The Interchangeable Worker and Fighting Back

Organizing unorganized workers, particularly the growing number of women and young people in part-time jobs, is one of the major challenges for organized labour. The restructuring of the restaurant industry in the post-World War II period produced a work situation in which traditional workplace organizing strategies were rendered ineffective. This paper explores the development of the interchangeable worker in the fast food sector of the industry and examines how a feminist approach to work, which stresses the links between paid work, family, and community, is a more appropriate model upon which to develop suitable strategies for dealing with this increasingly common workplace. Resume L'organization de la main d'oeuvre non-syndique, surtout celle du nombre croissant de travailleuses et de jeunes personnes dans les emplois a temps partiel, pose un defi primordial aux syndicats. La restructuration del'industrie de la restauration au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale engendra une situation de travail qui rendit inefficaces les strategies d'organisation du milieu de travail traditionnel. Le present article explore l'evolution de la condition du travailleur et de la travailleuse dans le secteur de la restauration-minute. Cette monographie demontre comment une approche feministe a l'etude du travail, en insistant sur les liens entre le travail remunere, la famille et la collectivite, fournit un modele plus adequat sur lequel developper des strategies aptes a la comprehension de ce milieu de travail de plus en plus repandu

Business · Labor Movements and Unions

• Against the Odds

  Luis Aguiar•Quebec Studies•1999

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