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Summary: This provocative study, based on intensive interviews that include questions not always asked by political scientists, offers a revisionist interpretation of the Marxist conception of class consciousness. Avoiding the conventional picture of workers either as helpless victims of society or revolutionary actors-in-waiting, Peter Ranis seeks to redress such approaches with empirical insights into the day-to-day experience of actual people living on wages and salaries. He shows workers beyond the factory walls and office windows: as citizens, parents, consumers, and homeowners. In the context of workers' private lives, their larger political opinions are better understood and interpreted. Argentine Workers provides an insightful analysis of the complex combination of values and attitudes exhibited by workers in a heavily unionized, industrially developing country. These textured views are depicted against the backdrop of traditional Peronist ideology as it is challenged by competing democratic and libertarian views of society. Since the fall of the military junta of 1976-1983, Peronism has reemerged as a majoritarian political party, though with a changed outlook. Ranis's study carefully delineates the attitudes of an Argentine working class in flux. Using a recent survey representing seven major blue-collar and white-collar unions from both the private and public sector, Ranis describes in specific terms what Argentine workers think and say about their unions, their employers, private and foreign enterprise, the economy, the state, privatization, landowners, politics, the military, the Montonero guerrillas, the "dirty war" and the "disappeared," the church, popular culture and leisure pursuits, and their personal lives and ambitions for themselves and their children. His often surprising findings are presented in 56 tables. Ranis's controversial conclusion is that working-class militancy and antiregime activities are distinct from revolutionary politics. The impact of Peronism among rank-and-file workers has been to make them at once social-democratic, liberal, and conservative, while they uphold labor solidarity and union participation in politics. Ranis places his observations in a useful context of working-class political culture that will have implications for theories of class and democracy. He theorizes about working-class lives in ways that will make engrossing reading for Marxist scholars, labor historians, sociologists of work, and Latin Americanists interested in popular culture

Language: eng

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Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, ©1992

Extent: xi, 313 pages

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I. Introduction. 1. Putting Workers in Perspective. 2. Labor and Peronism: The Historical Connection
II. The Structural Component. 3. The Contexts and Conditions of Labor Under Alfonsin. 4. A Portrait of Seven Union Contracts
III. The Human Response. 5. The Rank-and-File Worker. 6. Workers as Citizens. 7. Class and Ideology Among Argentine Workers
IV. Theoretical Retrospective. 8. Argentine Workers and the Question of Class Consciousness. 9. Workers and Democratic Political Culture
V. The Contemporary Overview. 10. Post-Alfonsin Peronism. 11. Conclusion

Isbn: 9780822937036

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Title: Argentine workers

Title remainder: Peronism and contemporary class consciousness

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Ranis, Peter

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Language: eng

Summary: This provocative study, based on intensive interviews that include questions not always asked by political scientists, offers a revisionist interpretation of the Marxist conception of class consciousness. Avoiding the conventional picture of workers either as helpless victims of society or revolutionary actors-in-waiting, Peter Ranis seeks to redress such approaches with empirical insights into the day-to-day experience of actual people living on wages and salaries. He shows workers beyond the factory walls and office windows: as citizens, parents, consumers, and homeowners. In the context of workers' private lives, their larger political opinions are better understood and interpreted. Argentine Workers provides an insightful analysis of the complex combination of values and attitudes exhibited by workers in a heavily unionized, industrially developing country. These textured views are depicted against the backdrop of traditional Peronist ideology as it is challenged by competing democratic and libertarian views of society. Since the fall of the military junta of 1976-1983, Peronism has reemerged as a majoritarian political party, though with a changed outlook. Ranis's study carefully delineates the attitudes of an Argentine working class in flux. Using a recent survey representing seven major blue-collar and white-collar unions from both the private and public sector, Ranis describes in specific terms what Argentine workers think and say about their unions, their employers, private and foreign enterprise, the economy, the state, privatization, landowners, politics, the military, the Montonero guerrillas, the "dirty war" and the "disappeared," the church, popular culture and leisure pursuits, and their personal lives and ambitions for themselves and their children. His often surprising findings are presented in 56 tables. Ranis's controversial conclusion is that working-class militancy and antiregime activities are distinct from revolutionary politics. The impact of Peronism among rank-and-file workers has been to make them at once social-democratic, liberal, and conservative, while they uphold labor solidarity and union participation in politics. Ranis places his observations in a useful context of working-class political culture that will have implications for theories of class and democracy. He theorizes about working-class lives in ways that will make engrossing reading for Marxist scholars, labor historians, sociologists of work, and Latin Americanists interested in popular culture

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Pitt Latin American series

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http://library.link/vocab/creatorName: Ranis, Peter

Dewey number: 305.5/62/0982

Illustrations: illustrations

Index: index present

LC call number: HD8266.5

LC item number: .R36 1992

Literary form: non fiction

Nature of contents: bibliography

Series statement: Pitt Latin American series

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Working class
Labor unions
Peronism
Peronismo
Sindicatos
Travailleurs
Syndicats
Péronisme
Arbeidersklasse
Peronisme
Vakverenigingen
Klassenbewustzijn
Arbeiter
Peronismus
Geschichte
Argentina
Argentinien

Label: Argentine workers : Peronism and contemporary class consciousness, Peter Ranis

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Argentine workers : Peronism and contemporary class consciousness

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Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, ©1992

Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-306) and index

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Contents: I. Introduction. 1. Putting Workers in Perspective. 2. Labor and Peronism: The Historical Connection -- II. The Structural Component. 3. The Contexts and Conditions of Labor Under Alfonsin. 4. A Portrait of Seven Union Contracts -- III. The Human Response. 5. The Rank-and-File Worker. 6. Workers as Citizens. 7. Class and Ideology Among Argentine Workers -- IV. Theoretical Retrospective. 8. Argentine Workers and the Question of Class Consciousness. 9. Workers and Democratic Political Culture -- V. The Contemporary Overview. 10. Post-Alfonsin Peronism. 11. Conclusion

Control code: 24501272

Dimensions: 25 cm

Extent: xi, 313 pages

Isbn: 9780822937036

Lccn: 91035602

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Other physical details: illustrations

System control number: (WaOLN)1453622

Label: Argentine workers : Peronism and contemporary class consciousness, Peter Ranis

Publication

Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-306) and index

Carrier category: volume

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Carrier MARC source: rdacarrier

Content category: text

Content type code

Content type MARC source: rdacontent

Contents: I. Introduction. 1. Putting Workers in Perspective. 2. Labor and Peronism: The Historical Connection -- II. The Structural Component. 3. The Contexts and Conditions of Labor Under Alfonsin. 4. A Portrait of Seven Union Contracts -- III. The Human Response. 5. The Rank-and-File Worker. 6. Workers as Citizens. 7. Class and Ideology Among Argentine Workers -- IV. Theoretical Retrospective. 8. Argentine Workers and the Question of Class Consciousness. 9. Workers and Democratic Political Culture -- V. The Contemporary Overview. 10. Post-Alfonsin Peronism. 11. Conclusion

Control code: 24501272

Dimensions: 25 cm

Extent: xi, 313 pages

Isbn: 9780822937036

Lccn: 91035602

Media category: unmediated

Media MARC source: rdamedia

Media type code

Other physical details: illustrations

System control number: (WaOLN)1453622

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