"The thin red line". Conflict and consent in the labours relations, 1976 - 1983

Abstract

In this article we want to walk through an interpretation of the complex relation, in some work organization, works conflicts between the consent of the rules games of the factories established by the employer. Is easy to assume that the work conflict express the differences of interest among the two sides, but is more difficult probe it in each situation. Like the famous studies of P. K. Edwards and H. Scullion raised, the conflicts have different meaning in different situation, context, and more specific in the production organization ways.In the recent history studies of the Argentinean workers, the subject was the politic resistence in the conflicts, like the opposition to the military dictatorship in 1976, but paying little attention to the values and behavior in the work process. This academic look ignored the specific strength and consent combination that characterized like Michael Burawoy wrote, the cooperation between businessman and worker in moneymaking search. In this paper we take this approaches to interpret the conflict, and the harmony periods, in several metallurgic and concrete industry located in southwest of Buenos Aires province in between 1976-1983.