Between mobilization and repression. The experience of women workers in Cordoba in the seventies

Abstract

In this article we will analyze the experience of women workers in Córdoba during the 1970s, a period in which the local industry went through an unparalleled historical transition process. We will examine the different realities that coexist within the subject “women workers”, problematizing that identity from the economic and cultural reality of that period. Likewise, we will analyze the forms of women's participation in the work disputes of the first half of that decade, recording what levels of representation they achieved in trade union structures. In addition, we will interpret how they experienced the repression execute by State terrorism since 1974, being affected in a special way by their gender condition. Different sources were used for this work, some of them written, such as the local press, union newspapers, government reports, judicial files and internal documentation from the intelligence services of the Federal Police. Oral testimonies were also used to record the experiences, representations and trajectories of some of the protagonists of those processes.