Postdoctoral position in Sociology, Research Project “Gender and Cooperative Labour”
Strasbourg, France
Start date: March 2026 (flexible)
Application deadline: December 15, 2025
The WE-COOP project shifts our traditional androcentric perspective on workplace democracy by investigating the labour experiences of women in worker cooperatives. Studied for their high potential in the democratisation of labour relations, worker cooperatives have been systematically considered only from the perspective of class struggles. WE-COOP explores how and why worker cooperatives are also a locus where yet unexplored sets of representations, practices and justifications pertaining to women’s emancipation and gender equality at work are produced.
Focusing on France as a case study, the project relies on a multi-layered survey of worker cooperatives as well as on rare forms of all-women cooperative experiments. It combines quantitative and qualitative methods with innovative participatory research in four incremental steps, allowing for the appropriation by women workers of their narratives and struggles.
Job description & Role
The postdoctoral researcher will join Phase 2 of the WE-COOP project, dedicated to a qualitative and participatory study involving women workers in production cooperatives (SCOPs) in France. Drawing on radical feminist epistemologies, the study aims to collect a series of interviews as oral archives of gendered experiences of workplace democracy, understood broadly as the production and reproduction of social life. Several case studies
will be conducted as part of a travelling fieldwork project.