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ADAMINI, Marina. Resistances against precarious work in the software industry. An approach based on the case of Tandil software workers. Estud. trab. [online]. 2020, n.59, pp.43-45. ISSN 0327-5744.

The aim of this article is to analyze the resistances developed against precarious work by workers in the software industry. This sector is a labour emblem of the post-industrial society due to the intensive use of technology, the organization of work by projects, and the productive globalization. In the last 15 years the sector had an important productive, labour, and commercial growth, which was not expressed in the same way in the quality of its working conditions. Different authors marked how the absence of a sectoral Collective Labour Agreements (CLA) affects this segmentation, promoting business discretion in the definition of working and salary conditions. Consequently, within this thriving post-industrial productive sector there is a process of precariousness that is expressed in heterogeneous working conditions, crossed by theabsence of wage negotiations, intense and prolonged working hours, and anti-union business practices. Our objective is to characterize the process of precarious workand analyze the strategies that software workers developed in front of it, based on a case study focused on the cluster of the Tandil Computer Centre. We seek to identify not only the collective action and organization strategies of the trade union but also the micro-resistances that workers develop as daily strategies in their workspaces, individually and/or in groups. This approach will be methodologically based on depth interviews with software workers, trade union and business leaders of Tandil, and the analysis of virtual local trade union and journalistic sources referred to the sector.

Palabras clave : Software industry; Precarious work; Software workers; Resistances..

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