De lo que nadie habla: Condiciones laborales y reclamos policiales. Río Negro (2013-2020)

Abstract

This research examines the police claims performed in the province of Río Negro in the years 2013 and 2020. The thesis focuses on police work and its institutional characteristics with the purpose to account for the deficiency of hierarchical channels to manage demands on working conditions. The reconstruction of these working conditions is acknowledged through the self-perceptions of police workers produced through different methodological tools. The main source of analysis is the testimonies of male and female police workers in their role as representatives during the claims and as active participants in the same events. Methodological elements are also added that make it possible to account for the various institutional perspectives on the claims. These police claims in the province of Río Negro altered the logic of discipline and docility imposed in the institutional context. Since then the subsequent consequences, such as sanctions, are no longer an impediment for police workers to struggle on the streets as any other worker does.