TRADE UNION STRATEGIES AND POWER RESOURCES. PRESENTATION AND EMPIRICAL PROOF OF A FRAMEWORK FOR THE ANALYSIS OF TRADE UNION VARIETIES IN CHILE AND LATIN AMERICA
In Chilean and Latin-American academic labour debates, since the middle of the last decade, the idea of a union’s revitalization and the irruption of a “new unionism” has emerged with strength. Particularly this last concept acquires multiple meanings, having been used to refer diverse empirical man...
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| description | In Chilean and Latin-American academic labour debates, since the middle of the last decade, the idea of a union’s revitalization and the irruption of a “new unionism” has emerged with strength. Particularly this last concept acquires multiple meanings, having been used to refer diverse empirical manifestations. Despite this, the analyzes, at least in Chile, share high expectations regarding such phenomenon, given their involvement in struggles for social justice beyond work, support for leftist and progressive political projects, the use of methods of disruptive action, its forms of democratic organization, its mostly youth composition and its alliances with other social movements.Synthesizing the theories of power resources, union revitalization, labor precariousness and those of the Marxist work process, this work looks forward to offer and prove empirically an analytical framework to analyze both new mentioned expressions of “new unionism” as well as its old forms, in order to overcome this and other generic and ahistorical typologies. The offered frame characterises the union varieties starting from its strategies and resources of power that workers mobilize in them. This, especially taking into account the different degree of performance of the strategies and resources enjoyed by workers and workers depending on their position at work. The empirical test is carried out through the multicase study of three processes of union organization in the economic sectors of retail and of salaried domestic work. Specifically, 20 semi-structured interviews were analysed, a participant observation along more than one year was made with one of the unions, as well as press revision, documents of one of the companies, collective and individual contracts, web pages of the organizations and scientific productions that have addressed this issues. |
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| spelling | oai:ojs.revistas.unc.edu.ar:article-234252019-11-07T16:32:08Z TRADE UNION STRATEGIES AND POWER RESOURCES. PRESENTATION AND EMPIRICAL PROOF OF A FRAMEWORK FOR THE ANALYSIS OF TRADE UNION VARIETIES IN CHILE AND LATIN AMERICA ESTRATEGIAS SINDICALES Y RECURSOS DE PODER. PRESENTACIÓN Y PRUEBA EMPÍRICA DE UN MARCO PARA EL ANÁLISIS DE LAS VARIEDADES SINDICALES EN CHILE Y EN AMÉRICA LATINA Ratto Ribó, Nicolás sindicato precariedad recursos de poder estrategias sindicales retail trabajo doméstico asalariado Trade union power resources union strategies precarity retail domestic work. In Chilean and Latin-American academic labour debates, since the middle of the last decade, the idea of a union’s revitalization and the irruption of a “new unionism” has emerged with strength. Particularly this last concept acquires multiple meanings, having been used to refer diverse empirical manifestations. Despite this, the analyzes, at least in Chile, share high expectations regarding such phenomenon, given their involvement in struggles for social justice beyond work, support for leftist and progressive political projects, the use of methods of disruptive action, its forms of democratic organization, its mostly youth composition and its alliances with other social movements.Synthesizing the theories of power resources, union revitalization, labor precariousness and those of the Marxist work process, this work looks forward to offer and prove empirically an analytical framework to analyze both new mentioned expressions of “new unionism” as well as its old forms, in order to overcome this and other generic and ahistorical typologies. The offered frame characterises the union varieties starting from its strategies and resources of power that workers mobilize in them. This, especially taking into account the different degree of performance of the strategies and resources enjoyed by workers and workers depending on their position at work. The empirical test is carried out through the multicase study of three processes of union organization in the economic sectors of retail and of salaried domestic work. Specifically, 20 semi-structured interviews were analysed, a participant observation along more than one year was made with one of the unions, as well as press revision, documents of one of the companies, collective and individual contracts, web pages of the organizations and scientific productions that have addressed this issues. En los debates académicos chilenos y latinoamericanos