Authorship: Verna Alcalde González
Programme: Society, Tecnology and Culture
Lenguage: Spanish
Supervisor: Dr Ana González Mozo
Departament / Institut: Doctoral School
Subjects: Social Sciences
Key words: collective action, feminism, intersectionality, social movements, trade unionism
Area of knowledge: Information and Knowledge Society
Abstract
For this thesis we conducted a case study on the Las Kellys movement to look into the phenomenon of intersectional activism, halfway between unionism and feminism, led by women in feminized, stigmatized, precarious jobs. The core of the thesis is made up of three articles published in Q1 and Q2 journals (JCR): in the first one we analyze the Las Kellys' subversion tactics for dignity in hotel housekeeping and we explore their impact on the occupational, organizational and sociopolitical realms; in the second we examine the role of Facebook in the construction and politicization of the Las Kellys' collective identity and the interrelationship of this process with other mobilization factors, such as grievances, social embeddedness and efficacy; and in the third we describe the Las Kellys' intersectional practices and disputes and explore their dissemination relationships with the anti-austerity and feminist protest cycles.