Argentine workers : block roads to open up the future

Abstract

It is likely that events of December 19 and 20, 2001 might have opened a new cycle of popular struggles in Argentina. However, to comprehend fully what happened here, it's necessary to analyze the emergence and consolidation of a new trend: the unemployed workers organizations or broadly know as picketing movements. An important sociological asset is the identification of the geographical and economic space in which the picketing groups have developed. In this context, we feel that unemployment workers organizations didn't evolve in region of extreme poverty: on the contrary, they have initiated in municipalities and provinces where the social fabric and the mechanism of community were profoundly affected by a sudden loss of jobs. There are many places where the picketing movements need to deploy its struggling course. The author identifies three main spaces: the proposals and economic demands; the forms of organization, and the creation of new paradigms, and the symbolic references.