Proletarian Lives
Routines, Identity, and Culture in Contentious Politics
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- Author: Marcos E. Pérez, Washington and Lee University, Virginia
- Date Published: August 2023
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781009015936
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Based on multi-year ethnographic fieldwork on the Unemployed Workers' Movement in Argentina (also known as the piqueteros), Proletarian Lives provides a case study of how workers affected by job loss protect their traditional forms of life by engaging in progressive grassroots mobilization. Using life-history interviews and participant observation, the book analyzes why some activists develop a strong attachment to the movement despite initial reluctance and frequent ideological differences. Marcos Pérez argues that a key appeal of participation is the opportunity to engage in age and gender-specific practices associated with a respectable blue-collar lifestyle threatened by long-term socioeconomic decline. Through their daily involvement in the movement, older participants reconstruct the routines they associate with a golden past in which factory jobs were plentiful, younger activists develop the kind of habits they were raised to see as valuable, and all members protect communal activities undermined by the expansion of poverty and violence.
Read more- Provides an innovative take on activism and political participation
- Explores how the practices of activists while mobilized can be as important for their experiences as their beliefs
- Suggests new directions in the debate about the relation between neoliberalism and democracy
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- Date Published: August 2023
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781009015936
- length: 260 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.39kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. 'I Became a Bum': Economic Reforms and Everyday Life in Argentina
3. 'The Struggle is on the Streets': Democracy, Neoliberalism and Piquetero Mobilization
4. 'I Know what it Means to Follow a Schedule': Reconstruction of Past Routines
5. 'If It Rains or Hails, You Still Have to Show Up For Work': Development of New Habits
6. 'We Drink Mate, Eat a Good Stew, Talk… and That Way Time Flies': Protection of Communal Activities
7. 'A Small Thing to Get By': Potential, Voluntary, and Reluctant Dropouts
8. Conclusion.
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