Part-Time Miners: Labor Segmentation and Collective Action in the Peruvian Mining Industry

Author:

Manky Omar

Abstract

Over the past two decades, besides the transformation of the organizational structure of the mining industry, there has been a shift in the spatial organization of production, expressed by the replacement of mining towns with mining hotels. Two case studies in Peru show that these changes have produced new forms of labor segmentation affecting workers’ capacity to mobilize by turning those who are directly employed by the company into a minority. While subcontracted miners have managed to overcome organizational segmentation by organizing across companies, the spatial segmentation of the mining hotel model has made local coordination difficult. Workers are not, however, necessarily defeated, as greater spatial mobility may offer possibilities of networking with new actors. En las últimas dos décadas, a la transformación de la estructura organizacional de las empresas mineras, cuya manifestación es la subcontratación laboral, se agrega el cambio en la organización espacial de la producción, expresada en el reemplazo del modelo de ciudad por hoteles mineros. Dos estudios de caso en Perú revelan que la segmentación organizacional reduce la capacidad de movilización porque vuelve a los trabajadores directamente empleados una minoría. Mientras la segmentación organizacional puede ser parcialmente superada a partir de la capacidad de los contratistas para coordinar acciones, un segundo tipo de segmentación, la espacial, dificulta coordinaciones a nivel local. Sin embargo, los obreros mineros no están necesariamente derrotados, pues su alta movilidad espacial podría traer la posibilidad de tender redes con actores transnacionales.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Sociology and Political Science,Geography, Planning and Development

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