City, Space and Trade Unionism

Beltrán Roca is Professor of Sociology at the University of Cádiz.

• Introduction1. City, Place and Space in Social and Labour Movements2. The Terrain of the Struggle: Work, Labour and Society in the Bay of Cádiz, 1958-20083. Changes in the Economic Landscape: The Restructuring of the Cádiz Shipbuilding Industry4. Place and the Making of the Working Class: Labour Identities, Collective Memory, Carnival and Union Struggle5. Exploring New Spaces: Trade Union Conflict and Renewal From the 2008 Crisis to the Pandemic6. Unravelling Workers’ Spatial Agency and the Future of Trade Unionism

“Worker struggles take place in a geographical landscape. They are interrelated in many ways with local communities and spaces - as well as the memories that these dimensions evoke. This book is an original and thoughtful insight into how we need to relate the nature and changes in worker struggles across time with their location and the nature of those spaces. It brings a new dimension to the way we think about work and representation.” Miguel Martinez Lucio, Work and Equalities Institute, The University of Manchester