Nosostros gobierno

Nosotros gobierno!: Participation and organization of workers in the cordones industriales of Santiago and nationalized companies in Tomé during the Allende government (1970)(1971)(1972)(1973) In 1970, Salvador Allende was elected president of Chile as leader of a leftist coalition, Popular Unity (UP), proposing a set of deep political, economic and social transformations in the country as a form of transition to socialism.The UP government generated many expectations for workers, peasants and other poor sectors and proposed a system of popular participation which, along with nationalization of wealth, formed one of the central axes of its program.This dissertation deals with the experiences of workers in cordones industriales located in Santiago and nationalized textile industries in the city of Tomé.There were numerous mobilizations of the popular sectors organized in cordones and nationalized companies during this period both in defense of the government against the employers' and right-wing offensive and also as a way to advance changes that went beyond mere institutional levels.I seek to understand the working dynamics of these organizations of popular power and the relationship of cordones and nationalized companies with the government, political parties and trade unions.Despite their different dynamics, the cordones and workers' organizations in the nationalized textile industries represented new forms of worker organization based on class solidarity.Numerous joint actions, such as strikes and demonstrations were articulated, strengthening the bonds of solidarity between workers and enabling them to take a greater role in the process.The thesis is based on fourteen interviews with workers in the cordones and the nationalized industries of the period as well as an extensive reading of the union and political press

Economics · Economy · Left-wing politics · Political science · Politics · Socialism · Solidarity · Working class · Law · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Public Administration