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DuBois traces how state repression and community militancy are remembered in a neighborhood in Buenos Aires and how the tangled and ambiguous legacies of the past continued to shape ordinary people's lives years after the collapse of the military regime.

This article explores how the International Labour Organization (ILO) introduced management development programs in Argentina as a pilot project in developing countries in the late 1950s. By studying how the ILO worked together with actors at the national level, the article reveals how the ILO’s original idea to focus on top management development was reshaped through a dialogue with local actors within the context of tripartite cooperation between the government, business organizations, and unions. While the initiative was successful during the project period, it collapsed when Argentina’s government closed down the national productivity center with which the ILO was cooperating. While the tripartite principle was valuable for the first achievements, it was extremely vulnerable without the support of all partners.

Democratization in the developing and postcommunist world has yielded limited gains for labor. Explanations for this phenomenon have focused on the effect of economic crisis and globalization on the capacities of unions to become influential political actors and to secure policies that benefit their members. In contrast, the contributors toWorking through the Pasthighlight the critical role that authoritarian legacies play in shaping labor politics in new democracies, providing the first cross-regional analysis of the impact of authoritarianism on labor, focusing on East and Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America.Legacies from the predemocratic era shape labor's present in ways that both limit and enhance organized labor's power in new democracies. Assessing the comparative impact on a variety of outcomes relevant to labor in widely divergent settings, this volume argues that political legacies provide new insights into why labor movements in some countries have confronted the challenges of neoliberal globalization better than others. Democratization in the developing and postcommunist world has yielded limited gains for labor. Explanations for this phenomenon have focused on the effect of economic crisis and globalization on the capacities of unions to become influential political actors and to secure policies that benefit their members. In contrast, the contributors toWorking through the Pasthighlight the critical role that authoritarian legacies play in shaping labor politics in new democracies, providing the first cross-regional analysis of the impact of authoritarianism on labor, focusing on East and Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. Legacies from the predemocratic era shape labor's present in ways that both limit and enhance organized labor's power in new democracies. Assessing the comparative impact on a variety of outcomes relevant to labor in widely divergent settings, this volume argues that political legacies provide new insights into why labor movements in some countries have confronted the challenges of neoliberal globalization better than others.Contributors:Graciela Bensusán, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, Mexico; Teri L. Caraway, University of Minnesota; Adalberto Cardoso, State University of Rio de Janeiro; Ruth Berins Collier, University of California, Berkeley; Maria Lorena Cook, Cornell University; Stephen Crowley, Oberlin College; Volker Frank, University of North Carolina, Asheville; Mary E. Gallagher, University of Michigan; Marko Grdesic, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Jane Hutchison, Murdoch University, Australia; Yoonkyung Lee, Binghamton University; David Ost, Hobart and William Smith Colleges; Andrés Schipani, University of California, Berkeley

This paper examines whether public investment spending and inward foreign direct investment (FDI) enhance labor productivity growth in Argentina. Using annual data, it estimates a dynamic labor productivity function for the 1960-2015 period that incorporates the impact of public and private investment spending, education expenditures, the labor force, and export growth. It tests for both single and two-break unit root tests, as well as performing cointegration tests with an endogenously determined regime shift over the 1960-2015 period. Cointegration analysis suggests that a long-term relationship exists among the relevant variables. The error correction (EC) models suggest that (lagged) increases in public investment spending and education have a positive and significant effect on the rate of labor productivity growth Also, the model is estimated for a shorter period (1970-2015) to capture the impact of inward FDI flows. The estimates suggest that (lagged) FDI flows have a positive and significant impact on labor productivity growth, while increases in the labor force have a negative effect. From a policy standpoint, the findings call into question the politically expedient policy in many Latin American countries, including Argentina during the 1990s and 2000s, of disproportionately reducing public capital expenditures on education and infrastructure to meet reductions in the fiscal deficit as a proportion of GDP. The results give further support to pro-investment and pro-growth policies designed to promote public investment spending and attract inward FDI flows.

