Young Factory Workers
Research Reports on Male/Female Competition and the Challenge to the Masculinity of the Labor Force
- By Stéphane Beaud
- and Michel Pialoux
Pages 73 to 103
Cite this article
- BEAUD, Stéphane
- and PIALOUX, Michel,
- Beaud, Stéphane.
- et al.
- Beaud, S.
- and Pialoux, M.
https://doi.org/10.3917/tgs.008.0073
Cite this article
- Beaud, S.
- and Pialoux, M.
- Beaud, Stéphane.
- et al.
- BEAUD, Stéphane
- and PIALOUX, Michel,
https://doi.org/10.3917/tgs.008.0073
Starting from a long-term field study in the French region of Sochaux-Montbéliard, which has a dense working class population, the authors analyze recent transformations of the labor market linked to the strong economic recovery of the years 1998 to 2001. They focus on how youngsters from poor housing estates, usually excluded from companies, massively joined the workforce via temp work positions at the factory of Sochaux and car equipment manufacturers. The comparison of attitudes on the workplace revealed by interviews, whether with young workers, male or female, or with olders workers and foremen favors female ("serious", "motivated", "sociable") over male. The latter, often prisoners of a "street culture", that has been theirs, their teenage years through, find that their workers’ masculinity is challenged at work.
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https://doi.org/10.3917/tgs.008.0073