ILPC 2026

This paper is part of a broader investigation that aims to analize the business strategies in the Argentine steel industry and, on the other side, the resistance strategies of working class, from the last decade of the 1990s to recent years (1990-2015). In the framework of this general objective, the work aims to study the productive reconversion and labor outsourcing, according to the links between both phenomena and, at the same time, the impacts in the steelworkers’ organization and living conditions. The considered case is the state-owned company SOMISA, today Siderar, located in the city of San Nicolás, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The hypothesis indicates there is a particular link between the restructuring from the company between 1990 and 1991, privatization in 1992 and the expansion of labor outsourcing in the manufacturing plant. Methodology complements quantitative and qualitative strategies going from the realization of interviews with key informants to the work with databases provided by trade union sources.