Beyond Precarity: Collective Practices and Political Subjectivities from Argentina’s Popular Economy
This article is based on an ongoing ethnographic research project with cooperatives of street vendors that are part of the Confederation of Workers of Popular Economy (CTEP), a recently formed union in Argentina whose objective is to represent workers of the “popular economy”. This research project...
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| description | This article is based on an ongoing ethnographic research project with cooperatives of street vendors that are part of the Confederation of Workers of Popular Economy (CTEP), a recently formed union in Argentina whose objective is to represent workers of the “popular economy”. This research project aims to contribute to studies about the ways in which the so called “popular sectors” develop creative practices from their precarious positions to deal with the production and reproduction of life. In this work an analysis is done on the way in which this experience of precarity enabled a process of collective construction that connects a living past, anchored in subjective experiences, with a future that projects this experience in political terms in the form of a union. This article asserts that this process of collective construction creates tension between classical work divisions, such as formal/informal, salaried employee/non-salaried employee, worker movements/social movements, to the extent that wage earning work operates as a platform from which subjectivities are projected, less as material to be transformed and more as a foundation for generating collective rights. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-1ac7eefec5e8482c8e2c00f25803fd312025-02-02T10:42:26ZspaFacultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede EcuadorÍconos1390-12492224-69832018-09-012262213810.17141/iconos.62.2018.3243Beyond Precarity: Collective Practices and Political Subjectivities from Argentina’s Popular EconomyMaría Inés Fernández Álvarez0Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), ArgentinaThis article is based on an ongoing ethnographic research project with cooperatives of street vendors that are part of the Confederation of Workers of Popular Economy (CTEP), a recently formed union in Argentina whose objective is to represent workers of the “popular economy”. This research project aims to contribute to studies about the ways in which the so called “popular sectors” develop creative practices from their precarious positions to deal with the production and reproduction of life. In this work an analysis is done on the way in which this experience of precarity enabled a process of collective construction that connects a living past, anchored in subjective experiences, with a future that projects this experience in political terms in the form of a union. This article asserts that this process of collective construction creates tension between classical work divisions, such as formal/informal, salaried employee/non-salaried employee, worker movements/social movements, to the extent that wage earning work operates as a platform from which subjectivities are projected, less as material to be transformed and more as a foundation for generating collective rights.http://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/iconos/article/view/3243Popular economycollective organizingworkprecarityexperiencesubjectivityArgentina |
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| title | Beyond Precarity: Collective Practices and Political Subjectivities from Argentina’s Popular Economy |
| title_full | Beyond Precarity: Collective Practices and Political Subjectivities from Argentina’s Popular Economy |
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| title_short | Beyond Precarity: Collective Practices and Political Subjectivities from Argentina’s Popular Economy |
| title_sort | beyond precarity collective practices and political subjectivities from argentina s popular economy |
| topic | Popular economy collective organizing work precarity experience subjectivity Argentina |
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