Politiques sociales et néolibéralisme
Beginning in the late 1990s, Argentina has experienced an unprecedented wave of takeovers of companies by their workers. These cases emerged in a cycle of revolt which swept through a major part of the countries of Latin America, where advocacy mobilisations – particularly – contested structural adj...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Université Catholique de Louvain
2018-11-01
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| Series: | Recherches Sociologiques et Anthropologiques |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/rsa/2839 |
| Summary: | Beginning in the late 1990s, Argentina has experienced an unprecedented wave of takeovers of companies by their workers. These cases emerged in a cycle of revolt which swept through a major part of the countries of Latin America, where advocacy mobilisations – particularly – contested structural adjustment plans. In 1997, the World Bank developed its second generation reforms. Inter alia, they aimed at strengthening governorship in an area where social conflicts have become ever more threatening and where an increase in poverty represents a burden for the States involved. To that end, they envisaged a reinforcement of participative democracy with an accompanying empowerment of the civil society, which, in particular, implies the autonomisation of individuals through the development of productive activities allowing them to acquire means of subsistence. Empowerment thus refers to a process for obtaining individual capacities and responsibilities, freeing both States and companies from certain social “burdens”. This article analyses the intertwining between the force of circumstances due to the struggle and self-management practices developed by the workers of the companies taken over, as well as the measures deployed in the name of participative democracy and empowerment to institutionalize those experiences, and thereby reduce their political potential as much as possible. |
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| ISSN: | 1782-1592 2033-7485 |