Acción directa y sindicalismo. Una etnografía de combate
ISSN: 1578-6730
Year of publication: 2008
Issue: 17
Pages: 325-338
Type: Article
More publications in: Nómadas: Critical Journal of Social and Juridical Sciences
Abstract
In this article I make an ethnographic description of an episode of a strike in which, for several reasons, I was involved. I take advantage of the ethnography to reflect on the meaning of direct action and its role in class struggle. I also revise James Scott¿s analysis of power relations, for whom subordinate¿s offstage behaviour concludes when begins overt confrontation. I conclude that direct action, while promotes creativity and freedom for those who exercise it, and generates rejection in dominant groups, constructs in the present time an experience¿ephemeral, temporary¿of autonomy, which set the grounds for a horizontal model of society.