ILPC 2026

 This paper analyzes some questions related to the organization of production and work regulation in three Argentinian important segments of audiovisual production: television, film and film advertising production. These are sectors with growing economic importance, historically penetrated by productive fragmentation strategies. More recently these strategies acquire a transnational character as a result of orientation towards international markets. With diverse degrees and hues, these strategies have contributed to the generalization of work instability and, consequently, to the flexibilization of some important aspects of work. This trend has been partially countered as a result of trade union action and the sign change that took the Argentinean labor policy between 2003 and 2015.

In this regard, it is observed in those years a shift in the institutional political framework of labor relations. In the 1990s, this framework was highly deregulating. Besides, in general terms -although with marked differences- the unions regained prominence, both at the institutional field and at the workplace.  Those processes contributed decisively to the recovery of working conditions of an important part of the work force. In the audiovisual industry we have certainly observed some of these tendencies of union resurgence and improvement of working conditions. These tendencies are articulated with other logics of highly flexible labor regulation derived from the organization of work.

In this paper, we study the externalization and labor politics which led to the current flexible forms of organization. After that, our proposal try to examine the conditions and labor regulations set up in each of these sectors, in a period that combined -with degrees and diverse nuances- economic growth and recovery of labor achievements. About the last dimension, our analysis focus on collective bargaining processes as a crystallization of power balance, articulated on industrial labor field, during this period. Trough this analysis, we try to understand the collective bargaining processes and contents by a comparative study between economics sectors. This strategy allows us to observe the progress and setbacks about labor regulations development on flexible productive contexts as those studied in this paper.