The Making of the Transfeminist Strike in Italy: Addressing Discourses and Movement Trajectories

This paper investigates the construction of the transfeminist strike in Italy by tracing the continuities and discontinuities between the Migrant, Social, and Gender strikes organized in the country after the 2008 economic crisis. Building on interviews and movement documents, the research explores how these strikes attempted to extend the realm of what a strike can be. To do so, they advanced competing understandings around what constitutes work and who qualifies as a worker. These efforts were organized around unexpected striking subjects – migrant and precarious workers, women, and queer people. In illuminating different trajectories of discourse construction leading to the transfeminist strike, this work identifies discursive rifts between unions and movements, and beyond. Ultimately, the article shows how movements changed the strike in times of crisis and how the strike became transfeminist.

本文旨在探究意大利跨女权主义罢工（transfeminist strike）的构建逻辑，通过梳理2008年经济危机后该国发起的移民罢工、社会罢工与性别罢工之间的延续性与断裂性。本研究依托访谈资料与运动文献，探析此类罢工运动如何尝试拓展罢工的内涵边界。为此，这些运动围绕“何为劳动”以及“何者可被认定为劳动者”这两个核心议题，提出了多种相互竞争的认知框架。这些行动以此前未被纳入主流罢工范畴的群体作为核心行动主体——即移民劳动者、不稳定就业劳动者、女性与酷儿群体。在梳理指向跨女权主义罢工的话语构建的不同演进轨迹时，本研究揭示了工会与运动群体之间，乃至更广泛场域内的话语分歧。最终，本文阐释了危机时期社会运动如何重塑罢工的形态，以及罢工何以演进为跨女权主义罢工。