Childhoods as subjects of transformation in a worker-managed meat processing factory in Bahía Blanca, Argentina

Abstract

The role of children as subjects of transformation has gained greater emphasis in recent years, especially product of the work different social movements or grassroots organizations, who shoulder the pedagogical labor education of their participants through different popular experiences. My research problem seeks to bring to light the place of children in reclaimed factories as political subjects.The present investigation is part of the “Industria Nacional de la Carne Obrera” meatpacking plant located in the city of Bahía Blanca, which has the particularity of being a worker-managed factory. My initial exposure to the fridge was due to a university extension project and I later continued my ties with it independently. The longest-lasting participation was as a guide in a space for popular education and school support together with colleagues from Sciences of Education, for a period of approximately two years (2016-2018). The current study included is part of the Bachelor's Thesis in Educational Sciences, the chosen methodology: Participatory Action Research, with anthropological data action strategies: interviews and individual groups, field records, participant observation and the record itself respect my own experience in the space of school support and popular education.