“Having a name of one’s own, being a part of history”: temporalities of precarity and political subjectivities of popular economy workers in Argentina

Fernández-Álvarez, María Inés

doi:10.1007/s10624-018-9531-8

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“…As I illustrate in the empirical sections of this article, the site workers’ interaction with the UGTT shows that their collective organizing within and at the same time beyond the union was a strategic choice based on the limitations and, more important, the possibilities they learned “over time from past interactions and from information communicated to them by others” (Oliver and Myers 2003: 3). As past experience of precarity informed street vendors in Argentina of the importance of collective organizing (Fernández-Álvarez 2019), site workers’ contentious interactions with the union served as a learning process through which they modified their mobilizing structure and actions to overcome given constraints and to increase pressure over the union.…”

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Mobilizing within and beyond the Labor Union: A Case of Precarious Workers’ Collective Actions in North Africa

Han

2023

ILR Review

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Drawing on a qualitative analysis of a group of mobilized precarious workers in Tunisia’s public sector, the author asks how workers’ collective actions are shaped by and, at the same time, can act upon labor unions’ responses to them. Findings suggest that unions can enable and simultaneously constrain precarious workers’ collective actions. More important, workers learn from their interactions with the union, and this learning process can contribute to innovations in workers’ mobilizing structure and repertoire of actions. The Tunisian case contributes to the debate on the relationship between precarious workers and institutionalized actors as well as to the study of mobilized precarious workers by elucidating the ways in which the workers’ embedded and innovative agency plays out within and beyond a well-established labor union.

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Mobilizing within and beyond the Labor Union: A Case of Precarious Workers’ Collective Actions in North Africa

Han

2023

ILR Review

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“…Some studies have connected such a capacity with longerterm traditions of working-class organising and collective identities (Lucita, 2001;Benclowicz, 2015). In studies about CTEP, these preoccupations have advanced a new focus on the capacity of precarious workers to re-articulate the notion of work and working-class organising (Abal Medina, 2016;Bruno, Coelho and Palumbo, 2017), while questioning the strict separation between formality and informality (Fernández Álvarez, 2019(Fernández Álvarez, , 2020 as well as the spheres of production and reproduction (Pacifico, 2017;Fernández Álvarez and Perelman, 2020).…”

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“…The RENATEP was not implemented during the Macri government, and was only put into practice in July 2020 by the AlbertoFernández (2019Fernández ( -2023 government amid the crisis produced by the COVID-19 pandemic. In its first month of existence, almost 500 000 popular economy workers registered(Vales, 2020).…”

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Rethinking Working-class Politics: Organising Informal Workers in Argentina

Bascuas

Felder

Logiudice

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GLJ

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Our article engages with discussions about the implications of precarious work and its impact on workers’ capacity to organise by analysing the case of Argentina’s Confederation of Popular Economy Workers (CTEP, Confederación de Trabajadores de la Economía Popular). The organisation was created in 2011 with the aim of representing a broad and heterogeneous group of workers in varying conditions of informality, precarious self-employment and workfare programmes. We trace the history of the organisation and analyse its development by focusing on the role of social assistance as a crucial expression of the changing relations between precarious workers and the state. Social assistance has provided some resources for addressing the reproduction needs of precarious workers and of the territories in which they live, and also the material means through which an organisation like CTEP has sought to consolidate its political work among precarious workers. Nonetheless, social assistance has also worked as a means to circumscribe broader demands for change into issues to be addressed through social policy. Our argument is that central to CTEP’s trajectory as an organisation of precarious workers was its attempt to break away from the narrow confines of social assistance, pushing for changes that would allow its members to gain some autonomy both materially and institutionally. KEYWORDS: Argentina; precarious worker organisations; CTEP; social assistance policy

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Fernández-Álvarez

2019

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“Having a name of one’s own, being a part of history”: temporalities of precarity and political subjectivities of popular economy workers in Argentina

Cited by 3 publications

References 20 publications

Mobilizing within and beyond the Labor Union: A Case of Precarious Workers’ Collective Actions in North Africa

Mobilizing within and beyond the Labor Union: A Case of Precarious Workers’ Collective Actions in North Africa

Rethinking Working-class Politics: Organising Informal Workers in Argentina

Response to the comments on “Building from heterogeneity: the decomposition and recomposition of the working class viewed from the ‘popular economy’ in Argentina”

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