The challenges of union building in times of prohibition of wage demands. A case study: the Peronist Working Youth in Argentina (1973-1974)

Abstract

In this article we propose to study the development of the Juventud Trabajadora Peronista (JTP), a union organization attached to the Peronist organization Montoneros, during the years 1973 and 1974. In those years the Social Pact of the Peronist government was in force, prohibiting wage negotiations . We are interested in studying how union construction developed in this context. We hypothesize that the JTP was built by promoting claims about health and hygiene in the work process and that, for this, a particular link was developed with the Institute of Occupational Medicine (IMT) of the University of Buenos Aires, which allowed him to be in better conditions to promote that strategy.

Keywords

• lefts
• syndicalism
• peronism