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Rebón, Julián
Salgado, Rodrigo Martín
Materias
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Temporal Coverage
2003-2015
Idioma
spa
Extent
336 p.
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Cobertura
ARG
2003-2015
Abstract
Cooperatives represent an organizational form oriented to the resolution of social needs based on voluntary association, collective ownership and democratic control. The peculiarity of work cooperatives is that their object is to provide work to their own associates, constituting a socioproductive form not based on salaried relationships. In this sense, we wonder: Why, how, and from what cleavages and divisions does the labor force get in conflict in socioproductive units without boss?
Since the beginning of the 21st century in Argentina, work cooperatives have experienced exponential growth. In this context, the cooperatives of the Argentina Trabaja Program and those formed as a consequence of the processes of recuperation of enterprises are the main forms; the former because of their numerical weight, the latter because of their installation in the collective consciousness. In this sense, the general objective of the thesis is to analyze the configuration and dynamics of the conflict regarding work in cooperatives of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) during the period 2003-2015, particularly in the two main types of work cooperative mentioned. In this line, three specific objectives are proposed. The first seeks to characterize both types of cooperatives in terms of their sociogenesis and socioproductive characteristics. The second aims to identify the main cleavages and divisions of social groupings in both types of cooperatives and characterize conflicts regarding work, based on their forms, demands, actors and results. Finally, from a comparative perspective, the third one undertakes to establish patterns of conflict regarding work that link the groupings and the conflicts analyzed with the sociogenesis and the socioproductive characteristics of both types of cooperatives.
The thesis has a research design based on instrumental and multiple case studies. We selected a recuperated enterprise and a cooperative of the Argentina Trabaja Program, both situated in AMBA, and analyzed the conflict regarding work in these cooperatives in the period 20032015 from a comparative approach.
The hypothesis is that the socio-productive characteristics of the cooperatives impact on the configuration and the dynamics of the conflict regarding work in the enterprises. However, beyond the centrality of the association indicated between the socio-productive form and the conflict, we affirm that to understand specific conflicts, other elements that transcend the socio-productive form, such as the sociogenesis, histories and particular cultures of the cooperatives and their associates, the structures of political opportunity present at different times, and the organizational resources available for the development of contentious actions, must be articulated in the chain of causality. In sum, we postulate that concrete conflicts are the result of a multiplicity of elements, among which the way in which production is socially organized, represents a central element to understand its structuring, but not the only one.
With respect to the findings of the thesis, it is argued that in both types of cooperatives, and in comparison to productive organizations structured on salaried relations, work relations are democratized and the function of direction is politicized. As regards to conflicts within the socio-productive unit, the studies cooperative forms turn social relations of work more horizontal, democratic and flexible, configuring conditions of possibility for the emergence of a more politicized conflict with multiple and flexible divisions of organization without class antagonism to its interior. In this field, axes of conflict regarding work based on elements that in traditional capitalist enterprises are not expressed with the same relevance, such as the diverse perceptions of workers on their own work, the emergence of multiple enterprise projects, the generations of workers in the productive unit, and the compadrazgo networks, emerge. Regarding the politicization, while in the recuperated enterprises this is linked to the fact that the production process - and therefore its management - involves political actions necessary for the sustainability of the cooperative and the formal tenure of the productive unit; in the cooperatives of the Argentina Trabaja Program this is linked to the presence of formal state institutions in the direction of the cooperative and with the institutional link between the cooperative and the social organization that frames it. With respect to these conflicts that transcend the productive unit, the class cleavage does not necessarily disappear and also a politicization of the conflicts can be observed, as the State emerges with a central role. Both the relevance and the character of the State in the context of such conflicts vary according to the type of cooperative in question.
Since the beginning of the 21st century in Argentina, work cooperatives have experienced exponential growth. In this context, the cooperatives of the Argentina Trabaja Program and those formed as a consequence of the processes of recuperation of enterprises are the main forms; the former because of their numerical weight, the latter because of their installation in the collective consciousness. In this sense, the general objective of the thesis is to analyze the configuration and dynamics of the conflict regarding work in cooperatives of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) during the period 2003-2015, particularly in the two main types of work cooperative mentioned. In this line, three specific objectives are proposed. The first seeks to characterize both types of cooperatives in terms of their sociogenesis and socioproductive characteristics. The second aims to identify the main cleavages and divisions of social groupings in both types of cooperatives and characterize conflicts regarding work, based on their forms, demands, actors and results. Finally, from a comparative perspective, the third one undertakes to establish patterns of conflict regarding work that link the groupings and the conflicts analyzed with the sociogenesis and the socioproductive characteristics of both types of cooperatives.
The thesis has a research design based on instrumental and multiple case studies. We selected a recuperated enterprise and a cooperative of the Argentina Trabaja Program, both situated in AMBA, and analyzed the conflict regarding work in these cooperatives in the period 20032015 from a comparative approach.
The hypothesis is that the socio-productive characteristics of the cooperatives impact on the configuration and the dynamics of the conflict regarding work in the enterprises. However, beyond the centrality of the association indicated between the socio-productive form and the conflict, we affirm that to understand specific conflicts, other elements that transcend the socio-productive form, such as the sociogenesis, histories and particular cultures of the cooperatives and their associates, the structures of political opportunity present at different times, and the organizational resources available for the development of contentious actions, must be articulated in the chain of causality. In sum, we postulate that concrete conflicts are the result of a multiplicity of elements, among which the way in which production is socially organized, represents a central element to understand its structuring, but not the only one.
With respect to the findings of the thesis, it is argued that in both types of cooperatives, and in comparison to productive organizations structured on salaried relations, work relations are democratized and the function of direction is politicized. As regards to conflicts within the socio-productive unit, the studies cooperative forms turn social relations of work more horizontal, democratic and flexible, configuring conditions of possibility for the emergence of a more politicized conflict with multiple and flexible divisions of organization without class antagonism to its interior. In this field, axes of conflict regarding work based on elements that in traditional capitalist enterprises are not expressed with the same relevance, such as the diverse perceptions of workers on their own work, the emergence of multiple enterprise projects, the generations of workers in the productive unit, and the compadrazgo networks, emerge. Regarding the politicization, while in the recuperated enterprises this is linked to the fact that the production process - and therefore its management - involves political actions necessary for the sustainability of the cooperative and the formal tenure of the productive unit; in the cooperatives of the Argentina Trabaja Program this is linked to the presence of formal state institutions in the direction of the cooperative and with the institutional link between the cooperative and the social organization that frames it. With respect to these conflicts that transcend the productive unit, the class cleavage does not necessarily disappear and also a politicization of the conflicts can be observed, as the State emerges with a central role. Both the relevance and the character of the State in the context of such conflicts vary according to the type of cooperative in question.
Título obtenido
Doctora de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales