Class subjectivities, intentionality and strikes

Abstract

In this article, we show the results of analysis of intentional component of the interaction between collective subjectivities of class (antagonist and of solidarity) in the context of strike. Between the several processes that they take part in the made of subjectivities of class, we consider strikes because we want emphasise the active role that the subjects keep up in the class relationships of the domination and exploitation. We start from a conception of the subjectivity understood as fragmentary and contingent that we apply into analysis of class, but this article we limit to theological and strategic processes of the strikes. We centre the analysis in a case’s study, across of which we take a chase of intentional processes of strike from the beginning 70th to the end of 90th, they was leaded by the workers of a company of motor’s sector, situated in Catalonian. The main devices used to work on empirical material are: interview, consultation archive’s documents, and recompilation statistical facts. Throughout the analysis, we show diversity strategies of workers and of the company, for obtaining of distinct objects in dispute in the strike processes. Also, we attend to results of these strategies and their signification and how these take relation with the building of collective subjectivities of class. Finally, we indicate the tensions and confrontations that characterise the conflictive situations of strike where are explicit the relations of power in the capitalist patriarchal production of life.