Producing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movement
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Producing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movement
Producing Change:Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover MovementAlexa Teichert Milton Department of Politi Producing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movementical Science Macalester College Advised by Professor Paul Dosh May 2, 2005AbstractSince 1998, Argentine workers have seized and reopened over 100 factories and businesses, known as fabricas recuperadas. This study examines the ability of political opportunity structures to explain the emergence and Producing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movementevolution of the factor}' takeover movement, focusing on differences of strategy within the movement and shifts in strategy over time. Emerging in theProducing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movement
context of widespread social and economic upheaval and initially viewed as a challenge to the existing political system, these groups now increasinglProducing Change:Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover MovementAlexa Teichert Milton Department of Politi Producing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movement of the diversity of strategic choices requires theories more attuned to micro-level processes.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction..........................................................1Chapter 2: Literature Review:Suucture, Agency, and Channels of Protest in Social Movement Theory.......... Producing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movement...12Chapter 3: Political Opportunity and Movement Emergence.........................20Chapter 4: Political Opportunity and Strategic Choices in MovemProducing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movement
ent Evolution.....37Chapter 5: Conclusions..........................................................69Bibliography....................................Producing Change:Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover MovementAlexa Teichert Milton Department of Politi Producing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movement neighborhood at the heart of the city of Buenos Aires, but the workers did not leave, rhe next day, the city al large would erupt in protest as the economy dramatically collapsed, but lor now die conflict was played out on a smaller scale, and under a different guise. With salaries that had not bee Producing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movementn paid in full since 1995. the owners had begun to distribute smaller and smaller weekly allowances until finally workers were receiving just a lew peProducing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movement
sos a week. Angry at the lack of payment, and many without even the means to pay their bus fare home, a group of about tliirty workers, mostly women, Producing Change:Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover MovementAlexa Teichert Milton Department of Politi Producing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movement themselves, they began to restart the factory: on their own terms, without the bosses. This simple yet surprising act began the occupation of the Brukman factory.Ar ound the metropolitan ar ea and elsewhere in Argentina, other workers were doing the same. As Ar gentina’s economy crashed in late 200 Producing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movement1, the phenomenon, which had begun with a few individual and largely isolated cases of factory takeovers in 1998, began to transform into a dynamic moProducing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movement
vement. Eventually, there were as many as 170 "recovered" factories and businesses, or fabricas recuperadas, around the country, loosely grouped into Producing Change:Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover MovementAlexa Teichert Milton Department of Politi Producing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movementmy, symbolically they came, in many ways, to be seen as one of the most visible and emblematic manifestations of the character of the wider protest movements which rejected the authority of the existing political system. Here were workers, facing the threat of chronic unemployment, creating their ow Producing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movementn jobs—without bosses, without capital, and without the state.If the factory' takeovers as a whole were often viewed as emblems of a new resistance, fProducing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movement
ew' were as symbolically potent as the Brukman takeover. Due to its timing, it was naturally identified as bound up with the massive protests of the 1Producing Change:Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover MovementAlexa Teichert Milton Department of Politi Producing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movementacy of the stale and proclaiming the need and capacity of Argentine citizens to ‘do for themselves.* Rejecting the prospect of laws of expropriation which might legalize their status, but which would not fundamentally challenge the system on a broader scale, the Brukman workers demanded to either be Producing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movement nationalized as part of a new socialist state economy, or to have nothing to do with the stale at all. Abandoning institutional politics as illegitimProducing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movement
ate, they l>egan to produce.And yet. the Bntkman stoiy, and that of die movement more broadly, is not so simple. After defeating two eviction attemptsProducing Change:Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover MovementAlexa Teichert Milton Department of Politi Producing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movementsand police officers and “several thousand” Brukman supporters (Magnani 2003:176). shut out of work, the tactics and political orientation of the group began to change, rhe factory that had been one of the most visible embodiments of the anti-institutional ethos of the mass response to the economic Producing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movementcrisis started ‘doing politics.’ Working with a lawyer, committed Peronist, and former political candidate named Luis Caro, the group of Biiikman workProducing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movement
er's went through the legal process to obtain a judicial order granting them temporary possession of the premises, pressed the legislature for a law oProducing Change:Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover MovementAlexa Teichert Milton Department of Politi Producing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movementent scholars. Key among them is the dilemma posed by the Bnikman case. How did the Brukman workers and others like them come to form part of a social movement which adapted such a rejection of institutional politics as a whole? Perhaps more importantly, how did they go from rejecting traditional pol Producing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movementitics and politicians to lobbying legislators to pass a favorable bill? Finally, what can this surprising turnaround tell us about how strategies areProducing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movement
formed and evolve, and the respective roles of institutional strategies and contentious protest within the factor}' takeover movement, and in social mProducing Change:Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover MovementAlexa Teichert Milton Department of Politi Producing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movementically, the takeovers emerged in the period just prior to the 2001 crisis, and were clearly responses to large-scale economic and political forces. While several of these factory takeovers occurred prior to the crisis, the project only coalesced as a movement at the time of the economic collapse, in Producing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movement the context of widespread social and political upheaval, and in relationship to the proliferation of other social movements such as the cacerolazos.:Producing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movement
popular assemblies, cartoneros; and piqueteros.1 * 3 Emerging in a lime of relative political vacuum—including five presidents in two weeks—these movProducing Change:Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover MovementAlexa Teichert Milton Department of Politi Producing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movement corrupt and responsible for leading the country to economic collapse. While some of the emerging social groups, especially the piqueteros, did demand that the government address their needs, all had a strong element of direct action, including the idea that social movements needed to work together Producing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movementin the absence of government assistance to solve their own problems. The movement of factory takeovers in particular operated on the idea that workersProducing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movement
could not wait for employers, the state, or the market to solve their unemployment problems, but rather that they should use their own potential for Producing Change:Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover MovementAlexa Teichert Milton Department of Politi Producing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movement it has once again become viable to work within more traditional political channels. Indeed, the current Kirchner administration has made clear efforts to reach out to some of these groups and to take up the problems they have identified. And yet, the vast social and economic problems targeted by th Producing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movementese new social movements remain critical, particularly in terms of poverty and unemployment. How have such changing circumstances affected these movemProducing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movement
ents? How have movements responded or adjusted? And within this evolving context, what roles might these movements, and the fdbricas recuperadas in paProducing Change:Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover MovementAlexa Teichert Milton Department of Politi Producing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movementtines, but to observers around the world as well. Both inside and outside the country, the takeovers have largely been interpreted and represented through one of two main lenses: either as renegade groups of protestors who pose a threat to a fragile society by challenging private property and the ru Producing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movementle of law, or as a new and inspiring form of activism which promises to bypass traditional political channels, creating rather than soliciting or1A teProducing Change Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movement
rm used to describe the mass protests and demonstrations which occurred, so called after the cơcerolas, or pots and pans, used as noise-makers.? ReferGọi ngay
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