Ada is the Principal Investigator of the WE-COOP project (ERC StG 2023-28). She is a researcher at the SAGE laboratory (UMR 7363) at the University of Strasbourg. Her research focuses on social critiques of labor and intersectional approaches to power relations at work, exploring workplace utopias and the emancipatory and/or resistance practices of workers, particularly the study of democratic forms of work organization (worker co-operatives, autogestion, feminist utopias at work).
Team
Team
Ada Reichhart
PI WE-COOP (ERC StG 2023-28), Junior Professor in Sociology, University of Strasbourg
areichhart@unistra.fr
Elodie Floury
Research Engineer, University of Strasbourg
elodie.floury@unistra.fr
Elodie raduated with a Master’s degree in demography in 2021 and works in social science research and statistical surveys. Her role in the WE-COOP project is to carry out a survey of women workers in co-operatives, and to analyse and present the results.
Fanny Gouel
Research Assistant on WE-COOP, EHESS Graduate
fgouel@unistra.fr
With a Master’s degree in Environmental Studies (EHESS), Fanny wrote her research dissertation on a worker-owned cooperative in an ecological ‘third place’, with an ethnographic field study involving participant observation.
With a feminist and pragmatic epistemology, she is particularly interested in workplace democracy, practices of care, as well as political and relational ecology.
Associated Members
We warmly welcome researchers and members of civil society who wish to collaborate with the WE-COOP project. Please do not hesitate to contact us.
Visiting Scholars
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Cooperations
We would be delighted to collaborate with other university or civil society projects related to WE-COOP’s research interests. Please do not hesitate to contact us.
Cooperation with the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Brazil (2026-28).
Title of the project: Democracy, Labor, and Gender Relations in Cooperatives and Associations: An Analysis in France and the Brazilian Amazon
The comparison between the Amazonian case and the French experience makes it possible to identify convergences and specificities in forms of governance, gender dynamics, and strategies of resistance and solidarity developed by women workers, strengthening the analysis of tensions between workplace democracy and gender inequality in different sociopolitical contexts.
Principal Investigator: Prof. Cilene Sebastiana da Conceição Braga
Institution: Federal University of Pará (UFPA); Faculty of Social Work (FASS); Graduate Program in Social Work (PPGSS); Research, Study, and Extension Group on Labor, Human Rights, and Social Security in the Amazon (TRADHUSS).
Team:
Dr. Francilene Soares de Medeiros Costa
Dr. Adriana de Azevedo Mathis
Dr. Roselene de Souza Portela
Dr. Tiago Barreto de Andrade Costa
Dr. Armin Mathis
