158.5 Crisis, alienation and self-management praxis

Wednesday, August 1, 2012: 3:30 PM
Faculty of Economics, TBA
Alberto L. BIALAKOWSKY , Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cecilia M. LUSNICH , Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Demetrio TARANDA , Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Guadalupe ROMERO , Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Pablo D. ORTIZ , Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
In the contemporary context of mutation of the capitalist system and its socio-metabolism in times of crisis, centers as the U.S. and the European Union, register high remarkable destructiveness phenomena in the world of work and subordination of everyday life. This work proposes, in contrast,  to  analyze the experiences and actually self-managed labor movements in Argentina comprising  -hologramatically-  these practices as possible resistance laboratory in front of alienation and social modulations imposed by the neoliberal hegemony.

Beyond the local character of the same, may be indicated by hypotheses, these alternative essays alternative host operating characteristics as resistance to friction between labor and capital, and place under discussion in their own daily practice the alienating the buying and the selling of force work, even if this relationship is mediated by the market and their endless demands of subordination. From this perspective, theoretically and empirically will focus on three relevant dimensions of self-managed work conflict that make for the reappropriation of the collective, for the recovery of the production process and the aggregation and subjectivity of knowledge.

These dynamics shape the processes of change against the destructiveness generated by today's capitalism and connote the tensions of the split social subject, estranged from its being generic and alienated of biopolitical power. The singularity of this research proposal is developed with a co-research methodology, which epistemic practice includes workers participation as a condition of dialogical creation of knowledge. Consequently, it is placed in question the potential of these processes and their intellectual innovations that help to reverse the above processes destructiveness, as well as to incorporate comprehensive approaches with the emerging contributions of Latin American critical thought.