Technological Bargaining: Limits and Potentials of Labor Agency in the Face of Technological Change
摘要
The two largest ports of Chile, San Antonio and Valparaíso, are about one hundred kilometers away from each other. The ports’ infrastructure, with its cranes, docks and ships, along with the thousands of trucks crossing their streets daily, dominate the existence of their inhabitants, including dockworkers. The authors of this chapter have developed fieldwork in both ports to analyze the capacity of dockworkers’ unions to influence the way that machinery is installed and deployed in these mega transport infrastructures.