RESEARCH NOTE: “LABOR RELATIONS FACING THE CHALLENGE OF NEW EMERGING FORMS OF REPRESENTATION”

Abstract

The objective of this article is to review the results obtained in the investigation carried out within the framework of the CyTMA2 investigation, of the National University of La Matanza, in which we analyze the labor relations of the productive and/or service units that emerged from the deepening of the employment crisis at the end of the 1990s, and to investigate how the labor bond that emerges between the members of the Urban Work Cooperatives, framed in the social and solidarity economy, develops.

In the present we will highlight the hypothesis raised in the investigation, which maintains that the typical labor relations of the Taylorist-Fordist stage are not adequate to regulate and frame the organizational forms of self-managed work, which has its own practices and different forms of linkage between actors.

In the development, these new labor relations are described at two levels: the micro, within the urban work cooperatives; and the macro, which emerges with the constitution and consolidation of representative organizations of the sector and their relationship with the State.

The interviews carried out with work cooperatives of varied origin are pointed out: recovered companies, pure self-managed cooperatives, cooperatives developed by the social movements and cooperatives of the Argentina Trabaja program, and various social movements, understanding that the origin, the ideological perspective and traditions of struggle have influence on the links that later developed.

It is noted that the results obtained have been exploratory and preliminary in nature. It is about making visible a new experience and rich in proposals that challenge the discipline of traditional Labor Relations and, at the same time, the new questions that the research leaves as a future proposal to work within the framework of the discipline of labor relations are rescued.