Abstract

QUIROGA, María Virginia. Constitution and redefinition of political identities: The argentinian workers´ central (2000-2005). Trab. soc. [online]. 2014, n.22, pp.307-323. ISSN 1514-6871.

The aim of this paper is to analyze the emergence and consolidation of the CTA´s identity,as an alternative trade union. The CTA articulated a variety of sectors -not just formal workers- which reacted to neoliberalism and its ways of understanding policy and politics. However, despite its formidable ability to bring workers together, the CTA suffered desmobilization and fragmentation since the year 2003. This analysis is based on the category “political identity”, articulated by Ernesto Laclau, understood as a parcial fixation of a discursive configuration which is produced by an articulatory practice (Laclau, 2000, 2004). In that sense, Gerardo Aboy Carlés states that a political identity inolves a double process: homogenization and differentiation (Aboy Carlés, 2001, 2011) in the middle of a relative structurality. Therefore, we try to understand the CTA´s political identity from three dimentions: representative, otherness and traditions.

Keywords : Political identity; Labor unions; Traditions; Demands; Antagonism.

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