Moral identity and emotional identity in the workers of the filet branch of the fishing industry of Mar del Plata in the years 2014 and 2015

Abstract

In this article we present a preliminary advance on some aspects of the moral, ideological and emotional identity of a universe of workers of the fish processing industry of the port city of Mar del Plata (Province of Buenos Aires / Argentina). In the first place, it is interesting to know the diversity of moral judgments from which these workers describe and evaluate labor conflicts in the fishing industry. We seek to know the judgments involved in the moral reflection on the labor conflict of the year 2007. In a second moment, we propose to make observable the functional role of emotions in the production and expanded reproduction of social order. Returning to Norbert Elias, we understand that emotions reinforce socially accepted behaviors, come as regulators of social relationships and replace physical punishment and sanction. To achieve the proposed objectives, primary sources constructed from a semistructured interview applied in the field to 161 workers were used.