A Critical Meeting Point Between Psychology and Union Renewal

ABSTRACT

In recent years, a critical position has been developed regarding the role of work and organisational psychology (WOP) as a scientific tool for corporate interests and as an ideological instrument that contributes to producing the forms of subjectivity necessary to reproduce the capitalist system. In response to this, Critical WOP questions the hegemonic economic and labour model and the subjectivities it produces, while making proposals aimed at emancipation and social transformation. This article presents the main criticisms of hegemonic WOP and the constituent elements of Critical WOP, and based on these, it outlines a proposal for critical psychosocial intervention in the field of trade union renewal, as trade unions have historically been marginalised in studies on WOP. This work aims to offer a small contribution to the development of a fertile and little‐explored academic field, namely the convergence between psychology and trade union renewal. The proposal integrates various frameworks of knowledge, such as critical approaches to WOP, psychopolitical validity, participatory action research, political subjectivation and the psychosocial aspects of collective action and peer political support. The text concludes with a series of reflections to advance the construction of a psychology of work oriented towards trade union renewal.