Doctoral Dissertation Research: Formal and Informal Workers and Labor Moblilization

研究机构：威斯康辛大学麦迪逊分校阿根廷（2003-2009年）正规经济中雇佣的工会工人的抗议浪潮日益高涨，挑战了正规工人在劳动非正式性高的情况下无法动员的说法。什么可以解释这种劳动力复兴？本研究对两个工业城市（布宜诺斯艾利斯省的帕切科将军和查科省的蒂罗尔港）的劳工动员进行了比较案例研究。人种学将与劳动力市场动态的定量研究相结合，以了解劳工抗议形成过程中社会结构、文化政治和组织动态之间的相互作用。更广泛的影响这项研究将加深我们对工会在其传统社会基础之外组织工人的可能性的认识。

SES-1003644PI: Erik WrightCo-PI: Rodolfo ElbertInstitution: University of Wisconsin at MadisonThe rising wave of protest involving unionized workers employed in the formal economy in Argentina (2003-2009) challenges the claim that formal workers cannot mobilize when there is high labor informality. What can account for this labor revitalization? This research develops a comparative case study of labor mobilization in two industrial cities (General Pacheco in Buenos Aires province and Puerto Tirol in Chaco province). The ethnography will be combined with the quantitative study of labor market dynamics, in order to understand the interactions between social structure, cultural politics and organizational dynamics in the formation of labor protests. Broader ImpactsThis study will deepen our knowledge about union possibilities to organize workers outside their traditional social base.