RT book
T1 City, Space and Trade Unionism. The Spatiality of Labour in the Metal Industry
A1 Roca Martínez, Beltrán
A2 Economía General
K1 trade unions
K1 labour geography
K1 metal industry
K1 labour conflict
K1 social history
K1 labour process theory
K1 sociology of work
AB How does collective action shape economic landscapes? This book examines the transformation of the workers' movement in Spain’s metal sector, one of the country’s most unionised industries. Having faced restructuring, delocalization, subcontracting and increasing precarity, metalworkers in Cádiz have used radical methods to challenge measures that threaten their income and industry. Adopting a spatial approach to labour and social movements, Beltrán Roca investigates the spatial strategies employed by unions to navigate these challenges, debating whether to focus on factory-bound action or engage the broader community. In doing so, the book highlights labour militancy as a social process deeply rooted in specific cities and places, and of workers as producers of space through conflict.
PB Bristol University Press
SN 9781529249767
YR 2025
FD 2025-09-06
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/37719
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/37719
LA eng
NO Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 10-may-2026