Abstract

HUDSON, Juan Pablo. The Representation of Informal Workers: the Triunvirato de San Cayetano. Temas debates (En línea) [online]. 2020, n.39, pp.35-58. ISSN 1853-984X.

This article aims to provide an understanding of the objectives and ways of organization that support the social movements in the Triunvirato de San Cayetano. The aforementioned is integrated by the following groups: Confederación de Trabajadores de la Economía Popular, Barrios de Pie, and Corriente Clasista y Combativa. Our objective is to consider the perspective of these groups’ highest referents and disclose the information gathered. The topics which will be analyzed are:  informal employment, popular workers, the tension in the claims between innovation and tradition, the relationship with unions and, fundamentally, with the history of the unemployed movement itself. A hypothesis guides this work: the organizations mentioned above are not structured according to the acceptance or the rejection of paid word, which was the case at the onset of the unemployed movements, nor do they understand their situation as transitory informal work, which the labor market does not consider an option. Their informal or unemployable condition is understood as chronic. This is the starting point of their struggles. This research is qualitative. Ten key leaders of social movements were interviewed in 2018 in the framework of a previous investigation that included interviews to government officials in 2016 and 2017.

Keywords : Popular economy; Informal workers; Self-management; Social movements; New type of unions.

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