Teachers’ union struggle. An analysis of trade union resistance in Santa Cruz, Argentina

Abstract

The present paper offers an interpretation of the teachers’ union dispute in Santa Cruz, emphasizing two central contentious events, which took place in 2004 and 2007. The proposed approach seeks (from a microphysical perspective, from the discourse and practice of the union actors) to reconstruct the cycle of contentions, the repertoires of struggle, and the processes of subjectivation that emerge from the conflicts, paying special attention to the operatives and state devices put into play. We conducted the analysis based on in-depth interviews with unionized teachers, using the techniques of analysis of discourse and of frames or “framing of action”.

Keywords

• sindicatos
• acción colectiva
• subjetivación