Politics and territorial resistances: the San Francisco Solano Unemployed Workers Movement experience´s in Argentina (1997-2004)

Abstract

Among the social organizations that emerged in Argentina in the 1990s, those made up of unemployed workers stood out for their alternative productive proposals in the places where they deployed their daily practices and for their public actions of protest. From this approach, the San Francisco Solano Unemployed Workers Movement is one of the most interesting and challenging organizations of the period. The Movement emerged in mid-1997, it contributed many of the elements that shaped the public agenda and the territorial dynamics of the social conflict of the second half of that we can call the long neoliberal decade in Argentina (1989-2001). In this paper, we will analyze some singular characteristics that can identify common and distinctive features of Solano's MTD with respect to other organizations of unemployed workers existing before and after the so-called 2001 crisis. This paper is based on a synthesis of the author's previous and qualitative research, that it included interviews, observations, documents produced by social organizations and local and national graphic media.