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Out of the Ashes

Out of the Ashes Striking members of the Copper Workers’ Confederation Local 2 block the access road to an Anglo-American-owned mine, January 26, 2015. CTC Local 2 XXX10.1177/1095796016639280New Labor ForumRojas research-article2016 New Labor Forum 2016, Vol. 25(2) 36–46 Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection Copyright © 2016, The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Reprints and permissions: of the Chilean Labor Movement sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1095796016639280 nlf.sagepub.com René Rojas Keywords capitalism, collective bargaining, neoliberalism, trade unions, working class, collective action After an epochal defeat, Chile’s working strategy contributed to the formation and later class is presently experiencing a surprising re- victory of Salvador Allende’s Popular Unity vitalization. Having been organizationally crushed coalition. and structurally marginalized by the repression Allende’s alliance eventually succumbed to and industrial transformations of the Pinochet tensions between strategies of socialism from dictatorship, Chile’s labor movement was below and socialism from above, fracturing further disempowered by neoliberalism’s consoli- between a radical wing and moderates under dation under post-authoritarian center-left gov- Allende. In 1973, backed by business groups and ernments. While Chile’s working class is far from political parties from CDs to traditional conserva- attaining the same levels of organization and mili- tives and fascist groupings, Augusto Pinochet led tancy as http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png New Labor Forum SAGE

Out of the Ashes

New Labor Forum , Volume 25 (2): 11 – May 1, 2016

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Striking members of the Copper Workers’ Confederation Local 2 block the access road to an Anglo-American-owned mine, January 26, 2015. CTC Local 2 XXX10.1177/1095796016639280New Labor ForumRojas research-article2016 New Labor Forum 2016, Vol. 25(2) 36–46 Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection Copyright © 2016, The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Reprints and permissions: of the Chilean Labor Movement sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1095796016639280 nlf.sagepub.com René Rojas Keywords capitalism, collective bargaining, neoliberalism, trade unions, working class, collective action After an epochal defeat, Chile’s working strategy contributed to the formation and later class is presently experiencing a surprising re- victory of Salvador Allende’s Popular Unity vitalization. Having been organizationally crushed coalition. and structurally marginalized by the repression Allende’s alliance eventually succumbed to and industrial transformations of the Pinochet tensions between strategies of socialism from dictatorship, Chile’s labor movement was below and socialism from above, fracturing further disempowered by neoliberalism’s consoli- between a radical wing and moderates under dation under post-authoritarian center-left gov- Allende. In 1973, backed by business groups and ernments. While Chile’s working class is far from political parties from CDs to traditional conserva- attaining the same levels of organization and mili- tives and fascist groupings, Augusto Pinochet led tancy as

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