Workplace occupation and the possibilities of popular power in Chile and Argentina, 1972–6

Fishwick, Adam

doi:10.1080/14747731.2018.1558817

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“…This engagement is reciprocal. Autonomist ideas have been applied to localised struggles (Fishwick, 2019) and continent-wide waves of re- and de-composition (Webber, 2019), but perhaps more importantly, autonomist concepts have been challenged, interrogated and revised. In particular, detailed focus on indigenous struggles has added important nuance to class composition analysis (Neill, 2001), and urban migrants’ social-reproductive struggles (Gago, 2017) have reinvigorated key autonomist themes.…”

Section: Migrationmentioning

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From autonomous to autonomist geographies

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Clare

2022

Progress in Human Geography

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Autonomist Marxist ideas and concepts are resurgent and, with their latent spatiality, are well placed to contribute to radical geographical debates. In particular, the methodology of ‘class composition’ analysis provides a rigorous, materialist critique of transforming capitalist social relations. This paper first provides vital historical–theoretical context from the milieu of Italian Operaismo, before emphasising the value of autonomist Marxist analyses of three contemporary geographical frontiers: labour process, migration, and social reproduction. It ultimately argues that the laudable motivations of the autonomous geographies project, explored in this very journal, would be better served through an explicitly materialist autonomist geography.

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Section: Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Specifically, in Argentina, the community is an arena in which trade unions sustain organisational, mechanical solidarities that complement and conflict with those emerging from below. Links between workers in the factories and their communities are essential to constituting workplace solidarities (Elbert, 2017; Fishwick, 2019) and, as Soul (2019) has shown, trade unions in Argentina play an active role in organising everyday forms of community life, even shaping the form of the ‘working-class family’ (Soul, 2019: 143). Understanding how these levels complement and conflict outside the workplace helps to shed light on the possibility of collective action under the worsening conditions of ‘labour and life’ (Lazar, 2017) that were produced with the turn to austerity in Argentina after 2015.…”

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Trade Union Solidarity in Crisis: The Generative Tensions of Worker Solidarities in Argentina

Fishwick

D’Urso

2022

Work, Employment and Society

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The article identifies how tensions between different levels of worker solidarity helped shape the possibilities of collective action in automobile and related sector trade unions in Argentina. It advances the framework proposed by Morgan and Pulignano in two ways. First, it highlights the interrelation of both the complementarities and the tensions between different solidarity practices. Second, it extends the understanding of how these solidarity practices connect the workplace and community. The contribution is based on thematic analysis of interviews with trade union leaders, representatives and activists that shed light on solidarities produced, as well as tensions and complementarities between them. This is contextualised by the impact of crisis in the automobile sector after 2015, showing how increased worker vulnerabilities affected emergent solidarities. Overall, the article demonstrates the significance of these dynamics for understanding the continued resilience and limitations of trade unions in Argentina and beyond.

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“…they involve a form of communally organised production that aims not to extract surplus value from labour, create less exploitative working conditions and more dignified work, ‘to self-create, self-control and self-provision … to be self-reliant’ (Vieta, 2014: 783). In Argentina, the practice of autogestion is foundational to political movements emphasising self-management and autonomy, which reflect ‘the politics of direct democracy’ (Sitrin and Azzellini, 2014: 32) as well as movements of self-managed factories (Fishwick, 2019; Ozarow and Croucher, 2014; Ruggeri and Vieta, 2015). The collective within the market supports reclaimed factories, small family farms, co-operative and artisanal production, as well as dignified work, fair trade policies (i.e.…”

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Everyday antagonisms: Organising economic practices in Mercado Bonpland, Buenos Aires

Habermehl

2019

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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In 2001, Argentina experienced a profound social political and economic crisis. In response, a broad and diverse social and economic movement was created, involving autonomous politics, horizontal organisation, autogestion, neighbourhood assemblies and state rupture. The creation of alternative economic systems played an important role in this challenge to capitalist hegemony, producing a different and more humanising kind of economics focused on the provision of opportunities for more stable, sustainable and dignified production. This paper uses an innovative theoretical approach, drawing on both Marxism and diverse economy literature, to explore data collected during empirical research between 2013 and 2016 into a solidarity retail market in Buenos Aires, the Mercado de Econom ıa Solidaria Bonpland. It argues that such interventions in the interstices of capitalism offer a radical and alternative solution through a politics of everyday antagonism. By insisting on economic plurality in the present via a series of oppositions and compromises, the Mercado both drew attention to the failings of capitalism, and created a genuine and visible social and economic alternative.

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Workplace occupation and the possibilities of popular power in Chile and Argentina, 1972–6

Cited by 3 publications

References 29 publications

From autonomous to autonomist geographies

From autonomous to autonomist geographies

Trade Union Solidarity in Crisis: The Generative Tensions of Worker Solidarities in Argentina

Everyday antagonisms: Organising economic practices in Mercado Bonpland, Buenos Aires

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