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Mobilizing within and beyond the Labor Union: A Case of Precarious Workers’ Collective Actions in North Africa

Han, Saerom

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Abstract

Drawing on a qualitative analysis of a group of mobilized precarious workers in Tunisia’s public sector, the author asks how workers’ collective actions are shaped by and, at the same time, can act upon labor unions’ responses to them. Findings suggest that unions can enable and simultaneously constrain precarious workers’ collective actions. More important, workers learn from their interactions with the union, and this learning process can contribute to innovations in workers’ mobilizing structure and repertoire of actions. The Tunisian case contributes to the debate on the relationship between precarious workers and institutionalized actors as well as to the study of mobilized precarious workers by elucidating the ways in which the workers’ embedded and innovative agency plays out within and beyond a well-established labor union.

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Han, S. (2023). Mobilizing within and beyond the Labor Union: A Case of Precarious Workers’ Collective Actions in North Africa. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 76(4), 674-696. https://doi.org/10.1177/00197939221146778

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Sep 7, 2022
Online Publication Date Jan 3, 2023
Publication Date 2023-08
Deposit Date Jan 25, 2023
Publicly Available Date Jan 25, 2023
Journal Industrial and Labor Relations Review
Print ISSN 0019-7939
Electronic ISSN 2162-271X
Publisher SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 76
Issue 4
Pages 674-696
DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/00197939221146778
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1182794

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