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Feltrin, Lorenzo (2020) The Moroccan system of labour institutions : a class-based perspective. Third World Quarterly, 41 (7). pp. 1240-1260. doi:10.1080/01436597.2020.1761254 ISSN 1360-2241.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2020.1761254
Abstract
The relevance of workers’ mobilisations in the 2011 Arab uprisings and – more recently – in the Algerian movement for democracy and social justice has encouraged a renewed interest in labour–state relations in the region. This article presents a class-based perspective on labour institutions, taking Morocco as a case study. In contrast to institution-based approaches, this research argues that it is problematic to treat the trade unions as analytical proxies for the working class, because this heuristic move conceals how class struggles – from below and from above – can transcend and transform labour institutions. The article proposes a framework to study labour–state relations, highlighting the relative autonomy of union officials from workers and vice versa. In this way, it shows how, in the neoliberal phase, the Moroccan state increased inducements to the unions while decreasing those to the workers and maintaining significant constraints on workplace organising. To use a simplified formulation, the regime included the unions to exclude the workers. In such a context of low union representativeness, the dangers of reducing the working class to the trade unions emerge clearly.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||||
| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Labor movement -- Morocco, Labor unions -- Morocco, Industrial relations -- Morocco, Political participation --Morocco, Morocco -- Politics and government, Working class -- Morocco | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Third World Quarterly | ||||||
| Publisher: | Informa UK Limited | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1360-2241 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 27 May 2020 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 41 | ||||||
| Number: | 7 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1240-1260 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/01436597.2020.1761254 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Third World Quarterly on 27/05/2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/01436597.2020.1761254 | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 11 June 2020 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 27 November 2021 |
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