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Very helpful 2022 paper
"The Structuralist Mathematical Style : Bourbaki as a Case Study" looks at how structuralism emerged from the Bourbaki project from the mid 20th Century, and some of the early links to Category Theory which was also developing at the same time. Grothendieck and Eilenberg had been members of Bourbaki.
https://philpapers.org/archive/MARTSM-7.pdf

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