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  • 6 - “We Drink Mate, Eat a Good Stew, Talk … and That Way Time Flies”

  • Marcos E. Pérez, Washington and Lee University, Virginia
  • Book:
    Proletarian Lives
    Published online:
    24 March 2022
    Print publication:
    31 March 2022, pp 126-159

  • Summary

    This chapter analyzes the third mechanism for participation in working-class routines: protection. The expansion of unemployment undermined the material conditions for a number of established routines in working-class neighborhoods: Community spaces decayed, drug use became rampant, and interpersonal violence skyrocketed. Hence, wholesome habits associated with communal life (such as spending time in common spaces and sharing resources with neighbors) are perceived to be endangered. In this context of individual and collective deprivation, organizations become oases of socialization where interpersonal trust and altruism is still possible. The chapter concludes by showing how, just like reconstruction and development, protection of routines is a gendered process. It outlines this effect by describing the role of two typical shared tasks within piquetero groups: the male-dominated “security teams” in charge of self-defense; and the “milk cups”, soup kitchens for minors that are almost entirely run by women.