The aim of this article is to show how at the beginning of the 1970s a
community of workers in Besançon in France reacted to globalization.
It deals with the culture of the working class in a French province,
the level of organization of the community and how it reacted when
‘its’ factory was taken over by a multinational company. In seeking
to understand this transformation and how the workers perceived
it, it is crucial to investigate the changing role of the state. All these
aspects will be developed in the sections below with the aim of better
understanding the meaning of the strategy of workers’ resistance
in the face of a change that affected the community, the sector of
production, the region and, ultimately, the working class within the
Western societies.
