Miners, machines and union action: Reflections on the invisibilization/visibility of the miners of Jujuy
Miners in Jujuy are often overlooked as subjects in the broader discussions about mining. Yet, at the same time they have historically symbolized labor in the province. This article retraces and explores these processes of visibility and invisibility surrounding miners, drawing on collective reflect...
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Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA
2025
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/CAS/article/view/15571 |
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| Sumario: | Miners in Jujuy are often overlooked as subjects in the broader discussions about mining. Yet, at the same time they have historically symbolized labor in the province. This article retraces and explores these processes of visibility and invisibility surrounding miners, drawing on collective reflections from a trade union training workshop with mining delegates from the Asociación Obrera Minera Argentina - Jujuy. The paper identifies two key tensions regarding miners’ experience as workers: first, the contrast between their self-invisibility as producers and their self-recognition as salaried employees; and second, the paradox between the technical similarities of "technical-productive" processes across different companies and the differences in working conditions. This ambivalence, is not only the driving force and expression of the invisibilization-visibility processes, but also constrains the scope of union action, revealing a broader political and labor challenge: the impossibility of bringing the issue of property into the discussion. |
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