Some years ago, the Chantiers de l’Atlantique in Saint Nazaire put a new sub-contracting and part-time employment system into place to lower production overheads.
While building the Queen Mary 2, the world’s largest liner, the Chantier workers tell us about how they’re coping with these precarious labor conditions. What effect has this re-organization had on an individual and group level? What changes to working conditions and relationships do the changes involve?