The military times. Representations and classifications of the ex workers of Swift related to political and state violence

Abstract

The approach of this article are the modes of evoquing the most resonant events about political, parastatal and state violence in the decade of 1970, linked to the factory, by the ex worker ´s Swift meat plant in Berisso. I analize the ex worker ´s narratives, built it through in-depth interviews, from those who were left-wing militants and from another with differents political orientations and atittudes in relation to trade unionism. In one hand, I explore the traces of social disciplining in the narrated experiences and the dilution of it significance in some cases. In another hand, I show an heterogeneity of senses attributed to two native expressiones that structure the narratives and allude to two social groups: who were entered into something and who were entered into nothing. Besides I present the diffused caracter of the boundary between both groups and some valorations regarding to perceive political and state violences as equal