L'usine: Névroses d'une grève oubliée / The Factory: Neuroses of a Forgotten Strike

A daily grind of noise and sweat, a relentless pace that crushes both body and mind, the machinations of union power, and the occasional struggle for friendship: this is the working-class experience recounted by the narrator, a former union representative at the Citroën factory in Aulnay-sous-Bois. A witness to and participant in the union struggles and strikes of 1982, 2005, and 2007, José Luis Toribio immerses us in the internal conflicts between unions, the alienation and violence of the working class, and the dashed hopes of activism. Written with incisive prose, The Factory examines our relationship to work and collective commitments, painting a poignant and personal portrait of a disappearing world. A narrative at the crossroads of the personal and the political, it recounts the fragmentation of the open movement and the erosion of activist commitments through a lucid and uncompromising lens.