Le jardin aux sentiers qui bifurquent ? Le syndicalisme en Équateur

Abstract

The “Revolución Cidadana” (Citizen’s Revolution) government that assumed power of Ecuador in 2007 opened a controversial and paradoxical scenario to recuperate the country’s sovereign character under a nationalist and developmentalist rhetoric at the same time that it applied a series of mechanisms directed at dismantling the political power of union actors that stated the fight against neo-liberalism in previous decades.In this article I analyze the reconfiguration of the relationship between the government and the unions of State-owned oil workers. I maintain that in the last decade, there operated a weakness to the trade unionism in the oil sector as a political subject by way of three mechanisms 1) reconfiguration of the institutionalization of the labor system and management of the workforce 2) transformation in management of the government petroleum sector and 3) substantial modifications in the system of political representation of the workforce and state impulse towards a union corporatism common to government.

Keywords

• State
• trade unionism
• work