Webber, Jeffery R., and Barry Carr, eds. 2013. The new Latin American left: cracks in the empire.
"Neoliberal Class Formation(s): The Informal Porletariat and "new" Workers' Organizations in Latin America" Susan Spronk 75-94
- Applies EP Thomspons "class struggle without class" ideas
- notes other authors (murillo 2001) saying that unions just tried to surivive, not fight enoliberalism
- But during the neoliberal period the locus of class struggle has moved out of the factory and into the streets/communities (82)
partially because many people are employed informally/self-employed - the focus of class strgugle has shifted from demands over wages to demands for basic subsistence
- piqueteros born of those who weren't represented by traditional unions
- at first hey were very radical, non-hierarchical, etc. etc.
- but then they were coopted by employment plans from Kirchner (except for more radical splinter) (83-84)
- Oscar Olivera and gas war people: start with everyday struggle, get imporved conditions, and then work towards socialism (85)
- but actual gains in both cases have been minimal
- CRITIQUE OF BOTH these organizations arises from an argument about "treating the symptoms versus treating the cause"
- (86-88) plant takeovers in Argentina and Venezuela face issues with government and with (previous) business owners
- but even outside of these issues, cooperativism doesn't undo the bad social relations, it just makes the workers their own bosses
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