Social movements and collective identities - Rethinking the labor protest cycle of Cordoba 1969-1971

This work intends to apply the theoretical categories stemmed from the confluence between those which have been known as American (theory of mobilizing structures and political opportunities) and European (construction of collective identities and framing processes) to the analysis of the Cordoban conjuncture of 1969-1971. What is outlined as first hypothesis is that the protest cycle unfettered in Cordoba by the workers of the dynamical sectors of the economy -mechanical workers of the plants of IKA-Renault and Fiat fundamentally- would have given birth to a social movement that toward 1971 gave step to a political movement, opening new opportunities for other actors and redefining the identities. In relationship to the foregoing, the factors that are proposed to analyze the emergence and development of this social movement can be straddled in large three groups, referred to: 1) the political opportunity structure, 2) the structures through which the collective action was conformed and channeled the resources that were put to arrangement of the movement and 3) the cultural frameworks that built the opportunity for the action and fashioned the strategies of the movement, incorporated new symbols and redefined the collective identities. The second hypothesis is referred to the fact that the workers framed the political opportunity for the action within an injustice representation but. at the same lime, of crisis in the stability of the government that would carry it to ease the repression mechanisms and to attempt negotiation and conciliation process. Finally it is outlined that that protest cycle introduced changes in the confrontation digests, resigning symbols already present in the cordoban political culture and creating others to frame the collective action that had important consequences in the social and political identities.