The Clean Walls Of A Recovered Factory: New Subjectivities In Argentina's Recovered Factories.

As the 20th century was tumbling to a close, massive direct actions led by different social movements challenged the course of the neoliberal economic and social practices that had bankrupted Argentine's economy. As unemployed workers block- aded highways demanding subsidies, more than 10,000 people took over their bankrupted factories and put them back to work. This ethnographic paper explores the production of new subjectivities at a balloon factory, where the author worked while doing participant observation in January 2007, against the historical background of the creation of Argentina's working class subjects during Juan Peron's first presidency, and clientelistic welfare plans during the IMF-induced crisis of the mid-1990s and early 2000s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]