Neoliberal Workfare and the Battle for Grassroots Control in Argentina

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ID4500540
AuthorsSteven Araujo, Steven Glen Araujo (corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume45
Issue6
Pages81-96
Publication date2018-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0094582x17736314
OpenAlexW2763763484
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited17

While the vast majority of the academic literature on the popular classes and social programs in Argentina revolves around the concept of clientelism, it has largely ignored organizations that administer these programs without participating in clientelist networks and thus giving up their political autonomy. The struggle for grassroots control of an Argentine unemployed workers' movement known as the Frente de Organizaciones en Lucha depends on the use of neoliberal workfare programs. Its ability to take resources from the state and administer them according to its own principles and priorities challenges the inference that receiving social programs necessarily leads to co-optation. La mayor parte de la literatura académica sobre las clases populares y los planes sociales en Argentina gira en torno al concepto del clientelismo. Se han ignorado, sin embargo y en gran medida, las organizaciones que administran estos programas sin participar en dichas redes ni renunciar a su autonomía política. La lucha por la autogestión del Frente de Organizaciones en Lucha, un movimiento de trabajadores desocupados, depende del uso de programas de contraprestación laboral (workfare) neoliberales. Su capacidad de tomar recursos del estado y administrarlos según sus principios y prioridades desafía la idea de que recibir la ayuda otorgada por planes sociales inevitablemente lleva a la cooptación

Clientelism · Democracy · Economics · Grassroots · Humanities · Political science · Politics · Social movement · Welfare · Welfare economics · Workfare · Latin American socio-political dynamics · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America · Public Administration · Social and Economic Solidarity

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