Doctoral Dissertation Research: Formal and Informal Workers and Labor Moblilization

SES-1003644PI：Erik WrightCo-Pi：Rodolfo Elbert机构：威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校阿根廷正规经济中受雇的工会工人(2003-2009)日益高涨的抗议浪潮挑战了这样一种说法，即当存在高度的劳工非正规性时，正规工人无法动员起来。这一劳动力复兴的原因是什么？这项研究开发了两个工业城市(布宜诺斯艾利斯省的帕切科将军和查科省的蒂罗尔港)劳动力调动的比较案例研究。民族志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互动。更广泛的影响这项研究将加深我们对工会在传统社会基础之外组织工人的可能性的了解。

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.