Moral representations and degrees of participation in the 2007 conflict in the fishing industry of Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Abstract

The objective of this article is to analyze representations of labor conflict in a group of workers in the fish processing industry of the port city of Mar del Plata (Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina). The attraction is addressed to this group of workers who, historically and generationally, have suffered the devastating effects of precariousness and labor flexibilization in the filet branch. Specifically, we intend to explore the degree of participation, of our interviewees, in a conflict that occurred in 2007 in the fishing industry of Mar del Plata. We consider substantive to investigate such representations in relation to work trajectories, the working conditions involved in these trajectories and the production relations. To achieve the proposed objectives, primary sources constructed from a semistructured interview applied in the field to 161 workers were used.