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CAMBIASSO, Mariela. La tradición del sindicato de la alimentación: de los años ochenta a la posconvertibilidad. Estud. trab. [online]. 2018, n.55, pp.33-59. ISSN 0327-5744.

The recent transformations in the labor world generated a series of debates in the field of social sciences about the crisis and reconfiguration of union organizations. Within the framework of the economic and employment recomposition that took place in Argentina of post convertibility, it began to be discussed in what extent could be spoken about a process of union revitalization in our country. The purpose of the article is to contribute to these reflections from the analysis of the tradition of the Sindicato de Trabajadores de Industrias de la Alimentación (STIA), taking as reference the Buenos Aires-Federal Capital sectional, in the period that extends between the triumph of its current direction (1984) and the conflict that took place in the company Kraft-Foods (ex Terrabusi) in 2009. As a result of the analysis we observed that prevails the continuity in the practices, discourses and values that defines the tradition of the union. This, far from questioning the new new prominence of the unions, complexize its reading and incorporates new dimensions for its study. Concretely, we refer to the relationship between the union leaderships and the bases organized in internal commissions; and the consideration of two temporalities: the past and the present of the union organizations in terms of their speeches and practices. In methodological terms, it is a qualitative study, based on in-depth interviews with union leaders and on the analysis of different secondary sources (journals, union documents and statements, newspaper articles and historical archives).

Palabras clave : Tradition; Food industry; Union revitalization; Internal commissions.

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