Argentina’s Occupied Factories movement was a movement in which workers took over and led factories. They took over these factories because they were shut down, were in various stages of bankruptcy proceedings, or were abandoned by their owners. When they were left by bosses, the workers reopened them. Workers reclaimed the factory with the phrase “Occupy, Resist, and produce”. This movement was a response to Argentina’s economic collapse which had left nothing but: a rise in poverty and unemployment, shut-down factories, and frozen bank accounts. Workers fought back through occupied factories and expropriation. The movement defended the working class, and ultimately fought against capitalism and neoliberalism. The Brukman workers were workers at the Brukman suit factory, which was under worker control. After the owners had abandoned the factory, the Brukman workers decided to take control and keep it running. Workers all earned a fair salary, and cooperatively figured out how much to save and how much to …show more content…
In the documentary, the Forja’s worker mentioned that the Zanon workers were the inspiration for their movement. The Zanon workers gained control of the ceramic factory after the owner had claimed the factory was no longer profitable and that it had to be shut down. The workers refused to accept this. The Zanon workers argued that the company owed so much to the community in public subsidies and debts that it now belonged to everyone. In Menem years, the factory had received millions of dollars in corporate welfare and the owner continued to run up big debts, but now that the workers had restarted the machines the owner wanted it back. Although, the workers had huge support from the community, which paid off because they had fought six separate eviction notices with their support. For now, Zanon is property of the people, and under worker
The owner of the town and company George Pullman had workers’ wages get cut in addition to workers getting leadoff. Many people who worked for the company whose wages got cut had trouble affording the standard living costs in Pullman and were given “starvation wages.” The organization of the pissed off workers followed. The workers would go on a nationwide strike organized by the American Railway Union and was led by a man named Eugene debs. Eugene and his union was so powerful because they possessed the ability to paralyze the production of the railroad industry.
A surplus in female factory employment resulted in family problems because the “caretaker” of the family could very likely be working twelve hour days and oftentimes getting sick from unclean work conditions (Ellis and Esler 204). Their call for help in their industrial issues was soon answered by a group of organized laborers, more commonly referred to as a labor union. In continuation, the concept of labor unions is quite simple. Labor unions have working members fuse together to become a powerful force. This powerful force works to gain their rights (Bernard 5)....
Chavez acknowledges the peoples feelings of frustration and anger, but refutes the idea, claiming that nonviolence is greatly powerful. Elaborating his point, Cesar includes, “Nonviolence provides the opportunity to stay on the offensive, and that is crucial importance to win any contest”. The author advocates to win in his fight not only for himself but for his own union of farm workers. Promotion of equal working laws, with benefits such as shorter hours, drives Chavez to speak to the government. Back in this period, not only were laborers working grueling work hours in overheated weather conditions, but also received minimal
The environment industrial workers faced during the years 1875 to 1900, was extremely harsh. While the United States just finished a war, it was also trying to compete against other countries in the industrial world. Workers were not even given the option for retirement pensions, benefits, or vacation time. They endured excessive hour shifts, trifle amounts of pay, and dangerous conditions while working in the factories. Labor movements could not handle this anymore; therefore, they took action. The main points they argued for were safer atmospheres, honest pay, and easier working shifts.
Mentioning the fruitless riots in Paris and Lyon, she asserts that unions are the workers’ “one legal and legitimate resource” with which to end oppression. Instead of trying to rebuild society from the ground up in small colonies, Tristan maintains that positive change can be made for workers on a large scale and within the existing societal framework. In The Manifesto of the Communist Party, Marx and Engels maintain that large-scale political change is immediately necessary to ensure the proletariat’s rights: “the first step.is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling as to win the battle of democracy. The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State.”
Between the years of 1976 to 1983, the period known as the ‘Dirty War’ was in full force in Argentina. During this period, thousands of people mysteriously went missing, and are referred to now as the ‘Disappeared’. It is believed that many of the disappeared were taken by agents of the Argentine government, and perhaps tortured and killed before their bodies were disposed of in unmarked graves or rural areas. Whenever the female captives were pregnant, their children were stolen away right after giving birth, while they themselves remained detained. It is estimated that 500 young children and infants were given to families with close ties to the military to be raised. Within this essay I would like to touch on the brief history of the Dirty war and why the military felt it was necessary to take and kill thousands of Argentina’s, and also the devastating affects the disappeared, and stolen children are having on living relatives of those taken or killed. It is hard to imagine something like this happening in North America relatively recently. To wakeup and have members of your family missing, with no explanation, or to one day be told your parents are not biologically related is something Argentina’s had to deal with, and are continuing to face even today.
