The construction of the collective subjectivity of the workers of the popular economy in the pedagogical discourse of the CTEP

Abstract

The experience of collective representation of workers in the popular economy is felt differently and novel, in Argentina, as it reorders the organizational networks and identity interpellations of the popular field. This article aims to analyze the construction of the collective subjectivity of the sector, within the pedagogical discourse, during the genesis of the Confederación de Trabajadores de la Economía Popular. A qualitative research method, based on the collection and analysis of the training materials, was carried out. Additionally, the construction of collective subjectivity in the pedagogical discourse is examined from the following four dimensions: the identification of figures and counterfigures of ourselves, the recovery of the collective memory, the construction of the project, and the recognition of the historicity of the social order. The results of this study suggest that, in the context of production of meaning, the training materials focus especially on the appropriation on the internal front of this collective name which brings together both identities, the movementist, and the organized-labor movement.