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GUTIERREZ CROCCO, Francisca. Trade unions without associates?: Ideologies of trade union representativeness in Chile. Polis [online]. 2016, vol.15, n.43, pp.533-555. ISSN 0718-6568.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-65682016000100025.

Since the 1970s, union density has declined in various occidental societies, including Chile. The aim of this paper is twofold: first, to show the weak reaction of authorities, trade unions, and scholarship to this tendency in Chile. Second, to identify what I refer to as the “ideologies of representativeness” that explain the indifference of Chilean trade unions to the decline on their density. Based on in-depth interviews conducted with union leaders, I distinguish between three ideologies: “neo- revolutionary”, “political- pragmatic” and “neoliberal”. I argue that given that the first one dominates in the main national trade union confederation, the question about how to reinforce unionization has been marginal in the country’s public debate.

Palabras clave : trade unions; trade unions representativeness; Chile; union density.

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