Proletarian lives : routines, identity and culture in contentious politics /
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| Author / Creator: | Pérez, Marcos E., author. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022. ©2022 |
| Description: | xii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge studies in contentious politics Cambridge studies in contentious politics. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12769734 |
| Summary: | Based on multi-year ethnographic fieldwork on the Unemployed Workers' Movement in Argentina (also known as the piqueteros), Proletarian Lives provides a case study of how workers affected by job loss protect their traditional forms of life by engaging in progressive grassroots mobilization. Using life-history interviews and participant observation, the book analyzes why some activists develop a strong attachment to the movement despite initial reluctance and frequent ideological differences. Marcos Pérez argues that a key appeal of participation is the opportunity to engage in age and gender-specific practices associated with a respectable blue-collar lifestyle threatened by long-term socioeconomic decline. Through their daily involvement in the movement, older participants reconstruct the routines they associate with a golden past in which factory jobs were plentiful, younger activists develop the kind of habits they were raised to see as valuable, and all members protect communal activities undermined by the expansion of poverty and violence. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-240) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1316516644 9781316516645 9781009035262 9781009030779 |