Workers’ Power in Resisting Precarity: Comparing Transport Workers in Buenos Aires and Dar es Salaam

Main author: Rizzo, Matteo
Other authors: Atzeni, Maurizio
Format: Journal Article           
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institution SOAS, University of London
collection SOAS Research Online
language English
language_search English
description The growing precariousness of employment across the world has radically altered the conditions upon which the representation of workers’ interests has traditionally been built, as it has posed challenges for established trade unions: individualized employment and fragmented identities have displaced the centrality of the workplace and the employee–employer relationship in framing collective issues of representation. In this article, we compare the processes of collective organization of two groups of precarious workers in the transport and delivery sector of Buenos Aires and Dar es Salaam. Through this comparison we investigate how existing trade union structures, industrial relations frameworks, socio-political contexts and labour processes interact with the processes of workers’ organization that take place even in the harsher conditions of informal work, critically engaging with the argument that the growing precariousness of work represents the end of trade unionism as we know it.
format Journal Article
author Rizzo, Matteo
author_facet Rizzo, Matteo
Atzeni, Maurizio
authorStr Rizzo, Matteo
author_letter Rizzo, Matteo
author2 Atzeni, Maurizio
author2Str Atzeni, Maurizio
title Workers’ Power in Resisting Precarity: Comparing Transport Workers in Buenos Aires and Dar es Salaam
publisher Sage
publishDate 2020
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/33438/