Renouvellement et institutionnalisation des centrales syndicales au Venezuela sous Chávez (2001 – 2011)
Venezuela has experienced a succession of three majority central trade unions in a decade, responding to the polarization around the Chávez government. This article proposes a study of the social, trade union and political trajectories of the leadership members of the three organizations. The leader...
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| description | Venezuela has experienced a succession of three majority central trade unions in a decade, responding to the polarization around the Chávez government. This article proposes a study of the social, trade union and political trajectories of the leadership members of the three organizations. The leadership of the first central trade union, elected in 2001, was dominated by the militants of the dominant social democratic party before Chávez, who managed most of the major federations. After this structure was involved in several insurrectionary attempts, a new central union was founded in 2003 to bring together all the trade union forces favorable to the government. Its heterogeneous leadership included grassroots left-wing trade union forces and the more conciliatory presidents of the major federations. This heterogeneity led to the foundation in 2011 of a new confederation that was more subservient to the government, with more homogeneous leadership that brought back some of the leaders of the former parties that dominated before Chávez. Chavismo has promoted a profound renewal of the trade union elites, initially with younger and less educated leaders with more popular origins and more radical political convictions, but the institutionalization of the movement has not allowed the advent of this new generation. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-cc0bd14964a34feeb1f60d9c87f2b1972025-08-20T01:55:10ZengInstitut des AmériquesIdeAs1950-57012015-06-01510.4000/ideas.832Renouvellement et institutionnalisation des centrales syndicales au Venezuela sous Chávez (2001 – 2011)Thomas PosadoVenezuela has experienced a succession of three majority central trade unions in a decade, responding to the polarization around the Chávez government. This article proposes a study of the social, trade union and political trajectories of the leadership members of the three organizations. The leadership of the first central trade union, elected in 2001, was dominated by the militants of the dominant social democratic party before Chávez, who managed most of the major federations. After this structure was involved in several insurrectionary attempts, a new central union was founded in 2003 to bring together all the trade union forces favorable to the government. Its heterogeneous leadership included grassroots left-wing trade union forces and the more conciliatory presidents of the major federations. This heterogeneity led to the foundation in 2011 of a new confederation that was more subservient to the government, with more homogeneous leadership that brought back some of the leaders of the former parties that dominated before Chávez. Chavismo has promoted a profound renewal of the trade union elites, initially with younger and less educated leaders with more popular origins and more radical political convictions, but the institutionalization of the movement has not allowed the advent of this new generation.https://journals.openedition.org/ideas/832Venezuelatrade union trajectoriestrade unionismrenewalinstitutionalizationHugo Chávez |
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| title | Renouvellement et institutionnalisation des centrales syndicales au Venezuela sous Chávez (2001 – 2011) |
| title_full | Renouvellement et institutionnalisation des centrales syndicales au Venezuela sous Chávez (2001 – 2011) |
| title_fullStr | Renouvellement et institutionnalisation des centrales syndicales au Venezuela sous Chávez (2001 – 2011) |
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| title_short | Renouvellement et institutionnalisation des centrales syndicales au Venezuela sous Chávez (2001 – 2011) |
| title_sort | renouvellement et institutionnalisation des centrales syndicales au venezuela sous chavez 2001 2011 |
| topic | Venezuela trade union trajectories trade unionism renewal institutionalization Hugo Chávez |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/ideas/832 |
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