Resistance and Integration: Peronism and the Argentine Working Class, 1946–1976: 64 (Cambridge Latin American Studies, Series Number 64)
Cambridge University Press, 4/21/1988
EAN 9780521346351, ISBN10: 0521346355
Hardcover, 312 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
This book analyses the relationship between Peronism and the Argentine working class from the foundation of the Peronist movement in the mid 1940s to the overthrow of Peron's widow in 1976. It presents an account of such crucial issues as the role of the Peronist union bureaucracy and the impact of Peronist ideology on workers. Drawing on a variety of untapped sources, Daniel James confronts many of the dominant myths which have surrounded the movement. He argues that its role in containing working-class militancy cannot be explained solely in terms of manipulation, corruption or union gangsterism. The integration of Peronism into Argentine society has always been a complex and fragile operation, constantly undermined by the survival of the movement's original heretical content: its vision of a juster society in which the claim of the working class for a recognition of its social and political weight would be accepted.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. The Background
1. Peronism and the working class, 1943–55
Part II. The Peronist Resistance, 1955–8
2. The survival of Peronism
resistance in the factories
3. Commandos and unions
the emergence of the new Peronist union leadership
4. Ideology and consciousness in the Peronist resistance
Part III. Frondizi and Integration
Temptation and Disenchantment, 1958–62
5. Resistance and defeat
the impact on leaders, activists and rank and file
6. The corollary of institutional pragmatism
activists, commandos and elections
Part IV. The Vandor Era
1962–6
7. The burocracia sindical
power and politics in Peronist unions
8. Ideology and politics in Peronist unions
different currents within the movement
Part V. Workers and the Revolución Argentina
from OnganÃÂa to the Return of Perón, 1966–73
9. The Peronist union leaders under siege
new actors and new challenges
10. Conclusion
Notes
Select bibliography
Index.