Seamstresses Damn It! Struggle Trajectories and Self-Management in Argentina’s Popular Economies

The purpose of this article is to contribute to the conceptualization of popular economies, creating a dialogue between authors and perspectives of the social sciences and drawing from an ethnographic research project in Buenos Aires. This article is about a journey of the social, productive, and po...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Castronovo, Alioscia
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:Ecuador
Institución:Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales
Repositorio:Revista ICONOS
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec:article/3252
Acceso en línea:https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/3252
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Economía popular
autogestión
trabajo
Argentina
migrantes
Economia popular
autogestão
trabalho
Popular economy
self-management
work
migrants
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Sumario:The purpose of this article is to contribute to the conceptualization of popular economies, creating a dialogue between authors and perspectives of the social sciences and drawing from an ethnographic research project in Buenos Aires. This article is about a journey of the social, productive, and political threads in time and space of the Juana Villca cooperative, which had as its protagonists’ migrant Bolivian workers. This cooperative introduces us to a heterogenous framework in popular economies. By reconstructing a genealogy of the processes that lead to the creation of a cooperative, there is a reflection on the struggles, potentials, and limits of self-management as a productive experimentation and articulation of a new communitarian-popular institutionalization.