El sindicalismo empresarial en los años 90. Una aproximación desde su materialidad

In the 90s, facing the market reforms, the most powerful unions in Argentina adopted a strategy called “business unionism”, which consisted in an active participation in the reforms. The dominant interpretations of the phenomenon understood that it was an answer that expressed continuity with typical adaptive and pragmatic practices of the union bureaucracy. This paper, however, considers these interpretations reductionist and proposes to approach the business unionism from a perspective that examines the issue of how an union is materially reproduced at different historical stages. To achieve this objective this paper analyzes the case of the union Luz y Fuerza Capital Federal (LYF CF) that was paradigmatic in the business strategy.