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Sociological looks at work and conflict, starting with Alain Touraine

2024

The “stakes” of labour conflicts: Alain Touraine’s legacy

  • Bianca Beccalli
  • Guglielmo Meardi
  • Paola Rebughini
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3280/SL2024-170002
Submitted
gennaio 27, 2025
Published
2025-02-20

Abstract

The re-emergence of sociological attention on labour conflicts reveals not only the presence of new and old actors, new and old forms of expression, but also of different contents. The trajectory of Alain Touraine’s sociology offers insights to study its different contents as ‘stakes’, corresponding to three overlapping phases: labour organ-isation and labour process; new collective identities and coalitions with new social movements; subjectivity and individual rights. With reference to the contributions in this Special Issue, the international relevance of this interpretative approach is revis-ited.

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