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Based on multi-year ethnographic fieldwork on the Unemployed Workers' Movement in Argentina (also known as the piqueteros), Proletarian Lives provides a case study of how workers affected by job loss protect their traditional forms of life by engaging in progressive grassroots mobilization. Using life-history interviews and participant observation, the book analyzes why some activists develop a strong attachment to the movement despite initial...

Based on interviews and participant observation, Proletarian Lives studies how routines help sustain activism. Focusing on Argentina's piquetero movement, Perez explores why people affected by job loss react to the undermining of their traditional ways of life not by embracing authoritarian politics, but by engaging in progressive mobilization.