These workers mostly worked in an outdoor environment, and they were paid hourly or by piecework wage. Industrial workers were usually the image that comes to mind when discussing a blue collar job. Other professions that fall under this title were: “skilled craft workers, industrial operatives, and unskilled laborers” (Diner, p.51). Big business played a major power force for many if not all blue collar workers who worked for a corporation. New technology was brought in by many big businesses. These machines could do the same job that many workers did except that the machine did not have to be paid. Many businesses began to undermine the skilled craft workers and they quickly lost their autonomy and their pay declined (Diner, p.54). The great expansion of America’s industrial economy, however, caused these businesses to rely upon the workers once again because the massive increase in need caused the machines to occasionally break. These workers then needed to use their skills once again, and they soon had power and control over their lives. The machines even created a new industry to make parts for itself when it broke, which happened often (Diner, p.53). The factor of big business realized that it still needed its workers and soon gave some power over to them so they could maintain their lives and
They provided the labor exchange which enable the immigrants to get jobs for their survival, though they were been exploited it was their source of livelihood and they couldn’t complain. The existence of the middle class has fueled the creation of the lower class for exploitation. Candido, America and all the undocumented immigrants struggle to work hard in hope of achieving the luxury of the middle class without knowing the people of higher class stifle the progress of the lower class in order to exploit them to stay relevant. ‘Exploitation: the systematic diversion of the proceeds of the knowledge, creativity and effort of human labor to enrich a propertied elite, so that “the labor of the many [becomes] the wealth of the few” (Marx,
While they raked in ¬¬¬¬¬_____insert monetary value here_____, their employees made only a fraction of that value. As a result of this discrepancy, countless labor reform unions were formed to fight for better rights. William Sylvis, founder of the National Labor Union, spoke some interesting rhetoric when confronting the issue of capitalism. He questioned, “If working men and capitalists are equal co-partners, why do they not share equally in the profits? Why does capital take to itself the whole loaf, while labor is left to gather up the crumbs?
During the 20th century, many social movements spread throughout Latin America pressuring for social, economic, and political change. Amongst many social revolutionaries in the region, the most notable are Zapatista movement in Mexico and Perónism in Argentina. Zapatism is the movement associated with rebel leader Emiliano Zapata about the ideas of agrarian land reform. Perónism is the phenomenon that came out of Juan Perón’s presidency that is linked to the “working class” of Argentinean society. While both of these social movements were noted in helping the lower social class, the leaders used different approaches to carry out their ideas, some being more successful than others.
I have chosen an article called,’’These Women Lived To Tell The Tale Of Argentina's Dirty War. It is about those women who have survived the dirty war. One of them is Victoria Donda, 38. She was born in a clandestine maternity ward in the ESMA. It is a former illegal custody center in Buenos Aires. As soon as she had delivered the baby Victoria’s mother Maria Hilda de Donda was shifted. In other words, she was drugged and thrown out of a plane into the River Plate during a “death flight’’. Which basically was choose by military way of the disappearing people. Victoria’s father ,Jose Maria Donda, experienced the same fate. In the meantime, the orphaned Victoria was given over to a military family to be raised up as their own.
Daughter My thoughts on Carmen Aguirre’s memoirs are that of a mind opening and revolutionary perspective of what facts and stats cannot express. Carmen Aguirre gives an in depth and personal approach for educating people about what it was like to be a part of the Pinochet resistance in Latin America. Her first-hand approach to delivering details from her young childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood years illustrates the real-world struggles that millions of people endured during those times of Neo-capitalism. In this review of her works, I will be dissecting Aguirre’s effectiveness of persuading the reader to sympathize with her in the fight for social justice.
On July 29th Samiah and I arrived at 11:00 a.m. at the Wal-Mart on Beach Blvd and Hodges to shop for items from her WIC Voucher. Samiah dad was waiting at the front entrance, as we approached dad I said look Samiah your dad is here and Samiah just looked at him she did not reach for him or smile. I asked dad did he have his copy of the WIC voucher he told me he forgot. Dad asked to push the cart that Samiah sitting in I said okay. As I watched the interaction while dad was trying to talk to Samiah she just look at him and sometime look away. Once in Wal- mart I began to shop for the items from the WIC voucher dad did not seen concern to look at the list with me or help me pick out items
This dissertation examines the role politics and public perspectives play on the waning representation of the African in Argentina. It opens with an analysis of the Argentinian slave trade, therefore establishing the presence of Africans in the country. Brazil is used as a comparative marker at first, for its similarities in statistics regarding the slave trade, then to note the differences post-abolishment in the representation of Africans between the countries. Upon examination of the stark decline in African presence, the question, “Where are did all the Africans go?” is posed. To answer this, the political system is dissected, focusing on the reign
Evidently, there is much overlap between these movements. “Argentina’s economic crisis made the failures and limitations of the neoliberal capitalist system clear” (Mason-Deese, 2016: 83) and forced much of the resistance out of sheer necessity. The resistance movements discussed are forms of new autonomous social movements (Sitrin 2012: 61) they all display aspects of horizontalism. When the movements insist on horizontalidad they signify the lack of hierarchy evident in these alternatives. They show that “people making decisions together is an integral component of the day-to-day revolutions taking place” throughout Argentina (Sitrin, 2012: 61). Essentially, the people chose to put “the reproduction of life over the reproduction of capital” (Mason-Deese, 2016: 84).