Working-class conditions and resistances in contexts of austerity in Argentina

D'URSO, LUCILA; CLARA MARTICORENA

Handbook of research on the Political Economy of Work

Edward Edgar

Año: 2023; p. 626 - 641

This chapter analyses the working-class conditions and characteristics in Argentina beginningwith the conservative turn configured during the government of Mauricio Macri at the end of2015, considering the conditions under which workers face the current crisis, intensified bythe COVID-19 pandemic.The chapter is structured in four sections. First, the wage and employment conditions since2015 are presented; second, the dynamics of labour and social conflict are analysed, consideringboth formal and informal workers and their different levels of representations; the characteristicsof collective bargaining as an expression of the balance of power between capitaland labour are studied next. Finally, in the conclusions, the importance of the autonomousworkers? organization from the employers and the State to preserve historical labour and socialconquers and to resist the current capitalist offensive is highlighted.