Caméra aux poings. Images dans la grève : des usages pluriels dans la lutte syndicale

Abstract

This work intends to provide lines of thought in order to feed the work on the iconographic construction of collective mobilizations. More specifically, it will retrace the plurality of uses of images during the strike of Lyon’s garbage collectors in April 2019 supported by the Union Syndicale Solidaires (USS). This tool for representing the conflict is invested by the strikers and by the supporters, thus making social networks a space for mobilization in itself. The image produced becomes an essential media counterpoint to make the strikers’ demands visible. In the same way, the image will move to the courts when the employer takes the dispute to court and will support the arguments on either side of the parties. Finally, the activists take ownership of the images shot during the mobilization to make a documentary and training materials with the aim of developing the trade unionism carried by the USS activists.

Keywords

• strike
• documentary
• social intervention film
• medias
• visual sociology
• garbage collectors