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Of Autocracy and Democracy, Or Discipline and Anarchy: When Organizational Structure Meets Political Ideology in Argentine Public Sector Trade Unions
Author(s) -
Lazar Sian
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
polar: political and legal anthropology review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.529
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1555-2934
pISSN - 1081-6976
DOI - 10.1111/plar.12111
Subject(s) - praxis , ideology , autocracy , democracy , politics , trade union , political economy , state (computer science) , political science , government (linguistics) , sociology , public administration , economic system , economics , law , linguistics , philosophy , algorithm , labour economics , computer science
This article explores how practices of participation are linked to political values within two state workers’ unions in Argentina. Distinct approaches to organization, described by informants as vertical and horizontal, are linked to the historical development of two main trends in the Argentine labor movement. The article examines both the organizational practices and narratives about those practices and argues that organizational praxis is an important means of articulating understandings of democracy, linked to differing ideas of the role of a trade union in relation to government . [trade unions, democracy, Peronism, social movements, horizontality, verticality]