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Rizzo, Matteo and Atzeni, Maurizio (2020) 'Workers’ Power in Resisting Precarity: Comparing Transport Workers in Buenos Aires and Dar es Salaam.' Work, Employment and Society, 34 (6). pp. 1114-1130.

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Abstract

The growing precariousness of employment across the world has radically altered the conditions upon which the representation of workers’ interests has traditionally been built, as it has posed challenges for established trade unions: individualized employment and fragmented identities have displaced the centrality of the workplace and the employee–employer relationship in framing collective issues of representation. In this article, we compare the processes of collective organization of two groups of precarious workers in the transport and delivery sector of Buenos Aires and Dar es Salaam. Through this comparison we investigate how existing trade union structures, industrial relations frameworks, socio-political contexts and labour processes interact with the processes of workers’ organization that take place even in the harsher conditions of informal work, critically engaging with the argument that the growing precariousness of work represents the end of trade unionism as we know it.

Item Type: Journal Article
SOAS Departments & Centres: Departments and Subunits > Department of Development Studies
ISSN: 09500170
Copyright Statement: © The Author(s) 2020. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017020928248
Date Deposited: 11 Sep 2020 13:45
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/33438
Funders: European Union

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