Mobilizing within and beyond the Labor Union: A Case of Precarious Workers’ Collective Actions in North Africa
基于突尼斯公共部门不稳定工人的定性分析，研究工会如何既促进又限制工人集体行动，以及工人与工会互动如何推动动员结构和行动方式的创新。
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.