Mujeres ferroviarias y familias en tiempos de privatizaciones: trayectorias laborales y estrategias en el hogar: (Argentina, inicios de la década de 1990)

Luisina Agostoni; Solange Godoy

doi:10.70794/hs.119325

Authors

Luisina Agostoni CONICET - ISHIT Sede Rosario https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5670-0554
Solange Godoy CONICET - UNSAM https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2983-7640

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.70794/hs.119325

Keywords:

Women, Work trajectories, Railways, Family, Privatization

Abstract

This article examines the process of privatization and reconfiguration of the railway system that took place in the 1990s in Argentina. Based on the perspective of women who were employed in the railroad in different localities with the aim of describing and analyzing their labor trajectories and family strategies in a context of conflict and layoffs. Based on oral testimonies (and, additionally, written sources), it seeks to understand the impact of privatization policies on the daily lives of working families in terms of the real economy and the subjectivities constructed in relation to railway work.

Author Biographies

Luisina Agostoni, CONICET - ISHIT Sede Rosario

PhD in History from the National University of Buenos Aires, postdoctoral fellow at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) based in Rosario ISHIR. Her research focuses on the history of the railway workers' movement, working from a local and regional historical perspective and using oral history methodology, as well as having an interest in gender perspectives. Her latest publications, with L. Agostini, have appeared in Zona Franca (2025) and in the book Máquinas, corpos e grafias: Tecnopoéticas em perspectiva transdisciplinar (Porto Alegre, 2025).

Solange Godoy, CONICET - UNSAM

PhD in Sociology from the National University of San Martín (UNSAM), Argentina. Postdoctoral fellow at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research and undergraduate and graduate professor at UNSAM. She specializes in the case of women railway workers based on the relationship between gender, work, and emotions. Her latest publications have appeared in the Revista Latinoamericana de Antropología del Trabajo (2023) and in the collective book Máquinas, corpos e grafias: Tecnopoéticas em perspectiva transdisciplinar (Porto Alegre, 2025).