Rank-and-file democratic organizing can constitute a third space outside official bargaining

Evidence

Leading up to the strike, the longshoremen organized a convention in San Francisco where the delegates—all of whom worked on the docks—represented fourteen thousand longshoremen up and down the coast. I consider the activities of the rank and file an instance of what I’ve been calling the “third space,” since it was a racially inclusive and distinctly democratic space that stood outside the usual lines of battle. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 286

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concretely instantiates Odell’s earlier abstract term ‘third space’ via the longshoremen’s convention — useful for precisely defining the concept against the withdrawal misreading.
• XREF: connects to: Democracy channels contention into bargaining over claim-making boundaries — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1311; Democracy enables bargaining over contention boundaries that autocrats suppress; A non-partisan third either creates direct contact or arbitrates claims between colliding parties (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Democracy channels contention into bargaining over claim-making boundaries — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1311; Democracy enables bargaining over contention boundaries that autocrats suppress; A non-partisan third either creates direct contact or arbitrates claims between colliding parties (+1 more)