Produire la solidarité par l’image ? Les caisses de grève et leurs représentations comme dispositifs de sensibilisation militants (2016-2020)

Abstract

This article studies how recent strike solidarity funds in the Paris area (2016-2020) use images and stagings, in order to appeal to the potential donors’ emotions and to provoke their donation. Based on a corpus made of trade unions’ posters calling for donation, and pictures produced during the ethnographic observation of money collecting, it illustrates the centrality of pratices such as framing and the social earmarking of money. It also shows how the choice of a specific audience leads each solidarity fund to elect one central stage among three main stages – the workplace, the demonstrations, the social networks.

Keywords

• strike
• trade union
• poster
• solidarity
• framing