Movimiento de trabajadores desocupados en la Argentina y cultura obrera: una perspectiva histórica

Abstract

The widespread sociological belief around the impossibility that individuals expelled from the world of work organize themselves, among other things, contributed to the fact that the unemployed movement in Argentina was intended as a radically new movement. Throughout the paper I argue that there are significant elements of the practices and struggles of different piquetero organizations that reveal their link with in the culture of the militant unions of the past. In the new context characterized by massive unemployment, leaders who had left-wing union or political experience led and developed protest movements that can be framed in terms of capital-labor conflict. Grassroots activists without previous experience in organizing collective action learned from their participation in the struggle.