Abstract

LASSALLE, Ana María  and  LASSALLE, Paula. "Tell me once again": women' stories at the time of the Big Strike. Women, politics and everyday life during the strike at Salinas Grandes (1971-72). Aljaba [online]. 2005, vol.9, pp.123-138. ISSN 1669-5704.

Towards the end of 1972 there started a strike at Salinas Grandes, which prolonged itself along 120 uninterrupted days, and was carried on by workmen and workwomen of the CIBA S.A. salt-mining enterprise. The popular pot was the nucleus of survival and exclusive task of the women workers in some cases, or workers'wives in others. However, the activities of these women were not registered either in newspapers or the official history, not being considered either as protagonists or militants. This mechanism of "oblivion" or "erasing" leads to the search of the missing data, embodied in their voices, through the construction of oral testimonies. The only depositaries of this silent memory are, precisely, the witnesses and sharers of the 1971-72 strike. Their narratives constitute the centre of this article which is part of a wider investigation. Hereby we divulge the earlier records based on their life narratives, within the scheme of the gender relationships during the Salinas Grandes strike.

Keywords : Women; Erasing; Sharing; Workers' ghetto.

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