Politics, Work and Family: Gendered Forms of Mobilisation of Working-Class Women in Southern France.
In 2008, the Molex company announced the closure of its French site at Villemur-sur-Tarn. The 283 workers then began a long struggle to save their jobs but failed to prevent their redundancy. This article analyses the ways in which gender influences men's and women's capacity to resist when faced wi...
| Publicado en: | Modern & Contemporary France Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 203 - 220 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
May2012
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