sobre el trabajo, desde mediados de la década pasada, ha emergido con fuerza la idea de una revitalización sindical y la irrupción de un “nuevo sindicalismo”. En particular este último concepto adquiere múltiples acepciones, habiéndoselo usado para referir a diferentes manifestaciones empíricas. A pesar de ello, los análisis, al menos en Chile, comparten altas expectativas frente a tal fenómeno, dado su involucramiento en luchas por la justicia social más allá del trabajo, el apoyo a proyectos políticos de izquierda y progresistas, el uso de métodos de acción disruptivos, sus formas de organización democráticas, su composición mayoritariamente juvenil y sus alianzas con otros movimientos sociales. Sintetizando las teorías de los recursos de poder, de la revitalización sindical, de la precariedad laboral y las del proceso de trabajo marxista, se buscará proponer y probar empíricamente un marco analítico para analizar tanto las mencionadas expresiones del “nuevo sindicalismo” como sus viejas formas, en pos de superar esta y otras genéricas y ahistóricas tipologías. El marco propuesto caracteriza las variedades sindicales a partir de sus estrategias y de los recursos de poder que los trabajadores movilizan en ellas. Ello, atendiendo especialmente al diferente grado de rendimiento de las estrategias y recursos de que gozan obreros y obreras dependiendo de su posición en el trabajo. La prueba empírica se realiza mediante el estudio multicaso de tres procesos de organización sindical en los sectores económicos del retail y del trabajo doméstico asalariado. En específico, se analizaron 20 entrevistas semiestructuradas, se realizó una observación participante durante más de un año con uno de los sindicatos, así como revisión de prensa, documentos de una de las empresas, contratos colectivos e individuales, páginas webs de las organizaciones y producciones científicas que han estudiado estos casos. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad 2019-07-09 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Artículos revisados por pares application/pdf https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/astrolabio/article/view/23425 Astrolabio; No. 23 (2019): Julio - Diciembre, MIRAR EL TRABAJO DESDE SU TRANSVERSALIDAD: ENFOQUES, PERSPECTIVAS Y METODOLOGÍAS PENSADAS DESDE LATINOAMÉRICA; 134-168 Astrolabio; Núm. 23 (2019): Julio - Diciembre, MIRAR EL TRABAJO DESDE SU TRANSVERSALIDAD: ENFOQUES, PERSPECTIVAS Y METODOLOGÍAS PENSADAS DESDE LATINOAMÉRICA; 134-168 Astrolabio; n. 23 (2019): Julio - Diciembre, MIRAR EL TRABAJO DESDE SU TRANSVERSALIDAD: ENFOQUES, PERSPECTIVAS Y METODOLOGÍAS PENSADAS DESDE LATINOAMÉRICA; 134-168 1668-7515 10.55441/1668.7515.n23 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/astrolabio/article/view/23425/24199 |
| spellingShingle | sindicato precariedad recursos de poder estrategias sindicales retail trabajo doméstico asalariado Trade union power resources union strategies precarity retail domestic work. Ratto Ribó, Nicolás TRADE UNION STRATEGIES AND POWER RESOURCES. PRESENTATION AND EMPIRICAL PROOF OF A FRAMEWORK FOR THE ANALYSIS OF TRADE UNION VARIETIES IN CHILE AND LATIN AMERICA |
| title | TRADE UNION STRATEGIES AND POWER RESOURCES. PRESENTATION AND EMPIRICAL PROOF OF A FRAMEWORK FOR THE ANALYSIS OF TRADE UNION VARIETIES IN CHILE AND LATIN AMERICA |
| title_alt | ESTRATEGIAS SINDICALES Y RECURSOS DE PODER. PRESENTACIÓN Y PRUEBA EMPÍRICA DE UN MARCO PARA EL ANÁLISIS DE LAS VARIEDADES SINDICALES EN CHILE Y EN AMÉRICA LATINA |
| title_full | TRADE UNION STRATEGIES AND POWER RESOURCES. PRESENTATION AND EMPIRICAL PROOF OF A FRAMEWORK FOR THE ANALYSIS OF TRADE UNION VARIETIES IN CHILE AND LATIN AMERICA |
| title_fullStr | TRADE UNION STRATEGIES AND POWER RESOURCES. PRESENTATION AND EMPIRICAL PROOF OF A FRAMEWORK FOR THE ANALYSIS OF TRADE UNION VARIETIES IN CHILE AND LATIN AMERICA |
| title_full_unstemmed | TRADE UNION STRATEGIES AND POWER RESOURCES. PRESENTATION AND EMPIRICAL PROOF OF A FRAMEWORK FOR THE ANALYSIS OF TRADE UNION VARIETIES IN CHILE AND LATIN AMERICA |
| title_short | TRADE UNION STRATEGIES AND POWER RESOURCES. PRESENTATION AND EMPIRICAL PROOF OF A FRAMEWORK FOR THE ANALYSIS OF TRADE UNION VARIETIES IN CHILE AND LATIN AMERICA |
| title_sort | trade union strategies and power resources presentation and empirical proof of a framework for the analysis of trade union varieties in chile and latin america |
| topic | sindicato precariedad recursos de poder estrategias sindicales retail trabajo doméstico asalariado Trade union power resources union strategies precarity retail domestic work. |
| topic_facet | sindicato precariedad recursos de poder estrategias sindicales retail trabajo doméstico asalariado Trade union power resources union strategies precarity retail domestic work. |
| url | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/astrolabio/article/view/23425 |
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