The “Mendozazo” and the bank workers: Struggle, trade union organisation and class experience

The aim of this paper is twofold. Firstly, to give an account of the participation of bank workers in the “Mendozazo” and their reading of it in the trade-union press. Secondly, it seeks to approach their forms of organisation and struggle before and after that mass event, dealing in depth with the...

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Autor principal: Baraldo, Natalia
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: ISHiR/CONICET 2022
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Sumario:The aim of this paper is twofold. Firstly, to give an account of the participation of bank workers in the “Mendozazo” and their reading of it in the trade-union press. Secondly, it seeks to approach their forms of organisation and struggle before and after that mass event, dealing in depth with the case of the Social Security Bank [Banco de Previsión Social (BPS)] during the decade 1963-1973. It is argued that the trade-union activity not formalised in an Internal Trade Union Commission was, in any case, prefigurative of it and that through this the workers of the BPS (re) constructed a class experience that posed the problem of power, the dispute of the social totality.