An Introduction to Theoretical Approaches in the Study of Workers' Collective Action -- For a Marxist Perspective on Workers' Collective Action -- The Roots of Mobilization, Workplace and Social Conflict in Argentina in Historical Perspective -- Injustice and Solidarity in the Dynamics of Collective Action -- Conflict Evolution at FIAT, Workers' Radicalization and Company's Repression -- Conclusions
Summary
What drives workers to periodically contest their surrounding reality and how do they structure their protests? Maurizio Atzeni provides an in-depth analysis of the dynamics of workers' collective action using the cases of two car manufacturing plants located in Argentina. Criticizing the use of injustice as the basis of mobilization, it argues that workers' collective resistance should be seen as a function of the development of solidarity, which is alternatively created and destroyed by the contradictions between exploitation and cooperation continuously reproduced by the capitalist labour process
