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An analysis of wage workers’ identities in the Unemployed people’s movement in France

  • Civil Society and NGO
  • 2020, 18(2), pp.241~273
  • Publisher : The Third Sector Institute
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general > Other Social Science in general
  • Received : October 13, 2020
  • Accepted : November 18, 2020
  • Published : November 30, 2020

Kim, Seung-Yeon 1

1동국대학교 다르마칼리지

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ABSTRACT

In France, wage workers massively employed in social movements are affronted to their ambiguous status and identity, produced from volunteer participation and salary labor confused. This article tends to understand wage workers’ identities in the Unemployed people’s movement as cultural choices defined from individual and collective levels, and to do a comparative analysis of four unemployed organizations with Douglas' cultural theory. We applied Douglas' two notions of group and grid to the movement's activity and ideology, in order to induce four cultural types: positional, enclave, individualist, and isolate. From it, we observe that ‘positional’ and ‘enclave’ culture show a strong group character within its collective mobilization, and their employed persons maintain a stable identity. On the contrary, ‘individualist’ and ‘isolate’ culture consider ‘permanence’ as main activity, and the employed seems have weak status, independently of their strong or weak ideological grid. This means that the ambiguous status and identity of employed persons become weaker in social organizations that neglect resistant collective mobilization.

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