Autor/es
Descripción
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Colaborador
Senén González, Cecilia
Materias
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
1991-2011
Idioma
spa
Extent
301 p.
Derechos
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Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 2.0 Genérica (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
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Identificador
Cobertura
ARG
1991-2011
Abstract
The recovery of post devaluation Argentine economy and labor institutions has stimulated the registered employment which has caused a major labor unions, companies and State participation in the labor world and has given a renew dynamic to labor relationships (Palomino &Trajtemberg, 2006). Thus, flexibilization and poor labor condition processes that marked the country labor relationships during the 90`s went back. The evidence of this new dynamic is reflected in the collective negotiation increase, the reappearance of labor demands in replacement of social demands and in the labor union membership recovery, and show a labor union strengthening which fits into the notion of labor union “revitalization” (Etchemendy & Collier, [2007] 2008; Atzeni & Ghigliani, 2007; Senén González & Haidar, 2009; Senén González & Del Bono, 2013).
In this new dynamic, Truckers labor union has gained special relevance in the political – labor union level, turning into one of the central roles of the Argentine labor relationship system. This leading role has inspired this Thesis objective, which intends to research and characterize the strategic options that “Truckers” implemented during two sub-periods, 1991-2002 and 2003-2011. People involved decisions that affect the course and structure of the labor relationship are considered strategic options. In this way, the general question that directs the research is: which were the strategic options adopted by Truckers during the 90’s and the ones adopted post 2003 that allowed them to be in a lead role position in the Argentine labor relationships?
With the aim of asking the pointed out question and objective, the Thesis contribution is originated in the disciplinary field of labor relationships by using the strategic analysis theories, which take the concept of strategic choices as main component (Kochan, Katz & Mc Kerise, [1986]; 1993).
According to this approach, in order to understand people involved strategic choices, the institutional frames and specific historical structures that restrict or stimulate them must be considered. Thus, the approach main premise is to recognize that not all options are strategic, but only those that are able to modify the labor relationship system processes and results (Locke, Kochan & Piore, 1995, Cedrola Spremolla, 1995; Boxall and Haynes, 1997; Boxall, 2008).
What this literature points out is the importance of the context or environment, such as changes on labor market, technology applied to the productive systems, companies’ competitiveness search facing globalized markets etc., that may conditionate people involved decision-making. However, it is supported that the context or the environment neither determine the processes or tendencies nor the industrial relationship results, but the interaction between the environment and people involved decision-making are the factors that mold the relationship labor system (Kochan, Katz, & McKersie, [1986], 1993:163).
At the same time, the concept offered by Lévesque & Murray (2004; 2010) regarding the study of different capabilities or resources that labor unions have in order to adopt better decisions in specific contexts was approached to the research field. By capabilities the authors understand the abilities, skills and know how labor unions are able to develop, transmit and learn. From mentioned authors’ point of view, labor unions need to increasingly establish plans of collective actions and organizational ways that allow them to respond to the environment transformation. In fact, in tune with the strategic choice approach, environment changes may modify the so called “rules of the game” in favor or against companies or labor unions, but at the same time, they may represent new opportunities to implement strategic choices that allow them to face new challenges.
In view of what has been expressed from the study of “Truckers” case, the Thesis rebuilds the dynamic of the labor relationships between 1991- 2011. For that purpose, the study case was methodologically used and it was articulated with quantitative information collection, from which a diachronic comparison was made through contrasting the two sub-periods of analysis the study includes (Morlino, 1994 [1991]; Stake, 1994; Neiman and Quaranta, 2006; Vasilachis de Gialdino, 2006).
In this new dynamic, Truckers labor union has gained special relevance in the political – labor union level, turning into one of the central roles of the Argentine labor relationship system. This leading role has inspired this Thesis objective, which intends to research and characterize the strategic options that “Truckers” implemented during two sub-periods, 1991-2002 and 2003-2011. People involved decisions that affect the course and structure of the labor relationship are considered strategic options. In this way, the general question that directs the research is: which were the strategic options adopted by Truckers during the 90’s and the ones adopted post 2003 that allowed them to be in a lead role position in the Argentine labor relationships?
With the aim of asking the pointed out question and objective, the Thesis contribution is originated in the disciplinary field of labor relationships by using the strategic analysis theories, which take the concept of strategic choices as main component (Kochan, Katz & Mc Kerise, [1986]; 1993).
According to this approach, in order to understand people involved strategic choices, the institutional frames and specific historical structures that restrict or stimulate them must be considered. Thus, the approach main premise is to recognize that not all options are strategic, but only those that are able to modify the labor relationship system processes and results (Locke, Kochan & Piore, 1995, Cedrola Spremolla, 1995; Boxall and Haynes, 1997; Boxall, 2008).
What this literature points out is the importance of the context or environment, such as changes on labor market, technology applied to the productive systems, companies’ competitiveness search facing globalized markets etc., that may conditionate people involved decision-making. However, it is supported that the context or the environment neither determine the processes or tendencies nor the industrial relationship results, but the interaction between the environment and people involved decision-making are the factors that mold the relationship labor system (Kochan, Katz, & McKersie, [1986], 1993:163).
At the same time, the concept offered by Lévesque & Murray (2004; 2010) regarding the study of different capabilities or resources that labor unions have in order to adopt better decisions in specific contexts was approached to the research field. By capabilities the authors understand the abilities, skills and know how labor unions are able to develop, transmit and learn. From mentioned authors’ point of view, labor unions need to increasingly establish plans of collective actions and organizational ways that allow them to respond to the environment transformation. In fact, in tune with the strategic choice approach, environment changes may modify the so called “rules of the game” in favor or against companies or labor unions, but at the same time, they may represent new opportunities to implement strategic choices that allow them to face new challenges.
In view of what has been expressed from the study of “Truckers” case, the Thesis rebuilds the dynamic of the labor relationships between 1991- 2011. For that purpose, the study case was methodologically used and it was articulated with quantitative information collection, from which a diachronic comparison was made through contrasting the two sub-periods of analysis the study includes (Morlino, 1994 [1991]; Stake, 1994; Neiman and Quaranta, 2006; Vasilachis de Gialdino, 2006).
Título obtenido
Doctora de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales