THE LABOR-MOVEMENT AND PRODUCTIVE SPACE

What metaphors do unions use te talk about the company? Built around s everal oppositions, these metaphors show that perceptions of the shop territory are polarized. Interrelations between these symbolic express ions are described; and three paradigms of the firm, proposed for expl aining them. These paradigms refer to different levels of collective a ction and mobilization. Attention is then drawn to the grounds used, o n the one hand, to justify union actions and, on the other, to dispute the images and figures of speech used by the adversary, the boss.