Este año, LASA premió a Francisca Gutiérrez con publicación sobre el labor de los sindicatos chilenos para impugnar el orden neoliberal a través de la movilización legal.
Con el premio al mejor artículo (“Best Article Award Winners”), la investigadora COES Francisca Gutiérrez, también profesora asistente y directora del Magíster en Gestión de Personas en Organizaciones de la Universidad Alberto Hurtado, obtuvo el premio al mejor artículo (Best Article Award Winners) con «Contesting the Neoliberal Order through Legal Mobilisation: The Case of Chilean Unions» en el Journal of Latin American Studies de LASA, mención honorífica en la sección de Estudios Laborales.
El comité a cargo de selección estuvo formado por Sandra Leiva, Jean-Francois Mayer, Pablo Pérez Ahumada (COES/UAH), quien además es secretario y tesorero (2020–2022) de la sección de Estudios Laborales de LASA ; y Katherine Maich.
ABSTRACT:
Scholars interested in labour in Latin America have traditionally paid little attention to trade unions’ legal mobilisation. However, the increasing number of legal complaints filed by workers with labour ministries and/or the courts in countries like Argentina, Brazil and Chile calls for a more serious debate on the role that trade unions play in this process. This article focuses on the Chilean case. Drawing on various sources, it shows that Chilean unions have turned legal complaints into a weapon to gain more rights and curb employers’ power. This process has involved the strongest and most combative unions, and is due to two historical conditions: (1) the obstacles placed in the way of successful resort to more disruptive tactics; (2) the increase in institutional opportunities to report infringements of the law. Overall, the article challenges the current image of the Chilean unions by foregrounding their agency and their achievements over the last decade.
«Contesting the Neoliberal Order through Legal Mobilisation: The Case of Chilean Unions,» publicado en el Journal of Latin American Studies 52(3): 575-599 (2020)