M. Bascuas, Ruth Felder, Ana Logiúdice, V. Patroni
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摘要
我们的文章通过分析阿根廷大众经济工人联合会(CTEP,Confederación de Trabajadores de la Economía Popular)的案例,讨论了不稳定工作的影响及其对工人组织能力的影响。该组织成立于2011年,旨在代表一个广泛而多样化的工人群体,他们处于不同的非正规条件、不稳定的自营职业和劳动福利计划中。我们追溯了该组织的历史,并通过关注社会援助的作用来分析其发展,社会援助是不稳定工人与国家之间不断变化的关系的重要表现。社会援助提供了一些资源,用于解决不稳定工人及其居住地区的生育需求,也为像CTEP这样的组织寻求巩固其在不稳定工人中的政治工作提供了物质手段。尽管如此,社会援助也作为一种手段,将更广泛的变革需求限制为通过社会政策解决的问题。我们的论点是,CTEP作为一个由不稳定的工人组成的组织,其发展轨迹的核心是试图摆脱社会援助的狭窄限制,推动变革,使其成员在物质和制度上获得一定的自主权。关键词:阿根廷;不稳定的工人组织;CTEP;社会援助政策
Rethinking Working-class Politics: Organising Informal Workers in Argentina
Our article engages with discussions about the implications of precarious work and its impact on workers’ capacity to organise by analysing the case of Argentina’s Confederation of Popular Economy Workers (CTEP, Confederación de Trabajadores de la Economía Popular). The organisation was created in 2011 with the aim of representing a broad and heterogeneous group of workers in varying conditions of informality, precarious self-employment and workfare programmes. We trace the history of the organisation and analyse its development by focusing on the role of social assistance as a crucial expression of the changing relations between precarious workers and the state. Social assistance has provided some resources for addressing the reproduction needs of precarious workers and of the territories in which they live, and also the material means through which an organisation like CTEP has sought to consolidate its political work among precarious workers. Nonetheless, social assistance has also worked as a means to circumscribe broader demands for change into issues to be addressed through social policy. Our argument is that central to CTEP’s trajectory as an organisation of precarious workers was its attempt to break away from the narrow confines of social assistance, pushing for changes that would allow its members to gain some autonomy both materially and institutionally.
KEYWORDS: Argentina; precarious worker organisations; CTEP; social assistance policy