Abstract

LUDMER, Gustavo. State, workers and employers in the informal employement of argentine's apparel industry: 1975-2018. Trab. soc. [online]. 2019, n.33, pp.301-310. ISSN 1514-6871.

Currently, approximately 60% of those employed in Argentine sewing work under informal conditions. This problem was extended by the crisis that the national industry went through as a result of neoliberal policies applied during the seventies and nineties. The bankruptcy of companies led to

the destruction of thousands of formal jobs, many of which went into the informal sector in clandestine workshops, a problem that has not changed significantly in the last fifteen years. The objective of this paper is to answer the following question: What was the role of the State, workers and the business sector in the extension of labor informality in the Argentine garment industry? In recent decades, predatory competition has taken place, driven by successive cost reductions through evasion of social charges and non-compliance with safety conditions. The poor unionization weakened the power of the workers' collective. The State played a double role: on the one hand, diverse economic policies led to the crisis in the sector; on the other, the bodies responsible for inspection and for guaranteeing compliance with labor regulations reduced the intensity of controls, an element that made it possible to extend the problem to current levels.

Keywords : informalemployement; apparel industry; neoliberalism.

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