Mark S. Anner spent ten years working with labor unions in Latin America and returned to conduct eighteen months of field research: he found himself in the middle of violent raids, was detained and interrogated in a Salvadoran basement prison cell, and survived a bombing in a union cafeteria. This experience as a participant observer informs and enlivensSolidarity Transformed, an illustrative, nuanced, and insightful account of how labor unions in Latin American are developing new strategies to defend the interests of the workers they represent in dynamic global and local contexts. Anner combines in-depth case studies of the auto and apparel industries in El Salvador, Honduras, Brazil, and Argentina with survey analysis. Altogether, he documents approximately seventy labor campaigns-both successful and failed-over a period of twenty years. Anner finds that four labor strategies have dominated labor campaigns in recent years: transnational activist campaigns; transnational labor networks; radical flank mechanisms; and microcorporatist worker-employer pacts. The choice of which strategy to pursue is shaped by the structure of global supply chains, access to the domestic political process, and labor identities. Anner's multifaceted approach is both rich in anecdote and supported by quantitative research. The result is a book in which labor activists find new and creative ways to support their members and protect their organizations in the midst of political change, global restructuring, and economic crises. Mark S. Anner spent ten years working with labor unions in Latin America and returned to conduct eighteen months of field research: he found himself in the middle of violent raids, was detained and interrogated in a Salvadoran basement prison cell, and survived a bombing in a union cafeteria. This experience as a participant observer informs and enlivensSolidarity Transformed, an illustrative, nuanced, and insightful account of how labor unions in Latin America are developing new strategies to defend the interests of the workers they represent in dynamic global and local contexts. Anner combines in-depth case studies of the auto and apparel industries in El Salvador, Honduras, Brazil, and Argentina with survey analysis. Altogether, he documents approximately seventy labor campaigns-both successful and failed-over a period of twenty years. Anner finds that four labor strategies have dominated labor campaigns in recent years: transnational activist campaigns; transnational labor networks; radical flank mechanisms; and microcorporatist worker-employer pacts. The choice of which strategy to pursue is shaped by the structure of global supply chains, access to the domestic political process, and labor identities. Anner's multifaceted approach is both rich in anecdote and supported by quantitative research. The result is a book in which labor activists find new and creative ways to support their members and protect their organizations in the midst of political change, global restructuring, and economic crises.

