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Edward Brudney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Prof. Eddie Brudney<\/a> published an article<\/a> entitled “‘In Defense of Our Livelihoods’: Rethinking Authoritarian Legality and Worker Resistance during Argentina\u2019s Proceso de Reorganizaci\u00f3n Nacional” in Labor<\/a>: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas<\/em> (Vol. 16, no. 4, December 2019)<\/p>\n

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This article examines a series of worker strikes that culminated in the takeover of the Deutz Argentina tractor factory in October 1980. These mobilizations occurred under the most violent military regime in modern Argentine history\u2014the Proceso de Reorganizaci\u00f3n Nacional (Process of National Reorganization, 1976\u201383)\u2014yet they did not provoke legal or extralegal repression. Instead, over a week of highly visible conflicts, the Deutz workforce challenged the company\u2019s decision to close the plant and publicly attacked the dictatorship\u2019s economic policies and failure to defend Argentina\u2019s national interest. This episode has been largely ignored within the history of labor relations during the Proceso.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In this article, I advance two related arguments. First, I suggest that while several factors contributed to the lack of violence, the workers\u2019 discourse demands serious analysis and shows important continuities with historical Peronist ideologies. Rather than passive victims or heroic revolutionaries, I demonstrate that Deutz workers pursued a pragmatic and occasionally aggressive strategy centered around ideas of patriotism, family, and religion\u2014all ideas that the Armed Forces rhetorically celebrated. Second, I argue that this case challenges accepted notions related to the \u201cstate of exception\u201d that nominally suspended the normal functioning of the law. Instead, I show, the law and legal precedent remained critically important to workers, trade unionists, management, and state actors as they navigated this situation. Labor legislation played a key role in the development, understanding, and resolution of the confrontation. This reading takes seriously the Proceso as a government and offers new insight into authoritarian legality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prof. Eddie Brudney published an article entitled “‘In Defense of Our Livelihoods’: Rethinking Authoritarian Legality and Worker Resistance during Argentina\u2019s Proceso de Reorganizaci\u00f3n Nacional” in Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas.<\/p>\n

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