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The Dynamics of Violence and Labor Conflict in Villa Constitución, Argentina, 1973–1975

In: The Capitalist Commodification of Animals

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This chapter aims to contribute to the study of social protests around the world and particularly in Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s, with a focus on an Argentinean case. Throughout these years, Argentina like many other Latin American societies witnessed the growth and development of intense social and political struggles in concert with the armed insurgency. Did workers or other popular social sectors support guerrilla organizations in Argentina? What was the interconnection between working-class and armed insurgent struggle? This chapter examines these liaisons by studying the case of an industrial city that has been identified to be a paradigm of labor radicalization and political violence in Argentina—Villa Constitución. Through the reanalysis of documents and sources as well as interviews, we discuss established interpretations on armed and labor struggles that reveal a broader heterogeneity in the forms of social support to revolutionary violence. Solidarity among workers and armed militants appears in (1) the actions of militant workers at their workplaces, and (2) the armed actions organized by militants in support of worker’s fights.” These two groups reinforced each other's activism. But, by no means can we directly deduct from this that rank and file workers immediately identified their strikes with ideologically revolutionary objectives.

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  • Agustín Santella, 2020. "The Dynamics of Violence and Labor Conflict in Villa Constitución, Argentina, 1973–1975," Research in Political Economy, in: The Capitalist Commodification of Animals, volume 35, pages 183-204, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:rpeczz:s0161-723020200000035009
    DOI: 10.1108/S0161-723020200000035009
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