 7
Chapter 8: SMEs and temporary work
8.1. SMEs and temporary workers: testimony to a classic operation
8.2. The work in question
Notes chapter 8
Annexes
1- 2013: Solidarity actions with the workers of PSA Aulnay on strike
2- Letter from Henri Simon about the workers’ survey
3- The survey questionnaire
4- For a workers’ mapping project
Bibliography
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