Las juventudes trabajadoras en el comercio minorista tradicional: gestión, control y resistencias
Las juventudes trabajadoras en el comercio minorista tradicional: gestión, control y resistencias
Authors
Favieri, Francisco Nicolás
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Date
2021
Datos de publicación:
10.7770/CUHSO-V31N1.ART2285
Keywords
Conflicto laboral - Juventud - Comercio minorista
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Abstract
La flexibilización de las condiciones de trabajo y contratación junto con la aparición de nuevas formas de control y gestión del proceso de trabajo han contribuido a la aparición de nuevas formas de empleo, siendo el sector de servicios y en particular el comercio minorista uno de los que más diver-sificaciones han presentado en los últimos años. En San Juan, Argentina gran parte de la juventud trabajadora consigue empleos en el comercio, donde además de constituirse como el grupo poblacional que más dificultades tiene para ingresar y permanecer en el mercado laboral se vinculan a la actividad en condiciones precarias de trabajo. Las estrategias y acciones por parte de los trabajadores y las trabajadoras para revertir esas situaciones parecen ser insuficientes, atribuyendo especialmente a las juventudes una posición de pasividad, inactividad y sumisión. A partir de un estudio de caso, este artículo se propone analizar la dinámica del trabajo en el comercio minorista tradicional, caracterizando las formas de gestión y control del trabajo, las expresiones de conflicto laboral y las resistencias emprendidas por jóvenes trabajadores y trabajadoras del Gran San Juan (Argentina) sobre el supuesto de que sostienen una lucha permanente para mejorar sus condiciones de trabajo y que en sus expresiones se configuran nuevas formas de resistencia. Entre los hallazgos se destaca que las juventudes trabajadoras despliegan diversas estrategias y acciones de resistencia reconfigurando la expresión del conflicto en el trabajo aunque no logran mejorar sus condiciones de empleo.
Flexible working conditions together with new emerging forms of control and management of work process have contributed to the creation of new forms of employment, being service , particularly, retail trade one of the most diversified in recent years. In San Juan, Argentina, a high percentage of young workers are employed in retail trade. Besides the difficulties to entering and keeping in the labour market, this population group have to deal with pre-carious jobs. The strategies and actions adopted by the workers to change the-se situations seem to be insufficient, especially when attributing a position of passivity, inactivity and submission to youth. Based on a case study, this article analyses the dynamics of work in the traditional retail trade, characterizing its ways of management and work control, the expressions of labour conflict and the resistance undertaken by young workers from Gran San Juan (Argentina), on the assumption that they are constantly struggling to improve their working conditions and that new forms of resistance are taking shape in their expres-sions. Among the findings, it is highlighted that working youths deploy various strategies and actions of resistance, reconfiguring the expression of conflict at work, although they are unable to improve their employment conditions.
Flexible working conditions together with new emerging forms of control and management of work process have contributed to the creation of new forms of employment, being service , particularly, retail trade one of the most diversified in recent years. In San Juan, Argentina, a high percentage of young workers are employed in retail trade. Besides the difficulties to entering and keeping in the labour market, this population group have to deal with pre-carious jobs. The strategies and actions adopted by the workers to change the-se situations seem to be insufficient, especially when attributing a position of passivity, inactivity and submission to youth. Based on a case study, this article analyses the dynamics of work in the traditional retail trade, characterizing its ways of management and work control, the expressions of labour conflict and the resistance undertaken by young workers from Gran San Juan (Argentina), on the assumption that they are constantly struggling to improve their working conditions and that new forms of resistance are taking shape in their expres-sions. Among the findings, it is highlighted that working youths deploy various strategies and actions of resistance, reconfiguring the expression of conflict at work, although they are unable to improve their employment conditions.