Book contents
- Proletarian Lives
- Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
- Proletarian Lives
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 “I Became a Bum”
- 3 “The Struggle Is on the Streets”
- 4 “I Know What It Means to Follow a Schedule”
- 5 “If It Rains or Hails, You Still Have to Show Up for Work”
- 6 “We Drink Mate, Eat a Good Stew, Talk … and That Way Time Flies”
- 7 “A Small Thing to Get By”
- 8 Conclusion
- Book part
- References
- Index
- Books in the Series (continued from p. iii)
5 - “If It Rains or Hails, You Still Have to Show Up for Work”
Development of New Habits
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 March 2022
- Proletarian Lives
- Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
- Proletarian Lives
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 “I Became a Bum”
- 3 “The Struggle Is on the Streets”
- 4 “I Know What It Means to Follow a Schedule”
- 5 “If It Rains or Hails, You Still Have to Show Up for Work”
- 6 “We Drink Mate, Eat a Good Stew, Talk … and That Way Time Flies”
- 7 “A Small Thing to Get By”
- 8 Conclusion
- Book part
- References
- Index
- Books in the Series (continued from p. iii)
Summary
This chapter describes the second way in which participants in the piquetero movement partake in working-class routines: development. For many activists who came of age since the 1990s, participation in a piquetero organization provides the chance to develop a lifestyle that they were raised to see as honorable, but that socioeconomic transformations have made increasingly unfeasible. In a context with limited opportunities for personal growth, the movement offers a working class ethos, plus the resources and training to exercise it. The chapter also shows how the expectations inculcated to young members reflect the ideal of a proletarian family with a gendered division of labor. Boys tend to enroll in infrastructure projects, while girls are far more likely to choose programs associated with household chores. In addition, even though all young members are compelled to have discipline at work and self-restraint at home, the actual meaning of these ideals is gender-specific. For men, being a responsible worker is associated with manual labor and public life, while for women expectations are framed in terms of modesty, domesticity, and motherhood.
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- Proletarian LivesRoutines, Identity, and Culture in Contentious Politics, pp. 101 - 125Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022