This article traces the reception of E.P. Thompson’s work in Argentina over the past three decades. It explores the context in which Thompson was read by labor historians as a means to analyse the way in which the country’s labor historiography was shaped over this period. It argues that, in the 1980s and the 1990s, against a context characterized by a crisis of the political left and a downturn in the labor movement, Thompson’s appropriation was focused on his critique of Marxist “determinism”. While this corresponded to similar developments in other countries, Argentinian labor historiography started to show a different path in the early 2000s, when a tremendous social, political, and economic crisis shook the country. The article concludes that recent developments in labor historiography in Argentina show a different pattern to those seen in the “Global North”. Lucas Poy. En refaisant The Making: la réception d'E.P. Thompson en Argentine et le façonnement de l’historiographie du mouvement ouvrier. Cet article retrace la réception de l’œuvre d’E.P. Thompson en Argentine durant les trois dernières décennies. Il étudie le contexte dans lequel les historiens du mouvement ouvrier lurent Thompson comme moyen d’analyser la manière dont l’historiographie ouvrière de l’Argentine se façonna au cours de cette période. L’article soutient que, dans les années 1980 et 1990, par rapport à un contexte caractérisé par une crise de la gauche politique et un déclin dans le mouvement ouvrier, l’appropriation de Thompson se concentra sur sa critique du «déterminisme» marxiste. Cette évolution est parallèle à des développements analogues dans d’autres pays, mais l’historiographie ouvrière argentine commença à emprunter une autre voie au début des années 2000, lorsqu’une terrible crise sociale, politique et économique ébranla le pays. L’article conclut que les développements récents dans l’historiographie ouvrière en Argentine présente un modèle différent de ceux connus dans le «Nord mondial». Traduction: Christine Plard Lucas Poy. Die fortlaufende Neu-erarbeitung von The Making: E.P. Thompsons Rezeption in Argentinien und die Prägung der Arbeitsgeschichte. Dieser Beitrag rekonstruiert die Rezeptionsgeschichte E.P. Thompsons in Argentinien während der vergangenen drei Jahrzehnte. Er erkundet den Kontext, innerhalb dessen Thompson von Arbeitshistorikern gelesen wurde, um auf diesem Weg die Entwicklung der Arbeitsgeschichte des Landes in dieser Zeit zu analysieren. Es wird die These vertreten, dass die Aneignung Thompsons in den 1980er und 1990er Jahren, die von einer Krise der politischen Linken und einer Schwächung der Arbeiterbewegung geprägt waren, auf dessen Kritik des marxistischen „Determinismus” fokussiert war. Während dies noch vergleichbaren Entwicklungen in anderen Ländern entsprach, begann die argentinische Arbeitsgeschichte in den 2000er Jahren, als das Land von einer gewaltigen sozialen, politischen und Wirtschaftskrise erschüttert wurde, einen eigenen Weg zu beschreiten. Der Beitrag endet mit der Beobachtung, dass jüngere Entwicklungen innerhalb der argentinischen Arbeitsgeschichte von den aus dem „globalen Norden” beobachtbaren abweichen. Übersetzung: Max Henninger Lucas Poy. Reformando The Making: E.P. Thompson en Argentina y la configuración de una historiografía obrera. Este artículo se centra en la recepción en Argentina de los trabajos de E.P. Thompson a lo largo de las tres últimas décadas. En él se explora el contexto en el que Thompson fue leído por los historiadores del trabajo como una vía de análisis de la forma en que la historiografía obrera argentina se fue configurando a lo largo de ese periodo. Se sostiene que, en las décadas de 1980 y 1990, en un contexto caracterizado por una crisis política de la izquierda y por una pronunciada caída del movimiento obrero, la apropiación de Thompson se centró en su crítica del “determinismo” marxista. Mientras este aspecto es un elemento similar a lo que se ha podido observar en otros países, la historiografía obrera argentina comenzó a mostrar una trayectoria distinta en los inicios de la década del 2000, cuando una tremenda crisis social, política y económica sacudió el país. El artículo concluye que el desarrollo reciente de la historiografía obrera en Argentina se configura como un modelo distinto al que existe en otros espacios del ‘norte global’. Traducción: Vicent Sanz Rozalén

Sex workers in Argentina and beyond are making their histories visible through political action, often in the face of extreme and violent repression. Alongside two first waves of sex worker organizing, a third appears to be emerging from countries in the Global South, which has largely been neglected in academic commentaries. One such organization is Asociación de Mujeres Meretrices de la Argentina (AMMAR), the female sex workers' association of Argentina. This essay draws on questionnaire data, participant observation, and in-depth interviews with union and nonunion sex workers and members of the Central de Trabajadores Argentinos (CTA), the umbrella federation of which they are a part, across ten cities in Argentina. It traces the relationship between AMMAR and the CTA to examine how the two organizations have worked together to organize workers in an infamously exploitative, precarious, and vulnerable labor sector to achieve social and political change. The essay contributes to debates about the regeneration of the trade union movement and challenges the reigning wisdom that sex workers and trade unions are unlikely partners.

Resumen: El objetivo del presente artículo consiste en analizar las dinámicas de negociación colectiva y conflicto laboral durante el período 2003-2015 en Argentina, considerando las tensiones que caracterizaron los procesos de negociación colectiva como modo de institucionalización del conflicto laboral y su impacto en la organización sindical. En particular, mostramos que los procesos de negociación colectiva se vieron signados por la integración del conflicto laboral y la presión de las bases obreras sobre las dirigencias sindicales.