Abstract
The Discursive Strategies of Professional Union Representatives. This study examines arguments concerning the replacement of labor union activists by professional labor union employees, a modification supposedly associated with the current crisis of labor unions. The Job position of labor union organizer is analyzed through its historical development. An empirical research in the field with two labor federations was carried out to reconstitute the stages of a union career. The central part of the recherche consists of the production of interviews with union representatives. This social-historical approach reveals the fragile and unfinished character of the professionalization of labor union management. Careers, Identity, Trade, Professionalization, Full-Time Unionists, Union Members, Union Representatives.
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