Mentors and proteges. The role of the trade unions in the career of the senatorial clerks

The Senate Chamber of the Argentinian Republic stands out for the interpersonal relationships based on patronage-bonding links between authorities, legislators, political parties or labor unions and clerks. Those bonds, in constant change, are sustained by kinship or affinity. Authorities and labor...

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Autor principal: Ferreño, Laura
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Instituto de Investigación y Formación en Administración Pública (IIFAP-FCS-UNC) 2020
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National Senate
Patronage
Labor Unions
Authorities
Clerks
Senado de la Nación
Padrinazgo
Sindicatos
Autoridades
Agentes
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/APyS/article/view/30727
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Administración Pública y Sociedad (APyS) de Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
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spelling I10-R357-article-307272022-07-05T03:29:44Z Mentors and proteges. The role of the trade unions in the career of the senatorial clerks De padrinos y entenados. El rol sindical en el derrotero de los agentes senatoriales Ferreño, Laura National Senate Patronage Labor Unions Authorities Clerks Senado de la Nación Padrinazgo Sindicatos Autoridades Agentes The Senate Chamber of the Argentinian Republic stands out for the interpersonal relationships based on patronage-bonding links between authorities, legislators, political parties or labor unions and clerks. Those bonds, in constant change, are sustained by kinship or affinity. Authorities and labor unions “arrange” the designations for the temporal and stable positions, in addition to promotions in the legislative ladder; authorities and senators unionize themselves, thus the labor unions become intrinsically influenced by politics, the Public Law 24600, the Statute and the idiosyncratic proceedings for the legislative personnel of the National Congress allow these irregular behaviors. In this context, a godfather is essential to ascend and secure the clerk’s career; being the person in charge of negotiating the employee’s “orders” with the authorities. The ethnographic tools (long-lasting fieldwork and interviews), the normative’s revision and the presidential decrees, allowed to reflect upon the rationality of the strategies deployed by the labor unions and the legislative clerks; it is expected to in this way make a contribution from an anthropological point of view to the knowledge of an uninvestigated facet of the legislative world, as are the personnel designations and the directions of their professional careers. La Cámara de Senadores de la Nación Argentina se caracteriza por las relaciones interpersonales sustentadas en lazos de padrinazgo que se establecen entre autoridades, legisladores, bloques partidarios o gremios y los agentes. Estos vínculos, cambiantes entre las partes, pueden ser de parentesco o afinidad. Autoridades y sindicatos “acuerdan” las designaciones en planta permanente y temporaria, así como los ascensos escalafonarios; las autoridades y senadores se gremializan, los gremios se politizan y la ley 24600, el Estatuto y Escalafón para el Personal del Congreso de la Nación, “valida” estas acciones. En este contexto, un padrino es primordial para que el agente progrese en su carrera administrativa; este será quien negocie los “pedidos” de los empleados ante las autoridades. Las herramientas etnográficas (trabajo de campo prolongado y entrevistas), la revisión de la normativa y de los decretos presidenciales, permitieron reflexionar respecto a la racionalidad de las estrategias sindicales y de los agentes senatorial; se espera de este modo, contribuir desde la antropología al conocimiento de un aspecto poco explorado de los mundos legislativos, como lo es, las designaciones de personal y los derroteros de sus carreras laborales. Instituto de Investigación y Formación en Administración Pública (IIFAP-FCS-UNC) 2020-12-18 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf text/html https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/APyS/article/view/30727 Administración Pública y Sociedad (APyS); Núm. 10 (2020): Julio - Diciembre ; 162-185 2524-9568 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/APyS/article/view/30727/32239 https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/APyS/article/view/30727/32240 Derechos de autor 2020 Laura Ferreño http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
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topic National Senate
Patronage
Labor Unions
Authorities
Clerks
Senado de la Nación
Padrinazgo
Sindicatos
Autoridades
Agentes
spellingShingle National Senate
Patronage
Labor Unions
Authorities
Clerks
Senado de la Nación
Padrinazgo
Sindicatos
Autoridades
Agentes
Ferreño, Laura
Mentors and proteges. The role of the trade unions in the career of the senatorial clerks
topic_facet National Senate
Patronage
Labor Unions
Authorities
Clerks
Senado de la Nación
Padrinazgo
Sindicatos
Autoridades
Agentes
author Ferreño, Laura
author_facet Ferreño, Laura
author_sort Ferreño, Laura
title Mentors and proteges. The role of the trade unions in the career of the senatorial clerks
title_short Mentors and proteges. The role of the trade unions in the career of the senatorial clerks
title_full Mentors and proteges. The role of the trade unions in the career of the senatorial clerks
title_fullStr Mentors and proteges. The role of the trade unions in the career of the senatorial clerks
title_full_unstemmed Mentors and proteges. The role of the trade unions in the career of the senatorial clerks
title_sort mentors and proteges. the role of the trade unions in the career of the senatorial clerks
description The Senate Chamber of the Argentinian Republic stands out for the interpersonal relationships based on patronage-bonding links between authorities, legislators, political parties or labor unions and clerks. Those bonds, in constant change, are sustained by kinship or affinity. Authorities and labor unions “arrange” the designations for the temporal and stable positions, in addition to promotions in the legislative ladder; authorities and senators unionize themselves, thus the labor unions become intrinsically influenced by politics, the Public Law 24600, the Statute and the idiosyncratic proceedings for the legislative personnel of the National Congress allow these irregular behaviors. In this context, a godfather is essential to ascend and secure the clerk’s career; being the person in charge of negotiating the employee’s “orders” with the authorities. The ethnographic tools (long-lasting fieldwork and interviews), the normative’s revision and the presidential decrees, allowed to reflect upon the rationality of the strategies deployed by the labor unions and the legislative clerks; it is expected to in this way make a contribution from an anthropological point of view to the knowledge of an uninvestigated facet of the legislative world, as are the personnel designations and the directions of their professional careers.
publisher Instituto de Investigación y Formación en Administración Pública (IIFAP-FCS-UNC)
publishDate 2020
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