Movilización de recursos de poder en el resurgimiento del protagonismo sindical en Argentina post 2001

In the 90s a union crisis took place in Argentina, that is, a weakening of unions as protective and representative organizations of the working class. Ten years later, after the 2001 economic, political and social crisis, in a new situation of economic growth and political and institutional strengthening, we find a renewed leading role of unions, phenomenon we will call «revitalization». This concept is a local readaptation of the international debate on trade union strategies to face capitalist restructurings from the European and Anglo-Saxon literature. The aim of this work is to understand and compare this two historical periods since the so called power resources theory. We will contrast the power resources mobilized by unions in the period that goes from the 90s to the 2001 crisis and in the period that begins after the crisis. After the 2001 crisis, in the context of a rebuilding of production, employment and labor institutions, unions recovered the centrality of industrial and political resources. This study is realized within the disciplinary framework of political sciences and labor relations and seeks to contribute to studies on unions using the power resources theory and debates on union revitalization.